Rodger Williams Botanical Garden Sketching Trip February 13th 12 PM

Need a cure for the winter doldrums? Come sketch at the largest indoor garden in New England, located in Rodger Williams Park in Providence RI. We will meet at noon just inside the front doors. Sketch to your hearts content among mini tropical forests, waterfalls, and beautiful flowers. Cost for admission is 3 dollars. Address: 1 Floral Avenue, Providence, RI 02905. Web site: www.providenceri.com/botanical-center. Weather permitting of course! Hope to see you there. Contact Laurie at lbebick@verizon.net if you plan to attend.

NEXT MEETING JANUARY 15th

The next meeting will be at the Auburn Library, 369 Southbridge Street, Auburn, MA 01501 from 10Am to 12:45 PM. There will be a short meeting and a sketching exercise. It will consist of a "Crazy Round Robin." A still life will be set-up and participants will have 10-15 minutes to do a value drawing (this is to get the slow pokes like me! to work faster). You will then pass the drawing to the person on your left and work on your new drawing for the alloted time. We will continue this until we run out of time or you get your original back. We will leave time for everyone to enjoy the creations! To furthur challenge you. You can only bring thee values, a light, meduim and dark of one color. So no excuses about having to drag all your pencils! I call blue! RSVP to lbebick@verizon.net. Anyone interested in doing lunch afterwards is welcome.

Artwork Collage project for CPSA National Convention 2011

The National CPSA Convention is this July in Dallas, Texas. This year our chapter is going to submit a collage of our artwork for display in the hospitality room during the convention. We haven't done this in a couple of years, and it will be great to be included again and get some visibility for Chapter 112! Here's what our chapter members need to do: create a 3" x 3" image of something representative of your state or region with, of course, colored pencil! We are comprised of 8 (? is this correct) states , including the six New England States and New York and New Jersey. There is bound to be some overlap, but we don't want 20 or more images of lobsters - so let's leave that one out! Think about a bird, flower, tree, landscape, covered bridge, leaf, product, person. . . .. . whatever you think of will be great! Then execute it on some sturdy paper or board measuring exactly 3" x 3". We're going to put them together into a collage representing our chapter and have a "crazy quilt" like display. If you have any questions about this please contact me via email. I'll be most happy to try and help you. ALSO, could you please contact me and let me know what you'll be drawing. I need to keep track of how many images we'll have and what your subject matter is! Start working! We need to get the images by the middle of March, so that's almost two and a half months. Thanks so much, Debbi Friedman and Liz Patterson Coordinators for the CPSA Chapter 112 artwork display

Room still left in the November 13th sketchbook workshop

There are still 6 slots left in the sketchbook workshop. Contact Laurie ASAP if interested in attending.

Workshop: Make your own sketchbook

WHEN: November 13th 10:00AM~2 PM ( short meeting before workshop)

WHERE: The Creative Arts Studio in the Bella Luce Art Cafe, 34 Douglas Road, Whitinsville, MA 01588

COST: $35.00 ( members) $45.00 ( non-members)
Deadline for payment and registration is November 5Th. Send payment and registration form to Laurie Bebick, P.O. Box 493, North Grafton, MA 01536. Resgistration forms are available on the web site http://www.cpsa112.org/.

DESCRIPTION: Cristi Winona, owner and operator of the Cafe, will direct the workshop in her studio/gallery in a wonderfully refurbished old mill building. Participants will hand make either a
5.5 X 5.5 or 5.5 X *.5 sketchbook from sketch paper ( sketch paper is provided, you are welcome to bring other paper if you wish) and decorative papers for the covers. The book will contain 144 sides/pages when complete.

Sharon Art Center trip: October 16th

Anyone interested in taking a trip up to the Sharon Art Center, 30 Grove Street, Peterborough, NH 03458? www.sharonarts.org It's great "leaf peeping" time and the area is very picturesque. We can car pool, visit the art museum, do lunch and maybe some sketching? Meet at the museum about 11-11:30 AM. Contact lbebick@verizon.net if interested.

Dues Increase

Please be advised that the cahpter dues are now $15.00 per year, not $12.00.