North Texas SAQA Meeting

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” 
― Émile Zola

     Last Saturday the North Texas SAQA Circle met in Grapevine at the Must Love Fabric shop.  We had ten members there and had a very interesting meeting. The month before we had brainstormed ideas of things we could do at our monthly meetings.  We came up with several ideas:  techniques to demonstrate, how we each work and where our ideas come from etc.  This week we all brought our sketchbooks/journals to share how we used them as a tool for our creativity.  It was really interesting to see how varied and yet how similar our sketchbooks were.  Some use theirs very frequently to get ideas started; others more casually and less often.  I, myself, am a kind of off and on...but I do enjoy journaling when I do it!

     Then we had our usual showing of what we had been working on which is always a favorite!  Always inspiring!

Deborah brought an abstract square she is working on and explained
how she worked with it and plans to continue 

Deborah had taken a class from Cindy Lohbeck

Another example of Deborah's dyeing

Jen is working on some small art after taking a bit of a sabbatical..
Glad to have her back in the swing of things!

Another small art by Jen

Jackie showed a stunning work of art. Be sure to enlarge this so
you can appreciate her hand stitched circles. 

Jackie had also taken a recent class from Sue Benner.
Taking a photograph and interpreting it into a fabric work of art.

Andrea has also been bitten by the ice dyeing bug and
had several beautiful pieces to show us.

Diane, a new member, had several small pieces to show us.
I think she will fit in quite well!!

Another work by Diane

And another.

Jaye showed her Century Plant which is finally finished!
You might be able to enlarge this to see the billions of French knots
which make up the  blossoms.

          Our last bit of business for the meeting was to discuss what we are doing at our February meeting.  We are going to be meeting at the same location and decorate our share of the tote bags that each Texas Circle is doing for the SAQA Conference hand outs. The conference is being held in San Antonio this year in April. Each of us is to bring paint, stamps, inks, brushes, stencils, whatever can be used to decorate the bags.  It will be a fun meeting!