March meeting

Our March meeting will be held Sunday, March 3, from 12:30 - 3:00 pm at the Darien Municipal Center. Special guest speaker is Dorothea Bilder, Professor Emeritus of Art at Northern Illinois University. Dorothea's presentation "Many Facets-One Spirit" will include showing her work and speaking about composition and design principles. A $5 studio fee will apply.

To see some of Dorothea and her work visit these links:
www.niu.edu/art/faculty/bilder2/bilder_res.html
www.dekalbgallery.com/gallery/dorothea-bilder/

Photo's from Februray's Meeting

 Mary show us her wonderful abilities with the inside of Envelopes.

 Pat is sharing with us the difference with under paintings.

 Ann and her lovely Paste Paint papers.

 Sylvia is showing the society a wonderful little book that could hold your favorite recipes

 June is sharing with the society her type plate draws and how she fills them with wonderful keepsake items.

 Marge is sharing her techniques with Calligraphy.

 Gesture writing which is the in thing now to add to art journals and collage works. 

and lastly the Neuland Alphabet.

Looks as though the whole day was well worth it. Many things to combine with collage works.

February 3rd meeting

1. FEBRUARY MEETING
Our February all-day meeting will be Sunday, February 3, from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm at the Darien Municipal Center, 1710 Plainfield Road, Darien. Instead of a typical workday, this meeting will be more of a techniques buffet! Listed below are the scheduled technique demos and presenters, along with any supplies you should bring to try those techniques yourself. Be prepared to take notes, and bring along a lunch and beverage. You may also bring treats to share as well as art materials for our swap table. A $5 studio fee will apply.


10:00 am - Security Envelopes and How to Glue Them Down - Mary Yezek
Bring: scissors, pencil, water soluable glue (like PVA or Elmer's), a substrate (140 lb. watercolor paper recommended), and a high-contrast photo (magazine photos are fine).


10:45 am - Underpaintings: The Shocking Truth Now Revealed! - Pat Pope


11:30 am - Paint Pastes: More Fun! - Ann Hupke
Bring: Arches Text paper (or another text weight paper), plastic sheet or tablecloth, paint combs and stamping blocks.


12:45 pm - A Simple Book Cover for a Little Book - Sylvia Koch
Bring: pencil, scossors, ruler, bone folder, cutting mat, needle, thread, glue, mat knife. Sylvia will bring board for the covers and paper for covers and signatures.


1:45 pm - Assemblage Techniques for Memory Boxes in Printer Trays - June Fuerstenhaefer


2:30 pm - Calligraphy - Marge Boyd


And if one of the presenters is unable to attend at the last minute, Carol Frueh will demo A Simple Chalk Technique.

ACS in Atlanta

check out there website


 

MCS Members News Featured

Artist Cynthia J. Lee
Shares here Good news! 

MY art is featured in the February, 2013 issue of
Visual Language: Contemporary Fine Art, an online art magazine.
I was invited to submit art related to water, the theme of this issue.
All of these abstract paintings were done in oil mixed with cold wax
and other media. The titles of the images (from left to right and top
to bottom) are:

"Water Dance"
"High Desert"
"Summer Memory"
"Round Pond, Cape Cod"

You can find the entire issue at: http://visuallanguagemagazine.com
(My art is on pages 64-65.)



Artist and MCS members
Eve Ozer and Laura Lein-Svencner will be featured in a new mixed media book "Incite, Dreams Realized" through North Light Book publishing company this Septemeber 2013. What for listing shortly.

 

MCS member Exhibit Jan 13th-March 7th 2013

Jan 6th Meeting

Meeting starts at 12:30 pm 

Chinese Paper Cutting  Art  and the  Artist Lucy (Ping Liu)

  Chinese Paper Cuts also called Scissor-cuts (jian zhi), it is a type of traditional folk artwork with rich local flavor popularized by numerous people. Chinese Paper cutting started during the period of the Han Dynasty, about 1800 years ago, after paper was invented in China. Starting from 14th century this art was spread to the other parts of the world. Artists developed the paper cutting art while merging with the local culture.

In the ancient times, the art pieces were made to decorate home windows and doors for a happy Chinese New Year & for a good new future.  One of the most popular paper cutting schemes is the 12 Chinese Zodiac, is a scheme that relates each year to an animal and its reputed attributes.

 In modern China, the hand cut paper art is also used as one of the valuable gifts for the important events. Chinese governors always choose Chinese hand cut paper art work as one of the gifts when they visit the other countries. It symbolizes great perspective wishes and good future. Each of the individual cutting pieces is created over several hours of very intricate hand cutting with scissors from a single sheet of paper. All parts of the design interconnect. Due to the handcrafted nature of this art, each piece may have subtle differences. No two pieces are exactly the same. These are "One of a Kind" Unique Artwork, NOT "mass produced" or cut by modern laser techniques.  Original Paper Artwork Pieces Have Been Known to Considerably Appreciate in Value Over time. People also frame them and hang them on the home or office walls. Smaller pieces are always put on the tables, desks or book shelves as beautiful decorating pictures.

About the artist:

Lucy (Ping Liu) is a Chinese Paper cutting artist. She started learning this art when she was 6 years old. She has been creating and designing this art work for many years. She is also a paper cutting art teacher.  Her art work has been exhibited in many galleries and libraries in the United States, and has received critically acclaimed reviews & her very intricate style of cutting is highly recognized. She is also a member of Chinese Fine Art Society in the United States. Her greatest motivation is that she has been very blessed in doing what she loves and loving what she does. She has many dedicate paper cutting artworks. She will demonstrate and cut a very vivid Chinese Dragon in less than 20 minutes, which even to an artist, painting or drawing this dragon within this short time is a big challenge. She also will teach us to cut a snake for the year of snake for Chinese New Year 2013 celebration!

You can see her work on exhibit at the Woodridge Public Library throughout the month of January.