New River Banks Party Paint Out... Sunday May 25th.

New River Banks Party
Memorial Day Sunday, May 25, 2008
10:oo am ~ 4:00 pm
Water Front Park, Downtown Jacksonville



This picture is of a gathering of people on the banks of the New River in Jacksonville, North Carolina (circa 1905). Like in days of old... people will gather once again on the banks of the New River at Water Front Park near the Pellitier House in downtown Jacksonville. Take a boat ride, meet authors, watch artists, artisans, and traditional crafters at work, listen to local music and storytellers, and for the first time there will be a Seafood Chowder Cook Off. With the exception of a bowl of chowder... the celebration party is FREE to the public! Make plans to attend...

OPPS artists will position themselves around the park and the historic Pellitier House painting en plein aire for one of their monthly "paint outs" from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm.

See you there...

Mike Rooney Workshop on May 24th... DETAILS and MATERIALS list...

Several of the OOPS members are signed up for the Mike Rooney workshop in Jacksonville on May 24th. The workshop in full but some spots are available at the cost of $50 each payable to Connie at the Council for the Arts.

Cool news... Mike has a plein air instructional DVD coming out soon. We'll keep you posted!

Here are the details for the workshop...

Saturday, May 24, 2008
9:00 am till 5:00 pm
at the Council for the Arts
826 New Bridge Street, across from City Hall

Mike Rooney, will teach an outdoor painting class guaranteed to loosen up your style and transform your art. Learn to paint with a loose, colorful and impressionistic style. There will be a quick demo, indoor instruction (if it rains) and outdoor painting.

*The workshop attendees will meet at the Council Building in the morning (9:00 am) for a few minutes and then head out to paint. Then at the end of the day you meet back here for the last hour for a critique.

Some topics that will be covered...

~Working indoors from photos
~Capturing light effects
~Simplifying objects- stick figures welcomed
~Working quickly- time waits for no one
~Massing in and values- from blobs to objects
~Color and composition theory, it’s not as boring as it sounds
~Color palette choices- your individuality expressed in pigment
~How to sell your work on your own and/or approach galleries with your work after you’ve created your masterpiece


Suggested materials list:

Easel and any supplies needed to paint outside. (i suggest you do a 6x8 outdoor painting outside before the workshop to see if you have everything you'll need)

A TV tray or portable table to put your stuff on if you don’t have a French easel or pochade kit

Pad of 140 lb watercolor paper for exercises

Oil painters! If you want to underpaint like I do in addition to your oil gear you will need 5 small tubes of acrylic paint and a small and medium synthetic brush:
Acrylic tubes of magenta, white, any yellow, red, and blue
Water to wash out acrylics

Several canvases or supports of your choice (no larger than 11x14). I suggest bringing at least 3-6x8's and 1- 11x14 for the one day workshop

Paint- at least one each : yellow, red, blue, and white, brushes, rags, and all materials needed to paint

In case of rain...
Bring a few detailed landscape photos if it rains. Make sure these photos have good light and shadow pattern (stark difference between what's being struck by the light and what’s in shadow)

Click here if you don't know where the Council for the Arts is located...

ATTENTION... OOPS Artists... Need your Help!

I will be sending out an email early next week to float around the OOPS members to gather an inventory of paintings we have completed for the show. Connie at the Council wants to display them according to Paint Out locations so that's how I'll set the inventory email up. Start your own inventory listing with number of paintings including location, title, size, and medium so when the email goes out next week it can make the rounds faster to get back to me. We want everyone represented since all the artists are listed in the Arts Alive magazine article that comes out in June... so if you have only ONE piece... that's fine... we want to include it. If you have ten pieces... that's fine too! Make plans to have the pieces framed and looking good... presentation is very important.

Thanks for your interest and support in OOPS!

Bernie

Paint Wilmington! May 5-10 presented by Walls Gallery

Paint Wilmington! 2008 - May 5-10.

Nine accomplished painters from around the country converge on Wilmington starting Sunday, May 4. They're coming to paint full-time for 5 days. The Show of the new paintings of Wilmington and its environs painted during the week opens Saturday morning, May 10 at 9am at Walls Gallery. Special Mother's Day hours from 2-5 Sunday afternoon.

Details at the Walls Gallery site HERE...

Info from Karen and Walls Gallery...

Important Dates to Remember...

Here are some important dates to remember for OOPS in the near future.
Mark your calendars now...

May 23, 2008 ~ Friday ~ before 4:00 PM
Deadline for framed works to be turned in (on or before this date) to Connie at the Council for the Arts for our June Exhibit.

May 24, 2008 ~ Saturday ~ 9:00 AM - 5:oo PM
Mike Rooney plein air workshop at the Council for the Arts for those signed up. Supply list will be posted soon.

