Painting with Janice

We will be painting with Janice Miller this weekend.  Remember seminars always start at 9 am.  Our first class will be the fabric painting on a large tote on Friday, 11 October and the rooster will be on an 11"x14" canvas on Saturday.  If you have not received your info about this seminar, please contact Jane.  Friday will be pot luck.  In case you don't want to scroll down to find the projects they are:

You need to bring your regular painting supplies.  Any questions, give us a call.  Be sure to check the post below in case you missed it.

DONE WITH A TOOTHBRUSH

I love watching videos on Youtube about painting.  This is done differently but still very interesting seeing how someone's mind works.  You may have to turn down the music.

In a few weeks we will be hosting Janice Miller's seminar.  You already have the information that has been sent to you and the pictures that have been posted on this blog.  You should have paid for this seminar by now but if not, have your cash or check ready before the seminar starts so Diane can write it up and have a chance to enjoy the seminar as well.  She will not be taking money during the actual painting. 

We have booked Ros Stallcup for January and copies of the paintings have been sent to each of you by email.  I will bring in copies to the meeting.  During lunch, I ask that you vote for the ones you would like to paint.  We have several to choose from but only two will be chosen.  I have had feedback from several members on what they would like to paint, but not everyone responded.

We also have Peggy Harris scheduled in March but I have not received her submissions as of yet.

I have reserved a room at Ryan's again this year for our Christmas Party.  At that time we will install the new board.  Jackie will be President, Barbara will be 1st Vice President, Sue will be 2nd Vice President, and Diane will be Treasurer.  We still do not have a Secretary or Seminar Chair.  I have booked the teachers for next year but I am not going to be the Seminar Chair.  It would be nice if we had someone new step up and enjoy the benefit of being the Chair - as Chair you will receive your seminars at no cost but you will be responsible for picking up the visiting artist and taking her to her hotel room and back and forth to the airport.  If you are interested please let me know.

If you have not finished your Santa from last month and need help, feel free to bring it to the seminar and I will help you with it before and after the painting. 

Ros Stallcup Seminar Photos

I am attaching the photos that Ros sent for the January seminar.  We are going to narrow these down to two and vote on them next month.  For those of you who have not painted with Ros before this will give you an idea of her style of painting.  We only have four short months before this seminar and we will only meet twice more this year so if you plan to attend you will need to sign up at the next meeting.  It will be opened to other chapters in October and once the seats are sold - they are gone.  So be prepared to sign up next month.

When you look at the paintings think of what you would like to try that perhaps you have never tried before; i.e., a glass container, a wheelbarrow, a gazebo or lighthouse.  Ros is very good at explaining what she does and she is a very loose painter.  I just know you will love painting with her.

 

Now a few thank yous - Jackie for volunteering to be President, Barbara for continuing as 1st VP, Sue for 2nd VP, Diane as Treasurer.  We do not have a secretary at this point or a seminar chairperson.  Hopefully someone will step forward soon.  Without these dedicated members our club would go bye-bye. 

 

I hope you all practice those roses and leaves.  I enjoyed painting with you today.  Nest month we will have the Janice Miller seminar.  If you haven't signed up you still have time - give Jane a call or shoot her an email so we can get you on the list.

 

September Paint In

 We will be painting Santas on Saturday so get together your painting supplies and be sure to include the following:

1/4" angle brush
Script liner for detail work
1/4" or 1/2" filbert comb (or flat comb/rake)

Surface of your choice, base coated, pattern on and if using the black background, you will need to basecoat the face.
I will provide paints.  I like the look of the black background but you might find it easier to paint on the off white.  The color I used is warm white.

This sled is about 5.5" x 8" long.  You can adjust your pattern to fit a variety of sizes.  Your pattern will be included in your email.

If you have any questions, email me or call.  I am having some issues with vertigo right now so I expect I will be home the next few days.

