James Hempel featured in Plein Air magazine-again!

From: James Hempel
I was pleasantly surprised to find myself featured in Plein Air magazine's e-newsletter again, this time for a first place award at New Berlin plein air.

http://www.outdoorpainter.com/awards/new-berlin-wi-competition.html

This painting and more of my rural works are currently at River's End gallery in Waukesha.

You can see some of mine and my students select work at Zak's Cafe on Second St. in Walker's Point.

To view a more complete body of work, I'm open anytime by appointment at my Walker's Point studio.

Best to you,

James Hempel

James Hempel Fine Arts Studio & Gallery

Milwaukee, WI 53204

www.JamesHempel.com

jwhempel@hotmail.com

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Upcoming Art Milwaukee Events

from: Art Milwaukee jeremy@artmilwaukee.com

UPCOMING ART MILWAUKEE EVENTS

Wisconsin Ave Bridge Celebration & Riverwalk Art Walk  Thousands of friends, 1 bridge, 1 community coming together to rejuvenate downtown through the arts, cutlure, music and a city wide celebration. Get your space reserved to show at the 1st ever Riverwalk Art Walk by RSVPing below.   Sept 22nd, 12-10pm    Art Bus on Bay View Gallery Night A very special ART Bus to take you around Bay View Gallery Night. Live tunes on the bus and complimentary libations and a tour of the Bay View art scene starting at Cafe Centraal. *Note: there are only 11 tickets left for the bus and we will not be getting a second bus.* Sept 28th, 6:30-10pm       Movies with ART Milwaukee We now have our own movie theARTer thanks to our partnership with Marcus Theaters. We will be hosting recurring films featuring filmmakers from the US. The 41 seat theater is housed next to our offices. Please click more info to see pictures. The first film will be from Detroit Lives: After the Factory. October, 12, Showings at 7pm & 9pm

PIECE OF THE WEEK 1 Piece, 1 Week, 52 Weeks a Year, over 10,000 views per week   Gabby Tesfaye - Mural on Brady Street - Looking for artwork in your business, organization or home? Get the gallery guru to curate.  The ARTery "A 3 mile stretch from Keefe to Hampton along the old Wisconsin Southern RxR. Once a rail, then a parkway, it has become a place for illegal dumping.It has incredible potential to stitch together extremely segregated tracts within the city while also becoming a place to install and view guerilla/improvisational works of art." Local Milwaukee Keith Hayes has been working on this project and has gained a lot of traction. You can find out more infomation below to help him on this amazing project.

ART TALK

Top 5 Events Around MKE Fueled by   Sept 20 September Evening Connection Event  Sept 21 MAM After Dark "Live" Sept 22 Doors Open Milwaukee Sept 22 Wisconsin Ave Bridge Celebration  Sept 23 Bay View’s First Food Swap Keep on Your Radar Sept 28 Bay View Gallery Night Sept 27 - Oct 11 Milwaukee Film Fest Oct 5 & 6 Das Oktoberfest MKE Nov 2 - 4 Creative Capital Workshops

Get to Know a Gallery "The CCC is a social center that houses a number of collectives including the Screen Printing Collective, the Mathilda Anneke Infoshop, and the Gallery. The CCC has a free internet computer lab and is also a  space for puppet shows, theatre, lectures, meetings, and more. In general, we would like to be able to better take care of ourselves and each other and eventually be able to worktogether  to provide for our material and physical needs."

Milwaukee Sketch Club in Wales 8/30/12

Sent: 9/4/12
Hi,  Last Thursday was a wonderful day for Plein Air. I visited Wales, WI, one of my favorite spots, and did a watercolor sketch of the same home that we painted last Winter from our cars. Of course this time the temperature was in the low eighties and there was a breeze and some shade, so it was very nice sitting outside.

Since our last visit the old bank building on Main Street has a new business, a coffee shop, and I would like to come back again to do another watercolor of that.

So here are a few pictures. Regards, John

F.A.M.E Update & Opportunities September 2012

From: James Mac Donald <macdonaj28@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 19, 2012

Hello artists!! Hope all is wel. Please see the attachment for new opportunities. One is on short notice, but could be very worthwhile.

