Getting Ready for the Quick Draw

Every year our local South Mississippi Art Association participates in a Quick Draw for Charity, and it's coming up next weekend. I've enjoyed doing this for the last four years. I bring my sewing machine and fabric and threads to work among the others using brushes and paints and easels. But when my name appeared on the poster as one of the featured artists, I thought, "Oh, dear, how about a little pressure!"

It's lots of fun and quite well attended. Guests pay $35 to get in and enjoy heavy hors d'oeuvres while they circulate around the large building listening to a steel drum band and watching the artists work. We have one hour to create our piece and 15 minutes to finish or frame it. Then a live auction is conducted with proceeds going to the South Mississippi Children's Center. A frame with mat will take the place of borders and binding, so I just have to concentrate on making the center and popping it into a frame. I have a plan--will post a picture of the piece before it is auctioned.