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art appreciation weekend
wheaton, IL
december 9, 2006
it's all about the art
 Our
Dewback Patrol stopped at
Blick Art Materials
in Wheaton, IL, this weekend for Art Appreciation Weekend. Seeing as
there were two Star Wars artists on hand there couldn't be a better
reason to take a little time for some of the finer things in life. Both
Dave Dorman and
Cynthia
Cummens have made some pretty significant contributions to the Star
Wars universe and S.C.A.L.P. Intel revealed that a pretty special event
was going to happen at this event. Therefore, Sandtroopers.com wanted to
have a camera in place. The work of Dave Dorman is very amazing and if
you haven't I would encourage all of you to stop by and check out his
Star Wars page.
 Several
people trekked out in the cold Chicago weather to meet both Dave Dorman
and Cynthia Cummens, and luckily the General Manager of the store (Kevin
Sandstrom) supplied all of the customers and guests with free hot coffee
and snacks. Cynthia was approached by a few young artists who wanted to
share their own artwork with her, and I can honestly say that these
pieces were truly works of art. I'm sure that these individuals would
someday become artists themselves.
 The
biggest moment of the day involved Dave Dorman being inducted as an
honorary member to not only the
Midwest
Garrison, but also to the
501st Legion. Dave
had no idea that we were going to do this for him, so when Jim Tampa
made the announcement to everyone there, you could just see it in Dave's
eyes how much this moment meant to him. Once the plaque was given to
Dave, the entire room cheered and clapped for him. I felt honored to
have been able to be there to experience that moment with him and other
members from the Midwest Garrison.
 After
the induction ceremony, Dave began drawing what would soon become
another incredible work of Star Wars art. In what only took him about an
hour to complete, he had finished creating a sandtrooper on a dewback.
It reminded me of the print I own of his ("Dewback Patrol"), and you
know anything involving sandtroopers is a major plus in my eyes. It was
just so incredible to see how little time it took him to create such a
wonderful piece of art. I told him how great this looked and he said,
"Just wait until you see what I've been currently working on." Sounds
like he's working on something really important, and I cannot wait to
see what that ends up being.
PHOTO GALLERY
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