September 2019 Newsletter

September 2019
Contact Information:

Secretary   victoriasketchclub@gmail.com

VSC website   www.victoriasketchclub.ca 
 
Facebook  
 https://www.facebook.com/victoriasketchclub/
Indoor fall schedule 
September 17 to December 3, 2019 

Duration: 12 weeks
Time: 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Location: Windsor Park Pavilion


Oct   1   CRITIQUE
Oct   8   Still life
Oct 15   Model character 
Oct 22   Interactive demo and BYO*
Oct 29   nude model (male)
Nov  5   Still life
Nov 12  Model character
Nov 19  BYO *
Nov 26  Still life
Dec   3  Luncheon

*Bring your own paintings to get feedback and/or to continue working on

Thank you!
Nirmala Greenwell, Program Director
Indoor program convenors: Ruth Beninger, Franny Kerridge, Joan Head and Niramon Prudatron

 
Scenes from VSC Paint Out, 2019
The VSC received a warm welcome at this year's Paint Out at Cowichan Bay. Known affectionately as 'Cow Bay,' it's located near Duncan, BC, on the east coast of southern Vancouver Island. Cow Bay is known for its fishing industry, tourism and its beautiful scenery.
Rand Harrison presents a Cowichan Bay leaf to VSC president, Larry Gollner.
HISTORY CORNER
With the end of our summer schedule, we now look forward to Nirmala’s attractive fall program at our home in Windsor Park. This is a seasonal Tuesday pattern which was established by a group coordinated by Josephine Crease (pictured above), and including Samuel Maclure, Sophie Pemberton and Margaret Kitto, in the early 1900s and thus actually pre-dates the formation of the Island Arts Club (IAC) in 1909. In those early days, Crease’s group used the name Sketching Club during the Summer, and Art/Studio Club during the indoor season. But it was the former title that prevailed. Those interested in sketching were to provide the backbone of the IAC, later the Island, Arts and Crafts Society, and the Sketch Club, which survived the demise of the IACS in the 1950s.

Nude models are now an important feature of our fall program. But, unsurprisingly in Victoria, their acceptance was a slow process. In 1922 it was announced that life classes would be started at the Club with four professional living models, both draped and nude. In the event, however, even in the progressive and liberal life classes of Ina Uhthoff in 1937, “nude” models were reportedly required to wear “bathing drawers” which reached their knees. And as recently as the 1980s, a ballot on preference for nude or clothed models came out just 10 to 4 in favour of nudes, with 2 abstentions. 
We’ve moved forward a little since!    

John Lover, VSC Historian
Art Shows
Christine Gollner:
CONNECTING WITH THE LAND

Show Dates: September 20 - October 19, 2019
Opening: Friday September 20, 5 - 7 pm; Artist's talk 5:30 pm
Venue: The Chapel Gallery, St Matthias
Address600 Richmond Ave. Victoria, corner of Richmond & Richardson
(parking available);
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10 am - 2 pm
Artist in attendance Saturdays
For more information, call 250-595-5979
or email christine@gollner.ca
Details also available at www.stmatthiasvictoria.ca/chapelgallery
Paint Out 2020!
A paint out venue has been chosen!
You voted on next year’s Paint-Out and the venue chosen was
Cusheon Lake Resort on Salt Spring island.
This includes 1 bedroom cabins, cedar chalet cabins and 2 bedroom cabins.
September 21st –  September 28th , 2020.  

Nine VSC members preferred this date (four said either was ok, and two preferred the earlier date).

Please contact Glen Tremblay at:  1-866-899-0017  to book your accommodation.  Be sure to tell him you are with the Victoria Sketch Club:
1 bedroom cabins          weekly: $969     
Cedar Chalet cabins       weekly: $969     
2 bedroom cabins          weekly: $1474   
Please note: These prices do not include the 15% tax

There is a deposit required and 7 days notice for cancellation.

We look forward to another successful Paint-Out, and a big round of applause goes out to Myra for her diligence in making this happen in a democratic manner!
 
Quotes to Inspire Creativity
compiled by Virginia Hutzuliak
"Make visible what, without you, perhaps may never have been seen"
-- Robert Pressor

"Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect"
-- Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way
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Artists in Residence

Maureen Ness

VSC member Maureen Ness was Artist in Residence for the month of August, 2019 at Delta Marriott Hotel, at 100 Harbour Road.

For the month of September, Maureen will be at the Coast Victoria Hotel & Marina on Kingston Street for her second time.


Congratulations, Maureen!
VSC member Avis Rasmussen currently has some paintings on display at the James Bay Library branch, at 385 Menzies Street in James Bay.

Congratulations, Avis!
If you're an Artist in Residence or are participating in a show or workshop, please send your details to the newsletter editor

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