Alexandra Eyer of Gold Beach was one of the top 20 award winners at the Watercolor Society of Oregon's Spring Aqueous Media Show in Hood River. These top 20 paintings are now touring and can be seen At the Newport Visual Arts Center's Runyan Gallery during the entire month of August. In September the show moves to Bandon.
Alexandra Eyer with her award winning painting at the spring 2008 Hood River WSO Show.
An article in the Newport News Times explains aqueous media and what you will see at the show:
What is aqueous media? Many are familiar with watercolor techniques, but aqueous media is not a term heard very often. Aqueous media includes all water-based paints: watercolors, acrylics, gouache, inks, and collage using any of these pigments. The result is a diverse exhibit that represents a range of media with a common ingredient.
Zagotta [Juror for the show] describes her jurying process. “My criteria was simple. I looked for paintings that revealed the eye, the heart and the hand of the artist. I looked for paintings that said more about the artist than they said about the subject, and I looked for a creative and personal use of the formal elements of art.”
The full exhibit of 80 paintings [selected from more than 400 submitted paintings] was first displayed at the Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River, and then the six-month tour began with the 20 award winning pieces. Cities that have had the honor of hosting this show are Grants Pass, Springfield and Salem. After Newport, the show travels to Bandon and finishes up at the Watercolor Society of Oregon's Fall convention in Florence. The Watercolor Society of Oregon sponsors a second traveling show of transparent watercolor-only paintings in the fall, which tours for six months to other Oregon communities.
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