A Happy New Year to all our Members
and looking forward to
a wonderful and creative 2017
We hope that you have all had a restful and enjoyable
festive season and that you are fired up and ready to paint. We have been
busy putting together a calendar for you and hope that you will manage to join
all or most of the events.
FORTHCOMING ATTRACTIONS
Wednesday 25 January at 7 pm - Our first meeting of the
year - an exciting DVD by the wonderful artist DAVID BELLAMY – Sketching
Adventures in Spain.
Tuesday 14 February at 2pm - Workshop: Fiona Nichols
will be showing us different effects of coloured pencils on a variety of papers.
Please bring pencils and your own paper. We will be seeing work and creating our own work.
Details: Fiona on
0722889451.
Wednesday 21 February - paint out - The STONE
CHURCH – Spaanschemat Road, Tokai. (Amongst the tall gum trees / see
the ‘Range’ Sign board at the turn off). Go direct. Park at the parking
area next to the Stone Church, Tokai at 9.45am or meet at the Civic
Centre, 9.15 am.
Details: John Strickland on 021 782-7337
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
This is on Wednesday 22nd February at 7pm
with a great quiz and prizes to spice up the evening.
Several of our Committee members have done service for many
years and it is felt that fresh ideas and energy needs to be found. If
you or one of our fellow members would like to become part of our dynamic team,
please volunteer or nominate them to join. Duties are not onerous and do not
involve lots of additional meetings. The secretary will shortly be sending out
an agenda and copies of the 2016 AGM minutes together with nomination forms.
Tuesday 14 March at 2 pm – Workshop. Figure drawing –
bring own materials
Tuesday 21 March – paint-out at Rondevlei. Meet at the
Fish Hoek Civic Centre at 9.30 am
Wednesday 22 March at 7pm – We are lucky to have Yvonne
Ankerman to give a talk and show her interesting photos and some paintings done on her recent trips to
Antarctica and South America.
Exhibition: SASA - are holding their ANNUAL ‘MERIT’
EXHIBITION at Kirstenbosch from 27 January
Exhibition: The South African Antique Art and Design
Association exhibition is being held at the Lookout V&A Waterfront 17-19
February
Reminder:
Subscription fees are due: Annual fee
R140.00.
We cannot run the Society without funds so please pay
promptly. The bank details are as follows: EFT transfers to Fish
Hoek Art Society at Standard Bank, A/c 072099127, Code 036009 or cash to a
committee member at any of our meetings.
PLEASE NOTE that we are closing our post box. All
future correspondence should be sent to the Secretary at zwets@mweb.co.za
The Blog
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As Fish Hoek Art Society moves towards the digital era, more
information from the Society will be communicated online or by email. Thus it
is advisable to link your email into the blog so that this is automatically
delivered to your email box as and when there is an update to the Society’s
news.
This is EASY. On the blog first page there is a blank box in
which you type your email address, hit the Submit button and another panel
opens just to check you are a real person and not a robot, and once you have
done what they ask you to do, all future posts will come directly to your email
in box.
For those members who do not have a computer please note
that the newsletters will no longer be posted or hand delivered, but you can
get your copy at Jacquis Framery in Fish Hoek Main Road.
SOME USEFUL INFORMATION
Framers: Jacqui’s
Framery, jfag@vodamail.co.za, Main
Rd, FH, tel: 021 782 7324
John
Steer, johnsteer@telkomsa.net, Silverglades,
tel: 0832631798
Frame
4 U, marlene.depinto@hotmail.com, Fairy Knowe, tel: 0827496952
Art Supplies: The
Write Shoppe, Long Beach Mall, tel: 021 785 7614
The Deckle Edge, www.deckleedge.co.za ,
Constantia Village,
tel: 021 794 8995 or Brickfield Road, Salt River, tel: 021
180 4442
The Italian Artshop: www.italianartshop.co.za, tel: 021 685 1877,
Riverside Mall, Rondebosch
Printing: Art
Assist, specialized printing,artassist@cybersmart.co.za ,
tel: 082 257 4896
Lam it All, repro printing cards etc lamitall@vodamail.co.za, Recreation Rd,
tel: 021 782 7397
A few pointers regarding the thorny issue of
copyright and
plagiarism.
This particularly applies to those artists wishing to sell
their work.
Illustrated below, one painting is the original and one is the modern copy. Which is which?
The
design and Artists Copyright Society says ‘copyright is a bundle of rights
which allows you, as the owner of the Copyright in a work, to prevent any other
person from doing various things with the work without your consent’.
·
In
relation to artistic works, ‘copying’ includes making a copy on three dimensions
of a two dimensional work, and vice-versa.
·
The
artist owns the copyright and copyright is established from the moment of
creation – the only qualification is that the work must be original.
·
Copyright
comes into operation automatically and as the owner you have the exclusive
right to authorise the reproduction (copy) of a work in any medium by any other
party. Reproduction may only take place with your consent and is usually
granted with in return for a fee.
·
Copyright
lasts for the lifetime of the visual creator, plus 70 years after death. After
70 years it is no longer protected by copyright.
‘Copying’ means you have ‘incorporated a substantial part of
the work of another artist’ in your work. This is only allowed if you copy for
the purposes of research or private study, but then your work may not be
exhibited or sold and you must acknowledge the original artist. If you enter
your painting in an exhibition or competition and you have used someone else’s
work as inspiration you must state ‘in the style of .........’ or ‘after a painting by ...........’ on the artwork.
From a publication of the SAA, the Society for All Artists in the UK.
May 2006.
So how does this apply to me, the amateur? By all means
copy a picture to ‘learn the style and technique used’ - then, the best
advice is always to use your own photographs and sketches as a base and apply
the technique you have learned to your own work.
Did you guess which was the original? The first image is the original, the second is the modern copy.
In this month’s edition of “Country Life” there is an
article, the first in a series, about buying art as an investment. Art curator
Stefan Hundt discusses the pleasures and pitfalls of buying art which you will
find most interesting.
Other great articles in the magazine as well!
