Saturday, 21 December 2013

UKCPS Regional Exhibition

An incentive to get those pencils out over Christmas!

A Members-only exhibition, the Call for Entries and details are available via the society website(www.ukcps.co.uk).

Pictures previously exhibited at UKCPS exhibitions are accepted for entry so long as they have never received an award. The exhibition rules differ from the society Annual Open Exhibition - so make sure you read them beforehand!

Closing date for entries:
1st May 2014

Sunday, 8 December 2013

Wirral Pencil Group

The Wirral Pencil group are a collection of amateur artists who get together every couple of months or so on a Saturday afternoon as a 'Try Pencils' session open to non-members and friends. We are looking for a CP artist willing to do either a half day demonstration, or alternatively, a full day workshop, on a Saturday in February. Numbers would probably be 15 to 20, in a spacious church hall in Irby, Wirral.

As an aside to the above, members may have missed a paragraph in my report to the Society AGM which read:

DEMONSTRATORS

One way in which the society can assist both local groups, and also its professional or semi-professional members, is by maintaining a database of those artists willing to provide demonstrations or workshops for local groups, together (if possible) with some indication of fees charged. Any members willing to give demonstrations or workshops are asked to contact the Local Groups Co-ordinator who will provide a contact form for completion.

Please feel free to contact me about either of the above.

Alan McMahon

localgroups@ukcps.co.uk

Annual Exhibition - Reminder!

The Call For Entries and online entry form are available on the Society website (www.ukcps.co.uk) . Deadline for entries is 5th February 2014!

Saturday, 7 December 2013

Judith Selcuk - Local group & workshops

Judith Selcuk lives in the Evesham area and has sent in this:

From January I will be running a fortnightly Art Club/group in Church Lench, Evesham. Price is just £3 to cover pavilion hire and refreshments. Cake and drink provided.

For more details please email me on judithselcukillustrations@gmail.com or 01386 870984

In addition ------

I specialise in animal portraits especially equine and canine. I offer private one to one lessons, small group lessons and day workshops. Private lessons are £20 an hour one to one.

Small groups are up to 4 people at a time for £18 per person per hour with refreshments included.

Day courses include lunch either in front of the log fire in winter or under the pine trees in summer. All dietary needs can be catered for. These can be tailored to the individual requirements or on a pre-bookable course.

14th January: Basic coloured pencil techniques. Bring your own pencils, with use of my own too

17th February: Draw your pet in coloured pencil. equipment as above

17th March: beginners gouache. price includes starter kit for the day.

31st March: Kingfisher in Inktense

14th April: Have a go day: try different Derwent coloured pencils. Taster day with all equipment supplied

12th May: Drawing animals to proportion

9th June: drawing the horse in coloured pencil. bring your own equipment

7th July: Ink and pencil drawing day. Images and equipment supplied

8th September: Perspective drawing, image supplied

20th October: Paint your pet in Gouache or acrylics, bring your own paint and canvas or paper

For further details please refer to my website www.judithselcukillustrations.com or email me on judithselcukillustrations@gmail.com

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

UKCPS AGM - reminder!

This is just a reminder:-

UK Coloured Pencil Society AGM

NOTICE is hereby given that the UKCPS Annual General Meeting will be held on:

Sunday 24th November 2013 at 11am at the MAC Centre, Birmingham, B12 9QH.

Your committee hopes that you will be able to attend and look forward to seeing you at the meeting. You can see the AGM documents by logging in at the members section at the society website: www.ukcps.co.uk.

The AGM is your chance to have your say, and effect the future of the society. It is also your chance to help the society in a practical sense by volunteering to take on, or at least assist with, one of the many functions carried out by your committee.

Although all members of the Executive Committee are required to stand for re-election at the AGM, not all members wish to be re-elected, and therefore, vacancies on the Executive will exist.

If you think you can offer expertise, or even just assistance, with one of the following, then please contact Will Johnson, the UKCPS Secretary, at secretary@ukcps.co.uk :

CHAIRMAN SECRETARY

TREASURER MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY

EDITOR – ‘TALKING POINT’ EDITOR – NEWSLETTER

EXHIBITION SECRETARY SPONSORSHIP

WEBMASTER YAHOO FORUM MODERATOR

BLOGMASTER LOCAL GROUPS CO-ORDINATOR

PUBLIC RELATIONS ADVERTISING

For Members in South Yorkshire

This has come from Georgina Harvey, a past member of the society:

I am currently a lapsed member of UKCPS because of the demands of my work over the last 12 months or so. I am still very interested in coloured pencil work but wondered whether anyone knew of any demonstrations rather than workshops that I could attend. I live in the South Yorkshire area. I would just like to watch techniques and how pictures are built up, if that makes sense.
Thank you so much. I will probably re-join the Society in the very near future.

