Newbies in the Basement

The Critique Group met in the Studio tonight, a week later than usual. (We decided to postpone it a week to get it away from the Labor Day holiday and first week of school.) Another unusual thing was that none of our regulars were there tonight, not even group founder Molly. Luckily, some new recruits chose this month to make their first appearance. I showed my current Boardwalk block, and the photos show some of the other work that was presented tonight, including Michelle's mixed media book arts, Jill's charcoal and pastel drawing, and Guido's landscape paintings. The dynamics tonight were a little different (the regulars are pretty much all friends and/or former students of Molly, while the only thing that all of tonight's participants had in common was that they knew me) but the work was good and we had plenty to talk about. And I figure there's a good chance that some of tonight's crew may become regulars themselves in future months. We expect that next time we'll be back to our usual first Wednesday schedule, so the critique group plans to meet again on October 1.