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Creative Catalyst Artists are Winners
Last week we reported that Nicholas Simmons took top honors at the National Watercolor Society. Mark Mehaffey and Donna Zagotta (all CCP artists with DVD workshops in various stages of production) were notified they had also won awards at the National Watercolor Society. Mark received the Janet Hilford Memorial award for Blue Monolith (1). Donna [...]
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Filming Craig Nelson
We wrapped up last week and started this one by filming Craig Nelson. Craig is an instructor and department chair at the San Francisco Academy of Art, a world renowned institution. We stayed up way too late talking about notables in the art world that are Craig’s friends, students or fellow artists. Many of [...]
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News - September 4, 2007
This week opens with a holiday and beautiful weather here in Oregon. For all the many months of winter, with constant rain, this state redeems itself with the weather of summer and fall. It is just barely 80 degrees, clear skies and flowers everywhere. It’s 106 in my old haunts of LA….
I managed to get [...]
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August 28, 2007 - Painting in the CCP Gardens
Even though we have lived here over 26 years, and I’ve spent a good portion of my time working in the yard, I’ve never thought of the yard as a place to paint. Last week a group of artist joined us here for a morning of painting. Seeing the yard through their eyes has changed [...]
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Creative Catalyst Newsletter - July 24, 2007
“Go with the flow!” and learn the art of working WITH the natural tendencies of watercolor and not against them. In ANN PEMBER’s DVD watercolor workshop, PAINTING IN THE FLOW OF WATERCOLOR, you see Ann use Strathmore high plate bristol board and only five colors to produce this serene mountain river scene. She works [...]
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