The February 15th Monday night Extended Pose Workshop is cancelled due to anticipated bad weather.  It will meet next week as scheduled.

CANCELLED

The Meeting: Thursday, February 11th, 2016 from 6:30 to 8:30 is cancelled

The Photographer’s Circle scheduled for Thursday, February 11th, 2016 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. is CANCELLED due to illness

It will meet next month. Check the PSC web site or the March Portfolio for the exact time and date.

You can contact Steve anytime at
si22@drexel.edu or 215-300-9192 (cell).

Steve Iwanczuk

Photo Circle Monitor and Member of Philadelphia Sketch Club Board of Directors

We are four students majoring in illustration, attending Moore College of Art and Design, getting down to business working on our separate thesis projects. Kit Tyler Kazmier is an avid cat enthusiast and aspiring illustrator from New Jersey. Their first major undertaking, “A Day in the Life of a Witch” is a children’s book that follows the little witch Sophie and her kitty pal Lil’ Dipper through a typical day in their magical lives. Danais A. Morales, from Miami, Florida is an aspiring concept and game designer working on designing a series of beer labels with a mermaid hierarchy, where it explores different types of merpeople. Jacqueline M. Hines is a highly caffeinated, award-winning illustrator currently working on their BFA in Illustration. Upon graduation, they plan to travel, listen to some good tunes and be content with a simple life of making good art. Although currently focused on fantasy illustrations, they hope to one day illustrate a comic, open a sticker business, and publish a novel or two. Isabelle Staub is an aspiring illustrator and designer from Wayne Pennsylvania. During her last year at Moore she been creating music posters to display both her love of storytelling through art with graphic design.

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Portfolio February 2016

Portfolio February 2016

The deadline has ended.

Art of the Flower 2016 PSC Exhibition

Presented In Memory of Donald C. Meyer

• March 4-26, 2016
• See ACCEPTED ARTISTS:acceptedList_pdf
• View the ONLINE GALLERY HERE
• See Prospectus: AOF prospectus 2016.v1
• Assistance Day: Sat Feb 13, 1-5 PM at PSC
• Online Entry Deadline: Sunday Feb 14, 2016 at Midnight
• Reception: Sunday March 13, 2016 2-4 PM at PSC
• Delivery:  Fri., Sat Feb 26, 27, 2016, 1-5 PM at PSC
• Pickup: Sunday and Wed March 27, and 29, 2016 at 1-5 pm. You may also pickup Sat. Mar 26 due to Easter Holiday.

2015 AOF First Place Award “Dahlia Darling”, watercolor, by Kimberlee Nentwig

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Thank you all for joining our 2016 Annual Domenic DiStefano Memorial Works on Paper Reception. We had a large crowd.

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This is complete…See the full list in the Exhibition tab.

Interested in having a One Person exhibition this year at PSC in 2016? The auction has began. This auction is only open to PSC members.

This is your opportunity to reserve a gallery space to have a one person or group exhibition at the historic PSC Stewart Room gallery. This is one of the benefits of your PSC memberships. 

Auction Dates:

•  Begins: Thursday Jan 7, 2016 at 8 PM EST
•  Ends:    Sunday Jan 17, 2016 at 8 PM EST

You may access and place your bids at our Ebay Store.

http://stores.ebay.com/thephiladelphiasketchclub

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Portfolio January 2016

Portfolio January 2016

New this year!
Dinner for the first meeting of 2016 is provided by recently opened Pizzeria Chappelli a neighbor of the PSC located nearby on 13^th St.  Dessert is from Cake and the Bean Stalk, another local business.  And, dinner will be served on the Club’s china and flatware to add a new dimension our dining experience.

Presentation:

Sharon Shaw, will present a program on Icon Painting.

Sharon creates historical Religious Icon paintings done in the Russian Byzantine style using historical methods and materials. She also creates portraits and landscapes in other mediums such as oil and silverpoint. Sharon has commission Religious Icons, oil portraits, posthumous portraits and landscapes in private and public collections. She has studied at PAFA, Barnstone Studio as well as a number of workshops with nationally known artists and studies Icon painting with the Prosopon School.

Sharon will be discussing her symbolism and process used to create religious Icon paintings using egg tempera.

After long consideration Drew Saunders, friend and gallery owner has decided to close Newman and Saunders Gallery after 34 years.

While I am sad to see it go I know the time is right. So if you are in the area on January 2, 2016 from 3-6 stop in to say good by to the Gallery, the artist and to Drew.

I will be there showing work from my latest travels and hope to see a good crowd.

Joe Sweeney

WAYNE, PA –  December 15, 2015 – After 34 years in Wayne, Drew Saunders of Newman and Saunders Galleries is bringing together his premiere area artists to celebrate the gallery’s legacy with a “final show” at its Bloomingdale Avenue location

Harbor Clouds Oil /W.C.Paper 14×17″ framed © Sweeney, Joseph 11/18/2015

The show will include nationally recognized local artists including Valerie Craig, Elaine Lisle, Nancybea Miller, George Rothacker, Joe Sweeney and Mashiul Chowdhury. They will be together for an afternoon event on Saturday, January 2nd from 3:00 to 6:00pm.

“The art community is changing, ” said Drew Saunders, surviving partner of Teddi Newman and himself that set the Main Line on the map in 1981 when they brought American Impressionism, Contemporary French Modernists and important Marine  Art to the Main Line. “We loved the challenges and the risks of what we were doing as we traveled the world in search of relevant art for a new age of collector.”

Morning Stroll Cordes 12 x 9 oil on board Elaine Lisle

We found artists such as Serge Hollerbach, Donald Vogel, DeLoss McGraw, Tom Palmore, John Salminen and numerous French and English painters that are now the treasure trove of the modern collector’s portfolio.

Industrial Highway-5″ . Oil on paper mounted on board and size : 6×6 in. Mashiul Chowdhury

According to Rich Merriman, CEO of Pennsylvania Trust in Radnor which owns some of the premiere work of American regionalism of the 20th and 21st centuries, “Drew introduced us all on the Main Line to paintings and sculpture never before available in this area. Through the gallery’s exhibitions and amazing “stable of artists”, this area was afforded the rare opportunity to procure some of the finest artwork available anywhere.”

The “Last Picture Show” on January 2 will feature new work by some of the prominent artists of the area, and will be the last time that Newman and Saunders will present an exhibition.

Hudson Thaw 16×20″ oil by Valerie Craig

“All of the artists will be there to tell about their past , their motivation and their future,” said Drew Saunders. “Old friends and new will gather as in the day of the salon shows in Paris to meet and greet, talk about their work and the directions of art in the days to come.

The event is on Saturday, January 2, 2016 from 3-6. The gallery is located at 120 Bloomingdale Avenue in Wayne and can be reached at 610-293-1280.  www.newmansaundersgallery.com