BRUSHMARKS
Published monthly
April 2003

Presidents Mesage: We have at OSA a few events that we call "Annual", some have taken place for many years and others that have started fairly recently. There are two such events that will come up during the summer which deserve highlighting. Our 21st annual Rose Art Show has been accepted as an officially sanctioned event for the 2003 Portland Rose Festival. The paintings will be received on May 27 and 28 and the opening reception is on Sunday June 1. The committee includes myself, co-chair Billie Orehovec, Linda Fitzgerald, Mary Hartzheim, Mary Holderness, and Lloyd Allen. Donna Jarvis and Lolita Jensen are helping with our reception committee. Betty Van Bemmel, Aloha Cannon and Esther Emmrich will hang the show. More information is in the prospectus. We need a few more members to help us on the above-mentioned dates. Call me, or Billie Orehovec 503-250-1609. In August, for the past few years, we have staged our Annual Outdoor (Parking Lot) Sale. This year's sale will depend on your response. If enough of you wish to participate, we will continue. I hope to hear from you. Jack Miller, President ART NEWS $500.00 Matching Fund Good news bears repeating. OSA has received an offer from Wanke Cascade Corporation of $500.00 in matching funds to be donated to us when we have collected at least $500.00 (exclusive of members dues) during 2003. "75 Club" contributions you make this year would count. Please help us match this generous offer. OSA Welcomes New Associate Members Bharati Ravel,George Woodcock, May Rawlinson,Diane Wright, Rebecca Singleterry Important Notice OSA Membership Dues were to be paid during January. Associate members $20.00 Active members $27.00 If you have not already done so, please make out your check payable to OSA and mail it today! 1998 Brushmarks? Our historian, LaRhette Swan has discovered that no issues of the 1998 Brushmarks were saved. If anyone has any 1998 issues, please call LaRhette at 503-253-3256, thanks. 2003 ROSE ART SHOW- Fun, Fantasy & Fanfare! Be sure to look over the prospectus for the ROSE ART SHOW, included in this issue of the Brushmarks. It will tell you all you need to know to submit work for this sanctioned Rose Festival event. The ROSE ART SHOW is just around the corner! Plan to enter at least one painting depicting roses or the festival theme, "Fun, Fantasy and Fanfare". Prizes, ribbons, a reception and other surprises await the winners. YOU CAN DO IT! Let's make this year the best ROSE ART SHOW ever! Remember, artwork must arrive at OSA no later than May 27, 10-4 or May 28, 10-noon. Juror, Wanda Kemper, will be judging the entries on the afternoon of the 28th, and accepted works will be hung for a June 1st opening reception. The reception committee is now forming. If you would like to be part of the excitement on opening day by helping to serve and set up, please call Jack Miller at 503-697-9646 or Billie Orehovec at 503-250-1609. Thanks! Wanted The Wednesday portrait class needs volunteer models, any age with no experience being necessary, to pose in costume once a week for 3 hours. Thank you! Call Betty at 503-760-2740 Review of Night Meeting, February 20, 2003 Wanda Kemper was unable to present on this evening so we viewed a video on the impressionist painter Degas. A letter from Wanda Kemper follows: I regret that I was unable to present my program to your organization on Feb. 20 th due to an illness. I was truly looking forward to meeting your members and sharing painting techniques and ideas with you. I am honored to have been invited to judge your Rose Show this year and delighted that my program has been rescheduled for your June meeting. I am excited and anxious to meet your members and have the opportunity to share our interest in art. Sincerely, Wanda Kemper If you don't feel blessed in your work . read this! Artists present a problem for the Cuban socialist bureaucracy. Down there artists are characterized as "independent manufacturers". In a quota-based economy, the creative spirit and artistic effort and output are difficult to quantify. Take Fernando Luiz. He's a 32-year old father of three. He lives in a tiny upstairs apartment in a dilapidated building in one of the poorest sectors of Havana. If you stand in the middle of his studio, you can touch all four walls without bending. His wife, Daniela, a former chambermaid, is currently disabled. It's a case of grinding poverty. Fernando, along with hundreds of other artists, sells his oil paintings in the open air art market on the Malecon at Calle Tacon at the edge of old town. He must pay the Cuban government $98 per month for the privilege of being a painter. While artists are free to attend the market they often are too busy working to fill their quota. The work is sold by an agent. When a painting sells, the agent collects 18% of the sale. The government collects an additional 37%. What remains goes to the artist. Most of Fernando's paintings change hands at between $5 and $30. The American dollar, incidentally, is the currency of Cuba. Fernando sells between ten and fifteen paintings a month. Competition is stiff and it's a buyer's market. A foreigner who wishes to take a larger work with him must pay an additional $5 to a government agent who sits nearby. Fernando is a graduate of the Seminario de Carlos y San Ambrosio. He works in many styles and subjects in order to find sales. Smiling constantly, he admits that in spite of his credentials and hard work he has not yet mastered his form. "While waiting for my ship I keep busy," he says with a wink. He's holding a pantless, grinning two-year old named Cristobal. In his other hand is a well-thumbed monthly report. (adapted from an email submitted by Carlene DeLorenzo)

