Meeting
Minutes 11 July 2017
23
present (1 guest)
Welcome &
Announcements:
**We welcomed our guest, Lynn McMillen, to our meeting.
**Candy will collect the cards and/or bookmarks for Kay and
send them to her new address in OK.
**Candy will also collect the items we bring for the silent
auction next month. Leslie and Sherry
will run the show and all proceeds will benefit West Side Cares.
**There is a fabric and paper design class at Cottonwood
Gallery Sept 16th from 1-5 pm that includes a printing set up for a
reasonable fee. Contact Cecelia for more
details.
**Sign-up for Jemma Black’s workshop will begin at the end
of the month on a first come-first serve basis.
Registrations with in the postmarked dates will be collected and
randomly selected if there are more than 15 registrants. There will be a wait-list in that case for
the 2-day workshop at Cottonwood, most likely dealing with Versals.
**Denis Brown published a new book in June, “Brown
Calligraphy”, and presently available only from his website QuillSkill.com.
**The Lending Library is always available during our
meetings. Please take some time to see
what we have in that big suitcase Karen lugs back and forth from her home each
month!
**Conference Update, LetterWorks 2017: 5 from our guild attended the recent
International Conference in Utah last month.
Cheryl took Sherri Lovler’s ½-week class ‘Painting Poetry’ working with
design elements and creating abstracts by making cool marks and her ‘Big Magic:
Taking Calligraphy Out of the Box’.
Kimmi took Suzanne Moore’s ‘Studies in Contrast’ painting
techniques/book making class. Cindy took
Jane Shibada’s ‘Uncialicious’ ½-week class on modern pointed pen along with
Suzanne Cunningham’s ‘Beginning Modern Script Variations’. Cecelia also took Sherri Lovler’s ‘Painting
Poetry’ class focusing on design backgrounds, foregrounds, and mid-color. Deb
also went, but was sick tonight.
Everyone said they got a lot out of their classes and there was still
accolades about how wonderful our conference had been.
Show & Share:
**Cecelia shared some of her work from conference with us.
Evening Presentation:
**Carole did a fabulous job pulling all her resources
together to present an overview of color, color harmonies, and color theory,
explaining terms, demonstrating color with a sampling of her quilts, and providing handouts with her best advice on color palettes
and color wheels to just name a couple things with suggestions if we’d like
more information. We even learned that
using a small piece of red cellophane allows us to see the value of a color
more clearly! She set up 3 stations for
us to explore more on color with one table set up for trying out a wide variety
of colored pencils from across the globe, giving us an opportunity to see which
ones we liked best. It was a ton of
material to cover in just one night, but she did a fantastic job!
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| Sample Name-tag Cecelia and helpers created for conference |
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| Leather pouch created by Cecelia! |
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| Cecelia's Show & Share |
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| Cecelia's Marks |
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| Carole's Presentation |
