Category Archives: Transparent Watercolor

Submission Period online for the Fall 2024 Members Watercolor Exhibition opens July 6, and extends until August 12, 2024! Here’s your prospectus.

FALL SHOW 2024 Prospectus

The Call for Work Fall 2024 will be posted on our website on July 6, 2024. We will notify you and provide a link here, on Facebook, and will send an email link to all NFWS Members. 

SAVE THE DATE! NFWS Spring 2024 Workshop with Richard Stephens will be May 13 – 17, 2024.

The Workshop “Lighten Up, Loosen Up” will be held May 13 – 17, 2023 at the Castiglia Center on the Historic Roycroft Campus. Registration Forms will be available here on our website on Monday, February 19th, and will be emailed to all NFWS Members on that date. 

Rick Surowicz’s January 18th ZoomDemonstration for NFWS is on our Youtube Channel!

Here is a link to Ric’s terrifically inspiring and informative January 18th Zoom Demonstration for NFWS now on our Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society YouTube Channel.

Ric Surowicz’s January 18, 2024 NFWS Demonstration

The awards for our 2023 Open Watercolor Exhibition were announced last evening, May 25, at the Award Celebration at the Carnegie!

You can see them all and read Mary Whyte’s comments on our page Spring 2023 Award Winners . It was a lovely evening, reconnecting with many NFWS Members and friends. Congratulations one and all! 

The Exhibition’s last day is today, May 26, 2023! Hope you can make it to the Carnegie Art Center, 240 Goundry Street, N. Tonawanda, NY, today, open from 12 – 4 today, Friday. 

Following a brief Members Meeting we will have the pleasure of a demonstration by Illinois watercolor artist Tom Francesconi. This will be a Zoom event, at 4 pm, on Thursday, February 16th. A Zoom link will be sent by email to all NFWS Members on the Monday before the Thursday afternoon Meeting.

Here is a link to the event page for Tom Francesconi’s 4 pm demonstration:

February 16th Members Meeting and Demonstration by Tom Francesconi

26 Days left to submit your paintings to our NFWS Spring 2023 Open Watercolor Exhibition. The Prospectus is available here and on the Call for Work page! The Submission Period runs through February 26, 2023.

Click here for the Prospectus:

Spring 2023 Open Watercolor Exhibition Prospectus 

Click here for the link to the  Call for Work page.

This Exhibition will be on view from May 3 – 26, 2023 at the Carnegie Art Center, 240 Goundry St., North Tonawanda, New York.

The Exhibition Juror and Judge of Awards is renowned artist and cherished teacher Mary Whyte, our NFWS Spring Workshop Artist. 

“In my studio I have a small plaque that reads, “The most beautiful things in life cannot be touched.” It was a gift from my friend Georgeanna, and a constant reminder of what it is we artists try to express. It is not the days we remember in our lives but the small moments.”   Mary Whyte, An Artist’s Way of Seeing.