Holiday Party @ Val Parnell’s home, 1409 Berkshire Lane, Va Beach, VA. Please bring a dish to share and a gift to exchange. Max limit on Gift $20. We are looking forward to our annual party of fun, food and laughter.

We are looking forward to our next meeting and demo with Terry Wylie, the current president of Chesapeake Bay Watercolorists. He will talk with us about his process and discuss the changes in the process of framing watercolor painting and more. Please join us at the Tidewater Art Club in Va Beach. https://tidewaterartclub.com @ 1032 Bells Rd in Va Beach, 23451, off Birdneck Rd.

website for the Chesapeake Bay Watercolorists: About - CBW (cbw-art.com)

Terry Wylie Fine Art

Terry Wylie Artist

My art career started early. I enthusiastically pursued drawing at an early age and ventured into charcoal and pastels while in middle school. After high school I thought I wanted to be a commercial artist and for a while that was the path I was on. In the late 80s, I was fortunate enough to work for several newspapers, advertising agencies and even publishers. But, as with many things in life, the ball bounced into another court and my life took a turn towards the sea.

I joined the Navy in 1989 and immersed myself into my Navy career. There was not a lot of time for art, between serving on 9 ships and raising a family. My experiences are forever part of who I am and I have seen the world through a Sailors eyes. There is nothing like experiencing the sea onboard a Frigate or navigating the Suez Canal onboard an Aircraft Carrier. The total darkness of a night a sea or the pounding of an angry sea. I have experienced all of this first hand and it helps me bring my Nautical Paintings to life.

I have pursued all types of art including Portraits, Landscapes, Figure Paintings, Wildlife, Pets, Architecture, Industrial, Ala Prima and Plien Air. I believe that one discipline informs another. Giving my art a unique and distinctive style.

I have developed into a more expressive representational artist, who captures a moment with light and movement transporting the viewer to that location in time and space.  

I continue to work for the Navy as a contractor and pursue my Fine Art in National, Regional and local shows. I do take commissions but I am often engaged and I may have to work you into my schedule.

I am the President of Chesapeake Bay Watercolorist and the Vice President of the Virginia Water Color Society. I love the fellowship and company of all kinds of artist. These organizations have enriched my life in so many ways and I am very grateful.

I greet each new season with joy and wonderment in my pursuit and growth as an artist. My best painting is the one I am doing next and I can’t wait to see it!

We will be meeting @ MOCA in Va Beach to tour with our docent DEBB WARD the show of Virginia Artists. On Sunday afternoon @ 2:00.

We have 2 or our own members in this Juried Show, Maggie Kerrigan and Gina Buzby.

Made in VA Biennial | Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (virginiamoca.org)

Free and open to the public, you can register ahead of time on their site, This is free they like to get a number if possible so here is the site for that as well!

Made in VA Biennial Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite

Come join us for an evening of Photography with Ed Obermeyer. He will give us insight on the world of his creativity and give us tips on how to better photograph our art.

ED OBERMEYER

The evolution of patterns in my art began in the late 1970’s when I started my teaching career. As an avid gardener, surfer, and world traveler, I appreciated the intricate patterns of the flora and fauna that surrounded me. As a result, my art focused on the smallest of natural subjects. These images were fragmented in a cubist style and presented in a highly realistic manner, yet contained the intricate dots and lines that later became the trademark of my contemporary works of art. As time progressed, my subject matter focused more intensely on the oceans of the world.

      My immersive journeys led me to Australia where I had a profound experience studying the types of patterns and symbolism used by many aboriginal artists throughout the country. The paintings began to transform into images made of cross hatched lines, concentric circles, and stylized subject matter as opposed to realism. This style later morphed into one which I created using the smallest of lines and patterns that reveal my visions of the oceans and gardens of the world.

      The tools of this creative process are an important and unique way of creating a painting. I use very long liner, scroller, and pin stripe brushes to create my works of art with my own marking system of patterns. I like to give the impression of realism from a distance, but when viewed up close, you can see the abstract patterns that make up the subject matter. I enjoy creating a complicated yet fanciful patterned surface that evokes an emotional response in the viewer.

