July 2018 Meeting

Meeting Minutes 10 July 2018

22 present (1 guest)

Adventures in Paper with Candy Entingh

Welcome & Announcements:

**We welcomed Diane Gidley as a first-timer and new member to our meeting! 

**Kathy gave us several dates to remember and encouraged us to get our paper work in if we want to submit pieces for the show and haven’t handed it in yet. The gallery will take 40% commission, so we were told to price our pieces with that in mind. Prints are acceptable. If you have business cards, leave a stack with your pieces.  

The dates to remember:

August 7-inventory paperwork needs to be into Juanita at Commonwheel.  The form is online.  It can be filled out on line and submitted electronically or you can print it out, fill it in, and send it snail mail or hand-deliver it by the 7^th.

August 14-Pieces need to be to Commonwheel.  Their hours are 10 am -8 pm.  Kathy agreed to accept your work at her house prior to the 14^th. 

August 17-Friday Art Walk/Opening & Reception 5-8 pm The Board will supply fruit and veggie trays for the reception.

**Our annual picnic will be Tuesday Aug 14 @6:30 at Karen McGinn’s.  She lives in a gated community within Kissing Camels.  If you plan to attend let Carole Rudy know by the day before so she can give the list to Karen who will give it to the gate guard.  The guild will provide the meat from Rudy’s and we are to bring a side dish.  

**Sherry will offer an in-home class on Copperplate in October.  She will have sign-up sheets available soon.  The 4 classes are $65 with a $20 rebate if you attend all 4 classes. 

**Shelley Hitz introduced her newly published faux brush lettering workbook, available on Amazon.

**Crystal Folgmann is willing to help put together a mini workshop to publish/print original paperwork into wrapping paper.

**The Board will meet on Jul 28 to discuss the details of the Retreat in October.

Show & Share:

**TJ had several Secret Belgian journals she plans to submit to the show.

**Sherry showed us a sampling of the cards she is making for the show.

**Kathy Hutchinson gave a quick review of The Creative Call by Janice Elsheimer.

Evening Presentation:

**Candy worked with 2 other gals to cut large sheets of specialty papers she ordered from Paper & Ink so we could try each one out with a variety of mediums from colored pencils, to ink and gouache, to pastels, watercolors, and plain old pencil.  It was a great practical exercise, complete with the name and  description of each kind of paper.  Very helpful! 

Sherry's Cards

Crystals wrapping paper

TJ's Journals

TJ's Trials

TJ's Journals

Cheryl's experiments!

June 2018 Meeting

Meeting Minutes 11 Jun 2018

23 present

Making paper Beads with Carole Rudy

Welcome & Announcements:

**Kathy Sullivan passed out copies of the forms we need to fill out if we are submitting any work to Commonwheel Art Gallery in August.  She gave more details of what is expected, and encouraged us to make 3-D items as well.  Digital pictures of our work as well as the forms need to be sent to Commonwheel by Friday, June 22.  The show will begin Fri, August 17.

**The guild’s “Art In Hand” retreat will be $75 for 4/3-hour classes, lodging at the Franciscan Retreat Center and $50 for commuters.  Kathy Sullivan will do a linoleum class, Kim Hetherington will do one on book binding, and Candy one on mixed media.

**The Sherrie Loveler workshop “Painting Poetry”, is a no lettering workshop creating marks and background designs the weekend of June 23/24.

Show & Share:

**Shelley Hitz showed several versions of work she digitized and used on business cards and greeting cards. 

**Cecelia showed us a piece she did in her recent workshop with Sherrie Loveler.

Evening Presentation:

**Carole had several stations set up for embossing our newly rolled beads and heating them with a heat gun. We were to have brought strips of colored paper and she showed us how to roll them into different diameters and explained how the shapes will change depending on the width and length of each strip of paper.  This was a very fun and practical presentation and a lot of work went into putting it together, so thank you, Carole!  

  

Cecelia's piece 

Carole's paper strips and bead example board

Earrings Cecelia made from paper beads