SCAPE

Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment


SCAPE Newsletter - September 2024

Message from our PRESIDENT








By Kathy McGill

Hello painters,

At long last it’s September and time for our fall show at the Music Academy!  A big thank-you to the many people who have worked hard to make this show a reality.  A very special thank-you is due to Morgan Coffey and Jill Cloutier at Explore Ecology, for curating and producing our beautiful publicity graphics, and for working so hard to publicize and promote the show.  They are certainly doing their best to ensure we have a great turnout!

Thank-you also to everyone who submitted paintings for the show.  I’m excited to see them all hanging together - it always makes for a beautiful display.  Whether or not you submitted paintings, please do your part to promote the show by sharing the graphics and generally spreading the word.  And of course, we will need many volunteer hands during the show to help make visiting (and shopping) a great experience for our guests.  

Our August picnic at Shoreline Park was a great success, by all accounts.  Thanks and a shout-out to Lisa La Mer, who pretty much single handedly pulled it together, with the able assistance of her daughter Sunny.  Our motto was “keep it simple and they will come”, and that seemed to work, as we all shared a relaxed afternoon with old friends and made new friends.  We look forward to doing it again.

See you all at the show!

Kathy

Exhibit News

 

Our Fall Show - "Central Coast Reflections" - Sept 13-14, 2024

At the Music Academy Of The West, Lehmann Hall 

1070 Fairway Rd., Santa Barbara Ca 93108

Well Hello Fall, 

It certainly seems like mother nature knows we are having a fall show soon.

I hope that you all have remembered to get your entries in and a reminder to be in the show is to help with the show. At the ingathering, you will need to sign up for at least a 2 hour shift.

Tom Henderson will be the juror of the Central Coast Reflections exhibition. Tom has been actively creating art for more than 25 years and lives in our Community. I'm sure many of you know him and his web page is at ModernVillaGallery.Com.

Look for your letters of acceptance by e-mail around the7th.  You can also check your Online Juried Show account messages.

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Karen


“Goleta Wetlands”    by Tom Henderson,  14" x 21"   Watercolor


PAINT OUT NEWS

By your Paint Out Team

NOTICE DATE CHANGE TO 3rd SATURDAY FOR SEPTEMBER.

Paint Out  - Saturday, September 21st, 9:00 am -12:00 pm

Gaviota Coast at Naples

The next Scape paint out will be at Naples which is part of the Gaviota coast. As you know this land is one of the largest stretches of coastal rural land in Southern California. There have been several interested parties wanting to develop this pristine land. Unfortunately it is being threatened once again.

There are views of beautiful fields leading into the foothills and mountains from the field to the left where we park. Unlimited sites and vistas may be gained by walking from the parking area along grazing pastures to the bluffs above the ocean. 

This is the central California coast at its finest. 

For those interested in walking out and painting near the ocean, you can go around on the left side of the gate where we park and follow the road to the ocean. There may be two gates in between that are usually easy enough to go through or around. 

Directions: take 101 N. from Goleta to the Dos Pueblo exit. Take the exit continue straight on until a 90° curve to the left under 101. Then turn left and go nearly to the entrance to 101 south.  Park just before entering the freeway south. 

Unfortunately, there are no toilets.

(Back at the stop sign you may want to park briefly to look at the sites, including the old metal bridge from the 1920s over a creek that serves as a private entrance to Dos Pueblos ranch.)

We hope to see you there. Happy Painting.

Your paint out crew.


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