Gina Harvey

Gina can be contacted at:
ginah1@tiscali.co.uk

Thursday, 7 November 2013

13th Annual Open International Exhibition

This is just by way of a heads-up for all you CP artists out there.

The UKCPS Open Exhibition (the 13th of its kind!) is being held earlier than normal in 2014.

The venue will be the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists gallery at 4 Brook Street, St. Paul's, Birmingham, B3 1SA, and it will run from 28th April to 10 May 2014.

The Call for Entries is due out shortly, and will be downloadable from the UKCPS website at: www.ukcps.co.uk , but in the meantime - get those works under way 'cos the deadline for entries will be:
WEDNESDAY 5TH FEBRUARY 2014

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

CP Wildlife Drawing Course in Rugby

This has come in from UKCPS artist, Victoria Parsons.

Many members will know of Victoria 's work as a volunteer in a wolf sanctuary, - and will have appreciated her wonderful pictures of wolves!

I have a 6 week Wildlife course beginning next Tuesday evening (5th November).

Its short notice I know but I have only just had the ok for the use of the hall.

The course cost is £70 and is in Rugby. contact email is victoriaparsons51@hotmail.com. or vickimoonwolf@gmail.com or phone is 07708925526

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Judith Selcuk - Paint magzine

Judith Selcuk sends news of an entry in the SAA magazine 'Paint' :-

I thought you may like to know that whilst flicking through my quarterly SAA magazine 'Paint' I noticed a painting that I recognised on the Gallery page entitled 'Bitter Sweet'.
On closer inspection it was no wonder I recognised it.... It was only my own CP painting that exhibited at Patchings entitled 'Escapism'
.
It was the only CP painting in the gallery and held its own amongst the other mediums.

Judith Selcuk

Saturday, 19 October 2013

West Yorks Local Group

Our man Michael Maguire, Editor of the UKCPS Newsletter, made a visit with his wife to the recent Exhibition run by the West Yorkshire local group based in Baildon: -

Many congratulations to the West Yorkshire Group on their first ever local exhibition which ran between 23 September and 5 October 2013 at Baildon Library .

My wife and I were highly delighted to see a fine collection and good standard of CP work. We were especially pleased to quite literally bump into Norma Hall and her husband whilst we were taking notes and I was snapping merrily away! My apologies if I confused Norma about why we were there. I did give her the opportunity to be included in a photograph of her lovely rendering "Our Daily Visitor", but I gather she was a little overwhelmed by what she thought was a local news reporter for the Telegraph & Argus. I'm quite thrilled to have been mistaken for the paparazzi!

A female German tourist was also taking an interest in the exhibition and she asked about the type of pencils and supports. She thought many of them were watercolour so I explained there may have been water soluble images among them. Baildon Librarian, Deborah confirmed that there had been quite a steady flow of visitors milling around the display.

All in all, it was a brilliant first show for this local group and we look forward to seeing the next one. Well done!

Michael Maguire

Associate & Editor of UKCPS the Newsletter

Friday, 11 October 2013

Lesley Sharman in Artists & Illustrators

Congratulations to UKCPS Silver Signature Member, Lesley Sharman, who, with her award winning picture 'Blue Door', is featured in the December edition of Artists & Illustrators Magazine:

I've just been interviewed for A&I magazine following my win with Blue Door at the Patchings exhibition. I got a plug in for the UKCPS, so hopefully we'll get some free publicity from it.

It should hit the newsagents early November, so keep an eye out!

Lesley S.

'Blue Door'

UKCPS - Notice of AGM

UK Coloured Pencil Society AGM

NOTICE is hereby given that the UKCPS Annual General Meeting will be held on:

Sunday 24th November 2013 at 11am at the MAC Centre, Birmingham, B12 9QH. For map and directions - click here.Your committee hopes that you will be able to attend and look forward to seeing you at the meeting.You can see the AGM documents by logging in at the members section at the UKCPS website or going direct by clicking on the links below:

Agenda ~ Nomination form for Executive Committee ~ Draft Constitution

Please send any queries or items for the agenda to our Secretary, Will Johnson, at secretary@ukcps.co.uk.

