Meeting Minutes 13 Oct 2020
18 present
Barbara Close’s Gestures in Graphite
Welcome & Announcements:
**Welcome back! This is our first meeting since COVID hit in March, forcing us to keep at home. Our Sept meeting was canceled due to an early snow.
**Tom asked for volunteers to create art using odds and ends from an aviation collector. Proceeds from the sales will fund the aviation museum he helps/works for.
**Angie Tingle held a day-long journaling workshop in her new studio downtown. It was met with huge success.
Show & Share:
**Karen McGinn used Calligraphic Crystals from John Neal to enhance the envelopes she brought. She had a decorated Versal H to show as well.
**Kimmi got an idea from Pinterest to use an old Rolodex to add art to. She made an Itsy-Bitsy Spider pop-up book for her 2-year-old grandson, and used scraps of paper she had to create new cards!
**Cecelia brought some of the pieces she did in Randy’s recent workshop using a square Speedball A-nib and fat round end B nib.
**Tom showed off his airbrushed mask with an image of an airplane.
**Cheryl brought the journal she worked in Randy’s recent class.
**Deb S used an Elton John concert ticket to create a Rocket Man piece as a tribute to the music legend as well as a haiku.
**Lynn F brought in a new Etch-A-Sketch to show how much it’s improved. She thought young children could use it to practice their penmanship.
**Christie Lee went hiking and took pictures of aspen trees in full color and turned them into cards.
**Margie brought the collecting cards she had been sent in a small box!
**Others had cards they’d received and samples of the work they’d done on the Show & Share table.
**Candy showed us how to use a piece of tape to pull apart the layers of napkin and a water brush to pull an image away from the background of the napkin without using scissors! Great technique! She used matte medium as her glue because it has less water in it than regular glue. She glued the image of a hummingbird to white cardstock to create a card.
Our Library Book Review:
**Leslie showed us Jill Berry’s book on Geographical Journaling using maps for the basis of projects and journals as well as Max Gallo’s The Poster in History, featuring hundreds of images of posters from around the world and noted how they influenced various art forms.
**Karen McGinn gave a short report on the Zoom course she took on American Cursive with Marie Hornbeck. She plans to offer classes on American Cursive at a local library for elementary aged students this fall.
Evening Presentation:
**Candy went to IAMPETH in July of 2019 when it was in Denver and took Barbara Closes’ class on Studies in Graphite. She asked Barbara for permission to use a few of her examples for tonight’s presentation. Candy had us trace one by one inch squares onto plain copy paper and then using a soft carpenter’s pencil, began adding pressurized shapes of wisps and strands in each box to create grasses and shadows. She used a stump, but said a Q-Tip would work to smudge areas to create the shadows. She also showed us a few samples of graphite work in the VOL 34:2 of Letter Arts Review. She also masked off areas with Washi tape, made pencil gestures top and bottom of the white line the tape made once it was removed so lettering could be placed in the white space. It was a very helpful class with endless possibilities if we’ll just use our eyes and imaginations! Thank you, Candy!!
