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Noth Shore Artists'Guild November2006 Page North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2P4 (604) 987-5249 All Members are reminded to wear your name tag and return it to the box, in the appropriate slot, at the end of each meeting. Tags are filed alphabetically by last name. Many members are misfiing or taking tags home and therefore requiring third and forth tags being made. Please save time and line-ups at the Membership Desk by filing your tag in the correct slot so you can find it next time. `Treasurer RicliariSummers 604-926-5225 rgsummers@shaw.ca At the end of September available funds in our current account amounted to $2132. This figure takes into account the cost of renting Klee Wyck for workshops up to and including 6 Dec 06. (West Vancouver District requires payment in full, two weeks ahead of scheduled use, for which we have issued post-dated cheques). Our first workshop for this year was given by Rick McDiarmid who is well known and thus commands a higher fee than most of our regular instructors. To cover this higher cost we established a fee of $75 per participant based on the available space for 20 participants and 80% occupancy (16 people), however the number of participants was only 10 resulting in a net loss of $522. We can't continue to run losses like this so let's have a better turnout for future workshops. During past exhibitions we think that we have lost sales because we were unable to accept credit card payments, so we are presently looking into the cost of being able to accept VISA credit cards as a means of payment. Preliminary inquiries indicate that the cost is reasonable. The budgeted amount is $350 /year with contingency and there is a one time fee of $150. This capability could then be used for membership fees, workshop fees, at our exhibitions and so forth. The goal would be to offset these costs with more revenue from the sales of some paintings that we feel we are losing today and through the increase of our commission on sales from 10 to 15% as discussed at the last meeting. cPu6(icity cF(orence)l((ardice 604-925-3039 frogsnest@telus.net Gordon Davis, Jane Armstrong and Florence Allardice have paintings in "The Artists' Salon" show at the Ferry Building. Elizabeth Hipson and Joan Chard will be having a shared exhibition at the Silk Purse Nov. 21 an opening reception Tue., Nov. 21 from 6-8 PM. The show is called "A Brush with Nature". Florence Allardice paints under her maiden name F. E. DiFlorio-Allardice. She has a solo show "As It Was and How I See It Now" at Ron Andrews Rec. Centre Gallery from Nov. 26 Dec. 17. - Dec. 3 with /I' ` Nancy Dean has a solo show at Brewster's Café, 2436 Marine Drive, WV. Through the month of October Lucy Collings and Barbara Ohi will be showing at Gary Eder's Lynnmour Art Gallery for the month of November. All members are invited to the Reception which will be held Saturday evening Nov 4th from 7:00-10:00. The address is 301-1467 Crown St., North Vancouver. SeiThig.-- not sitting! su6mittei6y Cathy cR9ddie It is easier to sell other people's work than your own because you can rave about something you have not done yourself. Enthusiasm is infectious and most people want to think they make good choices or that their opinion is best, so when they have selected a painting they like, they love having someone else agree with them. Sitting on duty at a show is not so much a time to chat with a friend, as an opportunity to talk to many people. Treat it like entertaining at home, greet everyone with a smile, it is easier to engage in conversation with them later. Buying a painting is not a necessity, it is a wish list item, and you can help fulfill that wish. Approach someone who is looking for an extended time at a painting and stop behind them. You can then say something like "Isn't it great!' or "I really like this one too'. It doesn't matter if you actually like the painting yourself, the idea is to get them to start talking about how they feel about it. It somehow clarifies your thoughts when you speak out loud or write something down. Once it is taken from a thought to a word, it solidifies something, and it also lets you know what it is you are feeling. Each painting is different