Day Meeting: Thursday, April 10, doors open at 10 a.m., meeting at 11 a.m. Dyanne Locati "The colored pencil and art." Dyanne states, "that texture and color play an important role in my art work". She has found that colored pencil can play an important part in use with acrylic and watercolor. Her art education evolved at Clackamas C.C., Portland State University, Marylhurst College, and the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts. She also has workshops with Michael Schlicting, Susan McKinnon, Jan Kunz, Cheng-Khee Chee, and Christopher Schink. In her past, she was the owner and administrator of the Locati Creative Art Center in SE Portland and gallery director for the Belinki & DuPrey Gallery in Downtown Portland. She has also been featured in many publications; an instructor of many classes and workshops; juror of many shows; and she is a member of the OSA, Watercolor Society of Oregon, Northwest Watercolor Society, and the Colored Pencil Society of America. Night Meeting: Thursday, April 17, doors open at 6 p.m., meeting at 8 p.m. Jerry Sanford has been a member of OSA since 1989. He specializes in seascapes and landscapes and sells both in originals and prints. He does most of his selling at the Portland Saturday Market. He will share his thoughts and tips about marketing his art and how to sell it as well. The Critique Group: 6:30 p.m. preceding the Thursday night meeting. All members and their guests are invited to join us in a critique session. If you have paintings available bring them for critique and discussion. If you don't wish to bring paintings, simply come, observe, and join in the discussion. This is a great learning opportunity. Rudy Stevens will lead. Drawing / Painting Classes: All levels. Call instructors for fees & information. Monday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Oil & Acrylic Jan Browne 503-646-1894 Tuesday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Watercolor Garve Beckham 503-524-9306 Wednesday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Portraits Betty Heinson 503-760-2740 Thursday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Oil & Acrylic Edi Olsen 360-256-1108 Friday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Drawing, etc. Berle Bledsoe 503-292-2709 OSA Gallery to open for First Thursday evenings Watch for our new flyers and invite everyone that you know to visit the OSA Gallery on First Thursday evenings. Beginning in April our gallery will remain open on the first Thursday of each month for evening viewing until 7 p.m. Please call John Reece at 503-827-0177 if you would like to have some flyers to circulate or call Jane Sayler to volunteer to sit the gallery.. Members: OSA needs information about you for our Website. We have added a section showing all of our members, and would like some photos of your work to add to it. Please fill out the following Member Bio/Contact form for the Website. Name (Last) _________________________________ (First)_______________________________________ City __________________________State _________ Telephone __________________________________ E-mail address_____________________________________ Your Web site URL http://_______________________________________ Add a brief statement about your artwork or yourself (not more than 140 characters including spaces). Clip out this form; enclose a color print photo (5 inches x 7 inches, or smaller) of one of your paintings and send to: OREGON SOCIETY OF ARTISTS 2185 SW Park Place Portland, OR 97205 Attn: Web Site Bio Note: if you sent us a picture for use on the website, those submitted before February 10th, have been returned. Please pick them up. They are located in a large envelope on the desk by the computer at OSA.. Caribbean Watercolor Workshops Make your plans now! This fall Garve Beckham is offering two weeklong workshops on the isle of Anguilla. November 2nd through 8th at the Villa Romeo and November 9th through 15th at the Ocean Breeze. Each of these workshops include: a day trip to St. Martin, swimming at the world's number one beach (in 89 degree water), gourmet seafood dining, five days of workshop painting in the colorful Caribbean and much, much more. Contact Garve at 503-524-9306 or via email at garveb@juno.com For OSA information, contact the following: President: Jack Miller 503-697-9646 Workshops: Esther Emmerich 503-331-7748 Gallery Exhibits: Jane Sayler 503-452-9366 Membership: Virginia Grubb 503-781-5269 Treasurer: Lloyd Allen 503-244-5283 OSA members to exhibit at St. Mary's Cathedral ! Aloha Cannon (oils), Carlene DeLorenzo (colored pencil) and Rudy Stevens (watercolor) will be featured artists at St. Mary's Cathedral in the Parrish Hall located at NW 17th and Davis. An open house with reception will be held Sunday April 6th from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Their showing will hang through May 2nd. Arts Action Alliance of Clackamas County Rudy Stevens has been invited to join 40 artists whose work will be exhibited throughout Clackamas County. Watch for Rudy's watercolor, "Smoking Up The Grade" Gallery Exhibits: The OSA gallery is Open 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday except holidays. No admission fee. The April Show, "All Creatures Great and Small" will open with an artists reception Sunday, March 30th, from 1 to 4 p.m. and will close on Friday, April 25th.This is an annual show including: animals, birds, insects and fish etc., also open to portraits and other paintings of people. The following active members will participate: Jack McNalley, John Reece, Jerry Sanford, Kay Vanderhout, Linda Rook, and George Corneil Notice: beginning in April the gallery will stay open late on First Thursday's. Coming Up in the Gallery: The May Show is open to any subject any medium. Opening will be Sunday, April 27th and close on Friday, May 23rd. Paintings are to be removed on Saturday, May 24. The Gallery will be closed Sunday, May 25 through May 31 to accommodate the registration and judging of the Rose Art Show. Sign up sheets for all shows are posted in the gallery or call Jane Sayler at 503-452-9366.