Congratulations Winners: We Came We Saw We Painted 2016

Congratulations to all the winners! Jurors comments under each photo! This work is showing and available till April 28th!

Best in Show
Dan Rizzi

“This set of paintings we both agreed were worthy of merit. With overlapping diagonals, the composition was quite dramatic, and much of what was appealing in the study was kept in the final, with the addition of a more natural color for the foreground.” - Anthony Sell

2nd Place
Sherri Thomas

 “This set of paintings immediately caught my attention as I looked over the work in the show. While a very peaceful composition, I saw in this a degree of subtlety that was worthwhile. The studio piece demonstrates an improvement in the atmospheric perspective offered by this type of scene, adjustments to the scale and placement of elements that improved the composition, and a very careful handling of the edge quality of the trees in the foreground, something that is easily lost or overworked when one enlarges a much smaller painting. To me this demonstrated the kind of deliberation that one would expect from a studio painting based on a field study.” - Anthony Sell

 

Third Place
Barb Hayden

Close up of Barb Hayden Studio Painting

“Instead of painting the same scene, Barbara painted an interesting part of the study painting. Painting a chandelier on a gold background offers the viewers interesting perspectives at many angles. And gave the painting an illusion of light. I loved the process of a readable scene to the final painting of readable abstraction.” - Jenny Anderson 

Honorable Mention
Kriste Sankey

 “On the criteria of a study piece to studio, this showed most improvement. Working on your studio piece you have improved the scene using your imagination. Study and concentration to imagination and the joy of painting.” - Jenny Anderson 

Call to Artists: We Came, We Saw, We Painted 2016 ART BAR

2016 We Came, We Saw, We Painted: Field to Finish at the

  

When? Opening Reception Friday March 18th 6:30-7:30

Work Hangs  Friday March 18th through Thursday April 28th 

Where? The Art*Bar 722 E Burleigh

Awards? 1st, 2nd and 3rd place 

Entry Cost? None, Nada, Zip

Sales Split? 70% Artist/20%Art*Bar/10%AWE

ENTRY DEADLINE: Monday Feb 29th

You must submit 2 images (1 plein air and 1 studio done from that plein air painting)  for consideration We will be accepting 30 artists for this show!

Both Plein air and Studio pieces done from plein air studies when they are submitted together will be accepted! 

SIZE LIMIT: One piece may be 12x12 and max 4 1/4" frame and the other as big as 20x16 and max 4 1/4" frame. All work must be framed and wired!

You must be a 2016 dues paid member to enter (see entry form at http://wipapa.blogspot.com/ To join)

Acceptance announcements will be sent by Friday March 4th

Drop off work March 14th

Pick up of unsold work is after Friday April 29th

#1 Register on the form Below: 

#2 Send your 72 dpi images with YOUR NAME and "2016: Came Saw Painted"  in the address bar and send to: mricl4hlth@aol.com

Label  your images with your last name and title

As seen in Express Milwaukee! THANKS Kat! (Watch the Video at the Bottom!)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014

Plein Air at Art*Bar

Outdoor paintings on display at Riverwest tavern

By Kat Murrell

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“We Came We Saw We Painted” is an exhibition by Wisconsin Plein Air Painters Association artists on view at Art*Bar in Riverwest. Plein air is the lovely French term for paintings done outdoors, or put another way, in the plain air. 

Some of the most well-known artists who followed this method were the Impressionist painters. In 1870s France, they were a pretty radical bunch, but once the shock wore off over what they were doing, their painting techniques gained currency. The lasting effects of their methods and style can be seen in abundance here as plenty of artists follow in those footsteps, traipsing out to hills and fields far and wide to make art.

Some of the places in these paintings are familiar, like Judith VanGernert’s Port Washington Light. She shows two pieces together, as do many artists in the show, and this adds an interesting twist to the plein air idea. These pairs are frequently the study done on location and the other is the studio version. VanGernert initiates her project in watercolor and recreates the idea in oil paint. The composition is adjusted slightly and the atmosphere changes, from the somewhat darker, more pensive hues in watercolor to brighter, sunlit tones and thick impasto in the studio version.

There is a sense of immediacy in the framed studies and specificity of time and place. Lynn Rix’s snowy December 12th is a winter field dappled with burnished red bramble and blue shadows. The studio painting it inspires, First Snow, follows the field study closely but with a clearer touch for the details. Bramble becomes taller, stands up straighter and a neat path appears in the field.

Can you go back again and catch the same feeling? It is like recreating a memory and getting a do-over the second time around. The exhibition offers a peek into the artists’ working methods and development of ideas. As a viewer, perhaps you’ll come away with a preference for the brash impulses of first thoughts or a taste for studied brushwork of places reimagined and revisited.

“We Came We Saw We Painted: Wisconsin Plein Air Painters” is on view through June 26 at Art*Bar (722 E Burleigh St.).

Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBTEUAAEoJ0#t=171

http://expressmilwaukee.com/

Join us May 16th at the Art*Bar!! We Came, We, Saw, We Painted - Field to Finish 2014

Join us May 10th at the Art*Bar!! We Came, We, Saw, We Painted 2013

Music, Drinks, Art and the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of some great Milwaukee area kids!!! The Wisconsin Plein Air Painters Association has teamed up with the Art*Bar and A.W.E. for a  great time!! Awards Ceremony starts at 8:30!

10% of all sales go to A.W.E. (Artists Working in Education).

(http://awe-inc.org/home.php)  A.W.E.'s mission is to provide youth in the Milwaukee Area with arts enrichment programs to enhance human potential, advance learning and cultivate community. Help fund their great Truck Studios that visit area neighborhoods full of supplies teachers and ideas! Fun, Fun Fun!!!

Work hangs till June 13th!!!