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Lin Goodwin - Painters Online

It's always nice to get good news about members achievements.

This from Lin Goodwin:

I know you like to let people know when CP has been given some notice.

Well last month I decided to upload some of my work to the Painters Online gallery for 'The Artist' magazine.

Each month they pick a selection as 'pictures of the month'. I don't know if these go into either of their magazines, but they are anchored to the front page of the gallery on their website. They also archive them each month.

TWO of my paintings have been selected. One is Oil Pastel (another minority medium) But the portrait of Miss Patty's enigmatic smile is done in Pure Coloured pencils.

https://www.painters-online.co.uk/Gallery/

I'm happy to fly the flag for Coloured Pencils.

This is actually an older piece, but it was one of the one's in my exhibition last year

Friday, 4 October 2013

Caran D'Ache 'museum aquarelle' competition

I was very pleased to learn that three of our members (Beverley Courtney, Suzi Herbert, and Tiffany Budd) had managed to get into the final 15 of the competition organised by Caran D'Ache to launch their new 'Museum' range of watercolour pencils.

So even more congratulations to Tiffany who has been chosen for the final three :-

Says Tiffany -

I'm totally thrilled to say I'm in the final 3!!!!
I've been invited to go to the Mall Galleries in the 22nd Oct for a cocktail reception and award ceremony.
Very very chuffed.

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Exhibition pictures -reminder

The UKCPS Open Exhibition 2013 at Patchings Art Centre ends on 6th October.

Those fortunate enough to get an entry into the exhibition are reminded that the pictures have to be collected on 8th, 9th, or 10th

Members of the Exec will be on site from early morning on Wednesday 9th to assist in packaging those to be collected by courier, etc.

Thursday, 26 September 2013

UKCPS Open Exhibition - 2014!

Yes - I know that the 2013 Exhibition is not yet over ( til October 6th), but we are already getting ready for the 2014 at the Royal Birmingham Society Of Arts!

Pauline Longley is co-ordinating, and wants a list of volunteer artists willing to demonstrate during the exhibition:-

If you would like to demonstrate at the RBSA while our exhibition is on please let me know ASAP. The dates are Saturday 3rd and10th May 11-1 and 2-4pm. We can have more than one demonstrator at a time. You don't need to be a professional artist and you are not expected to talk in front of a group of people just chat to visitors about your work and the society. First come first served.

Pauline

Contact Pauline at: Pauline@paulinelongley.co.uk

P.S Even if you don't want to demonstrate -- Please note the early dates of the Exhibition!!

Saturday, 21 September 2013

Caran d'ache 'Museum' Aquarelle competition

A number of UKCPS members will have entered pictures into the Caran D'Ache 'Museum' drawing competition, which was set up to celebrate the launch of their new 'Museum' aquarelle pencils.

My thanks then to Judith Crown for this:-

Hi everyone

I was just looking to see if there was any update to the competition and found the link to the pictures. Quite a few of us have entered. There are about 200 pictures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRqzxEzlLYY

To save people time, Suzy Herbert's picture is a new one and is different to the Lemon picture entered in the UKCPS exhbition.. ( It took me a few minutes to find it) The lemons drawn with the new Museum are on the same plate, but are different lemons!

Good luck to all UKCPS entries!

Friday, 20 September 2013

The following comes from UKCPS Silver Member, Tiffany Budd, who has a one woman show of 26 CP pictures ongoing until 18 October: ---

This is just one of the pictures on show:--

'Lets Play Marbles' - Coloursoft on Fabriano Artistico

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Ann Kulberg - "CP Msterworks, Vol. 2"

The American CP artist (and author of excellent books on CP techniques!) Ann Kulberg is a long time member of UKCPS.

We have received the following announcement from Ann which she has asked to be passed on to all UKCPS members:-

We are currently accepting submissions for "CP Treasures - Colored Pencil Masterworks from Around the Globe - Volume II"

Submissions are open to all colored pencil artists from around the world. No membership or subscription is required to submit work.

We are especially interested in colored pencil work from outside the US and Canada. We would appreciate it immensely if you could please help make this a truly international book by forwarding the news to your membership.

Accepting entries: Now through October 22, 2013.

