Meetings are free and open to anyone interested in keeping visual journals (anyone from beginners to life-long journal keepers). See the bottom of this post for a list of meeting topics.
I am the volunteer coordinator and maintain a Yahoo-update list for the group. If you would like to be a member of this list please email me with a request at roz@tcinternet.net.
As volunteer coordinator I also organize the meetings. We look to the membership's talent, expertise, and interests to provide topics for the meetings as well as volunteers for brief presentations. Past program examples include a portrait party (pairs sketched portraits of each other and the entire group created a photocopier book of the results for everyone); landscape drawing tips from a local landscape artist as a lead-in to summer vacation; State Fair sketching prep; a State Fair Sketch Out; and the showing of book arts related films such as a biographical documentary on Peter Beard, and the documentary "1000 Journals Project."
The group also devises and executes collaborative projects such as the recently completed Altered Book Journal Round Robin and a currently in-production journal card exchange.
Meetings include discussion and sharing of current journal work.
We are an eclectic, curious, and welcoming group interested in sketching and observing our lives. Come and join in the fun.
Upcoming Meeting Topics:
December—There is no meeting in December.
January 18, 2010—Collective member and artist Jean Shannon will talk about her collection of Japanese folk toys and their interesting history. She will have some of her artwork involving toys on hand. After her presentation the group will sketch toys from her collection to hone our still-life and observational skills.
Sunday, January 31, 2010—The Collective will have a SKETCH OUT at the Bell Museum from NOON to 5 p.m. Note the special day for this meeting. (Admission to the museum on Sundays is free.) This is the perfect place to stay warm for winter sketching and practice your animal and bird drawing skills. Read full details for the sketch out at the Bell Museum here.
