Golden Spread Chapter: Our First Day of Three with Heidi England

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Our First Day of Three with Heidi England

We had a wonderful day of painting with Heidi today with a little retail therapy included. We have painted Pinocchio, soldiers, stars, books, hearts, pickles, pretzels, backgrounds and more. Guess what? There's two more days of more painting to go. We love our pieces so far! And we love having Heidi England in our midst!

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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!