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Newsletter November 2013
 
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November 12, 2013
 

Falc General Meeting on Tuesday at 7:00 in the Quinlan Craft Room

November 14, 2013
  Next Steering Meeting at 7:00 at Panera. [Due to Thanksgiving break, the meeting is in the same week]
2013 FALC Membership

To participate in FALC sponsored shows and exhibits, one must be juried in as a exhibiting member. Artists who have submitted 3 pieces of original art which meet with the approval and acceptance of the voting members will be awarded "Exhibiting Membership". Jurying in will take place at most meetings.

Membership for continuing members is $30.00 per year, January through December.

Membership fees are due for the year 2013.

Membership Form

General Meeting - November 12, 2013
FALC General Meeting, Quinlan Center, Craft Room, 10185 North Stelling Rd., Cupertino
Tuesday, November 12, 2013/ 7:00 PM - 9 PM
California Landscapes in Oil

Artist's statement - For me, “landscape” is a peaceful concept, thus much of the line I use is rolling, undulating line, the restful curve, the mildly exhilarating swoop. After all, I was born among (and lived most of my life among) the rolling hills of Northern California. Being a third generation Northern Californian, the area’s landscape speaks powerfully to me, and I hope, through me.

My landscapes may start with a generally realistic sketch, but once work in the studio begins, painting takes precedent over scene, emotional response over strictly visual response. My paintings are more about something than they are of it. The push of color to extremes, and the use of line to imply motion help me show what I feel about a scene or abstract idea.

I tend to lean toward warm colors (lots of ochre, yellows, oranges), colors inspired by a lifetime of seeing California summer grasses. While these warm colors are restful to me, by increasing the intensity of hue and through the juxtapositioning of complements, I use color to add vigor in my paintings. I want the land to be alive. I want the butterfly to fly, not to be pinned to a board.

As Imagination is such a vital part of my work, I rarely paint on site any more. Most paintings begin with an image on the computer monitor of a digital photo that I have taken. After several small pencil sketches to arrive at a composition, I begin sketching with charcoal sticks on a canvas, toned usually with Venetian Red or burnt sienna. I repeatedly rub out entire sketches or parts of them until pleased with the flow of lines. The sketch has to sit then for several days and pass casual inspections or get rubbed out. Once the actual painting starts, so much freedom is allowed that I am never completely sure what the final product will be.

At the end of a session, I usually feel both tired and exhilarated. I am usually delighted with what I have done. As days pass, I find things that disturb me, and the second phase of painting starts, revision. This may go on for some time, as the piece sits or hangs where I can glance at it from time to time while I work on other paintings. I usually start three or four oils at the same time. It is not unusual for a painting to get new paint months after its start. At the end, hopefully, I share with the viewer some of what California is to me.

2014 Nominations and Elections

With the beginning of the new year all FALC board positions are open for new nominations. We would like to ask that each FALC member give some thought to how they can be more involved with our club for 2014. You can nominate yourself or any other FALC member for any position, listed below. All nominations will be voted on at the January Meeting. The club has many talented members with many skills that are urgently needed to run the group. A club is only as good as it's members and if everyone takes turns at running the group we can achieve great results. Please ask yourself what you can do to contribute. We will do everything we can to make your involvement a positive experience and you will have plenty of guidance to help you get started. You may consider sharing a job with a friend. We invite nominations for any of the following vacant positions -

President

Conduct General as well as Steering meetings.

Vice President Shows & Events

Learning to organize art shows with a fun group of people.

Vice President Website and Newsletter

Manages website and Newsletters for the club.

Treasurer

This position includes financial management for the club.

Secretary

Taking down the minutes of the general as well as steering meetings.

Membership

Managing the membership records for the club.

Refreshments

Assigning and managing the refreshments for the meetings.

Demo Coordinator

Searching for enriching demo artists for the club.

Panel Rental

Keeping and managing Panels.

Greeting Table

Managing the greeting table for all general meetings.

Historian

Keeping the history of FALC up to date.

Please contact Slava Shabrov (slava@shabrov.com) if you would like to discuss volunteering for any of the above vacant positions.

Shows to See
FALC does not endorse the classes, venues and events listed below. We simply list any information that we determine would be of interest to our members. If you have a show or reception that you would like to list in this section, please send the information (under 50 words) to janki_chokshi@hotmail.com along with a picture of the display if you have one.

Belinda Lima has a solo show "Shapes & Shades" at Graniterock in Cupertino Design Center from September 10 to December 6. Reception Saturday, Oct. 19th, 3 - 5pm with food and drinks. All welcome!