We will have discussions on our seminars already booked for next year, Ros Stallcup and Peggy Harris, monthly projects, and where we hope to have our meetings.  Please come with questions in hand and any suggestions you might have.

If we haven't said it before, we want to thank the New Testament Fellowship Church for letting us meet in their family room for the past two years.  It has become increasingly difficult to find a place to hold our meetings and seminars, especially one that does not charge for the room.  I have been in contact with several places but if they do not come through for us we may have to consider changing our meeting dates to every other month and we may have to pay to use a room.  Janice L. has been very proactive in suggestions for meeting spaces and programs for next year.  Hope to hear more for the rest of the group at the meeting.

As always, we will have a pot luck lunch.  See you at 10 am on Saturday.

Please keep in mind those members we have not seen for a while and when you have time drop them a note or give them a call, Jane Toman, Jeanette Davidson, and Pat Hutchins who has been ill.

Just because I thought it was funny!!  Hope you had a great weekend. 

Paint a Fluffy Rose With DonnaLee http://www.picturetrail.com/corileesco...

I bet you are surprised to get two posts in one week but I thought you would enjoy another video by Donna.  Quick and easy roses. 

Yesterday Debbie taught us how to make our own necklace or bracelets with painted beads and such.  I think everyone enjoyed the class, thank you Debbie for sharing.  And we celebrated our 37th birthday.  It looks as though our club will be around for some time to come.

I have good news.  We talked about having Ros Stallcup return to teach next year and I received an answer back from her last night.  She is available only in January.  I say let's go for it but what do you think?  It will mean we will have a seminar in January and in March - just more fun time to paint. 

August Meeting and Paint In

No newsletter this month.  I think the above caption says it all.  I know you all had a great time last month finishing up with our Christmas in July.  Thanks to Sue, Jackie, and Janice L. for teaching us their cute ornaments.  I am proud to say I finished all of mine. 

This month we will have Debbie Bryan teaching us jewelry making.  We will also celebrate our birthday so there will be cake and ice cream for dessert and lots of door prizes. 

I think we will have a board next year and we may have a new place to meet.  I have asked Jackie to be President and I think she just might do it.  I have also contacted the Library and there is a good chance we will be able to use their meeting room...I had to submit an application and let's pray it goes through.  The good news for the folks from Alabama, it is just two blocks from Hobby Lobby.

I had planned to bring in my sled that I plan to teach but couldn't find it anywhere.  After looking back I realized I sold it last year so I will attach a photo.  Here it is base coated in black:

 

And here he is base coated in cream

 

Same design and basically same colors. I will bring in these photos and will give you all the info at the next meeting.  You will need to basecoat your box, sled, plaque or whatever you decide to paint on before class, and trace on your design.  There will be no charge for this class.

Now, let me tell you what I am making this month.  I love vanilla and I go through a lot of it but have you seen the prices for those little 3 ounce bottles?  Well, I bought a big bottle of vodka,

Then I added about 20 vanilla beans that I cut up the center and I used Madagascar beans but any old vanilla bean will do.  Who knew that there were so many different kinds out there?  So now you can see the beans in the vodka.  If you noticed that there was a bit of vodka missing - you are right.  But since I am not fond of alcohol, it wasn't me drinking it.  I was afraid it would overflow when I put the beans in it so I removed about half a cup and poured it in another container and started a smaller bottle of vanilla.  If you would like to do this you will need to store the vodka in a dark place and then shake it once a week.  It is already turning a dark color but it will take about 4 months for it to be regular vanilla.  The best part about this was the smell of my hands - so vanillaee..(I know it isn't a real word).  This was found on Pinterest.

I hope you enjoy the video I am posting for you.  It is a simple little tea rose. 

Until Saturday.....

A Tea Rose with Donna Lee Video

I thought you would like to see a simple basic tea rose painted by Donna Lee.

Happy Fourth of July!!

Hope you all had a great day with family and friends.  We will host our Christmas in July this Saturday so come prepared to paint.  We have three projects planned, Sue will teach an oyster shell Santa, Jackie will teach a snowman, and Janice will teach a snowflake.  I hope you received your newsletter by now.  In it I said we were planning our birthday party but we decided to delay the party until August.  Several things have come up that makes the change necessary.

I am including pictures of the projects planned for October with Janice Miller.  We need to decide whether you want to paint the butterfly or the paint palette on the tote.  The other project is the rooster.  Jane will not be at the meeting but the sign up sheet will be.

I have provided you with several photos of the items we will paint Saturday, unfortunately, I could not get Janice's uploaded.  I will keep trying,

please bring your Elmer's glue or Aileen's or a glue gun.

Well, half the year has come and gone....why is it the older we get the faster time flies?  Will we ever

have the time to complete those projects we have stashed or paint all the things we have stuffed in our closets, under the beds, in Rubbermaid containers?  I think not.  What I have found is that we get to a point in life when we have to tell ourselves that we need to let go...let go of every Decorative Painter I have saved since joining NSTDP in 1985,  let go of all those cute little wood pieces I planned to paint one day, let go of those two bins of flowers and all that fabric and some of those hundreds of bottles of paint and.......oh, gosh, I'm exhausted and I haven't even started yet so I will start letting go tomorrow....I will let you know how it goes.

I will see you Saturday, bring your regular painting supplies, a pot luck dish, and a few one dollar bills.  We will start at 10 am.

Brenda

Summer seminar

Someone ordered three necklaces from Diane Bunker, I have them but I don't know who they are for.  If you ordered them please email me and I will try to get them to you.

Had a great time Saturday.  Y'all did good!!  Get creative and share with us the tassels you make.










Here are a few pictures offered by Janice Miller for our October seminar. 

We will be selecting the ones for her to teach at the next meeting.  This is going to be a great seminar for those who like to Zentangle.

Get to painting....
Brenda

Christmas Ornament Paint In

Does this give you an idea what we will be doing this Saturday?  We will be making Christmas tassels.  The one in the photo is not exactly like the ones we will be doing because we won't be adding a bird to the top but it shows you how we will stack the ribbon and trim.  The pink one is the first one I did and as you can see in the photo it is not stacked properly.  I will be giving you some really good detailed instructions and photos.  Of course it won't be done in pink.  I am hoping my trims come in before Saturday as I had to order them online.  Barbara will be teaching a snowman ornament and Debbie had to cancel due to an illness in her family.

We will start at 10 am and should be finished by 2 pm.  Bring your regular painting supplies and a glue gun....I know you all have one and it will be easier if you have one at least between two people.  Don't forget your pot luck lunch and one dollar bills (fee is between $1-$5).  We don't carry change with us.  Everything will be in a kit which will make it easier. 

I would like to remind you that we have the church room until November.  We have to find another place to meet.  I need ideas and suggestions.  We will also need a new president since Francis will not be able to fill in next year. 

 

We had a really great time with Diane Bunker last month.  I just know you all went home and painted on T-shirts, bottles and spoons.  If you did, I am so proud of you.....but I didn't.  I practiced a bit but I didn't actually finish a project.  It was certainly packed with a lot of fun ideas and Diane was so sweet about sharing.  I tried puff painting back in the late 80's but never could get it to puff.  Now I know what to do.  And the paste..well it takes practice.

I should remind you all that if you didn't pay for frosting your bottles, please do so at the next meeting.  The frosting was expensive and we need to replenish our funds. 

We will be hosting our next seminar with Janice Miller.  She is going to be teaching Zintangle and one other project.  However, I do not have a picture of the projects yet but will post as soon as I receive it.  Jane will go over the information at the meeting.

I will be bringing your newsletter to the meeting.  Time goes by so fast and it does take a bit of time to put it together.  At any rate, I will see you in a few days.

A visit with Julia

Julia will be visiting Monday 27 may and would like to have lunch with us before she goes back to Arizona.  We will have lunch at 12:00 at Winzell's at eastern gate shopping center in Spanish fort.  Please let me know if you want to have lunch with us.

Brenda

Diane Bunker Seminar

As you are all aware we will host Diane Bunker this weekend for two days of relaxation and fun.

Diane Bunker Seminar

3-4 May 2013

9 am - 5 pm

Pot Luck Lunch

 

Please note the time  -  we will start at 9 am, that means you need to be in your seats and ready to get started so we can finish all our projects on time.  These are the items you will need to bring along with your regular painting supplies, don't forget to pack a hair dryer and extension cord as we will need them to puff the paint. 

 

I will provide more info by Thursday if anything changes. 

 



1st day

Brushes: I like Loew- Cornell #6 and #4 round stroke brush the one with the yellow band (love this brush), or #2 and #6 filbert. 18/0 or 10/0 liner, 10 or 12 Shader. Hair dryer, Scissors, and a plastic spoon, sandwich baggie, absorbent paper towels. Black Sharpie, White gel pen

2nd day

Brushes again Loew -Cornell 1/8" filbert rake, 1 liner, old credit card, Magic tape, Black Sharpie, White Gel pen, hair dryer, 1 or 2 shirt boards or smooth cardboard, 3 shirts or anything fabric. Any color even white is good. If the shirt is a natural fiber you can dye it after the flowers are done and they will take the dye also for a tone on tone look. My favorite is Black with white flowers. No 100% polyester,

A small item to do the faux metal art on try to keep it 3" or under such as box, picture frame, candle holder, metal pocket. Also for a second piece the faux metal art looks good on a spoon necklace, domino, flat bead, or scrabble tiles.  If you check Dollar Tree they may have the small wood boxes, mine did for just one dollar.  And don't forget to bring your frosted bottle.  If you didn't frost your bottle last month, come early and Jane will bring the frosting for you to dip your bottle in.  Jane will not be available to do the bottle for you but it is quite simple. 

 

Our schedule is as follows but it may change once we get started:

 

Day 1:

 

Spoon pendant - you will receive the pendant with a black cord, use of paints, at the end of the seminar you will have a resin filled necklace, 1 jar of decorating paste, a tip kit, a piece of teflon, and a white watercolor pencil.  We will also be painting on our glass bottles.

 

Day 2: 

 

We will finish up the spoon necklace with the resin.  Then you will receive a bottle of puff paint, 1 bottle of glitter, 1 stencil of your choice, use of De Coulorant for your 3rd shirt, materials for Faux Metal Art.  Pattern of 5 petal flowers for the paste and puff paint.  Spoon instructions with inspirational picture of 5 different spoons, Faux Metal instructions with inspirational picture.

 

 

March Meeting and Paint In

Our meeting will be held Saturday at 10 am with a short painting class afterwards.  If you have not finished your quilt panel and need to use fabric paints, give me a call and I will bring them in.  I hope to be at the meeting but am battling a sore throat and fever, since my grand daughter has strep I am hoping it is just sinus and not strep.  If I am able to attend we will be painting on domino necklace.  Bring your regular painting supplies.  The newsletter is out, I don't know whether you will receive it before the meeting or not.  A lot going on in my family with accidents, surgeries, and illnesses so I am behind on a lot of things.  Jane will have the info on the May seminar and Jackie will talk about her class in April.  See you there

A New Year .....

I am going to keep this short as most of the information I will be giving you will be in the newsletter.  As I said in the email I sent out, Connie Parkinson had to cancel her seminar in May.  However, we have been lucky enough to retain Diane Bunker for that same time slot.  Our fee for members will be $75.00.  Please visit her website www.dianebunker.com to see the work she does.  Your fee will include:

Instructions, patterns, and pictures for selected projects, 1 jar of paste, a tip kit, Teflon, watercolor pencil, 1 jar of puff paint, a stencil (students choice at seminar), glitter, a spoon pendant, and a faux metal art kit.

I am trying to learn how to post pictures to our blog again, Google has changed to Picaso photo sharing and I have yet to learn how to do it.  You should have received an attachment to the message I sent out. 

At our next meeting in February we will start painting the quilt pieces.  Please bring your regular painting supplies and any fabric paint you might have.  I have been asked by several people about transferring the pattern to the fabric square.  There are several ways to do this.  You can use your regular graphite paper, a transfer pen available in the quilting section at the fabric store, a light box, or in my case, I reverse the image and have a copy made at the Office Depot or anywhere that uses a dry chemical toner.  I then can iron the image to the fabric square.  I haven't had any luck with an ink jet copy.  We will be helping each other since some of you have not painted with fabric paint before but you will find it to be very easy.  Once we have completed the squares they will be sewed together and quilted.  We will then have raffle tickets for everyone to sell.  Some lucky person will really enjoy a hand painted quilt.

We had a great time with Heather last month.  I saw a lot of your drawings and they turned out really nice.

See you at the meeting a week from Saturday.

Brenda

Heather Mitchell Seminar

Happy New Year, Y'all!!

I am sure by this time you have all received the email attachment from Diane.  This is to remind you that Heather will provide a picture and pattern for tomorrows class (this will not include the written instructions - we are trying to keep the cost at $20.00).  However, if you need the written instructions you can download them from the attachment Diane sent out or she will have the complete packet for $7.50 each. 

The class will start at 10 am with a break for lunch so don't forget to bring something to share at lunch. 

We have another great year ahead of us with classes and seminars and even a quilt to paint.  I want to thank the ladies who have been so gracious to volunteer their time to help keep our club going this past year.  Sue, for handling the membership and anything else put before her; Sherry, for being our secretary and deciphering through all the noise and talk, to record our minutes each month.  Diane, for managing our bank account and keeping us straight and Jane for the hard work she has done the past year in setting up seminars.  Barbara, for getting our monthly paint ins together and as an extra duty, she maintains our history photo album.  Jeanette, for getting out cards to those with birthdays and illnesses.  I, along with all our club members really appreciate what you have done for us.  We would not be a club without dedicated members who are willing to step up to the plate and fill in where necessary.  We love you all!!

Since we won't have a meeting tomorrow I will be posting in the newsletter some of the activities we have planned this year. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR,

Heather Mitchell Seminar
Starting at 10 am
Cost - $20.00

I will make this quick.  This weekend we will host a Heather Mitchell seminar.  If you have not done so, please contact Jane and let her know if you are coming.  She would like to give Heather a courtesy count.  Heather will be teaching a heron.  You can see her work at www.heathermitchelldraws.com.

We will also divide up the patterns for painting the quilt that is being donated by Pat Hutchins.  We won't have a meeting but just a quick briefing on what to expect this year.

Because of he holidays, I will not publish a newsletter this month.  I have one started and will get it out within the next week.

I hope you all had a great Christmas and you got all the things you wanted.  As long as I have my family with me for the holidays, I have received the best gift of all.

See you Saturday!

Happy Thanksgiving to you all...

The annual Members Christmas Party will be held on 1 December at 2 pm at Ryan's Steak House on Highway 29 (Pensacola Boulevard).  We have a room reserved and the cost will be $8 for the meal, $2 for the drink and a gratuity is added.  Remember to bring up to five ornaments to exchange (you bring the amount you want and will receive the same amount in return).  If you want to participate in the Dirty Santa bring a gift (about $15 -$20).  This will be our last time to get together for the year and we will have fun as always.  Until then I leave you with this wonderful poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson (you know how I am with poems and quotes!!).

Just a reminder....

The newsletter has been mailed but just to remind you that you will need to bring your regular painting supplies along with the items you will need for the class.  Margaret said we would be doing a wash over the pen and ink design and she will furnish the paint.  See you there,

November - and no chill in the air???

I know you all had a great time with Liz Miller last month.  Wish I could have been there but my sister came to town for my nephew's wedding.  And anytime she comes we are super busy.  We cooked (ok, she did most of the cooking) for the shower, we set up a candy bar at the wedding, we shopped in all the best antique stores and the thrift stores, we ate Church's Fried Chicken (she loves this stuff) and had a really great time with all the sisters.  You do know I have six sisters right?  It is even better when they are all talking to each other - you know how it is with siblings, even at our age they still fight - just like when they were younger.  She left last week exhausted and now that we are back on schedule I do plan to attend next months meeting, excited to see what Margaret is teaching.

I apologize for not getting the newsletter out last month.  I am helping my son and his family with picking up the grandchildren after school for a few months and I help my daughter with getting the grandsons to school and back so my days are pretty full.  I didn't realize I had forgotten the newsletter until Thursday before the meeting.  I know you miss all my ramblings but I am working on this months as we speak.

I don't have pictures to show you of the project we are going to do with Margaret at the November meeting but I did receive an email with the items you will need to do the class.  This is different than what we have been doing and I think you will enjoy it.

Margaret sent the following information for the upcoming class in November. 

You will need the following:
The nib is a #102 crowquill pen nib. I have seen them in a pkg at Hobby Lobby and Michael's in the art dept. The pkg has the #102 nib ,holder and a small bottle of black ink for $6.99.

Lemox may have them individually if you can't find them at the craft stores. The nibs retail for $1.39 and the holder is around $1.98

If they are not interested in buying the nibs they can use a white jellyroll pen, also available at Michael's in the area where they sell the Sakura micron pigment pens.

I will furnish the paper and white ink for $1 or $2 depending on the paper, etc.

Looking forward to a fun and easy class.

Margaret

Liz Miller Seminar
6-7 October 2012
Times:  9 am - 5 pm

We will host a Liz Miller Seminar this weekend beginning at 9 am.  Please note that meetings start at 10 am but seminars are at 9 am.  We want to get as much work done as possible hence, the time change.  Lunch is the usual covered dish.  Bring your regular painting supplies.  We will not have a meeting so it would be nice if every one is in their place at 9 am so you can get a good start.

Pictures of the projects are in a post below.  Don't forget your surface.

I apologize for getting this out so late, I am writing it as quickly as possible.  I have yet to do the newsletter and if I can complete it by Saturday I will drop it off at the seminar.  As stated in the email, I have been busy with family and a wedding so the newsletter was the last thing on my mind. 

A reminder that Margaret is going to teach us a new technique at the November paint in.  And the first Saturday in December we will have our annual Christmas Luncheon so start getting those ornaments together.  While we ask that they be handmade we understand that sometimes that is not possible so if you find a nice one in the store you would like to share, feel free to do so.  We just want everyone to have a good time.

Have fun Saturday, I will be thinking of y'all while I am busy working.

Mini-seminar with Heather Mitchell

Our seminar will start promptly at 10am on Saturday.  We will have a very brief meeting then proceed to paint.   I believe this is Heather's first time to teach and she is nervous and excited.  She charges $20.00 per person which will be given to Diane when you sign in.  This way Heather will be able to set up without being distracted.  Please have the correct amount for payment as there will be no extra cash available to make change.  As always we will have a pot luck lunch.

We are on schedule to host Liz Miller next month.  Please make sure you have sent your seminar fee to Jane so we can have an accurate count of those attending.  This will be the last seminar for this year.  But Jane has tentatively scheduled Connie Parkinson for next spring.  Check out her website to view her paintings - www.connieparkinson.com.

I have mailed the newsletters this week and hope they arrive before the meeting.  But the holiday puts everything behind.

As a reminder, please finish up the shoeboxes so they can be handed in to the church next month.  If you are not sure what to purchase or how to decorate your box, give me or Jane a call.  It doesn't have to be fancy but put as many items as you can inside the box for that special child to enjoy.

See you this Saturday,
Brenda