May 25, 2008 ~ Sunday ~ 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (extra May Paint Out)
OOPS Plein Air Painters needed to paint at the Pelletier House for Annual "Banks Party". An extra May paint out... another chance for great exposure.

June 1, 2008 ~ Sunday ~ 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Artist reception (that's us) for our June Exhibit at the Council for the Arts. Plan to come so the public can meet the OOPS artists and see our work. Did I mention there will be snacks????!!!

June 1 - 28, 2008
OOPS Gallery Show at Council for the Arts (Framed works must be turned in by May 23, 2008)

June 14, 2008 ~ Saturday ~ 1:00 PM until (June Paint Out)
Downtown Swansboro. This paint out is in conjunction with the "Arts by the Sea" festival. Meet at 1:00 PM in front of Yana's. Come early and plan to stay late to enjoy the festivities. Great opportunity for exposure for OOPS and the arts in general.

July Paint Out ~ TBA
Donna and Earl are picking the date and location for this one.

August Paint Out ~ TBA
Dean is picking the date and location for this one.

May Paint Out "Finished Works"

Our floating May Paint Out at the Civil War Living History Event was a little disappointing. The weather was great Saturday but Sunday morning started out with showers. The poor turn out of reenactors for the event added to the disappointment. Thank goodness for the calvary camp...they stole the show.... the infantry camp had one tent! Earl, Donna, Bernie, Mitchell, and Dean painted Saturday and Karen dropped by for a visit. We kind of missed the camaraderie that we're used to with the spread out time frame... live and learn.

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Earl Tyree

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Mitchell Morton

6x12" Oil on panel...

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Bernie Rosage Jr.

Bernie added the soldiers from imagination to make the scene look alive. The wind was a bit of a challenge Saturday afternoon.

8x10" Oil on Linen on panel...

Close-up...

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Dean Remington

Dean literally painted this one in the dark... we had to carry it over to a street light to see it!

9x12" Oil on panel...

Cool Beans!... OOPS makes the Headlines!

Make sure you check out today's Sunday paper...
ANIESA HOLMES of the Daily News staff wrote a GREAT article about OOPS and the Kinston Paint Out.

Online version here...
No mistake, OOPS take top honors at paint out

Thanks Aniesa for your support and great article...

May Paint Out this weekend Saturday May 3 and Sunday May 4 at Civil War Living History Event in Richlands.

Join us for an extended paint out this weekend at the Onslow County Museum in Richlands. Our May paint out is in conjunction with their annual Civil War Living History Weekend. The times for the paint out have been extended due to the awesome potential for unique plein air works timed with the weekend events. This paint out will be floating... in other words... come when you can. Saturday will offer the most excitement and the event usually dwindles out Sunday by noon. Several of us plan to paint Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning from about 8:00 AM until around noon. Come when you can... you won't want to miss this COOL event!

WHAT: OOPS May "Paint Out" at Civil War Living History Event

WHEN: Saturday, May 3, 2008 from 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM (or until they run us out) and
Sunday, May 4, 2008 from 8:00 AM until NOON.

WHERE: Onslow County Museum, Richlands, NC

WHY: Plein Air Painting... we're addicted!


A great chance to paint scenes with a variety of subjects from camp scenes, tents, Civil War era soldiers and civilians, flags, wagons, horses, cannons, still lifes, woodland scenes, etc...

Newbies welcome... all mediums and skill levels... simply show up with your gear and be prepared to have fun!

This is our last chance to paint before our exhibit at the Council for the Arts in June.

See ya'll there...

Kinston Paint Out was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

OOPS members, LtoR: Mitchell Morton, Stephen Greer, Kathi Lenn, Pat Boni, and Bernie Rosage, had an AWESOME time at the 1st Annual Kinston Plein Air Paint Out. The event was sponsored by The Community Council for the Arts in Kinston, NC, and organized by Mary Page Whitley. Artist, Mike Rooney, was the judge for the event. He and Mary Page even painted with the artists throughout the 2 day paint out.



We met at the gazebo in Neuseway Park on Friday at 9:00 am where Mary Page gave us the rules of engagement and a map. Rules were simple... paint within the boundaries on the map and paint as many works as possible. The areas we were to paint in had everything from a park, awesome views of the Neuse River, urban scenes, a Farmers Market, and more. On Saturday we were to turn in our best three for judging by Mike. 15 artists signed up for the paint out.



The event was part Of the Neuse River Fest and there were tons of people and activities going on. Photo above shows spectators enjoying the artwork turned in for the judging on Saturday.
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Approximately 40 works were turned in for judging... With the quality of work, Mike mentioned his task of picking three winners was TOUGH!



