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SUMMARY:Join NSWS for an Interactive Demo with Tammy Nara
DESCRIPTION:Tammy Nara is a hiking artist and art teacher based in Shoreview\, Minnesota. She enjoys using pen\, watercolor\, and acrylic to create responses to the natural world. “Experiencing and protecting the natural world is important. Creating art and connecting with other humans also enriches our lives in important ways. Let’s make time for what is important.” She started the website paintandhike.com in 2018. It is where she shares information about both art and hiking trails. Her education includes a master’s degree in art education from the University of Minnesota. She is currently one of 4 art\nteachers at Irondale High School. Her art can be seen at Studio 321 in the Northrup King Building in Minneapolis. Join NSWS and Tammy Nara to learn the art of blind contour drawing on March 19th\, 2026!
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/21998671/
LOCATION:St. Luke’s Lutheran Church\, 1807 Field Ave\, St. Paul\, MN\, 55116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting,Zoom Demo
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SUMMARY:Live Demo with Randy Hale - Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Join NorthStar for a live painting demo with watercolorist Randy Hale on Zoom! \nRandy Hale is a professional painter\, juror\, and workshop instructor. While he’s always been an avid artist\, Randy’s professional training as an industrial designer began at California’s Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He credits his success in the art world to a lengthy career in design\, sales\, and project management. Whether working with clients or fellow artists\, Randy has consistently demonstrated a comfort level in expressing ideas and explaining concepts in a way that makes them easy to understand. \nOver a decade ago\, Randy formed Painted Palette Tours and began taking groups of painters to exciting locations. His destination workshop trips have become quite popular. He thoroughly researches and scouts painting locations\, works out logistics well ahead of time to ensure his groups always have fun and don’t have to “sweat the details!” His planned painting adventures and workshops sell out quickly\, and his painters get great and constant instruction. His monthly newsletters give his readers advance notice of all upcoming events\, and you can subscribe by going to his website: halegallery.com. It’s free!
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/live-demo-with-randy-hale-zoom/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting,Zoom Demo
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SUMMARY:Live Demo with Pam Wenger - Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Join us via Zoom for a live demo with watercolorist\, Pam Wenger! \nPam is a retired teacher who has always been drawn to portraits and figurative work. She has worked with local instructors and watercolor artists\, Ted Nuttall and Charles Reid. Pam counts many amazing artists among her friends. They keep her constantly inspired and challenged to grow in her craft. \nPam’s portrait paintings are her real love. She tries to connect with a person through their expression…their pose…their placement in the composition. Her work has been exhibited and won awards in National and Local shows\, including the American Watercolor Society\, National Watercolor Society\, Pennsylvania’s “Art of the State”\, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society\, Splash Magazine\, Artist’s Magazine\, Watercolor Artist Magazine\,  and the Baltimore Watercolor Society’s Mid Atlantic Shows. Her art can be viewed at www.pamwenger.com \, https://www.facebook.com/pamwengerwatercolor/\, and on Instagram  –  https://www.instagram.com/pwenger32
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/live-demo-with-pam-wenger-zoom/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting,Zoom Demo
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SUMMARY:Holiday Cards With Alyssa Whetstone - Interactive Zoom Event
DESCRIPTION:Join our very own\, Alyssa Whetstone\, for a warm\, fun-filled evening of making holiday cards! Alyssa will demonstrate how to create holiday-themed cards using watercolor and pen. This event will be live on Zoom on December 18th at 7pm. Watch for a link in your email for this event. Grab your paint and brushes\, a pen (the uniball gel pens work very well for this project)\, warm socks\, a cup of hot cocoa (don’t dip your brush in this though\, ha!)\, and join us for a relaxing evening of painting at home.