The Colored Pencil Society of America is having their annual chapter show in September 2013. They would like to encourage anyone who works with colored pencil to enter; non-members can enter and entries need not be 100% colored pencil. The show is going to be at the Coastal Arts League Gallery in downton Half Moon Bay - a great excuse for a trip to the coast. The prospectus can be downloaded from http://www.cpsa210.org/pdf_files/2013_Show_Prospectus.pdf

Earth and Sky New Works by Kathleen Mitchell, exhibit Oct 29 - Nov 30 2013. Reception: Friday, Nov 1, 2013, 5-8 'Earth & Sky' Viewpoints Gallery 315 State Street Los Altos, CA 94022 650-941-5789 Hours Monday - Saturday 11 - 5 ,Sunday 11 - 3 www.viewpointsgallery.com

Flesh and Metal: Body and Machine in Early 20th-Century Art presents more than 70 artworks that explore a central dynamic of art making in Europe and the Americas between the 1910s and the early 1950s. On view from November 13, 2013 to March 16, 2014 at the Cantor Arts Center, the exhibition includes a rich group of paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints, and illustrated books from the collection of SFMOMA. Featured artists include Margaret Bourke-White, Constantin Brancusi, Fernand Léger, Man Ray, and Alexander Rodchenko, among others. RSVP by November 11-- email to mmwhite@stanford.edu or 650-724-3600 Please provide your full name, press affiliation, and contact information. Press Release : http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/flesh-metal.html

Shows to Enter

The Cupertino Library Art Display sponsored by the Library Foundation is now taking applications from artists who would like to display their work at the Cupertino Library on a 9' x 9' space for a period of 2 months. The library takes no commission on sales and there is no charge for displaying there. The application form is at http://cupertinolibraryfoundation.org/programs/art-wall/art-wall-entry-form/

The 57th annual Saratoga Rotary Art Show Sunday, May 4, 2014 West Valley College, Saratoga, CA It is Easy! Participation in the jurying process can be as simple as filling out a form and uploading images of your art to our web site. Apply Now Online! http://www.saratogarotary.org/artshow/onlineform.shtml/ Deadline: January 10, 2014 Jurying process completed and invitations to our show emailed: February 3, 2014

“The Art in Food: Farm, Table, Community” is a juried competition and exhibition in collaboration with the San Jose Museum of Art and over 50 partners across the Bay Area to organize an extensive community presentation of food, creativity and community. So, prepare the forks! Ready the brushes! All artists are invited to submit work to a savory exhibition featuring, you guessed it, FOOD—from farm to factory, from sea to plate, the bland and delectable, a snack and feast. Vida Arts founder and Director Valéria Miranda will jury. Submission deadline is Thursday, February 13, 2014. The exhibit will run March 7 – 27, 2014. To submit to “The Art in Food: Farm, Table, Community,” enter your works digitally at Online Juried Shows (click here). To download the prospectus, click here.

Classes

Anna Lee Steed will be teaching a painting class for oil and acrylic painters at the Quinlan Center in Cupertino starting January 9th. Classes will be on Mondays from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Students will paint abstracts, still life and landscape. As always, Anna Lee’s lessons will have a strong focus on color. Painters of all levels are welcome, extra help for beginners. Cost is $150 for five classes Please contact Anna Lee at 831-662-8979 for more information, a registration form and the material list. See Anna Lee’s paintings online at www.linstromart.com.

Mike Kirschel Learn and practice oil painting (or acrylic) in the Monta Vista neighborhood of Cupertino. Beginning and advanced students welcome, class focus is on painting and picture making fundamentals with an emphasis on composition and color. Indoor studio painting is Wednesday mornings, 9:30 - 12:00 and outdoor painting on location is on Saturdays also 9:30-12:00. Private and small group lessons are also available. Please visit the website at www.kirschel.com for more information or call Mike Kirschel at 650-521-1856.

Zoya Scholis conducts advanced, intermediate and beginners watermedia painting classes through the FUHSD Sunnyvale Cupertino Adult education and at the Cupertino Senior Center. She also conducts Mixed Media Workshops and Collage Workshops in the summer. For more details please visit https://www.ace.fuhsd.org. Contact Zoya at zoya@artforpersonalgrowth.com

Stefan Bauman Weekly Oil painting classes in Saratoga the first and third week of each month. Classes are on Mondays from 6-9pm and Tuesdays from 10 - 1pm. Please call 415 606-9074 or email stefan_baumann@yahoo.com. More Info at www.thegrandview.

Joy Kuo Teaching Chinese Brush Painting. Beginner or Advance students on Wednesday mornings 10:00am.-12:00pm at Joy's studio 154 Quail Hollow Dr. San Jose, CA 95128 . $40.00/per class. Please call 408-598-6085 or email kuojs@yahoo.com.

