The membership voted to retain the gift exchange for our Chinese New Year’s Celebration.  If you want to participate, bring an art-related gift that is wrapped, and costs no more than $20.  Watch your e mails for further information.

Jan Blank gave a program on oil paintings at the November meeting.  She passed out a packet of papers that were meant to encourage people in their art endeavors and a “gripper” to help open stuck paint tubes and jars.  She did some demonstrating of one way to begin an oil painting (there are many ways) and showed some of her own artwork to demonstrate her talk.  Her workshop was filled with practical tips and interesting “tricks” that could facilitate oil painting.  Feedback was good in that members felt they could use the information.