Rick Glawson, it continues on with many of the old hands, and some new ones to carry on the craft,
hosted by Dean Ross out in Bakersfield, California. It was the 29th annual meeting! ...Which means
next year will be the big Three-O! This year we did a very nice piece derived from an old orange crate
label, titled, "Cal-Oro" vectored by Glenn Duncan, and skillfully screen printed by one Mr. John Studden
and his team. Hopefully some of the finished Cal-Oro pieces will be posted here. A couple of secondary
projects also showed up, one being a pre-printed turn-of-the-century lithograph of a fancy popcorn
wagon, and this one designed by myself and ready for the participants to work on, if they chose.
I kept this one really simple, employing a black screen print, then gilding the background in Moon
gold, with the seldom used, but not forgotten, "beer size" trick, which is the same as water gilding,
but yields a matte finish to the gold. I also did a second one that I'm going to make a little fancier.
I also did the popcorn wagon, which I finished while I was there. It was really fun, kind of a
"paint-by-numbers" without any numbers! Everyone had a great time!
Thanks Dean, Glenn, Mr. Dickinson. and all that participated!
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