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		<title>Bunco Babes make Gift Wallets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, July in Bellingham, Washington. It was warm and sunny, a perfect evening for Bunco. The Babes gathered on Jodi&#8217;s deck before the game to make gift wallets out of half-gallon beverage cartons. The gift wallets entail a few simple steps and result in colorful and interesting gifts, just perfect for holding hundred dollar bills, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odd Juxtipositions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One way to introduce creativity into your work is to combine objects that don&#8217;t normally occur together&#8230;or at least, not in the scale you choose to draw them.
&#8220;Puppyseed Muffins&#8221; came to me while I was working in the hospitality area on an AKC canine agility trial.  I was in charge of putting food around on tables, tidying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bunco Babes make Piano Hinge Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie</dc:creator>
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The Bunco Babes&#8217; April meeting was at my house.  We started the evening with wine and crafts, this time making  simple piano hinge books.  I wanted to demonstrate to myself that I could get twelve adults each  to construct a handmade book within an hour, using  craft punches to create decorate edges for the pages.  Essentially, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read, Draw, Read, Draw, Read, Draw</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took a two week-long residential drawing class at the Penland School of Crafts some years ago, where the teacher introduced us to the following exercise:   grab a book, any book, at random.  (This works best if the book is on a subject you know nothing about and if it&#8217;s non-fiction).  Set a timer for two minutes.  Open the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Draw the Same Thing Over and Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An artist named Pat Bowers taught me this when I lived in Oriental, North Carolina.  The idea here is to force yourself out of your own self-imposed ways of thinking by commiting yourself to drawing the same object one hundred times but varying the way you draw it every time.  For awhile, it&#8217;s easy.  It gets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change the Grid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Distortion Grid
Start with an image you want to work on. It can be something you created yourself or it can be someone else’s work. (Don’t worry about the moral ambiguity of copying here; by the time you’re finished, you will have created your own original piece.) Pencil a grid on top of the image. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing Class Day Seven</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We met on Thursday January 28th at my house.  The topic for today was proportions of the human face, viewed from the front, in profile, and in three-quarter orientation.
We measured the distance between our eyes and chin, between our eyes and the top of the head.  We measured the distance from the inside corner of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing Class Day Six</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s lesson was on value, contrast, light and shadow.  We started out discussing the types of light and shadow that an artist might encounter in trying to represent an object naturalistically.  We distinguished between cast shadows, the darkest kind of shadow in a drawing, and crest shadows, which occur on the side of an object [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bunco Babes make Valentines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We gathered together at my house this month for the neighborhood Bunco Party/ Wine Splash.  Before we got down to rolling the dice, we tried our hand at reproducing antique valentines,  charming and intricately folded affairs, for which Martha Stewart (who else?) provided the instruction.  (Go to Marthastewart.com and click on the crafts tab, then look through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing Class Day Five</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adult Drawing Classes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s lesson was on perspective and proportion, difficult topics to teach and to learn.
We started the class  standing near the doors to our deck,  looking at Mount Baker in the distance.   With one eye closed and our pencils held in front of us with our elbows locked, we took measurements of the height of the [...]]]></description>
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