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by Bonnie Born Ash, posted by Deb Shaw
Many BAGSC members get together on an informal basis to go to exhibits and museums, see flowers and work on their paintings. BAGSC members in the Los Angeles county area have been getting together to work on their individual paintings. The next gathering of their BAGSC regional botanical illustration group will be held on:
TUESDAY, MAY 2
11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Norma’s Home
If you are interested in attending, please contact Bonnie to RSVP via email. Space is limited when meeting in member’s home, so no more than ten members will be able to join this day. Participants should remember to bring lunch and a portable light if needed.
A “Regional BAGSC” page has been added to the “Members Only” area of the BAGSC website. If you would like to invite all BAGSC members to an outing or a painting day, let Deb know and she will post it to the website and the blog. OR, take a BAGSC website training session and get on the team to learn how to post it yourself!
Happy painting!
posted by Deb Shaw
The BAGSC meeting and workshop took place in Gilly’s beautiful studio; photo © Gayle Uyehara, 2017.
The April 2 BAGSC quarterly meeting was held at Gilly Shaeffer’s home and we appreciate her warm hospitality. The meeting served as a farewell to Melanie Campbell-Carter who has since moved to Tucson. She will be missed by all of us at BAGSC for her enthusiasm, outstanding art work, dedication to the organization and outreach to all she met. Cristina Baltayian made an imaginative “Happy Trails” cake complete with cactus trim to speed her on her way.
Cristina Batalyian created a delicious chocolate cake succulent garden as a bon voyage for Melanie. Photo by Olga Ryabtsova, © 2017.
The Educational portion of the meeting featured a mini class on Metalpoint techniques, led by Janice Sharp. The technique for preparing paper for metalpoint was demonstrated. Each participant was provided with a piece of prepared paper, “sandpaper” film, a thin piece of copper wire and a shell to draw. Everyone produced wonderful metalpoint shell drawings and had a great deal of fun investigating the potential of the technique.
Janice’s handout will be posted to the BAGSC website soon.
Janice demonstrated how to prepare the paper and showed sample metalpoint drawings before members got to work with the materials themselves. Photo by Olga Ryabtsova, © 2017.
BAGSC members hard at work on their shell drawings in metalpoint. Photo by Olga Ryabtsova, © 2017.
One of the metalpoint drawings created during the workshop. Photo by Olga Ryabtsova, © 2017.
by the BAGSC Board
In the beginning of April, Pat Mark, President of BAGSC since 2014, announced she was stepping down as president, citing personal reasons. At a Special Board meeting on April 2, 2017, Janice Sharp was appointed by the Board to fill the position of President, Beth Stone was appointed Treasurer, to replace Janice Sharp, and Ellie Tu was appointed Membership Chairperson to replace Melanie Campbell-Carter, who has moved to Tucson. Normally scheduled elections for the positions of President, Treasurer and Membership Chairperson are to be held in December.
In addition to these changes the following Board position are open:
Exhibition Chair: Responsibilities are primarily to coordinate exhibition events and post them on BAGSC.org along with Calls for Entries. Lessons of posting information to the web site will be provided. Each of the venues where BAGSC exhibits has a primary person who is the contact person for the venue. These people are Janice Sharp (Arboretum), Beth Stone (Descanso), Lesley Randall (San Diego Botanic Gardens), Diane Daly (Chapman), Tania Norris (Huntington), Gilly Schaeffer and Janice Sharp (20th Anniversary). Bonnie Born-Ash and Leslie Walker are also members of the Exhibition Committee and assist at all the venues.
Please contact Janice Sharp if you are interested in filling this position.
Blog Writer(s) at Large: We are always looking for BAGSC members who would like to be trained to write and post on the blog. Lessons will be provided.
Please contact Deborah Shaw if you are interested in filling this/these position(s).
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