April 2018 Meeting

Meeting Minutes 10 Apr 2018

24 present

Fun with Pointed with Sherry Weaver

Welcome & Announcements:

**All framed pieces for the August gallery exhibit at Commonwheel must have a wire hanger.  No saw-tooth hangers are acceptable.  Any sayings or quotes used by individuals who are alive or have been dead less than 75 years are copyrighted.  You must acquire their permission to use.  Please note some translations of the Bible and hymns that are not public domain are also under copyright restrictions.

**TJ wrote out detailed directions for lacing spine of the Secret Belgian Binding books we made.  Email her if you’d like a copy.

**Candy and Cecelia are recovering nicely from their recent surgeries. 

Show & Share:

**Cecelia brought a garden-themed lettering piece she plans to print onto fabric.

**Tom had a lovely airbrushed painting of Bartlett pears on canvas.

**Jim & TJ brought books they finished.  Jim used some of his own marbled paper.

**Carole brought a book entitled “Silent Music” featuring good color combinations and hand lettering.

Evening Presentation:

**Sherry passed out exemplars of a variety of cartouches and embellished flourishes she enjoys doing as well as scraps of colored paper for us to use.  She likes using Pearl-Ex metallic watercolor paints and McCaffrey’s inks.  She demonstrated several examples step by step encouraging us to turn our paper and use pressure for thickening parts of petals.