New Year Critique

In recent years, the first Monday of January has been on or near New Year's Day, so we have pushed the critique to the 2nd Monday to get away from the holiday.  But this year the holiday came on Tuesday, so we could have our first Monday meeting.  It seems to have worked well for the group, with about a dozen people showing up, most bringing some art to show.  The first wave above included a small pair of encaustic paintings (upper left) from Sheilagh, some small watercolors from Harriet, a series of colorful acrylic paintings from Katie, and a sculpture of cast off plastic from Lisa, who received gifts of plastic bits from 3 of our participants tonight.  (Margery's two small clay sculptures were too small to photograph)  Below, a better view of Katie's painting series.

Above are some mixed media paintings from Ani in various states of completion (lower center is probably finished) and a more minimal painting from Tim.  Below Molly showed something she just put together this evening, a mixed media print piece combining a woodcut (red ink) on transparent paper glued down over a silkscreen (blue ink) on wood panel.

Sandy brought a recent series of colorful abstractions, though in each case she allowed recognizable images to remain in the compositions.

Since I haven't had time to do anything new in a while, I didn't have much to show.  I passed around the most recent Christmas card, which people admired very much, and my bound photocopied version of the Fourth of July. along with some installation photos.  I don't know yet if my work schedule will allow me to come to next month's critique, so I decided to go ahead and promote the planned mid February exhibition tonight.