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65 th   Juried Show

An Exhibition of Transparent Watercolor on Paper

St. Brigid’s Gallery , April 20th – 29th, 2012

 

Digital Submissions by February 18th, 2012

Registration time & location: Saturday, February  25th , 2012, 9:00  – 10 :00 am

United Church in Bells Corners, 3955 Richmond Rd., Ottawa, Ontario

Pick-up paintings 1:00 – 1:30pm, February 25th, 2012

Conditions:

·         Original works  and digital submissions

  • The registration fee of $25 must accompany this registration form. (Make cheques out to the Ottawa Watercolour Society).

  • Up to three paintings may be submitted. There are no size restrictions.

  • Transparent Watercolour on paper

  • For jurying purposes all paintings must be either ready for hanging (under glass) or presented matted only, if at all possible, please use clear sleeves for works that are not framed. Matts must be white or off white only.  

  • Paintings must not have been  previously accepted into an OWS exhibition.

  • Digital submissions are to be sent by email to digit_submission@owswatercolour.com. Size to be no larger than 300 dpi, 4x6, and submitted by  February 18th.

  • For digital submissions the registration form must be completed and mailed with cheque enclosed to  46 Macassa Circle, Kanata, Ontario, K2T 1J8 , and received no  later than Friday February 24th.

  • All work must be original, material produced or worked on in class is not to be presented for jurying.

  • You must be a member of OWS to register. Click here for more information about the OWS membership.

  • The OWS takes no responsibility for theft or damage of any paintings.  Artists are responsible for obtaining their own insurance.

  • All paintings should be clearly marked with title, artist’s name, price, and size of piece.

  • All paintings are to be for sale. 15% commission goes to the Gallery.

 

Accepted paintings will need to be brought to the St. Brigid’s Gallery, for hanging on Friday, April  20th  between 09:00 and  09:30 am and picked up on Sunday, April 29th between  4:00-5:00 pm

 

 

Note: Only OWS members are allegeable for submission. Please write in your membership number (found on your membership card) at the top of the submission form. If you are not a member please apply for a membership prior to submission.



OWS Exhibition Committee

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Notes from the OWS President:

I encourage you all to submit your artwork. We need to make Ottawa sit up and take notice of our watercolours. It is up to each of us to promote art through-out the capital and to make a mark for the media of watercolours. Next year there will be a symposium on watercolours and the whole capital will be flooded with watercolours. You will want to be firmly embedded in the watercolour community before this event comes.

 

Now is the time to get painting for this spring show at St. Brigid’s.

What is the jury looking for?

 

  Some of you, like me, have been discouraged by having paintings rejected by past juries and some of you I know have finally made it into enough shows to apply for Fellowship status only to have been rejected by the fellowship jury. I have decided to find out exactly what it is our juries are looking for. The jury process for the OWS show is one of the most fair that I know of, the jurors do not discuss the paintings with each other and do not know what rating the other jurors are giving a painting. The jurors` decisions are final and jurors are not required to give explanations for the rejection or acceptance of works.

 

 I cannot think of any way it could be improved. So with the help of the members of the executive we have come up with a list of things the jury may be looking for. This was published in the OWS newsletter in March 1997. It was originally published in the Nov. 1997 issue of the American Artist.

 

1.     Does the painting exhibit good drawing skills?

 

2.     Do the shapes, patterns, values and colors create a good design?

 

3.     Is it creative use of the medium?

 

4.     Does the texture of the painting enhance the subject matter?

 

5.     Does the texture of the support enhance the subject matter?

 

6.     Is there a variety of textures?

 

7.     Are the edges handled well?

 

8.     Are the darks, lights and shadows placed effectively?

 

9.     Does the painting contain good atmospheric quality and convey a sense of time and place?

 

10.  Has the artist demonstrated his or her knowledge of the subject?

 

11.  Has the artist revealed parts of the subject that may be unknown to the viewer?

 

12.  Does the painting have a mood?

 

13.  Did the artist feel emotional about the subject matter and does it come across in the work?

 

14.  Is the work well presented in terms of matting and framing?

 

15.  Is the painting aesthetically pleasing?

 

 

Hopefully this will give you some guidelines in choosing which paintings you will submit for our spring show. Mary Nun has sent me a great list that is probably more current than this one and it will be published in the next newsletter.

 

Happy Painting!

 

Brenda

 

 

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OWS Juried Exhibitions -

Conditions and Instructions

The Juried Exhibitions of the Society are subject to the following conditions although modifications in detail may be required to suit individual cases.

It is the responsibility of the Executive to inform the members in good time of the items included under the heading of instructions and these will very with each exhibition.

CONDITIONS

1. The juried Exhibitions of the Society will be juried by a panel of Jurors appointed by the Executives. The Jury will consist of 4 or 5 Fellows of the Society and one Affiliate or Associate member. Fellows and Associates will be asked to serve in rotation.

2.  When an Exhibition is to be held in a commercial gallery, the gallery will be invited to nominate one additional Juror as their representative. 

3.Jouror will be asked to select from the paintings submitted those which in their opinion are of a high enough standard to warrant their acceptance as works representative of the Society. The number of works accepted may be limited by the hanging capacity of the Society.

4. In all cases the decision of the Jurors shall be final and they shall not be required to give any critique or explanation for their decision.

5. Exhibitions are restricted to members of the Society but new memberships will be accepted at the time of submission of paintings.

6. All paintings submitted must be original works of the artist. Paintings executed in class or under instruction will not be accepted.

7. All works submitted must be watercolour paintings executed on paper by transparent technique. Acceptance or rejection of any particular work on technical grounds will be the responsibility of the Jury.

8. Work previously exhibited in an exhibition of the Society are not eligible

9. Two works may be submitted by each member unless otherwise stated in the INSTRUCTIONS. A non-returnable submission fee will be charged on each work submitted to help in covering the cost of the exhibition.

10. For exhibitions held in commercial galleries All works must be for sale and must bear a clear title and price.

11. Works submitted must be suitably framed to gallery standard and ready to hang. The maximum acceptable size of paintings will be specified in the INSTRUCTIONS if required

12. Insurance of works is the responsibility of the artist.

13. From certain exhibitions a limited number of paintings may be selected by the Jury to constitute a traveling exhibition. On such occasions members will be asked at registration whether they will agree to their works joining the traveling exhibition if selected, and will also agree to their painting(s) being photographed to satisfy galleries which require a preview of works before agreeing to accept an exhibition. Works selected will be honorably flagged during the original exhibition.

14. The Society will only accept paintings mounted in white or off-white mattes and without colored liners.

 

If you need assistance with digital imaging there are two very helpful guidelines, one through the CSPWC at http://www.cspwc.com/eng/pdf/digital_images_en.pdf courtesy of Tim Packer; and another through the SCA, at http://www.societyofcanadianartists.com/membership/di_handout.pdf courtesy of Ken Tannahill .  

 

 

 

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