The wonderful national conference will be held in Bar Harbor, Maine.  Check out their website for more information. 

For those of you who like peaking into puddles, exploring under rocks, and don't mind getting your feet wet, I am arranging a field trip to a local beach for tide pooling. 

The Seattle Aquarium sends out Beach Naturalists to various local beaches during low tide.  They are available to answer any questions and facilitate safe discovery of all the neat creatures made accessible during low tide. 

Let me know if you are going to participate by completing this form. 

Details

• Open to all!
• Location: Seahurst Beach.  Meet at the northshore trail head.  See map of the park here.  The aquarium has posted directions here. 
  
• Date:  June 22nd
  
• Time: 10-12 (Naturalists will be there until 1:30)
  
• What to Bring:  Sketch book, camera, sunscreen, excitement. 
  

Want to learn more about using digital media?  GNSI Oregon is holding a workshop covering adobe photoshop, illustrator, and more. 

Presenter
Margaret Davidson

Note!  This will be Margarets last workshop with GNSI NW.  Make it memorable. 

Topic
Drawing draped fabric will be the topic.  We thought it would translate well to drawing flower petals and other botanical images.

Registration Form can be found here.

Timeline

• Open to GNSI NW Members:  Now
  
• Open to Non-GNSI NW Members:  July 8th
  
• Closes:  Monday July 22nd
  
• Workshop:  July 27th  

Details

• Date: July 27th
  
• Time: Member Meeting 12:00-12:30, Workshop 12:30-5:30 (I will arrive at 11:45)
  
• Location: Greenlake Library  
  
• Enrollment limited to 16 because of table space.
  
• Supplies to Bring:  People need to plan to work with something dry and clean, such as graphite pencil or colored pencils. People should expect to make a drawing that fits onto a 9x12 sheet, or maybe an 11x14 one.  
  
• Cost to non-members:  $10
  
• Members meeting and lunch: 12:00-12:30.  Feel free to bring a lunch.  
  

• Snacks: Some small snacks will be provided.  

Artist Bio

Margaret Davidson has a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from the University of Washington. She is both an artist and illustrator, and also teaches courses in Beginning Drawing, Sources of Modernism in Drawing, Aesthetics of Drawing, and various drawing technique classes at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, Washington.

In scientific illustration Davidson concentrated on archaeological and anthropological subject matter, drawing lithics, pottery, and especially basketry and textiles. To this end she has illustrated various books and journal articles, such as Spruce Root Basketry of the Haida and Tlingit by Sharon Busby (2003 Marquand Books and the University of Washington Press) and The Archaeology of the Yakutat Foreland: a Socioecological View, Volumes I and II, by Stanley Drew Davis (1996).

She is the author of Contemporary Drawing: Key Concepts and Techniques, published in 2011 by Watson-Guptill, a division of Random House, New York.

Her focus in her own drawings is in the subtle and reciprocal relationship between the mark and the surface, along with various related dichotomies such as figure and ground, form and space, and illusion and reality.

She is represented by Anchor Art Space in Anacortes, Washington, and Sisko Gallery in Seattle.