Golden Spread Chapter

Saturday, November 12, 2011

We were fortunate to have Prudy Vannier of Prudy's Studio Inc. with us for 2 days of classes. We painted her leaf study and her Pomegranates on a variety of surfaces. She shared so much with us about the painting process, her family, where life had lead her, and travel adventures that are soon to be offered for her painting friends (we are all included there) in France and in 2013 for Switzerland. Many of us came home to start our travel fund saving.

We had several guest painters with us from Kansas, Oklahoma, Sherman, Texas, and right here in Amarillo. We couldn't have enjoyed having you more. Painting joins us and we hope distance won't keep us apart! Please join us again for future seminars. Rosemary West will be joining us on March 10, 2012 and as soon as our projects are chosen you can see them here!

Sunday of our weekend with Prudy, the chapter members provided a pot luck fundraiser. What a success! It had some of the yummiest selections ever. I will be posting them one at a time to tempt you all to keep checking back on the newest announcements and the most recent posted recipe.

Thank you to everyone that supported this workshop. It allows us to keep our hopes and dreams of learning new techniques and mastering our paint brushes alive for the next seminar hosted by the Golden Spread Chapter SDP.

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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!