ACK another busy non-drawing Wednesday approaches

This Wednesday is the Wedge Community Co-op annual member meeting, that is where I will be. I think quite a few of us will be there. Should we meet Thursday? OR just busy ourselves with nesting and independent drawing and have a grrrrreat meeting next week?

let me know please.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 17th NOTES

(by katrina)

It was a nice rainy Thursday evening. We met at Molly's beautiful house (with heated floors!!!). There was no drawing, but there was pizza and book browsing (and for me, the fun of watching a friend's family interact). 

in attendance ... Molly and me AND Molly's sister Sarah and their parents.

Books we looked at...

The Book of 100 Hands
Drawing the Female Form
Drawing 50 Vehicles (I'll find a link for this later)
The Mountain that Loved a Bird by Alice McLerran (thank you Sarah!)
Aesop's Fables card set (I will try to find online images/information for them)
Molly's big printing book (I want to look through it and I don't remember it's name)

THIS WEEK

(by katrina)

Can we meet on Thursday instead of Wednesday? Does that work for people who want to hang out?
(we would meet at someones (molly) house and have snacks and draw and look at books.

I was poking through this website today... http://imagespublicdomain.wordpress.com/category/library-of-congress/
Maybe you will like it too?

NOW, Lets work on more mini zines.

If you want to be in charge of making one, post it on here (email me your gmail address and I will add you as an author!) and figure out what you need and when you need it by. 

What is it called?
What is it about?
What are you looking for in submissions? 
When you plan to have it ready? (is it for an event?)
When you need contributions by?
Do you want/need cash help for production?

Also, what is the...
size
image orientation (landscape or portrait)
edge margin
wanted contribution pages per person (minimum and maximum)

Will it be black and white?

I am making one about 'monday' type moments. I will post soon my list of details so that you can contribute.

Text, fb or email me (katrina4ever AT g m a i l DOT com) about meetings, if you have questions, etc...

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 9th NOTES

(by katrina)

This week was a small small meeting. Only Sarah and me.
We met at the Nicollet and were able to lounge in the sqishy armchairs around a small coffee table.

No drawing happened except for I drew a sad mouth and Sarah drew a sad sad face.

Books that were present and looked at...

• Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake
• Drawing From Life, The Journal As Art by Jennifer New
• Acme Novelty Date Book - volume one and two by Chris Ware
• Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick - a Book of Postcards by Cristy C Road
• Celtic Design - A Beginners Manual by Aidan Meehan
• One! Hundred! Demons! by Linda Barry
• Scrapbook - Uncollected Work 1990-2004 by Adrian Tomine

Other notable topics of conversation were house plants, Bright Eyes and that I admitted to owning the record box set, Amelia Bedelia and other childhood favorite books, decorative tittles - love or hate and changing opinions over time, the variety of bean in my cup of soup that was not fully cooked, Sarah said to make sure to chew those ones really well, I ended up picking them out. Also Sarah had coffee that was hot and tasted strong. We had prime people watching views of the intersection from our seats and learned that skateboards are really loud.

I am having a show at Modern Times in November. If you, doodle club member, would like to contribute to the show, let me know!!! So far confirmed I have Molly and Sarah. Hopefully Shawna too? I am making a thing to display zines, they will be on hooks to take down and read.

I think we should set up an etsy page to sell the zines also; maybe some crafts too. I'll get on that later this week!

LAST MINUTE CHANGE

(by katrina)

Instead of at that* house, lets meet at the Nicollet at 730/8

cool? cool.

*I think we will be meeting there later this month though

and, boo, wednesdays look bad for the rest of the month, what are Mondays or Tuesdays like for folks?

we did not meet this last week and other club business

(by katrina)

Two people couldn't make it, I had an awful headache, the storm was coming in, blah blah blah. We did not meet. But next week we will. At someones house. If you are interested in joining us, contact me for details.

Lets all work on our jokes and childhood obsessions. Emily and Sarah, please post sizes and deadlines.  

Lets get some more zines done, then I will send a package to Quimby's in Chicago. I would also like to get some out to Moon Palace Books and Boneshaker Books. Boneshaker will be having a zine event in a month or so. Jenny and I went to the last one. It was nice. All the zines brought were set on tables around a room with people milling about trading zines and browsing. Where else could we put our zines? I Like You? Big Brain Comics? 

I would like to make patches with the 'logo' of the club. 

On another note...



For each future doodle club meetings I would like to make a post containing:

• who was there
• what books we brought to share (linked to information on them)
• any links to pages we discussed or looked at that are worth sharing
• draw battle/collaboration documentation
• any interesting things we think you should know, like upcoming shows and events...
• etc...

AND lets start linking up our own blogs and things we love as gadgets on the side bar. Everyone draw a 2"x2" picture of themselves and that will be your link list image. We can also use that to identify who writes posts or whatever.

GOING FORWARD...

(posted by Katrina)

Thank you everyone who came out for Zine Fest. It was a really great time. There were so many great people tabling their zines and posters and other neat things. There were so many great people just there to check it out.  Thank you Minneapolis.

Last week was Jenny's last doodle club get together, this week was Emily's. Oh ladies. I am going to miss you so much. We will work together using technology and the USPS. You will form auxiliary chapters and hopefully we will all meet our drawing/book sharing/girl talk/nerdy craft talk needs.

This week was our last meeting at Anodyne. 

Next week will be at someone's house. If you don't know who that someone is, message/call/talk to me (or whoever you know about doodle club from) for details.

After next week we may rotate between coffee shops and houses. It will be getting cooler soon and so knitting and crafting will be in the air too. I wonder if maybe it would be a good idea to have every other week be drawing, and then the next knitting/crafting?  Most of us do both so we would still get our weekly girl time in, I have some other friends who don't draw but we like to knit together regularly in the cooler months. It would be fun. On the crafting weeks we could take turns leading some sort of tutorial or informational talk and help with something specific (like gel medium transfers, book making, mitten gussets, crochet, blah blah blah).