Meeting schedule 2014-2015

Bayview Watercolour Society has an exciting schedule planned for our Tuesday evening membership meetings for the balance of 2014 and for the first half of 2015:

December. 9, 2014 - Watercolour  Demo by Long Yun-Xu and Holiday Celebration

March 10, 2015  - Acrylic  Demo by Keith Thirgood  - Post Impressionistic Landscape

Membership dues for the 2015-16 year are payable at the March 2015 meeting

April 14, 2015 - Demo by Sharon Kirsh on Mixed Media Collage

May 12, 2015 - Demo by David McEown on Watercolour

June 9, 2015 - Critique Evening by Didi Gadjanski

These membership meetings and demos will be held at the Rouge Woods Community Centre starting at 7 pm.

There will be no Tuesday evening membership meetings in January and February as many of our members are away and there is the potential for bad weather. 

Preliminary notice:

We are planning a non-juried Open Art Show and Sale at the Richmond Hill Centre for thr Performing Arts from Monday, February. 2 to Sunday, March 1, 2015.   The Call to Artists for this show will be emailed to members in the next few weeks.  Show sitting is not required for this show.

We look forward to seeing you at these exciting demonstrations and to your participation in the February . show.

Jake Mol paints a fall scene

 
 [Text and photos courtesy of Jean Patterson]

Jake Mol came to the BWS meeting on October 14, 2014, and while he was scheduled to paint a water scene, he decided to do a fall scene instead.

He started out by talking about one of his paintings that he brought with him. He basically said that he re-uses his frames so he uses the type that allows him to transfer the paintings whenever he desires. He does not put glass on his watercolour paintings.  Instead he uses Golden MSA medium which has UVLS protection.  This medium is a polymer product which contains no water and he says it is tougher and more resilient than others.  The watercolour pigments stay completely transparent and they are not adversely affected in any way by the use of the medium.  After Jake puts on the medium and the painting is properly cured, he then mounts it on a Duro Plast board which is lightweight and rigid and gives better protection to the painting.  It is then put in the frame.

He generally uses Arches watercolour paper (approximately 200 lbs.) and Winsor and Newton paints (he usually buys #1 paints).  He tends to stick with one manufacturer because he knows for sure how these paints react.  He always uses two colours to paint an area because in this way one gets a sparkle in the painting.  At the top of the background in the demo, he used Cerulean and Alizarin Crimson and for the the orange leaves, he used Indian Yellow and Permanent Rose. Regarding technique—he uses his board at an angle so that the water keeps travelling down and in this way, you do not get a blossom.  As you can see from the photos, he uses the green tape to mask out his birch trees.  

The demo painting is incomplete—he intends to finish it some time later.

Regarding the other painting that he brought, he reminded us that water is a reflection of the sky and that is how one decides the colour to use when painting water. He also mentioned that when you are painting rocks in the water, you must indicate that the rocks are sitting in the water.  He uses yellow ochre to make drawings of the rocks--this usually disappears when you put on the proper colour for the rocks.