Janice Shigehara - Lavender Teabag Sachet
1.5” x 5”
Nikko G nib, Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bleedproof White applied to teabag, colored with watercolor.
A unique feature of writing on teabags is that a delicate hand is needed, as there are tiny perforations in the teabag designed so water can flow through, which can easily catch the nib especially if a heavy hand is used.

Janice Shigehara - A Singing Bird
5” x 5”
Clothesline lettering on Arches Textwove using a fine black micron pen.  Color outside the letters made with Prismacolor colored pencils.
The collage was done over a watercolor wash on watercolor paper.  Used hearts cut out of tissue paper, rubber stamps for the music and tree, and a postage stamp for the bird.

Janice Shigehara - Gratitude 
5” x 5”
At the center is an embossed gold stamp of my family crest on Arches textwove.  Surrounding that is barbed wire drawn with a Micron .01 black pen. I mounted this on gold cardstock then used clothesline lettering on Arches textwove with Micron .03 pen and gold Prismacolor pencil for color outside the letters.
The inspiration for this piece was the stamping of the book containing the names of the 125,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans who were held against their will in the U.S., during 3 years of WWII, in what the government called internment camps. So our family had a reunion at the Japanese American National Museum where we stamped the book, next to our relatives names. It was a moving experience and brought up deep feelings of gratitude for what they endured, some even fighting in the armed services while their parents were confined in the camps, to prove they were loyal Americans.

Heidi Stolp - Yo-Yo Ma Quote
4.5” x 7"
Micron pen drawn lettering with watercolor letter crossings and metallic watercolor background

Heidi Stolp - Let Us Arrive
6” x 10”
watercolors, colored pencil and graphite 

Yuki Tanaka - Wild Flower
10” x 8”
Black ink, Vintage nib, 90lb HP watercolor paper, and watercolor

Sandy Van Valin - Teamwork
8.5” x 8"
Mitchell 3, Narrow Foundational, Payne's Gray watercolor & colored pencils

Sandy Van Valin - Work
8.5” x 8"
Pigma Pen, Akim, Inside Curve drawn letters, colored pencils

Marsha Vanetsky - Rocks Galore
individual sizes of rocks - largest is 7" smallest is 3".
gesso and acrylic paint on rocks

Marilyn Rice, Jennie Bannister, Susan Gunter and Cindy FitzGerald - Collaboration #1
The top left corner by Marilyn Rice, top right by Cindy FitzGerald, bottom left by Susan Gunter and bottom right by Jennie Bannister.
each 5" x 7"
We wanted to work on collage techniques (we were all new to this idea) and chose a photo to work off and then each worked separately on a quadrant.
We used mulberry paper, watercolors, colored pencil. We colored or painted on newspaper or other decorative paper to get the colors we wanted. A glue stick or white glue was used as the adhesive.

Marilyn Rice, Jennie Bannister, Susan Gunter and Cindy FitzGerald - Collaboration #2 - Seasonal Twinchies
14” x 33”
Each "Twinchie" is two inches square. The four of us worked on the Twinchies separately, using different media (ink, paint, stamps, photos).
We met together for the final glue event.

Cindy FitzGerald - Autumn Twinchies	Susan Gunter - Tree Twinchie

Each "Twinchie" is two inches square.

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