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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: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/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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SUMMARY:Zoom Demo
DESCRIPTION:January 15th\, 2026: Zoom Demo on portraits by Pam Wenger –  7 pm
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/zoom-demo/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES: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/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting,Zoom Demo
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SUMMARY:Zoom Demo
DESCRIPTION:February 19th\, 2026: Zoom Demo by Randy Hale – 7 pm
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/zoom-demo-2/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES: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/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting,Zoom Demo
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SUMMARY:"Awakenings" - National Juried Exhibition\, Entries Open
DESCRIPTION:Awakening\, the NorthStar Watermedia Society Spring 2026 Online Juried Exhibition\, opens for entries on CaFE Call For Entry: March 1\, 2026.
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/awakenings-national-juried-exhibition-entries-open/
LOCATION:MN
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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:Join the NSWS For An In-Person Demo With Deb Zeller
DESCRIPTION:Deb Zeller began her art career at age thirteen\, when she received a set of oil paints for her birthday. Over the decades she has developed her skills in drawing\, painting\, glass fusion\, encaustic (beeswax) painting\, photography and bronze sculpture. It wasn’t until a painting trip to Cuba with Eric Rhodes of Plein Air Magazine in March of 2018 that Deb became serious about watercolor. Oil paints seemed way too cumbersome to carry all that way. She practiced weekly with watercolors in her studio with the Minnesota Figure Study Collaborative\, but had never taken a lesson in watercolor painting. A short overview of the watercolor and charcoal portraits she created in Cuba can be seen on her website. \n\nAfter Cuba\, Deb’s love for watercolor really developed and she joined the Minnesota Watercolor Society.  That led to numerous watercolor classes from both local and national artists.  Watermedia has become Deb’s absolute favorite media\, although she still plays with all the rest. She has Signature Status in both the Minnesota Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society. \nYou can check out all her work and the Minnesota Figure Study Collaborative on her website:  zellerstudio.com
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/join-the-nsws-for-an-in-person-demo-with-deb-zeller/
LOCATION:Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval\, 2661 Civic Center Dr\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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SUMMARY:"Awakening" Notification of Acceptance
DESCRIPTION:“Awakening” – notification of acceptance into the NSWS spring national juried online exhibition.
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/awakenings-notification-of-acceptance/
LOCATION:MN
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SUMMARY:"Awakening" Opens On NSWS Website
DESCRIPTION:Awakening\, the NorthStar Watermedia Society Spring 2026 Online Juried Exhibition\, opens and is posted on the NorthStar Watermedia Society website for viewing.
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/awakening-posted-on-nsws-website/
LOCATION:MN
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SUMMARY:"Awakening" Award Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Join the NorthStar Watermedia Society and juror\, David R. Becker\, on Thursday\, May 7th at 7 pm on Zoom as David awards the top paintings in the NSWS spring national online juried exhibition\, Awakening.
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/awakening-award-ceremony/
LOCATION:MN
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SUMMARY:Dan Wiemer Demo
DESCRIPTION:Join NorthStar for an evening of fun with watercolorist\, Dan Wiemer. Dan will paint a beautiful\, stylized North Shore scene\, using transparent watercolor and opaque acrylic. Dan is obsessed with design\, negative shape making\, and the ruggedness of the North. These obsessions led him to study Canadian painters\, most notably the Group of Seven. They are personally relatable to him. Their career paths evolved from graphic designers to illustrators to painters. This has been Dan’s path as well.
URL:https://northstarwatermedia.com/event/21999118/
LOCATION:Guidant John Rose Minnesota Oval\, 2661 Civic Center Dr\, Roseville\, MN\, 55113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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