If you have any news or art items to share, please send to me via email.

 

Thanks,

 

Jim Mac Donald

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F.A.M.E. Fine Arts ‘N Motion Updates:

It has been a while and overdue time to update and offer new opportunities.

First of all, a special thank you to all of the artists who took a leap of faith and exhibited and/ or participated in the Plein Air events at our ‘Art and Music in the Park’ Mukwonago Event this past July. Community response and support was overwhelming. Personally, I experienced more sales and volume here than at some Third Ward gallery events in downtown Milwaukee.

NEW OPPORTUNITIES: Artists, sculptors, photographers wanted:

(Just received this on short notice)

Harvest Fall Festival and Artisan Faire

Saturday, October 6, 2012 from 11:00-3:00

Nature’s Classroom Institute

W1802 County Road J

Mukwonago, WI 53149 (South of Elegant Farmer on Hwy J)

Outdoor exhibit plenty of room. Beautiful site on 600 acres of Kettle Moraine land. No jurying (at this late date) for our group.

Nature is the general theme. Only $35.00 entry fee.

Contact Suzanne Ruland- sruland@mysupportsource.com

414-840-3797

And our next BIG F.A.M.E planned event:

Mukwonago Chamber of Commerce and Tourism

‘Midnight Magic’ throughout greater Mukwonago.

Saturday, December 1 (times to be announced).

We will have two attractive venues to display our art: BrookLife Church and Orchard Hill Assembly of God (across from the Elegant Farmer).

More details to come. Interested artists should email me- Jim Mac Donald at macdonaj28@gmail.com if interested, and or wish to assist on the planning committee. Join us on FaceBook (F.A.M.E. Fine Arts in Motion) Stay tuned for more!

Thanks and happy painting!!

 

Drawing Attention by Urban Sketchers - Sept 2012

Drawing Attention
***now available via email to our mailing list subscribers!***
[Sept. 2012] Issue #27
 

Sketching Exhibits

The organizers of Rendez Vous Du Carnet de Voyage, a Travel Sketchbook festival that takes place every November in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand, invited four Urban Sketchers to draw the panoramic domes and landscapes of Puy-de-Dome in July. Thanks to Emdé, Lapin, Gérard Michel and Luis Ruiz (Gérard and Luiz pictured right) for representing USK! The public will be able to view this exhibition during the Rendez-vous du Carnet de Voyage, November 16 - 18, 2012.

“Seeing the World, One Drawing at a Time: Urban Sketchers” showcases 90 art works by 38 Urban Sketchers international contributors at the Ackland Museum Store through October 6, 2012. While various local Urban Sketchers groups have held exhibitions, the Ackland Museum Store’s show is the first time in the organization's history that sketches from correspondents around the world have been brought together and shown at a single venue. Thanks to USK Correspondent Laura Murphy Frankstone. who curated our first group show.

A Regional Gathering of Sketchers

Sketchers for Seattle Urban Sketchers, Urban Sketchers Portland and the Whidbey Island Sketchers converged on Tacoma, WA USA for the first (hopefully of many) Pacific Northwest Regional Sketchcrawl. More than 30 sketchers captured the sights in and around Tacoma’s Museum District.

Urban Sketching in the News

The BBC invited 20 artists to provide their interpretation of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant from the Millennium Bridge in London. The poor weather forced many to adapt and even abandon their work halfway through, but here the BBC presents a beautiful selection of their work. Florian Alexander Schmidt, a student at The Royal  College of Art, chose to draw faces from the crowd and many of his fellow artists (at left).

"Sense of Place" is a new feature in the Press Democrat. Every other Sunday, Richard Sheppard’s sketches - along with a brief story - are now being featured in the "Towns" section of this Sonoma County California newspaper (at right). The column will be published online and in the print edition. You can view Richard's inaugural column here.

The digital arts magazine Tribe published a spread of San Francisco sketches by past USK Correspondent Matt Jones. Matt’s sketchers are available to view freely here.

One of the Santo Domingo TV stations produced a great report on the Third International Urban Sketching Symposium. Click here to watch the video on YouTube. A full view of the symposium can be seen on the symposium blog.

