June Meeting Recap

Hello Everyone,

Here's a recap of our last meeting on June 14th:

The meeting turned out to be a great Show-and-Tell day for the curiosity boxes, thanks to Betsy Rasmussen and Kathleen Kelly who both brought in wonderful finished pieces. 

Betsy Rasmussen

Kathleen Kelly

Here is some of the other work that was shared.  

Betsy Rasmussen

                                                     ABC Book

Nancy Lohmiller

Diane Judd

We also had an opportunity to look at the curiosity boxes that have been pinned to our Pinterest board. 

Nancy lead a great discussion with some helpful advice on creating your own Artist Statement about your work.  Starting with find three specific words that you or other people would use to describe your style and then building your story of why you create what you create.  You want to let people know what the ideas are behind your work, as well as, your motivation for making art.

We also reminded ourselves the importance of taking several photos of each piece we create.  

To that end, please remember our show is coming up soon (end of October).  We would like everyone to submit

1.  An ABC Book  

2.  A Curiosity Box and  

3. The 12" x 12" Canvas Piece.

Nancy is checking to see if it would be cost effective to buy the canvases in bulk and how much it will cost.

Just to review, our canvas piece will be a 12" x 12" gallery wrapped canvas.  The theme is "story-telling", but there are no limitations on materials or techniques.

Our next meeting is July 12th.

The "summer" page to our Seasons book will be due at the August meeting, August 9th.

Quote of the Week:  "Sometime, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie." - Henry David Thoreau