2010 Florida Watercolor Society Convention

September 19 - 26

Innisbrook Resort, Tarpon Springs

Exhibition - Leepa-Rattner Museum

Juror - Carrie Burns Brown, NWS 

Workshops - Carrie Burns Brown, NWS and Kathleen Conover, NWS

 

Carrie Burns Brown,NWS

Carrie Burns Brown, NWS, from Greenville, South Carolina is an Experimental Watermedia Artist and National Juror. She is also a noted instructor, having amassed 40 years of teaching experience throughout the United States and Canada.

Kathleen Conover,NWS

Kathleen Conover’s watercolor, mixed watermedia and collage workshops are a very creative and informative experience for serious artists. The main emphasis is design and composition: that evasive element that elevates painting from ordinary to awardwinning. Demonstrations, lectures, handouts, directed exercises and individual attention will enable each participant to understand and apply the new information in their artwork.

Workshop students are encouraged to explore their own personal direction in realism, abstraction or non-objective forms. Focus will be placed on each artist’s unique expression and the identification of personal imagery.

Both the Carrie Burns Brown and Kathleen Conover 4 day workshops will run from Monday, September 20 through Thursday, September 23, 2010. The cost is $345 for FWS Members and$395 for Non-Members.

 

A native of Georgia, Carrie initially studied art at Mercer University and the Art Institute of Atlanta. She continued her art education at Furman University in Greenville. In the 1970’s, with a renewed interest in watercolor, Carrie sought out the famous Rangemark program in Maine. As her interest in this unpredictable medium grew, she studied more intently, often traveling throughout the U.S. for the opportunity to work with noted artists.

Carrie has been an instructor at the Greenville Museum Center for Education since 1977. She is also a returning instructor at the Springmaid Watermedia Workshops, where she has taught since 1985. Her workshops, demo-lectures, and jurying skills keep her in high demand, routinely taking her across the U.S. and Canada.

Her innovative ways and colorful works have prompted inclusion of her paintings in many publications, including:

Collage Techniques: A Guide for Artists and Illustrators, by Gerald Brommer, Celebrate Your Creative Self, by Mary Todd

Beam, Creative Watercolor: Step-by-Step Guide, by Mary Ann Beckwith, Best of Watercolor: Painting Texture, by Mary

Ann Beckwith, Watercolor Magic Magazine (1998), Watercolor Magazine (2002) and Watermedia Collage DVD, by Carrie

Burns Brown, Creative Catalyst Production, Inc.

 

39th florida watercolor society convention schedule of events

(as of may 1, 2010-subject to change)

 

sunday,sept.19,2010

12:00pm–4:00pm -hotel check-in, workshop registration (edinburgh lobby)

6:00pm-?------reception for workshop participants (meet in lobby)

 

monday-thursday,sept.20-23, 2010

9:00am-4:00pm-wkshps. with carrie burns brown and kathleen conover

                          edinburgh 2,3 and edinburgh 3,4

 

thurs.sept.23,2010

1:00pm-5:00pm—board of directors mtg. (board room)

7:00pm- 9:00pm—carrie burns brown demonstration (edinburgh 2,3)

 

fri.sept.24,2010

9:00am-5:00pm—convention registration (convention lobby)

9:00am-5:00pm—distribution of catalog to members (fws booth)

9:00am-4:00pm—silent auction and raffle tables open (lobby)

4:15pm----raffle drawing                  

9:00am- 5:00pm—trade show(edinburgh ballroom east)

9:00am-4:00pm—demonstrations, critiques and lectures (see schedule)

                          (must preregister for critiques)

5:30pm-7:00pm—exhibition opening for patrons and accepted artists

7:00pm-9:00pm—exhibition for membership and general public

leepa-rattner museum of art, 600 klosterman road,tarpon springs

 

sat.,sept.20,2010

8:00am-—the paint around (lawn in front of edinburgh lobby)

9:00am-1:00pm—convention registration (edinburgh lobby)

9:00am-1:00pm—catalog distribution to members (lobby)

9:00am-3:00pm—raffle and silent auction tables (lobby)

4:15pm—winners of raffle announced

9:00am-3:00pm—trade show (edinburgh ballroom east)

9:00am-4:00pm—demos and critiques (must preregister for critiques)

5:30pm—cocktail hour and cash bar (lobby)

6:30pm—announcing winners of silent auction and “paint-around”

7:00pm—awards gala

              introduction of new signature members and scholarship winner

              musical entertainment by barbara bailey hutchison

 

sunday,sept.26th

9:00am-annual general meeting, presentation of 2011 officers

               “making a living as an artist---kathleen conover