Information and entry terms here: http://annkullberg.com/products/cp-treasures-entry-fee

Thank you so much! We appreciate whatever help you can provide us in getting the word out internationally.

Sincerely, Ann Kullberg

Saturday, 17 August 2013

Clevedon Art Club Exhibition

UKCPS stalwarts, Bev Lewis and Pauline Longley, have been busy again!!

This comes from Pauline:

I was thrilled to find that both Bev and I have had 4 pictures each juried in to the Clevedon Art Club Open Exhibition. It was also good to see another coloured pencil picture in the exhibition from a none UKCPS member.

The exhibition is on until 24th September and is really worth a visit. Details can be found http://www.clevedonartclub.co.uk

POSTSCRIPT TO THE ABOVE:

Congratulations also to Jenny Campbell who also has two pictures accepted!

and -- the exhibition actually ends on 24th August - NOT September!

Thursday, 15 August 2013

UKCPS local group exhibition

This comes from Roy Lorrain-Smith over in West Yorkshire:

Our local group is holding an exhibition in Baildon Public Library from 23 September to 5 October. (For those who don't know, Bailden is located just to the north of Bradford )

Day	Opening times
Monday	9.30am-7.00pm
Tuesday	9.30am - 5.30pm
Wednesday	9.30am - 1.00pm
Thursday	9.30am - 7.00pm
Friday	9.30am - 5.30pm
Saturday	9.30am - 4.00pm

Address

Baildon Library
Hallcliffe
Baildon
Shipley
BD17 6ND

Web address: http://www.bradford.gov.uk/bmdc/leisure_and_culture/library_and_information_services/a-z_of_libraries/libraries_baildon_library

We’re a cheerful group, meeting in a pleasant room, with about a dozen members on the books, though not all come to every meeting. Mostly we do our own thing, with much sharing and discussion of the pencillers world. There is wide variation of style and experience, with newcomers made very welcome. The rule is: if you want to know, ask; and if you’re asked, tell. This is our first exhibition.

Contact Roy for further information about the group:

Roy Lorrain-Smith

9 Fyfe Grove, Baildon, Shipley, BD17 6DN

T: 01274 593955 E: royls3@virginmedia.com

Saturday, 10 August 2013

Pencil Museum - Demo's

Autumn ('Fall' to our colonial readers!) is always a nice time to visit the Lake District for the autumn colours.

If you are planning a holiday break or even a day visit to the Lakes then why not make time for a FREE demonstration at the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick?

UKCPS members will be on site as follows:

Janie Pirie -- September 10th/11th -- "Fallen Leaves and Autumnal Berries"

Karen Coulson -- September 17th/18th --- "Seascapes in watercolour media"

Ann Swan -- October 15th --- "Contemporary Botanical Illustration"

Further details from the Pencil Museum website: www.pencilmuseum.co.uk or call: 017687 73626

Thursday, 8 August 2013

Leeds exhibition

This comes from UKCPS Silver member, Angela Hammond:

Members within reasonable travelling distance of Leeds may be interested in the annual exhibition held by St Gemmas Hospice. This years exhibition is Thurs 24th Oct – Sun27th Oct. It is held at Leeds Grammar School Alwoodley. Fairly large exhibition – the charge per item is £6.50 + commission and it is usually well attended.

The exhibition normally hosts over 800 entries. Entries can be made online.

Conditions of Entry. and entry forms can be obtained from the website:

www.st-gemma.co.uk/artexhibition/

Friday, 2 August 2013

Patchings Anniversary

Our friends at the Patchings Art Centre, (the location of this year's UKCPS Open Exhibition in September) are shortly to be celebrating a 25 year anniversary, with two days of events including a Derwent sponsored drawing competition:

Visit the Patchings website for further information: www.patchingsartcentre.co.uk

Saturday, 27 July 2013

East Leake Group - picture

Robin Borrett's, East Leake Art Group have again produced one of their composite pictures, and all in aid of 'Help for Heroes' and the Air Ambulance.

Twelve members of the group took part, between them drawing sections of the original picture onto 21 A4 sheets of 220 gsm smooth cartridge paper using various makes of black coloured pencil.

The finished picture measures 1470 mm x 891 mm, and is currently on display at East Leake Parish Church Hall.

'The Beehive Wicker Works - East Leake'

The original picture was drawn in 1930 by J Hallam Pegg