Sorry to have taken my bloody time in writing about the next meeting!
I'm a lazy slugabed, wastrel and ne'er-do-well, and shall never grow
up to account for anything. Well, I'll simply never grow up, and I'll
leave it there.
We did have a good meeting at Richard's (he said, lapsing into third
person), with four of us eight in attendance... not even a quorum.
Those who were unable to attend should remember that you're much more
likely to be gossiped about when you don't attend! At least when you
attend a meeting and are gossiped about, you can often try to deny
the rumors as they fly (tho, frankly, that rarely ends up helping).
A notice that the Somerville Open Studios will be held on May 5-6.
Bring your friends and wander the streets of Somerville, looking for
that elusive prey, the Artist. Bring binoculars and cameras, you
should be able to spot a few feeding or nesting.
The next SANE meeting/gossip opportunity is:
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 7ish at Pam A's abode ?? * ??
* (Pam A had indicated that her house would be available on any May
Tuesday, so I'll make this leap of faith that she can host, and will
send another message confirming location closer to the 8th. Another
factor that might weigh in on location is whether this process causes
too much of a mess - so close to Open Studios, Ms. Molly's studio may
not be an option.)
Project: Ink-Jet Print Transfers
We ran through another list of possible projects for meetings, and
for the sake of possible inspiration, they were:
1) Polymer sculpter (Sculpey, FIMO, etc.). Would need a place with
good ventilation, so warmer weather would be adviseable. Tho today
hit 86, fer crissakes. But May could still be arctic.
2) Bingo - everybody bring a prize
3) Scrabble (everybody bring a tile?)
4) Another writing project
5) A round-robin poem.
6) Polaroid transfers
And the winner is... (drum roll, please).....
7) Ink-Jet Print Transfers. Ms. Betsey has some mystical equipment
that will convert ink-jet printer output (color or b&w?) onto wet
watercolorish paper (I think). The object for us is to
find/shoot/create something and print it out on an ink-jet printer on
non-archival paper (glossy works well, if you got it). The point is
to get a high-def image onto a textured paper surface that is
generally not compatible with printers.
I'm guessing all of this, really. Betsey may (again) wade in with
some instructions that are more definitive. Help me, Betsey-wan!
I also imagine you can only get one transfer out of a print (that the
act of transfer trashes the original). So if you feel the need to
make more transfers, bring more prints.
If you don't have access to an ink-jet printer, Betsey will bring one
that can read a variety of camera memory cards, so if you have a
digital photo and can bring the memory card on which it resides, the
printer will likely be able to print from the memory card. Note that
this doesn't restrict you to photos! If you create a work of art on
the computer, or can scan a hand-created masterpiece, you can save
them as .jpg files and copy them to a memory card... OR e-mail them
to Betsey ahead of time, and she'll print 'em out for you, or e-mail
them to me and I'll copy 'em to a memory card and bring it, etc.
As a confirmed Luddite, I will likely bring a cave drawing -- a slab
of sandstone upon which I have scraped charcoal images of a hunt,
with stick-figure humans in sweatsuits, waving slide rules, chasing a
pod of gas-powered vehicles off a cliff to their certain (but
off-rock) doom. I hope to be able to transfer this image to a leather
pelt.
More later. Or, as it is already late, more earlier.
Maurg the Cave Painter
