REMINDER: CPSA Holiday Party on Saturday!

One more time:

Place: The Stephenson House
Time: 1:00-300pm (One to three in the afternoon)
Date: Saturday, December 15th
What to bring: Finger foods and/or sweets

*Ornament exchange for those who wish to participate. (in a gift bag)
Please RSVP Prez Jeff for address, contact & directions.
We are excited to see everyone!
*Feel free to bring a guest!

CPSA – 219 Holiday Party!

Place: The Stephenson House

Time: 1:00-300pm (One to three in the afternoon)

Date:  Saturday, December 15^th

What to bring: Finger foods and/or sweets

*Ornament exchange for those who wish to participate. (in a gift bag)

Please RSVP Prez Jeff for address, contact & directions.

We are excited to you everyone!

*Feel free to bring a guest!

Meeting Recap 10/27/12 - Mixed Media!

CPSA DC219 had a great meeting a few weeks ago!
We began with our usual brief meeting - Updates from Prez Jeff:

• Name tags were in effect!
• Reminder: deadline for entering Explore This! 9 is Nov 15.
• Reminder: Our Old School House Annual Group show is upon us ("Beauty and the Beast" that will encompass an overall theme of "Animals")! Drop off will happen in the next week or so. The reception is Nov 9th 5-9pm.
• We're also planning a Holiday Party for December. It will not be an official group meeting, just an informal get together to celebrate the season. Details to come.
• There will be no NOVEMBER MEETING , enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday!
• Please note: There is a new "Follow by Email" form in the right sidebar of this blog. This will allow you to automatically receive an email update every time there is a new post to this blog. Melinda will still send email updates until a significant number of our members are able to sign up for the auto-email updates.

SHOW & TELL:

REMINDER: Upcoming Meeting (10/27)

Hello CPSA 219 Members!

Our October 2012 meeting is nearly upon us. This Saturday, Oct. 27th 12:30-3:00pm, we'll be meeting at the usual place and discussing colored pencil and mixed media techniques in preparation of the upcoming Explore This! 9 submission deadline (Nov. 15th).

This meeting/discussion is very much dependent on member participation, so please come prepared to share your ideas… or go one better and bring works-in-progress to share, and possibly any mixed-media pieces you've completed in the past. Also, bring various supplies & materials so we can all experiment together.

Apologies for the late reminder, our late-year programs have been a bit more difficult to coordinate than usual.

Let us all have a say…

I'm posting a message here to encourage blog commenting. In the past, I had set the comment area to have a verification message, discouraging spam comments. This verification window usually showed jumbled letters and/or numbers that were difficult to read, which I'm sure was discouraging for some of you. Blogger does a pretty good job of recognizing spam comments and hides them for me to delete at a later time – so I've removed the verification process from our comments.

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Anonymous – click this and you can just post a comment,
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If you have any questions about the process, I encourage you to ask them here, in the comments section! If you still can't get it to work, feel free to email me directly with specific questions.

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melinda beavers, CPSA

DC 219, Secretary

Request for Program Ideas: 2013

As discussed at our meeting this past Saturday, we are looking for member idea contributions for the 2013 Program Schedule. With your input, perhaps your board can plan things a bit better next year, well in advance!

So, please folks, use the comments section at the bottom of the post to add your thoughts and ideas, and communicate with each other so we can plan the best program possible for next year!

Meeting Recap 9/22/12

 CPSA DC219 just had a another great meeting!
We began with our usual brief meeting - Updates from Prez Jeff:

• While checking for those in attendance that might be new, we decided we should probably waring name tags! Prez Jeff's going to make sure that's taken care of. ;)
• The deadline for entering Explore This! 9 is coming up. We had a few prints of the prospectus, but you can also download/view it here.
• Blog updates: Several members expressed an interest in adding a member gallery to our blog. Melinda will be looking into that and posting a message soon about image specs.
• Reminder: Our St. Mark's Show is ending, please pick up your work on 9/28 10am – 1pm.
• Your Board is in the midst of planning our Annual Group Show at The Old School House Gallery in November. We have given the show a name, "Beauty and the Beast" that will encompass an overall theme of "Animals". Details will be posted here on the blog as soon as they are available.
• We're also planning a Holiday Party for December. It will not be an official group meeting, just an informal get together to celebrate the season. We're exploring ideas for location/venue – please feel free to leave suggestions in the comments section (at the bottom of this post)!
• Our OCTOBER MEETING will be a member-based group activity on mixed media techniques, in preparation for the Explore This! 9 entry deadline on Nov. 15th – as well as our upcoming Schoolhouse Gallery show (Beauty and the Beast). So please remember to bring a project your working on, mixed media materials, and be prepared to share a bit of your process with the group!
• Our NOVEMBER MEETING is still to-be-determined.

SHOW & TELL:

Nancy Wood Taber

Nancy Wood Taber shared a wealth of experience and information with us: how she started back in the day with straight-up graphite and eventually graduated to colored pencil via a special request on a project she was hired to work on. Her work as always been focused on animals and she enjoys exploring Shamanic themes. She explained how her highly detailed work can take days or weeks, depending on how the individual piece "talks to her" and how much time that piece demands that she spend with it. She photographs all her own reference images using her Canon EOS 7D camera (man, what a beautiful piece of technology!). Through her process of blending and using solvents (her solvent of choice is terpenoid), she discovered that paper just wasn't think enough, so she explored working directly on matt board. She now uses Cresent 1607, BRITE WHITE. 

 Nancy shared a lot of specific tools and some demonstrations with us as well.

• An electronic pencil sharpener (panasonic)
• Krylon UV Spray Fixative
• Low tack tape, for edging
• Brushes for blending & solvent
• Solvent
• A collection of colored pencil brands (whatever works for you) + a colorless blender
• Mat board surface

Nancy answered a lot of questions as well, she gave us more details on her process, the development of her career, and some snippets on the business side of being an artist.

• The largest piece she ever worked on was about 24"x28"
• She prints limited edition giclee prints under 13" on her own printer
• She has any print larger than 13" producted at Carr Imaging
• She has traveled all over to sell her wares at various art shows over the years, but recently she's been scaling back on the travel and putting more into her online visibility and a website, creating an online shop to sell her work.
• As for marketing, she used to advertise in Southwest Art, but even with a group of artists, the expense eventually outweighed the returns.