Back on Schedule

School is over for the next few months, which frees up my Mondays again.  So not only are we able to move our group back to the traditional Monday, we are even getting it in on the first one of the month, as was our tradition.  Not a huge crowd tonight, but more than enough people to have a fun evening.  With school over, a lot of the other activities around out building are also done for the season.  (last month there were a few hundred people in the building, this time there was only one other person in the  building when we started)  I showed up about an hour before to take care of a few things, including making some planned additional cuts on my St Pamphilus block.  I forgot to get a photo of the altered block, but I'll show it in a few days when I proof the block again.

Molly arrived early herself, giving her time to do a little cleaning and pull a proof off one of her new silkscreens.  You can see it above, the large green fern.  This and other similar plant prints will be paired with giant woodcut heads she started during the spring.  The small glass plate below it is also Molly's, and a screen made from that provided the design for a t-shirt example for one of her school groups.  The large colorful piece next to it is from Edy, back from an extended stay out of state.  This is the most abstract thing she's every brought us.

Above is a painting from Vince from his ever evolving grid series, some of which he showed last time. This one is less chaotic than the last batch, and barely a grid- more just colors arranged around a pair of crossed lines.  What I liked about this piece was that the colors had almost a nature feel, and he admitted this was the first time he used green in this series.  Below are two abstractions from Sheilagh, more of her acrylics with many layers of texture.  The tornado shapes were done before the rounds of storms that have hit Oklahoma hard the past few weeks.  Also shown below it a block in progress from Mary.  It's her first still life since starting woodcut, and not a typical subject for her, but she feels it will be a good subject for some experiments in reduction printing.  Since she'll be doing that as part of my class in Belmar, I'll post the results as I see them.  Also present tonight was Harriet, with her ongoing sketchbook series, which I didn't get photos of.

My contribution tonight was the colored version of my St Pamphilus print, which they saw as just a black and white proof last month.  Everyone felt that the colors did make the subject a lot clearer than the black and white version.  (I saw it clearly all along, but I knew what the colors would be)  I also passed around the block, so everyone could get a preview of the changes.  It should all be done by our next meeting.