Have urban sketching news to share in Drawing Attention? Please send fully written items with links (and graphics, if possible) to: drawingattention at urbansketchers dot org

Until next month... happy sketching.

Lisbeth Cort, member of Whidbey Island Sketchers

Urban Sketchers is a grassroots 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the art of on-location drawing. Consider making a donation today. Go to urbansketchers.org to make your tax-deductible contribution via Paypal.

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Upcoming Milwaukee Sketch Club Plein Air Thursday 9/20/12

The weather forecast is for mostly sunny with a high of 67 degrees. Is anyone interested in trying again to meet at the clock tower parking lot in downtown Waukesha? John

Lorin Willey Info (critiqued last week at sketch club

From: "Willey, Lorin
Date: September 12, 2012

Hi Folks,

Many of you who were at the Milwaukee Sketch Club critique last evening and who had not participated in my critiques previously, had requested that I give you some information on my background and samples of work. I had mentioned that I am in the process of having a new web page designed and launched.

Keep in mind that this page is not active at this time so I am not able to answer inquiries using the contact form. I am expecting that the page will be active by the end of October. If you want details and enlarged views of the works simply click on them, as usual.

Again, for those who had expressed interest in taking my classes, they occur every Thursday evening from 6pm to 8:30pm at the Clinton Street Gallery at the corner of Main St. and Clinton St. in downtown Waukesha.

Here is the link to my web page:  http://lorinwilley.weebly.com/

Yours in paint,

Lorin 

Jim Hempel 2 Day Plein Air Workshop Sept 20-21

Hi All,

 I will be holding a 2 day plein air painting workshop in Plymouth, WI September 20-21 hosted by the Plymouth Art Center. I hope you can join me, even if you are not participating the Paint the Town plein air event immediately following. Clicking on the link will provide all the pertinent information on both.

Thanks!

James Hempel

James Hempel Fine Arts Studio

www. JamesHempel.com

 

A/C Association 63rd Annual Exhibit October 7 - 26, 2012

Reception; Sunday, October 7, 1-3pm
Meadowmere
701 E. Puetz Rd., Oak Creek, WI

Exhibit form for A/C Association Members below

Joyce Eesley at Hidden River Art Festival Sept 14-16

MSC 2012-2013 schedule

Milwaukee Sketch Club 2012-2013 Schedule
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 7929 W. Lincoln Ave, West Allis, WI
Tuesday Evenings 7:00-9:00 pm

Sept. 4 Sketch

Sept. 11 Critique

Sept. 18 Sketch

Sept. 25 Sketch

Oct. 2 Sketch

Oct. 9 Demo

Oct. 16 Sketch

Oct. 23 Sketch

Oct. 30 Sketch

Nov. 6 Sketch

Nov. 13 Critique

Nov. 20 Sketch

Nov. 27 Sketch

Dec. 4 Sketch

Dec. 11 Demo

Dec. 18 Sketch

Dec. 25 HOLIDAY

Jan. 1 HOLIDAY

Jan. 8 Critique

Jan. 15 Sketch

Jan. 22 Sketch

Jan. 29 Sketch

Feb. 5 Sketch

Feb. 12 Demo

Feb. 19 Sketch

Feb. 26 Sketch

Mar. 5 Sketch

Mar. 12 Critique

Mar. 19 Sketch

Mar. 26 Sketch

Apr. 2 Sketch

Apr. 9 Demo

Apr. 16 Sketch

Apr. 23 Sketch

Apr. 30 Sketch

May 7 Sketch

May 14 Critique

MAY 21 DINNER

from Plymouth Arts Center: Error on the blogspot

From Donna C. Hahn

Hi Joyce and Art:

We gave you incorrect information for your blogspot.  I think it was incorrect on our website. I’d appreciate it very much if you could update and also include a link that would just go to our homepage: www.plymoutharts.org.

From there, artists can get to the right page.

The Plymouth Paint the Town en plein Air is going to be held beginning Sept. 22 through the 29^th.  Jim Hempel’s workshop is Sept. 20 and 21.

The Mill street Quick Paint is Saturday, Sept. 29^th.

I’ve also included your class Joyce and Beki Borman’s.

