Lots of Fireworks Shows along Front Range – Check Them Out!

Reminder: Deadline today for the Manitou Springs Labor Day Art Festival. If you’re participating, now’s the last minute.

Feathers and Flora. Speaking of exhibit entry deadlines and the last minute, it’s coming up on Thursday, August 1. Get ‘em finished and submitted, folks.

Member Exhibit: Compelling images of nature’s variety by Dorothy DePaulo and Heidi Snyder can be seen at Valkarie Gallery, July 24 through August 18, 2019. Opening reception Saturday, August 27.

Dorothy DePaulo will host an artist’s talk at 7 pm on Friday, August 2.

Independence Day is coming up on Thursday. You’ll need sunscreen, PeptoAbysmal, DEET, a hat, shades, probably some bandaids, wetwipes, and good digestion. That’s just during the daytime. At night, you’ll need the bitty flashlight (not so blindingly bright as your Smartphone Flashlight), more DEET, Tumms, burn ointment, and a secure grip on the car keys. Enjoy our national birthday party. Take an aspirin before going to bed.

Tagawa Gardens Lavender Fields Forever event and Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists Show & Sale, Saturday, July 13, 2019; 9 am - 3 pm. Be there or be square [we handle sales via Square…] and get a few rhizomes from the High Plains Iris Society.

Workshop. About 10 members had a great time with Dorothy DePaulo and Heidi Snyder as they demo’ed techniques for color pencil on Mylar drafting film on Saturday, June 22. We each got a practice piece and had a blast puttin’ down the pigment. Visit with friends and learn new stuff? Priceless.

Arts Activities, Exhibits, and Festivals A-Plenty

Announcement. This in from Helen Smithwick in the Pikes Peak region:

Hi!

I am a new member of the Commonwheel Artist Coop in Manitou Springs.  We are holding our annual Labor Day Festival from Aug 31 - Sep 2.

I was wondering if any of the members might be interested in entering the festival, or just visiting it. We have extended our application deadline to June 30. The application is available on our website: https://www.commonwheel.com.

Thank you for considering this!

Sincerely,

Helen Smithwick

Check it out. Maybe a few more RMSBA artists will take up the challenge. You who live in central and southern Colorado definitely should make the trip. Parking in Manitou probably will be limited, so make your plans…

75th Anniversary of the Allied Invasion of Normandy in France

Member meeting will convene on Saturday, June 22. Following the business to be discussed, Dorothy DePaulo and Heidi Snyder will share their experience and technique with the membership during this excellent (and free) workshop on rendering birds and vegetation.

Colored Pencils on Drafting Film
Saturday, June 22
9 am to noon
VALKARIE Gallery & Studio   
445 S Saulsbury St, Lakewood CO 80226

Please Bring:
-Artist quality colored pencils
-Tombow Mono Zero Elastomer Eraser (ultra-fine tip) (available at Dick Blick or most art supply stores)
-Qtips

-Pencil sharpener either battery operated or manual hand-held that produces a long sharp point. 

-Small container (like a pill bottle with a screw top) of Formula 409 Household Cleaner
-Clipboard or a 9” x 12” piece of foamcore to use as a drawing surface 

We hope to see you there!

Reminder. Carol Till invites you to her show in the Santa Fe Arts District.

Tequila Hues - Carol Till

June 5 - 29, 2019

First Friday Art Walk: June 7, 6-9 pm

Third Friday Artist’s Reception, June 21, 5-8 pm

Beautiful metal etchings of agaves, botanically accurate and finely detailed, printed in the intense colors of the desert using colored inks and handmade papers. Have a nice visit with Carol during 1st and 3rd Friday evening openings or Tuesdays 10 -1:30 in June. Join her for a little tequila-themed refreshment at the Artist’s Reception on June 21, 6-8 pm, Artists on Santa Fe Gallery, 747 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, Colorado 80204.

The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango features the traveling exhibit from RMSBA, "Cannabis: A Visual Perspective." Up through 2019. Drop in on your way to Mesa Verde or Grand Canyon.

Call for Entries. “Feathers and Flora: A Natural Relationship” prospectus remains available for download at OnlineJuriedShows.com. We do recommend the YouTube journey with John Muir Laws’ “How to Draw Birds” offering, recently revised according to the New Birds Drawing Systems. Check it out! Last day to enter August 1 (notices by August 7).

Reminder: Tagawa Gardens Lavender Fields Forever event!

Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists Show & Sale

Saturday, July 13, 2019; 9 am - 3 pm

A variety of media, including colored pencil, watercolor, etchings, ink, and graphite. Original works, prints, greeting cards, and similar offerings available for purchase.

Do say yes to providing a demonstration of technique or work on new projects -- actually creating art -- while at the garden center. Tagawa believe it would be wonderful to have a couple artists working on some art pieces as guests stroll by.

Contact Irma Sturgell (isturgell@gmail.com) if you want to participate.