Previous Meetings

August 14—Crazy Drawing

They say that drawing is 80 percent looking, 20 percent drawing.  (Or 90-10, depending upon which they is talking.)  We’ll do some fun and nutsy exercises to prompt our eyes to really look.  This will not be a contest to see who can draw the best, because everything will look TERRIBLE!  Maybe it will be a contest to see which one of us can laugh the hardest at our own humble efforts—or do the best job of embarrassing our neighbor.  Karen Rhiner will lead us down this weird path.

July 10—FLORA AND FAUNA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

We’re doing little drawings of plants (animals, too) indigenous to Southern California for our chapter’s display at the national convention at the end of the month.  Time to work on them at the meeting.  We’d like each member to provide two cards—with drawings on both sides. 

So, take a photo of something in your back yard or a nearby canyon, cut a piece of your favorite paper 2.5” x 3.5” (more available at meeting) and draw away.  Our distinguished President Bobbie Bradford will bring the cards that have already been done plus the branch they will hang on so we can see what’s up.  Each chapter will provide a display promoting its artists and section of the country for the convention’s hospitality room, and this will be ours.

June 12—WORKING MEETING

Find out how everyone else does it!

Bring your current project plus whatever you need to work on it.

You’ll get a chance to:

Working meetings have been popular with members in the past, and new members have received lots of help and encouragement.

May 8, 2010
Free and Simple Digital Image Editing with Google's Picasa

edit and Share your photos

Greg Holtz, the DC202 webmaster, will discuss using Picasa, the free image-processing software from Google. This demonstration and talk will focus on using Picasa to do simple edits and send the digital files by email. Although this talk is designed for people with few computer skills, we will demonstrate how easy it is to post photos on the Internet to be shared with friends and family.

We will also briefly discuss marketing our artwork using social network services on the Internet. Examples of these social networks include photo sharing web sites, like PicasaWeb or flickr, or social networking sites, like Facebook or MySpace.

If you have tried Picasa or another image editing software and have questions, please contact Greg (gregholtz@msn.com) before the meeting and he will try to help.

For more information on Picasa see http://picasa.google.com/

To see the presentation, download the Acrobat file (925 KB).

April 10, 2010

CP 102 TEXTURES WORKSHOP

Presenters will be Deb Gargula plus our chapter’s two CPSA Signature Members Bobbie Bradford and Carolyn Kenny.  Learn from the best.

Materials fee:  $10.  We will provide:

Please come prepared by bringing:

For more techniques and money saving suggestions see the flier (PDF file).

March 13, 2010

Burnishing Flower Petals and Creating Water Drops

Lori Sutherland, who has amazed us all with her incredible flower drawings will show us how she does it.

BRING 

Lori will supply demo sheets and paper to draw on. 

DRAW SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FLORA

Please bring your completed artists trading cards of Southern California flora or fauna to the next meeting.  It will be fun to see them all.  It’s also not too late to start on one if you haven’t already.

Each year, each chapter of CPSA presents some kind of a display in the hospitality room at the National Convention, which will be held in Los Gatos, California, this summer.  Prez Bobbie Bradford will attend and will haul our display with her.

Our project is artist trading cards with drawings of the flora (and fauna) of Southern California on them tied to a tree branch.

Cut a piece of paper 2.5” x 3.5”, the standard size for these art trading cards.  Find a plant that’s typical of our area and draw it on the card with colored pencils.  If you’d like, you may broaden it to include Southern California fauna.  (The cat people in this chapter pushed for this one, we think.)  Do one on each side of the card.  Easy!  The cards are small enough that you can experiment, and if you blow it, you haven’t lost much.  It’s a good time to try other kinds of papers, too.

February 13, 2010

“Working Meeting” on Artists Trading Cards.>

Every year the CPSA sets up a Hospitality Suite at the CPSA Annual International Exhibition & Convention.  All District Chapters are encouraged to present some kind of colored pencil display.  This year CPSA is celebrating its 20th Anniversary, which will be held in Los Gatos, California.  Our project will be Artist Trading Cards (ATC) with drawings of the flora and fauna of Southern California. We plan to secure the ATCs to a tree branch (eucalyptus).  We’re going to get you started at our February meeting . . . so bring your supplies and creativity.

Here’s what you do:

January 9, 2010

Mini workshop on color theory with Karen Rhiner

Down the COLOR THEORY Rabbit Hole

In this hands-on mini workshop, Karen Rhiner will lead us down the color theory rabbit hole and bring us back out mentally intact from the mad tea party, our pencils ready to do marvelous things with color and us all grinning like Chesire cats. If you’ve already studied color theory, this will be a good review—and keyed to our medium, not paint. If you understand what’s going on with color, you’ll be able to use it to your advantage. So bring your watch and don’t be late.

BRING

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Holiday Party and Pot Luck

Saturday, October 10, 2009

SABATO FIORELLO
Shows us
How to Paint a Picture in an Hour

Sabato Fiorello has been a professional artist all his life. His first solo show was with the Laguna Beach Museum of Art in 1969. He has shown his work throughout the United States and Europe, and is represented in many private collections. In 1970 he became affiliated with the Orlando Gallery in Los Angeles and showed there until 1985. He made his living working with the film industry for over 24 years and, after retiring as a dialog editor, became a florist, working in some of the best restaurants in LA. He was a fine arts commissioner for West Hollywood until he moved to San Diego in 2001. He worked with Eleanor Antin on all of her projects as art director and set designer. He has been teaching at the Lesbian Gay Bi-Sexual Transgender Center in Hillcrest for more than 4 years.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

The Icarus Technique
presented by Ester Roi

Ester, a member of our chapter, is the inventor and developer of the Icarus Drawing Board, a heated drawing board she uses to produce the beautiful flowers that we all ooh and ah over. It works by softening or melting wax-based media such as wax-based colored pencils, artist crayons and oil pastels.

This is a great opportunity to be part of a free, hands-on mini-workshop supervised by Ester and aided by her own personal video clips. There will be several Icarus Drawing Boards throughout the room so that everybody will have a chance to take turns and work with one.

Ester will provide most of the materials including pre-printed papers with outlines of progressive exercises, new media to test for a “surprise project,” and special tools to share. Hand-outs will include technique overview, list of Ester’s favorite materials, Icarus Drawing Board brochure, and a rebate coupon.

Please bring these supplies with you if you own them. Ester will have extras to share.

You can read more about the Icarus Drawing Board and see Ester’s work and the work of other artists who have used it at http://www.icarusart.net/