The June Member Show theme “Capturing Local Color” was thoroughly evident in Julie Anderson’s painting ‘In Search of Orangutans’ and was awarded Best of Theme by juror, Angela Chang. Angela’s commented, “I am viewing this theme as capturing the local color of San Diego, rather than the literal meaning of the local color of an object.… Read more
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Julie Anderson – Best of Theme
Thursday, June 13th, 2019SDWS in the news!
Thursday, March 21st, 2019For those who missed the great coverage of the San Diego Watercolor Society on KUSI’s Good Morning San Diego, here is the replay from their January 7, 2019 broadcast.
Paintout with Keiko Tanabe
Tuesday, March 12th, 2019The San Diego Watercolor Society offers numerous plein air paintout opportunities. The most recent paintout was at Old Poway Park on March 9, 2019 and featured demo artist, Keiko Tanabe.
Keiko travels the world presenting watercolor workshops. We are lucky to have her here in San Diego.… Read more
February Member Show – Loving the Land
Tuesday, February 19th, 2019The San Diego Watercolor Society features a new show or exhibition every month in their beautiful gallery in Liberty Station. The show for February 2019 (running from January 27, 2019 – February 23, 2019) was juried by artist, Stan Goudey.
Stan Goudey is a southern California based, self-educated painter, having taken drawing, composition and related classes at The Art Center in Los Angeles, Grossmont College, and the San Diego City College.… Read more
Exciting Plein Air News
Monday, February 18th, 2019One of the San Diego Watercolor Society’s members, Shuang Li, had her painting “Stroll Along Discovery Lake” selected as Kelly Kane’s Pick of the Week!
Kelly Kane is the Editor-in-Chief of Plein Air Magazine with more than 20 years of experience in art publishing.… Read more
Watercolor Educational Outreach
Monday, February 18th, 2019
Educational outreach volunteers taught two kindergarten classes on January 15th, 2019, at Rodriguez Elementary School in Logan Heights. The children were introduced to the concept of creating a variety of different kinds of lines, i.e. straight, dotted, zigzag, spiral, and curved.… Read more
Chaos to Order
Monday, February 18th, 2019
We are only a few weeks away from experimental, fun, skill-building work and personal mentoring, too, in Kathleen Conover’s highly acclaimed watermedia class, “Chaos to Order”.
Kathleen is known as a highly inspirational instructor, who is very versatile, and generously shares all the tricks-of-the-trade with the goal of helping you achieve the next level in your art, from wherever you start.… Read more
SDWS Liberty School
Saturday, February 16th, 2019The San Diego Watercolor Society, in conjunction with NTC, has been teaching watercolor painting to 3rd graders from Dewey Elementary the last two months.
June Rubin and Susan Hewitt, Liberty School’s lead teachers, met the last eight Fridays to present lessons that engage the 8 and 9 year olds from basic mixing of paints, pen and ink, washes, color theory, design and art history.… Read more
39th International Exhibition
Friday, February 15th, 2019The San Diego Watercolor Society’s 39th International Exhibition is open for entry from February 8 – May 6, 2019.
This year’s juror is Jeannie McGuire. $19,000 in cash and merchandise awards anticipated. All accepted paintings will also be for sale in our Online Gallery Store, increasing your exposure!… Read more