Calligraphic Art Show in May

Our guild is having an Exhibit!

MAY 1-22, 2009

M-F 9-9, Sat 9-6,Sun 1-5, closed Victoria Day, May18

Stanley Milner Library

102 Ave & 99 St. Edmonton

Members of ECS will be demonstarting & having exciting items for sale on Sundays from 1-5

Please Come!

http://edmontoncalligraphicsociety.ca

Edmonton Calligraphic Society offered their free fun day for members which I took in, and our 1st project was to decorate these canvas Pen & Brush Holders. Was that EVER fun!

Jackie Doll sewed each one of these up ahead of time for us (thank you, Jackie...mine alone would've taken me all day) and all we had to do was throw the paint on!

We used liquid acrylics; Dr.Martin's worked the best for lettering with nibs, and I used cheapie folk art acrylics for most of the rest, along with the flourish stamps from Quietfire Designs, ttp://www.quietfiredesign.com/

stamped onto the same paint, which we mixed & spread out on yogurt lids.

It was SO exciting!

Now I must finish our 2nd project, which was a decorated storage cube made from CD Cases.

This is a view of the back of the penholder.

Here's to SISTERS! and unfinished projects

Yep, it's finally done. My 1st and probably last fabric piece. You know, the one I blogged about a year or 2 back? I handed "SISTERS" over to my big (wh0's getting smaller by the week) sis for her recovery period, so that must mean it really is finished, although now while resizing the pics I see there's an area across the bottom that could use something...maybe very light in color as the eye needs a place to rest. I've got it; that whole canvas at the bottom could be fringed. What do you think?

I also forgot to add the poem's author, so that I could write just above the blue cord.

Remember this original, before I decided to write the complete lyrics? I know, too bad I covered it all up. Thanks again to Lisa Engelbrecht of California who taught this to the Edmonton Calligraphic Society http://edmontoncalligraphicsociety.ca/

Yay Sharon, for getting rid of all the crap & seriously tackling that awful *!x#*!!#xx** word. (EXERCISE)

Personally, I think I'll just down another couple Tylenol 4's before I step out to pick up the mail... it seems to be working quite well these days.