Fall Comes to the Critique

The weather has gotten a bit chilly of late, lows sometimes getting close to freezing.  But today was a nice sunny day, light jacket weather by the afternoon.  But shortly after I got to the Studio, I started noticing the cool again.  I had raised the heat a little, and closed our room door to keep noise from the sander from disturbing the whole building.  Later I went into the hallway and there was definitely some cold air coming around from somewhere.  By the time Molly banged on our outside door to be let in, it was heading down toward freezing again, so we made sure to close that door quickly.  No bats flying in tonight.

Neither of us had gotten a lot or responses to our reminders about tonight, but we had six of our regulars join us for a respectable total of 8, and most with art.  In the above photo, we have Tim's very colorful abstract painting (which extended to the frame) in the foreground, and two of Jill's digital collages on the far right.  Below, a ceramic sculpture from Margery and an early proof of the woodcut that Mary started at her Boston workshop last week.

More colorful artworks came in from Vince (above) with more grid based paintings, and from Sheilagh (below) a multilayered encaustic piece.

No new prints from me this time, but I did point out my growing pile of legs and the dark squares on the floor left behind when I moved the 4x4 pieces, the original floor color surrounded by a coating of sawdust.  Molly had every table piece on display of course.  We didn't go into detail on all of them, but those that got the most comments were the Boys and Girls Club diptych (which was just a black line sketch at last month's crit) and the three Kula Cafe head tables.