I’ve attached the documents for your review.

I’m hoping you can also list these.

Thanks much.
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Click on pictures below to see larger size

Jim Hempel at Hidden River Arts Festival this weekend!

Hi All,

I was honored to receive the 1st Place award at the New Berlin plein air over the weekend with my painting "Don's Organic Farm". Farmer Don even came out of the garden to enjoy the reception and help celebrate! I'll be showing my painting of this farm and other rural scenes this weekend at the Hidden River Art Festival http://www.wilson-center.com/visual/hidden-river-art-festival.php in Brookfield. After Sunday, my work will go to my new gallery in Waukesha; the River's End Gallery http://www.riversendgallery.com. 

If you are able join us this weekend, the show is taking place at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center, 19805 Capitol Dr. Friday from 10-7,  Saturday 10-6, and Sunday 11-4. It's one of the largest art festivals in the state featuring exclusively (80) Wisconsin artists and craftspeople. I'll be showing in the River's End Gallery booth just inside the Sharon Lynne Wilson center, opposite the entrance, and will be working the booth Friday. I would love to see any and all of you who can make it out to the show and stop by for a visit!

 As always, I would love to create a special piece for you if you don't see exactly what you are looking for.

Best regards,

James Hempel

James Hempel Fine Arts Gallery and Teaching Studio

http://www.JamesHempel.com

WIPAPA: Sept 22nd: Open Paint Day: Wisconsin Ave Bridge Celebration (Downtown)!!

from WIPAPA mricl4hlth@aol.com

I'm so excited for our open paint day on Sept. 22nd! 

 

WIPAPA has been invited to participate in the Riverwalk Art Walk and Wisconsin Avenue Bridge Celebration in downtown Milwaukee! (http://www.bridgepartymke.com/#!home/mainPage)

 

Here's the scoop:

 

Show up early (I will be there around 8AM) and find a place to paint around the Riverwalk area.) I suggest you set up within eyesight of each other. 

 

In the event of rain WIPAPA will still paint so come prepared.

 

We will have a tent set up for us and walls. Please stop and check in there. When you have your work done and framed and wired bring it to us and we will hang it. You will price it and you will receive all the selling price should it sell. We will only except cash and checks. 

 

We will be taking the tent down at dusk however,  while you are free to continue to paint you must show up at the tent before then to pick up any unsold work or any money from sales. You may also sell off your easels and display some work around where you are painting.

 

If you go to their website you will see the event runs from noon till 10pm and it is being held in conjunction with Doors Open Milwaukee (http://doorsopenmilwaukee.org/) When many of Milwaukee's historic buildings will be open for tours! They are expecting 10,000 people to show up for this and the Wisconsin Ave Bridge is on the map.

 

Hope to see you all there!!!! (Wendie)

Egg Harbor's Tornado Sculpture Isn't What You Think from Peninsula Pulse

Egg Harbor's Tornado Sculpture Isn't What You Think It Is

Tornado ripped through town 14 years ago  

By Myles Dannhausen Jr. 

The sculpture in front of the old Sunnypoint schoolhouse on Highway 42, about three miles south of Egg Harbor. photo by Myles Dannhausen Jr. (Taken with Instagram).

Its rusted steel stands contorted, twisted to the west where a monster tornado ripped ashore on an otherwise quiet late August evening 14 years ago.  

That F3 tornado (the strongest are rated F5) devoured the shoreline just south of Frank Murphy County Park, climbed the bluff toward Highway 42, and tore through the fields and woods a few miles south of the Village of Egg Harbor. It destroyed Sunnypoint Gardens and the Bel Air Motel. 

Then the tornado began whipping pieces of the Cornerstone Suites into the rows of the fields surrounding, and it's wide swatch demolished much of the old Sunnypoint Schoolhouse as well. According to the National Weather Service, the twister was on the ground for nearly 14 minutes, carved a path of damage 5.1 miles long, stretched up to a half-mile wide, and caused damage estimated at nearly $7 million.

Miraculously, the massive funnel cloud did not kill a single person and injured only two.

About a year later a sculpture appeared in front of the old Sunnypoint School. It's mangled shape, massive body, and three tiny legs were unmistakable - an homage to the tornado that ripped across the very ground it stood on.