OOPS members fared very well in the competition... Stephen took 1st plus an Honorable Mention and Bernie placed third. (Close ups of all the OOPS members paintings in this blog post).



1st, 2nd, and 3rd... with 2 Honorable Mentions...


The winners... (LtoR)... Mike Rooney holding Stephen's Honorable Mention, Bernie (3rd), Stephen (1st), Dodie (2nd), and John (Honorable Mention).
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Every artist attending the event was a winner... the camaraderie, excellent weather, the subject matter, and nice folks of Kinston proved that! We met many talented artists and even hope to plein air paint with with a group near Greenville. Hopefully the two groups can plan their own paint outs similar to this one in the future as well.

After the judging... Mike critiqued 2 paintings per artist... to be quite honest... this 45 minutes was worth the $30 entry fee. Mike shared some great insights about subject matter and the focal point. OOPS and Onslow County are lucky to have him for a workshop next month.

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OOPS members at work...

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Kathi set up near the park where she captured most of her scenes. Hard to believe these paintings are a result of her second time working with watercolors. WOW! We still need to post her work from Saturday.

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Mitchell painted street scenes on Friday and the festival on Saturday....

Stephen painted an urban street scene and a tree on Friday. He painted his award winning Neuse River scene on Saturday...

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(Honorable Mention)

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(1st Place)

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Pat painted this quaint old gas station on Friday. She worked on a street scene also on Friday finishing it up on Saturday. We still need to publish her street scene from Saturday.

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Bernie painted a street scene and an old train station (3rd place winner) on Friday. He painted at the Farmers Market on Saturday...






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(3rd Place)

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All in all... we had a BLAST... and hope to do this again.... SOON!

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We'd love to hear your comments...

Finished works from April Paint Out at the Beirut Memorial

The finished works are straggling in from the April Paint Out at the Beirut Memorial.

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Olivia Rosage (age 6)

"Honoring Marines"... 10x8" Acyclic on canvas

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Donna Tyree

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Earl Tyree

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Bernie Rosage Jr.
I was inspired and broken hearted by the two "Gold Star" moms I met at the memorial. I decided to add the necklace as a tribute to them and ALL "Gold Star" moms... God bless everyone one of you.

Click HERE to read about the inspiration and whole story behind this painting...

Bernie

10x8" Oil on Linen

Close-up...

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Pat Boni

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Dean Remington

Bernie and Dean Plein Air Painted last weekend...

Bernie and Dean revisited downtown Swansboro for an enjoyable afternoon/evening of plein air painting last Saturday. Sweatshirt weather... the breeze was rather cool.

Click on paintings for larger view...

Bernie's work... 8x10" Oil on Linen

Split Complementary Palette... Yellow Ochre, Ultra Marine Blue, Cobalt Violet, and Titanium White.

Close-up...

Dean's work... 8x6" Oil on Panel

Sunday they went their separate ways and painted some more...

Bernie revisited the downtown Jacksonville area near the old train depot and painted this scene... a Bed and Breakfast on Mill Street.

8x10" Oil on Linen...

Dean enjoyed the comforts of home and painted this plein air work of his barn...

9x12" Oil on Panel...

1st Annual Plein Air Paint Out and Juried Exhibition

The Community Council For the Arts Presents the 1st Annual Plein Air Paint Out and Juried Exhibition Calling all Painters!

Whether you've been painting for years or just days, join us for a fun filled outdoor event!

Presented by the Community Council for the Arts in conjunction with the Kinston/Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce's Annual Festival on the Neuse.

Come capture the charm of downtown Kinston, or park yourself in the shade of the river front.

On Saturday, bring those paintings back down to the river front to have them judged by Mike Rooney, acclaimed plein air painter, of Goldsboro, NC. Prizes will be awarded.

Artists will be given the option of having their creations for sale through the Arts Council.

Cost: $30 registration fee

Calendar

Friday, April 25 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Meet at the gazebo at Neuseway Park for coffee and donuts; Paint on location around the river front and downtown Kinston.

Sat., April 26 9:00 a.m.
Meet at gazebo, paint on location; 12:00 p.m. Meet back at gazebo for judging; 2 :00 p.m. Awards will be announced. Artists may paint as many paintings as time allows but, please, only bring your best three paintings for judging.

The Community Council for the Arts will display paintings for the remainder of the event where artists may have their paintings available for sale. The CCA will retain a 35% commission fee on all works sold during the event.

For more information and applications contact the Arts Center for further details 252-527-2517, Mary Page Whitley, or http://www.kinstoncca.com/

OOPS members check out previous post and comment in it with your intentions...