News And Note

Warm greetings to you as we celebrate the Holidays and welcome a new year. I hope the past year has been filled with good paintings for you and that the new year will bring even more. My year was busy with: a major joint exhibition, talks and demo at our local university and 17 national juried exhibitions, earning 6 awards. A few of my recent paintings follow. NEWS WINTER 2015 – 2016 I will be teaching a 5-day workshop next July 11 – 15th at the Peru Community Fellowship Center in Peru, NY just a few miles from my home

NEWS: FALL 2015 CLOSING RECEPTION OF  MY EXHIBITION WITH FRIEND, MINA ANGELOS, AWS; BURKE GALLERY , SUNY PLATTSBURGH  MUSEUM MY DEMO AT SUNY JURIED EXHIBITIONS COLLECTIONS PUBLICATIONS

This May I taught a 3-day workshop for the Colonie Art League in Latham, NY. I’ve included some of the demonstration paintings here. I began painting this Amaryllis on the first day and completed it the third day. It has strong lighting that glows through the petals and created a large shadow over the center. I used Permanent Rose, Quinacridone Coral, Berlin Blue and Burnt Umber, and painted in sections. Smaller ones were painted directly on dry Waterford paper and larger ones were wet before painting. Colors were mingled for interest. On the second day I worked on this Crescent

I’ve received many requests for another book on painting flowers and have written one that goes beyond the information presented in my first hard cover book, Painting Close-Focus Flowers In Watercolor. Over the winter I completed this third digital book, “Make Flower Paintings Glow In Watercolor”. It is available as a PDF file on a CD, or as a download from my website at; www.annpember.com. There is a description on my website and some excerpts and images from the book are included here. The book contains over 300 illustrations. Seven all new step-by-step demonstrations of my techniques of painting include

Winter is a great time to devote to painting. The gardens are no longer in need of attention and I have lots of reference photos taken during the year for inspiration. In October I began painting this flower in preparation for a demo for the Vermont Watercolor Society Annual Meeting at the Middlebury Inn in Vermont. The request was for a demonstration of how to paint clean darks in a floral, including the background. I painted most of the light and middle values before the event and saved the darker values for the demo. Here are some steps of the

NEWS FALL 2014 OPEN STUDIO: July 20TH RECEIVING THE REALISM IN NATURE AWARD AT VIEW ARTS CENTER; OLD FORGE, NY IN AUGUST JURIED EXHIBITIONS  

Summer has arrived and I’ve been spending a great deal of time in the gardens. I have continued to paint though and will share some results here. I will once again hold an open studio here on Sunday, July 20th, from 1:00 -4:00 pm. There will be more than 200 paintings on view and for sale and guests will be free to roam the grounds and enjoy our beautiful view of lake and mountains. Refreshments will be served for your enjoyment. My new digital book and my other books and videos will be available for purchase. Here’s a new painting