Martha Zlatar is an Artist Success Coach who can help you define your unique goals for your art and support you in the process. Coaching is a wonderful way to be accountable for your actions. Martha will help you identify what you want to do, when will you do it by and how will you get it done. Please contact her for a complimentary half hour phone consultation at 415-839-8085 or email her at martha@artmatch-coach.com.

SCVWS offers a 10 week painting course with Mike Bailey, Watercolor Beyond the Obvious. It also offers SCVWS 2012 workshop brochure. You can register on their website at www.scvws.org Info: 650-941-8073.

Member of FALC Kathy Qi has started a website for artists for selling and promoting their work. website: http://www.key2arts.com/ Key2ARTS.com is a FREE community service for artists to exhibit and sell their own original, prints, and cards of artwork with very low commission rate. Membership is free and it's open to any art club juried-in artist, and people who appreciate art.

An Artist Workshop by George O’Hanlon, Director of Natural Pigments November 16 and 17 at Accent Arts in Palo Alt Saturday, November 16 at 9am to 5pm Sunday, November 17 at 9am to 5pm Accent Arts, 392 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA The small class size provides each attendee personal attention and guidance with materials. Registration now open: $325 per person Due to limited class size we ask that you register early and pay for the workshop upon registration to insure your space. All workshop materials are included in the tuition. o Registration open now

Resources Page on website
Please check out our Artist Resources page which lists many recommendations by FALC artists. Members are welcome to submit their recommendations for the organizing committee to review. Please make your recommendations as detailed as possible and let us know what you find useful. Submit your recommendations using the form at the bottom of this page and add "Artist Resources recommendation" to your subject line.
Gallery Pages

If you have not done so already, please don't forget to send us the information we require to create a gallery page for you. For instructions on sending in your information, please visit submit new allery page and email all necessary information to Janki Chokshi email: janki_chokshi@hotmail.com

Panel Rental

Panels are available for rent all year at $5/weekend for members and $7/weekend for non-members. There will be a $25 charge for checks returned due to insufficient funds. For panel rental and availability please email Carrie Zeidman at czeidman@elanstudios.net or call her at 408-741-5809.

FALC Guidelines - Criteria for Jurying-in new members

FALC has been fortunate this year to welcome many new members and we can look forward to many others being interested in joining our club. One of the questions that we get asked the most from current members and those who are interested in joining is about our criteria for acceptance. Our process is clear and simple. Anyone who wants to join needs to bring three pieces of art to one of our meetings. The members present at that meeting will vote, and if a 2/3 majority of people approve, that person will be accepted, pay their dues, and become an exhibiting member.

As a juried club, FALC strives to maintain a certain standard of proficiency since organizations that invite us to exhibit assume a certain selectivity. One rule of thumb commonly used when voting in new members is to ask yourself this question - Would I like to exhibit with this work? Would this new work add to the reputation of the club? Just as we support each other by bringing our best work to shows and by providing new, fresh work for the painting changes at Quinlan, we can use our Artists' eyes to make decisions about what work will be hanging beside us at the next show.

Voting "no" during the jurying-in process does not bar an artist from joining the club. The artist can still be a member, just not an "exhibiting member". Non-exhibiting members can attend demos and meetings that provide an environment for their art to grow. As they continue to develop their skills, they are welcome to jury in at a later date.

FALC Guidelines - Copyrighted material

The laws regarding copyrighted material are complex and not uniform from state to state. In order to avoid liability and the burden of determining whether a particular image involves copyright infringement, FALC has created the following guidelines for member artists. FALC assumes that it is the respoinsibility of the artist to honestly follow these guidelines and assumes no liability for work that is submitted or displayed not following these guidelines. It reserves the right to disqualify a painting if there is reasonable doubt about copyright infringement or plagiarism.

  • Work entered for a show must be the artist's original work in concept and execution.
  • It cannot be copied from copyrighted material or photographs belonging to another person or organizaion except with the copyright holder's explicit written permission.
  • It cannot be the reproduction of a painting done by another person even if the original artist is acknowledged on the painting.
  • It cannot be the reproduction of a historic painting.
FALC Board 2013
President: Slava Shabrov
Vice President: Janki Chokshi - Website and Newsletter
Program and Publicity: Carrie Zeidman
Treasurer: Todd Kruse
Secretary: Keith Hull
Membership: Brian Haney
Refreshments: Yao-Pi Hsu
Demo Coordinator: Nina Uppaluru
Online Gallery pages: Janki Chokshi
Artist of the Month Updates: Janki Chokshi
Quinlan Show Coordinator: Vacant
Panel rental: Carrie Zeidman
Greeting Table: Kalpana Adesara
Online mail: Slava Shabrov
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