Read more>> 

Plein Air Today newsletter 8/29/12

August 29, 2012 OutdoorPainter.com  |  Community  |  Events  |  Directory Listings  |  Advertise  |  Subscribe  |  Contact To receive PleinAir Today, our FREE weekly e-newsletter, enter your email below.
Jurors' Choice award winner Paul Kratter with a display of his paintings
News:
Artists' Choice winner Kristine Pallas	Napa Valley, CA Art Festival The 5th annual Napa Valley Art Festival was held on Saturday, August 18, in Yountville, California, with more than 25 professional artists exhibiting their paintings. Find out who participated, and which artist offered a painting demonstration. [read more]
Sandra Hildreth (left) with winner Christa Pisano	Saranac Lake, NY Art Works Event Artists painted at the Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretive Center among many other locations around town during the Saranac Lake Art Works event from August 16-19, 2012. Ann Larsen served as juror. Find out who won the Best of Show award. [read more]
Cindy Baron, Jonathan McPhillips, and Mark Fernandez participating in the plein air event.	Newport, RI Art Museum Some plein air events are fundraisers during which participating artists donate most or all of the value of their artwork to support an art center, museum, school, or community organization. That was the case with the recent Wet Paint 2012 at the Newport Art Museum in Rhode Island. [read more]
Dotty Kyle (left) and Jane Sandberg painting the 1833 covered bridge in Mad River Valley in Vermont.	The Great Vermont Plein Air Paint-OutThe 2nd annual Great Vermont Plein Air Paint-Out in the Mad River Valley was a huge success. Sponsored by the Valley Arts Foundation and the Big Red Barn Art Show, artists spent Saturday, August 18 "Painting the Village." [read more]
Events:
Sprague House in Crescent City, Florida	A New Plein Air Event in FloridaThe Community Redevelopment Agency and the City of Crescent City, Florida are sponsoring the first Plein Air Paint Out and Shoot Out Fall Festival in Crescent City, Florida in September of 2012. [read more]
The exterior of View in Old Forge, NY	Old Forge, NY Plein Air Paint OutAnother anticipated plein air event is being organized to support View, the wonderful new arts community building in Old Forge, New York will be held over Labor Day weekend (August 31-September 2). Find out how this annual event makes programs possible at View. [read more]
Exhibits:
Chris Adessa, one of the artists who organized this exhibition of large paintings	Big Paintings for a Big Cause Seven San Francisco Bay Area artists are joining forces with the San Francisco chapter of the Surfrider Foundation by creating large-scale (minimum six feet) waterscapes for a fundraising exhibition to support coastal cleanup. [read more]
Extreme Plein Air:
Inside the Army Chinook helicopter that rescued artist Gary Geraths, with another visible out the window.	Lost, But Still Painting Last spring, Californian Gary Geraths got so lost on a painting trip through the Anazasi canyons of Utah that he had to signal to Army Chinook helicopter pilots to rescue him. The good news is he still had his completed watercolor paintings after he'd hiked several hundred miles back to his car. [read more]
Jim McVicker painting in a cow pasture.	Becoming One With the Cows Jim McVicker finds that after he has been painting near animals for a while, their curiosity is satisfied and they leave him alone. That's what happened when he painted in a cow pasture, although he did learn not to keep his tasty painting supplies out and available. [read more]
Patti Mollica painting along 5th Avenue in Manhattan near the New York Public Library	Crowd Painting in New York City Plein air painting in the middle of midtown Manhattan? Patti Mollica just finished two weeks of painting for nine hours a day amid the traffic and crowds around the New York Public Library on 5th Avenue. Find out about her amazing experiences. [read more]
Artist Profile:
Michael Albrechtsen painting near his home in Kansas	Seeing God in Nature In the August/September issue of PleinAir magazine, Michael Albrechtsen talked about how educating yourself about the botany, biology, geology, and the climate of a particular landscape can help you paint a more effective picture. In addition to his interest in the sciences, nature means something more to the Utah native and Kansas resident: an awe-inspiring example of God's creation. (Reported by Bob Bahr) [read more]
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