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Watercolor Summer 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Advice From Experts: Using Your Right Brain to See More Creatively by Beth Patterson
Artist: Ann Pember
Are you really seeing the subject you have selected for your painting, or has your left brain taken over, telling you what it thinks or knows is there? New York artist Ann Pember shares tips on how to use the creative side of your brain to achieve more exciting paintings.

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Ray Ellis: A Retrospective by James A. Metcalfe
Artist: Ray Ellis
At 84 years young, Ray Ellis is thankful for every day he is able to paint. Overjoyed by having realized his boyhood dream of becoming a professional artist, Ellis relishes telling stories and capturing natural beauty with his brush.

A Sense of Place by Meredith E. Lewis
Artist: Marilyn Caldwell
Connecticut watercolorist Marilyn Caldwell evokes nostalgia, without risking sentimentality, in seaside paintings of her beloved New England.

Fresh Approaches to Overworked Expressions by M. Stephen Doherty
The Fort Myers Beach Art Association invited its members to participate in an exhibition organized around well-known clichés. Twenty-five members painted their responses to selected phrases for the show "A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words."

Exploring New Options by M. Stephen Doherty
The Watercolor Society of Alabama recently sponsored a workshop on exploring watermedia paints, brushes, and papers that were not well known to its members. Participants discovered materials and techniques that expanded their creative options.

Finding His Path by Christopher Willard
Artist: Bill Stone
The path to painting often takes surprising turns, as Bill Stone discovered when his desire to practice medicine evolved into a career in the arts.

Pouring Color, Pouring Light by Pablo Wolfe
Artist: Jean Grastorf
Jean Grastorf celebrates the virtuosity of natural light through luminous pours.

Expressing Mood With Watercolor by Michael P. Kinch
Artist: Ruth Armitage
Oregon painter Ruth Armitage emphasizes strong color and shape over value and texture to evoke mood and emotion in her vibrant watercolors.

Moving Nature: The Emotive Watercolors of Jeanne Bellmer by Catie Crabtree
Artist: Jeanne Bellmer
At 84, Jeanne Bellmer has been painting in watercolor for almost 40 years. But as a conversation with the artist reveals, the medium continues to move, inspire, and entirely enthrall the California native.

Nature, Imagination Itself by Meredith E. Lewis
Artist: James Prosek
"But who can paint/Like Nature?" the 18th-century poet James Thomson queried. "Can imagination boast/Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?" An encounter with artist, author, and musician James Prosek yields a resounding Yes.

Idolatry in the New Millennium: Michael Tang's Iconography by David Alm
Artist: Michael Tang
Watercolorist, professor, and priest Michael Tang depicts both sacred and secular subjects in his enormous watercolor paintings?works that marry medieval iconographic styles with a contemporary aesthetic sensibility.

Plant Portraits: The California Legacy of A.R. Valentien by Allison M. Malafronte
Artist: A.R. Valentien
Showcasing 80 of the 1,094 botanical portraits California artist A.R. Valentien completed between 1908 and 1918, "Plant Portraits: The California Legacy of A.R. Valentien" explores the legacy of an artist who used his command of watercolor and gouache to achieve an exceptional body of work.