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/holiday-cards-with-alyssa-whetstone-interactive-zoom-event/
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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SUMMARY:Caricatures with Patty Schmid - Interactive Demo
DESCRIPTION:Join NorthStar for a fun\, interactive demo creating caricatures with artist\, Patty Schmid!\n\nPatty has been focused on portraits for the past few years\, and really enjoys painting faces. She’s found that her perfectionism would get her stuck several times on each painting. This year\, she challenged herself to learn to draw caricatures. They allowed her to fall back in love with drawing and helped her to find relief from a somber mood surrounding a difficult family situation. It’s fun!\n\nIn this interactive workshop\, you’ll learn some basics about how to create your drawing\, starting with pencil and then inking it. Then we’ll color our drawings with watercolor. Materials needed:  pencil\,  eraser\, Mixed media paper\, watercolors\, your favorite brush\, and an indelible black marker (Sharpie marker will work\, but she used a Sakura Pigma brush pen MB). If you have a favorite celebrity that you’d like to caricature\, bring a photo or have it ready on your phone or tablet. You can use that\, or it may be easier to draw and paint along with me. She will have some reference photocopies for you of the celebrity she will be demonstrating.
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/interactive-demo/
LOCATION:St. Luke’s Lutheran Church\, 1807 Field Ave\, St. Paul\, MN\, 55116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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SUMMARY:In-Person Demo with David Smith
DESCRIPTION:In-person monthly meeting: Thursday\, October 23\, 2025. Time: 5:15-6:15 pm – paint-in\, 6:15-6:45 pm – listening session with Paul Oman\, and demo painting with David Smith – 7-8:30. This will also be live-streamed on the NSWS YouTube Channel: \nDavid Smith is well known locally and nationally in the watercolor artist community for his plein aire and his studio paintings. A skilled instructor\, he has taken several groups to Europe for wonderful food and beautiful locations to paint and learn. \nDavid’s paintings have been accepted into the American Transparent Watercolor Society. \nDavid will demo painting a snow scene to inspire us to capture the beauty of a pristine snowfall. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/@northstarwatermedia2505/streams
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/monthly-meeting/
LOCATION:Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval\, 2661 Civic Center Dr\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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SUMMARY:NSWS 50th Anniversary Party
DESCRIPTION:Hello\, Friends! \n🎉 You’re Invited! 🎉 \nJoin us in celebrating 50 years of creativity\, community\, and watermedia wonder at the NorthStar Watermedia Society’s 50th Anniversary Party! \nCome reconnect with friends\, meet fellow artists\, and toast to five decades of artistic inspiration. \nWe’d love to see you there — let’s honor our past and look forward to a vibrant future together! \nRSVP by August 18th\, 2025 – Register HERE \n✨ NorthStar Watermedia Society – 50 years strong and still shining!
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/nsws-50th-anniversary-party/
LOCATION:Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval\, 2661 Civic Center Dr\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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SUMMARY:In-person Demo By Janet Flom Figure in Environment
DESCRIPTION:The Oval\, Roseville\, MN – 5:15-6:45p Paint-In; 7-9pm brief meeting and demo!\nWE NEED 3 PEOPLE TO BRING TREATS TO THE APRIL MEETING. Reply to this email or contact Mary Zadach if you can help (fruit\, cheese/meat & crackers\, cookies\, etc). \n \nNot quite a portrait OR a landscape with figures\, painting a figure in an environment allows the artist to tell a story about a person or people without getting into the details of likeness. It is more about what they are doing\, where they are\, or some other narrative the artist chooses to tell. Moreover\, approaching a painting in this way requires designing the composition as a whole\, rather than emphasizing the figure over background. Simplification\, color\, value\, edges\, relationships\, etc. — are much more important to weave the figure and ground together. With figures in a landscape\, the figures are subordinated to the “place” unless the artist has pulled in the focus such that the figures are more prominently depicted. \nCHECK OUT JANET’S WORK HERE:  http://www.janetflom.com/ \nARTIST STATEMENT\nWatercolor’s versatility in alluding to both two and three dimensional forms in space are what interest me\, and I am always looking for opportunities to move between the flatness of the support and more developed areas\, all within the same painting. My painting goals involve respecting the paper and the drawing as well as the paint\, and to make that paint as freshly attractive as possible without over-handling. I like a watercolor to look like it was painted with water — fluid and immediate\, with its own character dominant to my attempts to control it. \nThis approach to painting can be challenging in the most basic ways. The ratio of water to paint is always an issue. The application of paint to paper in the direct\, fresh manner that I admire requires almost performance-level confidence. Also\, I find it extremely difficult to accept the marks put down and refrain from fiddling.
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/in-person-demo-by-janet-flom-figure-in-environment/
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