     Much like my painting, my photography of ocean waves and surfers is from a very unique angle, while treading water well over my head with no board or floatation device, all year in virtually every temperature range.  I use a canon 7D Mark II and a custom carbon fiber CMT water housing with a variety of lenses for conditions all year long in the frigid Atlantic Ocean. I capture the dynamic ever-changing turbulence and beauty that waves create in diverse conditions and environments with a passion for everything ocean related.

Ed Obermeyer

Garden Party & Second Hand Art Sale Auction

Walk around a beautiful Garden and bid on secondhand art stuff! A social to talk and have fun and pick up some great deals on anything art that you may need. This will be a fund raiser for our general fund for our organization and 100% goes to CBAA. It just does not get any better than this. So! Bring a dish to share of course and look through your studios and see what you can donate to the cause. It can be a tube of paint that you decided not to use anymore and someone else would love! A Painting, an old easel, anything art related! We have wood workers in this group as well, so maybe an old table you don’t need anymore. Drop off location of items Sunday May 19th 12 noon to 4:00 PM @ Ellen Sinclair’s 1409 Berkshire Lane, VB 23451

All donations for items will be collected that evening by check or credit card. So come raise a glass to your friends and have fun! NO minimum bids! Just fun and a chance to talk with friends,

Stretch Canvas & Frame Workshop

Josh Craig & Jake Willie will be doing a workshop this evening on stretching canvas over wood frames and doing a floater frame. What a great way to save money and do your own work on the basics! We will have a small time of socializing, you can come early. All starts at 6:30 with the workshop staring about 15 minutes later. We will email beforehand the information for the month on CBAA. Come and Join in the fun and be with your people! If you are not on our email list and want to be, let us know @ cbaamembership757@gmail.com.

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Our February Meeting, we are excited about hearing from Rick!

Location: D’Art Center, 740 Busch St., Norfolk, VA 23510

Rick Seguso was born in 1949 in Bronxville, New York into a family of artists and athletes. His father, Arthur, was a professional baseball player. His uncle Richard is an accomplished artist. His grandfather, Armand, was one of the premier poster artists of his day working for movie giants while creating iconic posters for classic films including “Gone With The Wind”, "Philadelphia Story”, “Kismet”, and “For Whom The Bell Tolls”. 

After a youthful foray into the sports world, it’s not surprising that these seminal influences led Seguso into the creative life of a poet, actor, musician and painter. Primarily self-taught, Segundo was influenced as a painter by his grandfather's work, his own research and resourcefulness, and studies with internationally known artist Peter Olsen.

Seguso’s work can be found in collections worldwide and has been shown in leading galleries garnering critical recognition and rewards such as the Mary Hulitar award from the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida.

Equine art, floral, landscapes and portraits are a big part of Seguso’s work, but at the heart of Seguso’s eclectic subject matter are his moody and evocative portraits of musicians. With confident and authoritative brushwork, special emphasis is placed on each character’s distinct and individual nature, capturing these images in bold and realistic paintings. Inspired and influenced by the Old Masters and Post-Impressionists, Seguso’s technique is under-painting in grisaille, and most of his works include varying degrees of glazing, “a technique, often overlooked by modern day artists, but an invaluable tool in creating jewel-like depth and style that is impossible to achieve by just mixing paint,” Seguso says.

Seguso’s colorful past includes working for legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen as his Road Manager and confidant in the mid 1970’s. He played a pivotal role in the musician’s rise to stardom. Seguso is also a card-carrying member of the Screen Actors Guild since 1994 and has a body of work as a stage, film, and TV actor.

A songwriter/poet for most of his life, Seguso has released two CD’s of original songs entitled “Don’t Give Up” (2014) and “My Last Confession” (2017). It is both amazing and inspiring that despite surviving a serious bout of throat cancer in 2000, Seguso’s recovery has left him undeterred and grateful. He continues to perform publicly.

Join us for our next general meeting at MOCA, 2200 Parks Ave, Virginia Beach, VA 23451. Check out the latest exhibit. We will discuss updates on the Ocean View Art Show and the great line up of speakers and presentations over this last quarter and more.

You can update your membership anytime online at https://www.chesapeakebayartassociation.com/membership or pay your dues at the meeting onTuesday. Members and nonmembers are welcome.