Hello Peoples!

Good news! With the holidays over, everyone can get back to their normal schedules and the wife and kids and my mom will be back on the show regularly.  Bad news is that with the holidays over everyone has to go back to their normal schedules with no real time off until , what, May? Oh well, there’s always vacation and sick leave, right?  Here’s hoping anyway.

This weekend was spent moving my mom’s shop all the way across town and getting TONS of behind the scenes crap done on the website.  Payday is still 6 days away so the budget’s a bit thin yet to purchase any new building materials.  Even better than that is our roof on our house is now leaking if there’s so much as a fog.  My new Sunday morning hobby will be replacing the roof one 4 x 8 panel at a time.  o.O

This time of year we are ALL severely limited on fundage so we may be building with used pallets.  If you would like to help with that, you can go to artisticbiker.com and look for the DONATE button on the right side column and donate what you can.  If you can’t do that, please share this newsletter with everyone you know to help get the word out.  That helps more than you know.  Or better yet, Click Here to Join! artisticbiker.com/membership and help promote the arts in rural Oklahoma.

If you have any announcements you would like made in the newsletter or tweeted about incessantly, drop me a line and I’ll toot your horn for ya.  ;)  There were no announcements this week.

This week’s password: freshness

The Classroom site is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oasisgalleryok

Drawing Class: Daily Practice or Pick Something And Just Freakin’ Draw It – Tuesday night 6pm central.  This week, we’ll go over what you should be getting out of your practice drawing and sources for subject matter.  Answers to the age old question, “But what should I draw?”

Painting Class: Painting class is on hold until the wife and I can come up with a solid lesson plan I can be proud of.  Look for it to return sometime in February.

The past classes are moving into the Pay-per-view side of ustream and on artisticbiker.com as well. $2 lets you view them online at Ustream, $5 lets you download them at artisticbiker.com, and a $10/month membership gets you unlimited downloads from the site.

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See you

Last week’s tip of using ammonia to reclaim acrylic brushes that had been left with paint to dry got several comments back that Murphy’s Oil Soap works very well.  I have not tried that, but I appreciate the feedback!

This week’s tip comes from Jerry’s Artarama: When you want to make thin, straight lines in your work, use a pizza cutter.  That sounds fascinatingly simple to me so I’ll have to give it a shot.  Do you have a tip for making thin straight lines?  Let me know and I’ll share it with everyone else.