I love the challenges and brilliant luminosity of watercolor and strive to use bright, sometimes unexpected, colors in my paintings. Sometimes I wish to convey an emotion through my use of color, sometimes I just want to make someone smile!

I have no formal art education other than taking classes and workshops along the way. I am finally gaining enough confidence to start showing my work by attending art shows and festivals.

I am hoping that my work will be a blessing to you and bring you a sense of joy and peacefulness.

Visit http://www.saltlightwatercolors.com/ to see my work.

Workshop given by Tadashi and Barbara Wilson

When:  March 21, 2010 (3rd Sunday)
Time:  9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Where:  Mainstreet Center gym
Cost:  No Charge

Bring materials you like to use. 
Also please bring a few works you are working recently, complete or incomplete.
It’s a good idea to bring a light lunch.

Contact:  Barb Wilson, GAWBJC@msn.com, 303-841-3375

When:  July 16, 17, 18 of 2010

Dear Guild Member: Welcome to the Copper Mountain Art Show

The show is only open to members. There are only about 40 spaces. This is a 3 day show. Requests to exhibit only Saturday and Sunday will be considered.

· Hours/dates: 7/16 12pm-6pm, 7/17 10am-6pm, 7/18 10am-4pm
· Set up is Friday morning 9am-12pm.
· Spaces are standard 10 x 10

Download the application and info here:  Copper Mountain Art Show 2010

Please include a SASE (business envelope with 2 stamps). 

Fees:
If membership dues paid by 1/31/10 and paid for the booth by 4/15/10: $115
If join/renew after 1/31/10 and paid for the booth by 4/15/10: $150
If pay for booth after the 4/15/10 deadline: $180
Request for a corner: $35 more (no guarantee on a corner, fee returned)
Electricity is not available

Cancellation:
Full refund if cancel before 5/15/10.
Half refund if cancel between 5/16/10 and 6/1/10
No refund after 6/1/10.

 Contact:  Jerry Yarrison, PAG President and the CMAS Committee, President@parkerartistsguild.com

Also, please feel free to distribute the attached flyer. If you’d like printed flyer’s mailed to you, I’d be happy to do so.

Contact: Dodie Davis, 303-589-4495, dodied@aol.com

Address: 18601 East Main Street

Art Size Limit:  We can only hang paintings that are 16 x 20 or less.

Change out Schedule: Every other month - Wednesdays from 8:30 to 9:00 am.
March 10
May 12
July 14
Sept 8
Nov 10

Coordinator: Pam Hostetler

Contact info:   dan_pamhostetler@msn.com or 303 805-3877

Booth Sitting and Silent Auction Monitoring
Saturday, April 17th and Sunday, April 18th:
Time slots:  10am-12noon, 12-noon- 2pm, or 2pm-5pm
 and
Show Clean-up
Sunday, April 18th ~4-7 pm

Contact Kristine Mize-Spansky at dewfreak87@hotmail.com to sign up or sign up at March PAG meeting!!!
Time slots can be adjusted to fit schedules, just so long as all times are covered.
GREAT WAY TO HELP OUT AND GET VOLUNTEER HOURS!

The PAG will hold a Charity Silent Auction during the Spring Art Show.  Please consider donating something for the silent auction, with all proceeds to benefit children of families staying at the Ronald McDonald House in Aurora. Original art or reproductions are fine. Please download the participation form here:  silentauctionentryform .

VOLUNTEER to HELP!  Contact Kristine Mize-Spansky at dewfreak87@hotmail.com to sign up or sign up at March PAG meeting to VOLUNTEER to help at the show!!!  We need people to help set up the show, sit the members tent and clean-up after the show. There are 2-hour slots available every day.

Also, whether you’re in the Spring Art Show or not, please help us promote the show. Below are the links to download the colorful, printable flyer and postcard, plus a postcard that you can e-mail to friends, family and colleagues!

Flyer:  sas2010flyerclr2
Postcard for e-mailing: sas2010postcardemail
Postcard for printing:  sas2010postcardprint

For more information, contact David Bahm at davebahm@comcast.net or Laura Eicher at lauras.glass@att.net .  Also, we are in need of donated snacks and drinks…  If you are interested in helping this way, please let us know.

The PAG Spring Art Show is
April 17th and 18th at the Mainstreet Center -
sign-up before the rates go up on 3/8.

Digital Art and Traditional Photography Defined

Purpose:

The purpose of this document is to create a set of guidelines for discriminating between the Categories of Traditional Photography and Digital Photo Art.

 Background:

Photography has been around for more almost 200 years.  The first permanent photograph was an image produced in 1825 by the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.    His photographs were produced on a polished pewter plate covered with a petroleum derivative called bitumen of Judea.

Ultimately, the modern photographic process came about from a series of refinements and improvements in the first half of the 19^th century.   In 1884 George Eastman, of Rochester, New York, developed dry gel on paper, or film, to replace the photographic plate so that a photographer no longer needed to carry boxes of plates and toxic chemicals around. In July 1888 Eastman’s Kodak camera went on the market with the slogan “You press the button, we do the rest”.   Photography became available for the mass-market in 1901 with the introduction of the Kodak Brownie.

Digital photography is a form of photography that uses digital technology to make images of subjects. Until the advent of such technology, photography used photographic film to create images which could be made visible by photographic processing. By contrast, digital photographs can be displayed, printed, stored, manipulated, transmitted, and archived using digital and computer techniques, without chemical processing.

The first commercially available digital camera was the 1990 Dycam Model 1; it also sold as the Logitech Fotoman. It used a CCD image sensor, stored pictures digitally, and connected directly to a computer for download.  In 1991, Kodak brought to market the Kodak DCS-100, the beginning of a long line of professional Kodak DCS SLR cameras that were based in part on film bodies, often Nikons. It used a 1.3 megapixel sensor and was priced at $13,000.

Background Summary - today a vast majority of the images created by photographers are created digitally.

 It is not how an image is created that distinguishes “traditional photography” from “digital photo art” but what is done with the image after it is created.

How these two differ is the subject of the remainder of this paper. 

Categories:

For the purposes of this document we will define Traditional Photography as a process for which the end result is an image that is created by photographing a subject whether with film or digital camera and then converting the resulting image into either a print or digital file without substantially modifying the  original subject as at was envisioned by the photographer at the moment of capture.  We cannot create an exhaustive list of alterations that are allowed under this definition, but by providing a partial list and using common sense we believe that most images can be categorized without painful effort. 

 The following alterations are deemed allowable under this definition:

          Cosmetic Enhancements including modification of

o              Contrast

o              Saturation

o              Sharpness

o              Cropping

o              Horizontal Flipping (equivalent to reversing a slide)

o              Removal of insignificant elements from the image to make it “cleaner”

o              Converting the image to B&W, monochrome, or toned (e.g. sepia)

 We then further define Digital Photo Art as the creation of an image or digital file using a method or methods that substantially alters the original subject as at was seen in the eye of the photographer at the moment of capture.

 Examples of significant changes could include:

o              Combining multiple images together

o              Moving elements

o              Cloning large elements (e.g. animals)

o              Applying Artistic Filters

o              Multiple Exposures  - not done in camera

 Final Arbiter:

 It is recommended that great weight be given to the classification assigned by the creator (photographer) using the guidelines above.  The final arbiter of classification will be the judge or curator of a given exhibition / show / or contest.

Bruce Norman/Parker Artists Guild

February 12, 2010