Of Note: Hobby Lobby Special

Hobby Lobby has all their artists pencils, including Prismacolor at 30% off this week -- until Sat., Feb 20th.

betty

*click image to link to online flyer

Upcoming Meeting: February 27th

Our next CPSA 219 meeting is February 27 (two weeks from this coming Saturday). 12:00-3:00 at the Bear Canyon Senior Center.

The program will concentrate on miniatures for the upcoming MasterWorks show. Remember, the postmark deadline for your entry form & fees is March 20. If you don't have a prospectus please call Ben at (505) 291-5871 and he'll mail you one asap. Or you can download the prospectus here (print pages 1,6-8). Last year was a real colored pencil disappointment. So this year we really want to get back to 20+ accepted pieces.

Please bring ALL your new and old minis to the February meeting. Thanks to Ben, we'll have the expert advice of Kim Bell, an award-winning miniaturist and former MasterWorks judge -- so this is your chance to get your questions answered and hear some on-target feedback about your pieces before you enter the show. For example, I'll be bringing a couple new 3"x5" landscapes -- the look is kind of 'soft focus' amd I want to know if that's likely to mean the jury will put them in the 'out' pile.

If you haven't started your minis yet -- now's the time. One good thing about minis is that you can fill the paper a lot quicker than when you're working big. ; )

Betty Lehnus
President, CPSA Ch. 219

Social Designer: More about the 500 pencils & another reference

The current issue of Drawing Magazine, Winter 2010 (out now) has a profile of Holly Bedrosian titled, "A Colored Pencil Artist Emerges" .... I think this is the only publication that regularly features our medium.

Did a little pooking around and found that the 500 Pencils offer also supports UNESCO -- see "Overview" on this page.

-betty

Member News: 2010 Explore This!

Chapter 219 member, Rex Barron, has done it again, His piece titled Train Dream has been accepted into the 6th CPSA Explore This! Show - Congratulations, Rex!

*click on the image to the left to visit the Explore This! website and review the full list of accepted artists.

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.

Survey Says!

The results are in; we had 18 member survey responses, not too far from 50% of all members:

• A big majority of responders (12) say they have been members for more than 3 years. When asked what they like best about their membership, 12 say “chance to exhibit,” and the rest say “networking with other artists” (8) and “programs” (7).
• Responders are almost equally divided between thinking we have the right number of shows (10) and we have too few shows (9).
• 10 responders say they like gallery shows best and 7 say they prefer shows in public spaces.
• 6 like shows with prizes, 5 like shows without prizes.

Here are the results of the questions about programs:
Best-liked programs: Hands-on vs. presentations w/no ‘doing

• 11 responses for “both”
• 7 for hands-on, and
• 2 for presentations w/no ‘doing

Would like more programs about . . .

• 9 responses for art basics – composition perspective, color etc.
• 8 for “both”
• 6 for programs focused on colored pencil techniques

Interested in . . . programs in descending order of interest with number of responses:

• Burnishing & solvents (15)
• Trying out various papers & other surfaces (14)
• “Slide show” from CPSA national exhibits (13)
• Experimenting with Lines, dry washes, scribbles (12)
• Using digital files to send artwork (12)
• Copyright issues (12)
• “Draw-out”away from Bear-Canyon (10)
• “Draw-in” at Bear Canyon (9)
• Round-robin critique (9)
• Artist’s website info (7)
• Framing (6)
• Artist’s trading cards (3)
• Special request: Ann Jefferies “Faces”

Of Note: Website deal

Hi all - I just cam across this posting on Twitter. I haven't read all the details, but it looks interesting. 500pencils from Social Designer.