MAY 2025

                                                                                                                 MAY  2025                                                                                     

  By Kathy McGill.   Presidents Message 

Greetings painters,

What a month:  Sun, wind, fog and finally RAIN - go figure!  Whatever your favorite weather, I hope you were able to get out and paint in it.  Sadly, I am still hobbling around in my ortho-boot, so I won’t be able to join you for at least a while longer.  Patience…

SCAPE’s  Spring online show, “A Spring Thing”, is still up and will run through the end of May.  A huge thank-you is due to Karen Glancy, who single handedly created an individualized promotional E-card for every artist who entered the show.  Wow.  I’m happy to say that I’ve seen lots of your cards used in various Instagram posts, FB posts and emails.  And lots of people have told me how much they enjoyed viewing the show.  Unfortunately, sales are slow, but still, it’s great exposure for SCAPE and all our member artists.  And what proceeds we do have will help cover costs of our upcoming fall show.

Our April Zoom workshop featured Filiberto Lomeli, who created a beautiful landscape painting before our eyes, talking through his process as he went.  This was the first time I’ve been able to really focus on Fil’s approach to building a painting, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself, while gaining lots of new ideas to try.  Thank-you Fil!  Thanks also to Jerry Martin, for once again hosting the workshop in his beautiful backyard, and of course to the always stellar production team of Fred and Susan Powell.  The session was recorded, and I highly recommend watching it if you haven’t done so already.

Circling back to our fall show:  as I mentioned last month, it will be held September 12th and 13th at the Music Academy of the West. Explore Ecology will once again be our beneficiary.  The theme of this year’s show is “Nature’s Palette” - a theme that we hope expresses the beauty we all find in nature, as well as its diversity.  September seems far away - but it will be here before we know it!

That’s it for this month - as always, I wish you happy painting.

Kathy

May Paint Out  Mission Canyon Saturday May 10th, 2025 2-5 PM Alert:  Time change to afternoon!  2-5 PM The Paint Out for May will be at a private residence in the hills in Mission Canyon.  Joel and Georgia Berti welcome us to return to their beautiful and expansive property for our May Paint Out.  I thank the Bertis’ for their generosity.  This property affords awesome endless views over the ocean facing west and in other directions into the mountains with architecture and landscaping between. The address is: 2895 Spyglass Ridge Rd, 93105 Directions:  Leave town via Mission Canyon Rd  to Tunnel Rd.  Continue a little over a mile to the very top where a small private lane begins, Spyglass Ridge.  Slowly, go to the end of the lane to a turnaround.  You can park at the turnaround and walk onto the property.  Please do not disturb the residents in the initial house and in the casitas at the far end of the property.  There is not a bathroom available so plan ahead.  **In addition when you drive onto Spy Glass Dr please drive very slowly for safety and in courtesy of the property owners.** CARPOOLING is best, if it can be arranged.  Please also sign the insurance waiver upon arrival which will be on a white Jeep SUV on the turn-a-round.

A gentle reminder to renew your membership in SCAPE as soon as possible. Thank you so much to those members who have already shown their support by renewing in January.  Paint outs, SCAPE Artists on Zoom, upcoming Exhibits and special presentations all member benefits. THANK YOU. Go to our website, log in and renew.  http://scape.wildapricot.org

ARTISTS ON ZOOM If you missed SCAPE Artists on Zoom with Filiberto Lomeli please use the link and passcode below to access the recording: Click here - for link to view SCAPE's Artists on Zoom with Filiberto Lomeli Passcode: c$t3E*08 Featured Artist - Filiberto Lomeli We are excited to announce that our own Filiberto Lomeli will be the featured artist in our next episode of Artists on Zoom.  Because Fil is a true plein air painter, this Zoom session will be filmed outdoors at 3:00 pm on Thursday, April 17.  (Many thanks to Jerry Martin for once again offering his beautiful home and outdoor space for this event.)  Filiberto paints landscapes and figures in acrylic.  He sometimes paints at night, a specialty he shares with his teacher Thomas Van Stein. He has also studied with Micheal Drury and further includes among his influences Ray Strong.  He has an AA degree in art from SBCC where he spent a semester in London, Florence and Paris studying art and art history.   As most of you know, Filiberto has been a board member of SCAPE from it’s inception.  He is in charge of setting up the shows, and is a genius at lighting and displaying paintings to their utmost advantage.  We hope you can join us for what promises to be an exceptional conversation and demo with our beloved and talented Filiberto Lomeli.  (A recording will be made available for those who are unable to attend live.)

