We were just supposed to be getting together for some yummy Thai food, but then...
Last weekend, I had dinner plans with 3 other artists. We get together fairly often to enjoy each others company and to yack about life and art. Three of us are colored pencil artists - myself, Anne deMille Flood (who wrote Realistic Pet Portraits in Colored Pencil) and Denise MacDonald. The fourth member, Francis Buckmaster, is an artist of all mediums. Frances emailed us all a few days prior to our get together, asking if we'd meet 2 hours early for a little adventure. She was quite mysterious about it, which upped the interest level considerably!
Manila is under water. Flooding from monsoons have left nearly 300, 000 homeless, with a death toll of 500 and climbing. It's pretty bad...But what does that have to do with you?
For the past two years, CP Magazine has been expertly and beautifully designed each month by Garry Dimapilis...who happens to live in Manila.As dry media artists, we all know how important our choice of paper surface is - toothier papers will grab more color, but really eat up your pencils. Smoother papers tend to make a very even coverage harder to achieve, since every little stroke shows up.
But did you also know about the huge, huge difference printer paper can make when printing out a reference photo, or when printing one of our Digital Download Kits?
Just a quick note...if you live anywhere near the Seattle, Washington area, don't miss the opening of the Seattle CPSA Show on September 7th!
A subscriber recently sent me an image of her "finished" piece. A day later, she sent me another image of the same artwork, saying she'd worked on it a little, and now it was really finished. Today, I got version three of her "finished" piece! 
I spent Saturday morning judging the Drawing category of the Fine Art Exhibition of the Washington State Fair. I learned that our state fair is the 7th largest in the nation! 1.2 million attend, and about a quarter of a million see the Art Exhibition. Wow. That's a pretty big deal.