Chapter Meeting Saturday

Saturday, November 7

Fitchburg Art Museum

185 Elm Street, Fitchburg, MA 01420

www.fitchburgartmuseum.org

I am hoping to receive samples of Lyra Rembrandt pencils for us to try at the meeting. The pencils are enroute but may not arrive in time for this meeting. Bring your colored pencils we will work on Janie Gildow kits. The project is working on black paper with a white (colored pencil) underpainting.

Also, bring items for a raffle and any piece you are working on to show the group. Bring a lunch, there is a kitchen and eating area.

We will also tour the art museum's collection of art; entry fee is $7 and $5 for seniors.

Chapter Meeting at Arts Worcester

We had a small turn out but a good meeting at the Arts Worcester gallery in the pouring rain. We worked on the sanded Colourfix surface on gessoboard with colored pencils and solvent. Our subjects were various sized marbles. Here are our drawings in progress.

Arts Worcester has a beautiful gallery space and they were most helpful and accommodating to our chapter. I am going to send the director a disk of colored pencil images from our chapter for a possible chapter exhibit in 2010. I might be contacting members to send me additional samples of their work.

Thanks to all who attended!

DC 112 Chapter Meeting - Next Saturday, Oct. 3

Our next chapter meeting will be next Saturday, October 3 at 11 a.m.

At:

Arts Worcester, Gallery at the Aurora

660 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610

www.artsworcester.org

Currently on display at the Aurora: Viva el Arte 2009 - an exhibition of contemporary Latin American art and culture (see painting above).

This space is right in the city so we will have to look for parking. Look for a municipal lot in which to park. (There are some good suggestions in our recent newsletter.)

Our agenda!

We will be working on Colourfix Primer on the gessoboard surface. I will have a project ready for us to try. Bring drawing pencil, eraser, small flat or round brush (to use with odorless solvent), colored pencils & sharpener. Also bring a bag lunch.

Also, we will be looking at Arts Worcester spaces as a potential for a district chapter exhibit.

Please RSVP if you are coming and I haven't already heard from you. I need to have the right amount of supplies!

We Have a Winner!

Congratulations to Holly Bedrosian for winning one of CPSA's top awards at the national exhibition - The Award For Outstanding Achievement! The list keeps growing for our chapter.

This photograph is from the exhibiton at the Hudgens Center for the Arts, where Holly's piece is hanging in the front room by another award winning piece, by Texas artist Linda Lucas Hardy.

CPSA Silent Auction

Silent Auction 2009 in conjunction with the 17th Annual International Exhibition is on the website for viewing. For the preview, here is the link: http://www.cpsa.org/EXHIBITION/17thEXHIBITION/SILENT-AUCTIONweb/gallery1.htm

You must be present in Atlanta to bid and win.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to our chapter members who were accepted into the 17th International CPSA exhibition: Holly Bedrosian, Nicole Caulfield, Debbi Friedman, Gary Ruuska, Susan Tait Porcaro. Great job! (I hope I didn't miss anyone else .... )  Are any of you receiving Signature Membership this year?

Its Almost Time For ......

....  Our April Chapter Meeting

Saturday, April 18 at Noon

Fitchburg Art Museum

185 Elm Street

Fitchburg, MA 01420

www.fitchburgartmuseum.org

Kendra will give a mini workshop about working on Colourfix sanded ground on gessoed hardboard. Techniques taught will be layering to achieve color, value and form and working with odorless solvent to dissolve the pencil and make it flow like paint. There will be a small fee for the boards. Please respond to this blog or (email me at kjfdesign@cox.net) if you are coming so I can purchase & prepare the boards. 

Unfortunately, Gary Ruuska will be unable to demonstrate his airbrush varnish technique at the meeting but we will reschedule him for another meeting.

Exhibits on view at the museum will include "All Things Bright and Beautiful: California Impressionist Paintings from the Irvine Museum" and "Seldom Seen: Treasures from the Collection II Art of China, Japan and India".