Message from our PRESIDENTmarch 2025   By Kathy McGill Greetings Painters, I suggest you grab a cup of coffee and a comfy chair - there’s a lot to talk about this month! First off, on behalf of the entire SCAPE Board, I would like to extend my thanks and deep gratitude to Don Crocker, who recently retired from the SCAPE Board.  Don was a founding member of SCAPE, and has been on the Board through-out our organization’s long journey; so in many ways he has been instrumental in shaping SCAPE and enabling its success.  Don had moved away from Santa Barbara by the time I joined SCAPE, so I sadly didn’t have the opportunity to know him personally; but I always appreciated his historical perspective and his voice of reason - particularly when it came to legal matters.  We’ll miss you Don! Moving on:  a reminder that SCAPE’s online show is currently open for entries.  The title of the show is “Spring Thing”. There is no specific theme,  the show won’t be juried, and you can enter up to 10 images.  The idea is to give our members a chance to show off their talents in whatever genre suits their fancy.  Maybe you’re experimenting with something new and want to get it “out there” - this is your chance!  Entries close March 16th, and you must have an active, paid-up membership to participate.  So if you haven’t renewed yet, here’s yet another reason to do so. Next, I want to extend a huge thank-you to Matt Lancaster and Meg Ricks for our February education event, which was a well-attended presentation and discussion on how members can use social media to showcase their art.  Meg very graciously opened her beautiful home for the event, and Matt did a fabulous job of clearly and simply explaining the ins and outs of using social media - in particular Instagram.  At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this was a “members only” event - yet another reason to keep your membership current. Finally,  I’m excited to announce that, pending contract formalities,  we have locked up the dates and venue for our fall show!  We plan to be back at the beautiful Music Academy of the West, September 12th - 13th (Friday and Saturday).  Explore Ecology will be our beneficiary again this year.  Watch this space for details as they unfold, and mark your calendars.   That’s probably enough for this month - I hope you are all getting time to get outside and enjoy our beautiful late winter, and of course, I hope you are keeping those paint brushes wet. Until next month, Kathy EXHIBITS Calling All SCAPE Artists A SPRING THING: ANY THING GOES an online exhibit and sale   Entries Accepted Until Noon on MARCH 21, 2025 Call to SCAPE Artists     A Spring Thing: “Any Thing Goes”  Announcing that this show is to give SCAPE members the opportunity to show and sell their art. It is not limited to a place or type of genre. READ the prospectus (scroll through the alphabetical list to SCAPE) at  onlinejuriedshows.com   Entry is from NOW ending March 21  Show starts April 1 to May 30, 2025 Your art can be framed or unframed. But keep in mind you will be shipping your sold art when doing your pricing. No NFS (not for sale) paintings will be accepted. Membership News by Cristine Crooks    A gentle reminder to renew your membership in SCAPE as soon as possible. Thank you so much to those members who have already show their support by renewing in January.  Paint outs, SCAPE Artists on Zoom, upcoming Exhibits and special presentations all member benefits. THANK YOU.  Go to our website, log in and renew.  http://scape.wildapricot.org PAINT OUT NEWS by Your Paint-out Team Paint Out for April  Santa Barbara Mission Park April 12th, 9:00 - 12:00, 2025    Is anything any longer sacred? Even the old Santa Barbara, mission is threatened by a proposal to build a large apartment building on the space adjacent. So let’s go Saturday, April 5 to the Mission grounds and paint.  There are many options, including the old Mission itself, charming houses along Plaza Rubio, the rose garden and the adjacent dairy open space.   We hope to see you there. Manny Lopez ~Recording now available ~ Below please find a link to the recording for the January 29, 2025 Artists on Zoom demo with the illustrious Manny Lopez.  This is the first one done outside with a model, so it is novel in those respects.  Manny quietly focuses on his work while he’s painting, so there isn’t too much talking until the end.  (We didn’t want you to think that there is something wrong with the sound.)   Enjoy!   Fred and Susan Powell Passcode: cx42AB%= https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/H0e8hfPm_bGW9jAjs8K8fIWavwYyTNeF3P00aiTxvXSOLiQYCUJ_dFgLCHQxHPla.mxyRbBNtu6h6jjx1 He speaks eloquently about the process of landscape painting:  “In my paintings I seek to express the sublime beauty that is in nature. I think my best work has been those paintings where the inspiration has led me to capture a little of the life that I think we all see before us, obvious yet elusive.”  Manny Lopez

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