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32 (Continued from page 31) levels, this course will appeal to those interested in non-traditional art, but the principles learned can also apply to representational work. Instruction is process oriented to guide you away from being attached to outcome, break through creative barriers, and move toward developing your own unique style of selfexpression. Exploration and experimentation are key, but drawing exercises to help train the eye are also incorporated to strengthen drawing skills. Class length: 3 hours Classes: 8 Fee: $113.68 Members, $128.68 Non-Members Tue Jan 9, 1 p.m. Code: 207578 Intermediate Pastels This pastel course is a continuation of the Beginning Pastels course. The course will focus on understanding value, colour connections, and various types of composition to enhance the mood or feeling that the student is attempting to convey in the piece. The student will have the choice to work from their own personal photo references or from still life set up in the classroom. There will be lots of individual attention to each student at his/her level. Class length: 2.5 hours Classes: 8 Fee: $126.80 Members, $141.80 Non-Members Thur Jan 11, 1:00 p.m. Code: 207275 Portrait Drawing and Painting This class is structured to develop and nurture the student's aesthetic vision concerning painting portraits. Students will learn basic structure and proportions of cranial and facial parts of a head and the first steps in the art of painting portrait. They will learn to incorporate light, shadow (tone) and colour to make portraits alive. Students will also paint their selfportraits. The self-portraits will employ subjective approach. Students will be encouraged to value not only resemblance but also an expressive content. The class is open to both methods: working from a model and photographs. Class length: 3 hours Classes: 8 Location: West End Community Centre Fee: $111.60 Members, $126.60 Non-Members Wed Jan 10, 1 p.m. Code: 207383 Watercolours This watercolours class is for all levels of painters. The instructor will work with participants on an individual basis or in small groups of similar interest or skill. Class length: 3 hours Classes: 8 Fee: $113.68 Members, $128.68 Non-Members Mon Jan 8, 9 a.m. Code: 205234 Class cancellation: Feb 19 Did you know that you can purchase your Guelph transit tickets and monthly passes at the Evergreen Seniors Community Centre? Tickets are also available at all City recreation centres and at ServiceGuelph at City Hall. White… Lacy Each a perfection Of some higher order… Floating to earth And settling One upon the other, Til the uniqueness of each Becomes joined As one great mound, And the single intricacies Are buried. SNOWFLAKES by Julie Jane Dowdle STARRY NIGHTS by Julie Jane Dowdle Little pin dots of light Dangling in space… Just hanging there… Suspended. Sparkling diamonds In the blackness Of the night sky… They glow. T S - F <strong>2018</strong> — V. 42, N. 6
A Thoroughly Confused Cat! by Ross Coulter Let me introduce myself. I am a feline of Tabby note with the typical tan and black striping. I sport a white under-belly and have white paws. My markings are somewhat remarkable in that they are predominately symmetrical with few exceptions. I am totally blank on my origins and how I arrived with my twin brother at the local animal shelter; after all, I was only 4 months old at the time. I don’t know how long we were there, caged as we were, until a human couple came by to look us over. I don’t know the source of the driving force; perhaps it was his aura, but I was immediately drawn to the man. My senses proved positive as he picked me up. I immediately felt warmth, strength and gentleness in his hands as he stroked my head and tummy while cuddling me. Of course I started purring, what kitten wouldn’t? Meanwhile the lady was paying attention to my brother of similar markings, who scurried back into the cage, and a two-year-old, black and white, huge fellow inmate. Seems to me she was smitten with his sweet, gentle temperament because she had a big smile on her face when she hefted him up. He snuggled into her arms and started purring like me. A volunteer at the shelter had christened me “Squiggy” but the man never used it as he murmured in my ear. He called me “Wee Boy” or “Cutie”, much nicer sounding names. On that fortunate day, I was adopted along with the lady’s choice of the twoyear-old black and white and commenced a life of which every other orphan cat would be envious. On arrival at our new home, we were given free rein to explore and settle in. My instinct suggested that as a male cat I should stake out my territory and my now fellow feline house mate, also male, probably thinking his superior age and size should designate him as the alpha, would do the same. But the fact that we had both been “fixed”, having had our “Tomness” removed, any competition between us was at a very low level except as it related to gaining the attention of our humans. Shortly after arriving in our new home, the man and lady started to play the name game. They debated about what they should name us. I had thought the man had already renamed me back at the shelter, “Wee Boy” or “Cutie” or both, but as it turned out they started to call me Casey. I could live with that until they named my roommate Clancy. There might be room for confusion. Such was not the case as my initial perception about my new master proved true. (Geez, I hate that reference when instinctively I know the opposite to be true.) He was warm, kind and gentle and, OH! Those hands! As time progressed, I would seek him out more and more to experience his gentle petting. It set me to drooling and I started showing my affection by licking his hands. He started calling me “Licker” and “Drooler”. I started following him around the house, letting him know with my little yip (I never meowed like a normal cat), that I wanted to be picked up. He started calling me his little dog. Whenever he goes out, I sit on the mat awaiting his return. When he walks through the door, I weave between his legs while he tries to take off his shoes. That’s when he calls me “Pest”. Sometimes I just sit in front of him while he reads, staring at him, thinking he will guess what I want. He tries to stare me down but I always win and he calls me “Brat”. On other occasions, if I really natter with my yips to get his attention, he will call me “Monkey”. If he really wants to get my attention, he will call me Casey, but I am so used to being called Wee Boy, Cutie, Monkey, little dog, Pest, Brat, Licker, Drooler, or any other term of endearment, I don’t respond. Dog probably would have been a more appropriate name because I consistently follow him around the house and I do lie at his feet in the morning while he reads the newspaper. While I am a bit confused as to my real name, anything he calls me normally gets my attention. Sometimes he tries to ignore me, but I can be very persistent and bug him until he defers to my demands, which he does most often by picking me up for a cuddle and gentle stroking from his strong, warm and gentle hands. I’m surprised that he hasn’t started calling me his “Little B----r”! Now that would be offensive and I would probably ignore him altogether, but he is the hand that feeds and I do rely on him for sustenance. No! I think, as in the 12 or so years we have been together, I have gained mastery over him, I will continue allowing him to call me by whatever name he wishes. 33 T S - F <strong>2018</strong>
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