DC210 Meeting, August 13, 2011

Where:
Upcoming DC210 Meeting
Denise Howard's home
672 Briarcliff, Ct., Santa Clara 95051

Bring:
Your bag lunch or something to share. We will provide simple drinks.

When:
11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

What:
• General membership meeting
• Discuss Artwalk participation - join the committee
• Discuss election - join the committee and help out
• Denise Howard and Gemma Gylling - Convention review and show and tell new products.

2011 CPSA National Convention will be held in Dallas, Texas in July. It is always exciting and fun. Lots of colored pencil artists to talk to and lots of new products to see and try out. "Come and hear the latest in the world of colored pencil. Try out some of the newest products that were highlighted there. See how they work."

• Critiques, share  your work.
• Bring what you are working on and if we have time, we can draw.
• Enjoy the 2010 international show on large screen TV.

Please RSVP to Denise by August 3rd so we can make arrangements.

Workshop with Gemma Gylling

Wolf Workshop on Suede Mat Board

How to Create Realistic Animals Using Colored Pencils

By Gemma Gylling

Have you ever looked at wildlife art and wondered how the artist created the fur's shine or have you thought the eyes looked so real you believed the eye was really wet? When an artist uses the right side of their brain, it becomes easy for them to see the object that they want to create. Gemma will teach you to break an object into small sections so you see only lines, shapes and colors. It then becomes much easier to achieve the realistic look of shiny fur or a wet eye.

Saturday & Sunday, June 11/12, 10 am to 3 pm

(with lunch break)

At Town Hall Arts/Gallery

Under the Clock, 145 Stone Street., Copperopolis, CA, Town Square.

Sign up for the workshop with Larry, larry@townhallarts.com,

or phone 209-785-2050.

Materials list available at Town Hall Arts.

Cost of two-day workshop: $60

Colored Pencil at the California State Fair!

We just learned that the 2011 California State Fair has a Fine Art competition that includes a category specifically for colored Pencil. (Division 405 "Other 2D Artworks," Class 3: Colored Pencil.)

The deadline for online entry is April 22, and receipt of art (JPEG files on CD) April 27. The exhibit takes place during the state fair in Sacramento, July 14-31. Cost is $20 per piece entered, and accepted entries must be framed under plexiglass rather than glass.

If you do plein air work, they have a competition for that, too, for work completed on site during the fair!

Go to http://www.bigfun.org/competition-adult.php and https://www.bigfun.org/exhibits/all/exhibitshome.aspx for more details.

Hurry, this is an opportunity for more exposure for our colored pencil passion!

DC210 Meeting

District Chapter Meeting

Saturday, April 9, 2011 • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Almond Avenue Adult School • 1440 Almond Ave., Livermore CA

Meeting Agenda

Please bring your lunch and bring your work to show. Bring your supplies and something to work on or start a new piece with everyone's help and input (if you want it). We will enjoy working together at the meeting.

If you have something to discuss or questions to ask, please let us know.

Art Books: If you have new or favorite art books, bring them to share! Many good books, particularly about colored pencil, aren't readily available for browsing in book stores or online, so this is an opportunity to thoroughly look them over before deciding to buy your own copy.

Anything exciting happening in your art life?  Share it! Make new friends!

Not yet a member? Attend as our guest and find out what the Northern California Chapter of the CPSA is all about!

Want more  information: visit our website at http://www.cpsa210.org/ 

or contact Linda Loder at (510) 455-6427

Announcement! New Updated Website for DC210

DC210 Members, CPSA, District Chapters and Friends

We are happy to announce that the new DC210 website has been completed.

We invite our members and fellow chapter members to vist us at

http://www.cpsa210.org/

Included below is a small partial view of our new home page.

We were fortunate to be able to use the latest DC210

Group Project to enhance our pages.

It was a challenge to help create the new website for our District Chapter.

I wish to thank Linda Loder, Denise Howard, Jackie Chang and Linda Huffman

for their input, help, suggestions and support while building the new site.

I'm honored to have helped with its creation. Yevonne Reynolds

Congratulations Jackie Chang

Congratulations to Jackie on winning the

CPSA District Chapters' Award for Exceptional Merit ($1000).

We are all so proud and happy for you.

You have an eye for finding the beauty in the simple thing in life.

Dinner in Las Vegas by J.Y. Chang.

Congratulations!

 Two members of the DC210 San Francisco Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America, have been accepted into the CPSA Explore This 7 Online Exhibition. The show opens online at the Colored Pencil Society of America website (http://www.cpsa.org/) on February 1, 2011 and will run for one year.

We congratulate Jackie Chang and Gemma Gylling

Jackie Chang

Dinner Time in Las Vegas

Jackie says, "I drew this piece from a photograph that I took in Las Vegas, while waiting for dinner to be served. At first I was drawn to the shapes of the spoon and fork on the tabletop, and their placement in relation to each other. However, then I realized that all the spectacular neon Vegas lights were reflecting off the silverware, and that the spoon and fork were capturing all the ambient light and excitement around me, and that became even more intriguing to me."

Gemma Gylling

Wild Reflections

Gemma says, "When I was in Kalespell, Montana I had the opportunity to photograph this magnificent animal. This is the second piece I have done of this mountain lion. I couldn't believe how fortunate I was to be able to watch him make his way down a fallen log and into the water for a morning swim. I took hundreds of pictures of him so I am sure I will be creating more art from those reference photos. I hope to create a series called my "Reflections" series. I now have two pieces done for that series.

This piece was done on a Beige Suede Mat Board using colored pencils and some pastel. Most of the piece is colored pencil but I did use pastel on top of an underpainting of colored pencil to create the ripples in the water.

I was very excited to hear that my artwork was accepted in the Explore This exhibition. This is the first time I have entered the show because I usually work with 100% colored pencils and this show requires some other medium to be used with the CP. As of about 3 years ago CPSA now allows a signature award for the Explore This exhibition. This will be my first acceptance toward the CPX signature award. Very Exciting!!"