Meeting Recap 3/23/13 - Sharing Your Muse

Member Suggestion: More to Review

From our president, Betty Lehnus:
Gallery | Icarus Drawing Board
I think the drawing called " 'Popping Art" in the gallery section of this site was in the video from CPSA National we saw at Saturday's meeting -- interesting to see that although it's colored pencil the technique is aided by the warm drawing board . . . another answer to the eternal "how did they do that" question.

*click on the image to visit the artist's website.

Online Article: Fantastic Pencil Sculptures Of Jennifer Maestre

I'm sure many of you have seen forwarded email images of these wonderful pencil sculptures, but there rarely seems to be any information about them or the artist included. Now we can learn a bit more: these sculpture are by artist Jennifer Maestre. Here is a link to an online article for those of you wishing to learn a bit more about her and her work.

See more at the artist's own website.

Thanks to chapter member Rex Barron for suggestion this post.

Food for Thought: Frank Lloyd Wright

"Colors - in pastel or crayon - or pencils - always a thrill! To this day I love to hold a handful of many colored pencils and open my hand to see them lying loose upon my palm in the light."

Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect)