Golden Spread Chapter

Friday, December 27, 2013

2014

We wish you and yours a Happy New Year in 2014!!

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Change of Venue for Texas Cake Cover

The Texas Cake Cover Class will take place at the Texas A & M Agri-Life Extension Office. The address is 3301 E. 10th Ave. , otherwise known as Potter Co. Ext. Office. Times will remain the same and Lt. Parchment is no longer available. Try using Lt. Parchment with a little Moon Yellow or your choice of color.

Friday, September 13, 2013

November--We'll Paint a Lot of Texas

Naomi Brown designed this cake cover some time ago. Some of us have "waited and WAITED" for it to be Amarillo's turn to paint the cake cover. November 2 and 3, 2013 will finally be our day. If you'd like to join us, please contact Linda Potts at 806-341-0272. Hope we will see many of you there!

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

SDP 2104 Convention Information

Take time to begin your planning for a great painting convention.
SDP Convention

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Heidi England instructing the Yarn Hod

Have you been waiting to hear that Heidi England is coming to paint with our chapter? Well, we are! She will be here September 21,22, and 23rd. She will be teaching the http://www.heidiengland.com/sem_gallery/gallery2/yarnhod.htm . Please follow the previous link to take a look at this new piece. We are anxious to have her here and would be delighted to have you join us. The seminar will be taught at the Panhandle Art Center. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Naomi Brown @ nlb@suddenlink. net or phone: 806-679-5191.

We would be delighted to have you join us! There's always room for more!

Thursday, March 14, 2013

It has been a long time coming-we are posting again!

New Classes are coming! New members are TOO!

Our next class is being taught by Shara Reiner and there's not much more delightful than that!!! Her class will be April 20-21, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. until approximately 5:00 p.m. or she graciously sends us on our way. This class will be taught PAC in the Amarillo Art Center located at Sunset Center on Plains Avenue, east of Western Street.

To sign up for the class, your contact will be Naomi Brown. Her phone number is 806-679-5191. She will be delighted to add you to the class role and get all the necessary information to you.

New Members? Yes, you heard it correctly!

We are fortunate to have added 6 new members attending our last fundraiser. We wish to welcome: Peggy Ashby of Odessa, Bobbie Strong and Kay Payne of Stratford, Brenda Duncan, Diane Hassler, and Gayle Roberson of Amarillo! Proud to call you a part of our crew, a true Golden Spread Chapter member! We will look forward to seeing you more often.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Some Things Can't Be Changed

Well, if you've been awaiting a new post with all the news, check back soon. I have had quite the time with what I thought would make things easier for me to post and get feedback from Blogger. Not so much. It was an all day ordeal to go right back to the "old way". Good night from here and pics will post!

The next event is a Fundraiser that Sandra McLean will be teaching. It is a Prudy Vannier design and it is just tooooooooo cute!

Tips for Painters

FLOAT?

Do you follow our SDP Blog? Well, you should!

Recent post from Rebecca Baer: http://www.rebeccabaer.com

She recommends that you "float" with an angle brush and include a generous squirt of a floating medium such as Easy Float in your water to facilitate blending and consistently use Viva paper towels or blue shop towels to blot the moisture up.

1) Use less paint. Excess paint will spread too far across your brush before being being fully blended.

2) Hand and brush position are also important. Hold the brush with your hand positioned well back from the ferrule so that the handle remains low and close to the surface. The handle should be held at about a 30 degree agle to both your palette and project. Holding your brush in an upright position will push the paint into a line and not allow it to blend.

3) Begin by wetting the brush in the prepared water. Then blot lightly and begin striking the brush on your palette. Next, pick up a touch of paint on the toe of the brush. Blend in a single path o the palette to work the paint into the brush moving into the path rather than away from it. Turn the brush over to blend again. Remember, a poorly blended float on the palette will be a poorly blended float on your project.

4) Check the angler of your brush and make sure you are using the full flat area of the bristles while blending an floating. Use a bit of pressure while blending the paint but then switch to a feather-light touch when applying the float to your surface.

5) Always allow the prior float to dry before proceeding with connecting or overlapping floats. Failure to assow the previous layer to dry will result in paint lifting creating a very difficult-to-fix hole.

If you have a tip, email Donna Phipps, art4evr@att.net to have it listed here.

Recipes prepared for our Recent Workshop

Cheese Ripple Fudge Cake

1 box fudge cake mix

1 1/2 c. water

1/2 c. sour cream

2 large eggs

1 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese

2 large eggs

1/3 c. sugar

1 c. coconut

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Blend first 4 ingredients until moistened and beat. Pour half batter into greased 9 x 13" pan. In a small bowl, beat next 4 ingredients until smooth. Add coconut. Spoon over batter in pan. Cover with remaining batter. Bake 35 minutes. Cool completely.

Blend frosting ingredients:

1 box fudge frosting

3 oz. cream cheese

1/4 c. soft oleo

Frost cake when cooled.

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEMINARS FOR 2013

HEIDI ENGLAND WILL BE TEACHING SEPTEMBER 21 & 22, 2013. AS SOON AS THE PROJECT HAS BEEN SELECTED WE WILL TRY TO HAVE THE INFORMATION POSTED. IT IS ALWAYS A DELIGHTFUL TIME!

Decorative painting is supported by those of us who continue to grow in this art form. Please see yourself as an important part of this growth by continuous participation in classes offered by the Golden Spread Chapter of the Society of Decorative Painters.

Cost of seminars is $25 per day for Golden Spread Chapter SDP members and $40 per day for non-members. Please sign up early and often!

Contact Naomi Brown @ 806-679-5191 to sign-up or get additional information.

Community Service Projects

The Memory Box Program provides hand-painted boxes to hospitals in various countries for parents who have lost babies. The boxes provide the parents a place to store keepsakes of their babies. Above are pictures of a few of the boxes we have donated to the Memory Box Program at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo, Tx. Please continue to paint on these and bring them to the next meeting or get them to Sandy Posey.

Another project for this year includes painting ornaments to include in packages for Time to Share which provides Christmas gifts to Senior citizens that have been identified for need. You may paint any ornament you choose for sharing or contact Sue Bartolino for more information.

Thank you to all who continue to support these special projects!