May27 Meeting

It was great seeing everyone on Fri., we missed those that could not attend. Next month's assignment is to finish your chickens and take a picture of them. You also have to answer the questions that were emailed to you. Here are this month's sketchbook entries. We were suppose to pick two of the three assignments.
Stacking objects to create another object.
Paper towel drawing of a person.
Contour workplace drawing.

Elisa



Ana Candie
Claudia

Gail
Lourdes
Terry

Dolores Lorena

Hearts/Color Swatches

I had a wondeful time at Virginia's house on Sat., I hope you did too. We had a great meeting with many decisions made. I will be contacting everyone through email with the info
Since Virginia hosted the meeting she was designated to assign the next swap.

She would like for us to create a piece inspired by a favorite childhood memory. She put a twist to the swap by not making it a swap after all. You will get to keep the piece you create. There are no guidelines to what you create.
Here are the pictures to this month's sketchbook entries. One was inspired by the heart, the other by the color swatches we picked last month.
Claudia created this beautiful drawing of her daughter inspired by the color green.

Gail's entry was inspired by the name of one of her color swatches "fire cracker"

Cindy's heart

Dolores created this still life in blue.

Ana's colors became the colors of her sun set. Elisa's violet lady was inspired while she was doing some deep thinking.My popscicles were inspired by my purple swatch.

At Jackson's during our Jan. meeting holding up our color samples.

Beginning and Endings/Jan.

Thank you to everyone that made it to our meeting, I always look forward to seeing everyone, you always re-energize me and help me to undwind. We missed those of you that were unable to attend.
Next months entries are as follows:
1.The heart as the inspiration.

2.We chose color samples from the hardware store. Once we selected our colors we traded. If you were not at the meeting ask someone around you to randomly select a color. Create an entry inspired by that color.

Here are the entries for our Jan. Sketchbook Entries. One of the entries was based on "Beginning and Endings" in honor of the New Year. The other entry was a "Found Poem". We took random sentences cut from a magazine and arranged them to create a poem. The poems sounded great and I enjoyed hearing the interpretations of each person, the illustrations added to the poems.

Ana's entries


Terry's entries


Barbara's entry-Beginning and Endings



Gail's entry

Milly's entry


Candie's entry, Found Poem and also inspired by E Munch

My entries

Flight

Well, glad to see you made it! I'd like to begin by thanking Beverly for hosting our meeting last night. It is always a treat to go to Beverly's home. I'm sure you all know what a fan I am of her beautiful home.
Thanks to all that went to our meeting and we missed those of you that did not attend. Terry brought some examples of a project that she did with her students that turned out amazing. I also brought some examples of a project that I did with my students which you can view in my painted apple blog. I also brought a few tips from the TAEA Conference.
As you know, we had our first UVAs Sketchbook Entries. The results were great, what I especially liked were the background stories that came with the entries, there were a few teary eyes and I feel I got to know everyone a little better. Thank you for sharing.

Before I get to the pictures here are next month's entries.
1. I had told the ladies at the meeting to choose between the words beginning or ending for the entry, but after much thought I think both words should be included in your entry. Keep in mind that an ending is not necessarily a bad thing. This entry is in honor of the New Year.

2. The second entry is a little difficult to explain. It is something we did at the meeting. I passed around a paper bag with strips of sentences cut out of art magazines. We each picked eight strips and had to create a poem based on the lines we picked. This is called a Found Poem.
We will then create an entry and title for our found poem. I suppose if you were not present you can do a variation of this.

We will be having a special meeting right after the holidays but before we return to work. We will be creating a small sub-group that will be in charge of looking for exhibition opportunities. It is time to get the show on the road!
OK, here are the sketchbook entries:
Terry's Flight entry, just beautiful!



Her "Intro" entry based on what was written about her.

Beverly's entry for flight. This entry was inspired by her late sister.

Candi's entry is based on the plight of the albatross birds that are being killed in the ocean by fishermen's nets.Her other entry is based on one of the comments (I love your dresses) that was written in her book.
Cindy's entry is based on flying to close to the sun and running the risk of burning our feather's when we venture to close. I like this sentiment and understand it completely.
Katie's entry symbolizes someone that has already taken flight and we are left behind looking out.
Elisa's entry had a beautiful poem and beautiful visual imagery.Ana's entry represents the places she will soon be taking flight to. She also turned the words written in her book into a great graphic entry.
My entry is based on the fact that I am always surrounded by butterflies. I used acrylic for this entry. My other entry shows my interests plus all the great stuff that was written about me.










Thanks again for everything ladies!