Merry Christmas to all our readers!

Wishing you all the best, peace and joy for the New Year.

Our next Meeting will be Saturday the 11^th February

Lorraine Winfield will show us how to paint;

 bird of paradise using old credit cards.

Bookings please email; mountains2rivers

Happy Painting!  

Last Workshop of the year, See you in 2012

Thanks to Pat Haines and her Romanesque Angel Fresco we all made great work of our project, it was an enjoyable workshop, fun and scary with a touch of sanding between painting to make it look old.

Pat demonstrating the border.



Our Members with the finished project.



If you would like to paint with us, join us in 2012 where you can learn to paint in these friendly mini workshops with us. All Welcome.

Next Meeting

Saturday the 12th November will be our next meeting and also our last meeting of the year.

Saturday the 12th November

CWA Rooms,

Tindale Street, Penrith

12 noon, Please bring a plate!

Christmas Lunch!

Merry Christmas to All!



This month we will have a workshop after the meeting with Pat Haines, Pat will be showing us how to paint her painting of; 'Romanesque Angel fresco'.

Some prep work is involved in this piece, please have ready before the workshop, If you require a pattern please email me and I will email a copy back to you or include your address in the email so I can post it to you.
The instructions for the prep work is in the Newsletter, Guests if you require a copy of this sent with your pattern please let me know.

Booking; It is important you notify us so that Pat can bring the correct amount of worksheets for this class..

Workshop with Kate

We had a most enjoyable time at a special Workshop with Kate Belton yesterday. Kate's workshops are very informative, enjoyable and most relaxing!

Working with stains and Matisse inks we were show how to transform a blank canvas into a work of art. Working with the inks to build up the colours,  Something very different from Folk Art.

Kate has many of her own patterns to choose from, look out for Kate's next workshop in Sydney.

7th September, Memory Box Painting Day

We are having a Painting day to paint some Much needed Memory Boxes.

Wednesday the 7th September

11am - 3.00pm

(or any time in between,                                         if you can spare an hour or two) 

AT; CWA Rooms, Tindale Street, Penrith, NSW 2176

Everyone welcome to help. We will supply the boxes to paint, the patterns, the paints to use on the day. All you need to bring is something to eat and your brushes and usual painting supplies.

The boxes we are painting are in the main small papier ' mache ones, so if you do have any patterns that size it would be great.

If you are unable to make it on the day, donations of boxes either painted or unpainted will be most welcome.



Workshop with Kate Belton

Thanks Kate!

Such a relaxing workshop we shared on Saturday afternoon at Mountains and Rivers, Kate is an excellent teacher.

We all painted the background first, Hands on, Messy and a lot of Fun to paint, also it was quite different to what we are used to. Most enjoyable!
When everyone had settled down we carried on to paint our fish in a more Folk Arty sort of way.

Follow by email

We have a new item on this blog called Follow by email, if you wish to be informed of new blog entries or just keep in touch please add your email address. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose. You will find the 'follow by email' at the top right hand side of the blog, just add your email address.

We have had many visits from all over the world, so I would like to say Hi and thankyou for reading our blog. The main reason I started this blog was to try to reach more members for our meetings, this has not happened, then I relised that there are many people out there that can not attend meetings yet still enjoy the web site, I too enjoy providing information for this site, so I will be happy to continue.

You can always leave comments on the posts, these can be anonymous, but we would love to hear from you.

Once again thankyou for reading our blog, Happy Painting, Publicity Officer, Mountains and Rivers, Lyn.

Photo's of our workshops to be held in September 2011 at our No Frills weekend away at Mulgoa.

Please note that these photo's and the painted designs are under copyright and must not be used/painted for any reason.

You are welcome to join us for our next weekend away, just keep watching the meetings page for more details of our next getaway. You must be a member to join us at the weekend get away's.

AGM and Workshop

At the last meeting (AGM) we painted this lovely pattern by Christine Whipper, this was my finnished painting following Christine's instructions.
We had home work of painting the background, tracing on the pattern and blocking in the leaves, the rest was painted at the meeting, it just shows what you can achieve in three hours!

It was lovely to see everyone painting in the meeting, paintings and workshops were also on display for our "no frills" weekend in September, six projects to choose from. It will be very hard to choose this year as all six projects offer something different.
Look out for photo's later, check out the meetings page for more details on this weekend.

Thanks, Lyn, (Publicity)

Yet more Convention Photo's!

Great idea!



M and R,  (Students) Cup entries.



M and R Teachers Cup entries.

Val's painting was members choice runner up for students entry.

Robyn's painting was members choice cup winner for students entry. 

Chris's painting was members choice for Teachers entry.

Lauraine wes members choice cup winner for Teachers entry.

Thanks to Dervian/Matisse for our lovely new aprons.

Dervian/Matisse also provided the bag of goodies won by Joy.

More Convention photo's

Students hard at work.




 








Chris




Clown and Candy Floss!




Two more clowns.






 

2011 Convention

The weather was kind to us on our weekend away at Turners in Orange, four of us travelling together made our way up the mountains towards Orange, where we arrived in plenty of time to check in, joining the rest of the group for a lovely lunch before heading off towards the classroom and our chosen project.


Friday night was market/wine and cheese night where we were able to purchase items from our talented ladies. Of course the Mountains and Rivers stall was open all weekend too, ready on hand for all the forgotten brushes and oddments we need.


Saturday was our six hour workshop; we were served with scrumptious morning and afternoon teas, and another lovely lunch.


Saturday night our big event and a big thanks to the convention committee it was a great night. The theme was “Circus” and we all had to dress up. We had animals of all descriptions, animal trainers, tight rope walkers, clowns, candy floss, and not to forget our fortune teller’s one in particular went around everyone telling there ‘fortune’ (June made up stories) I laughed so much, it was quite funny.


Sunday morning we sobered up quickly, most of us woke to a power cut! The whole valley was out, but not for long. We still managed a cooked breakfast followed by our last workshop before lunch and the always sad farewells before travelling in our different directions home.

We had some great fun with some special ladies, 39 of us all together, just sharing painting time together, all with a love for painting. We had some great teachers available and as always the classes were enjoyable with the guidance of their expert advice. Thanks to Matisse we had some great prizes to give away, also to everyone who donated prizes for the raffle’s on Friday and Saturday night.
A big thanks to Laraine without we would not have had so much fun, and thanks to the rest of the committee who helped throughout the weekend.


 Following are just a few of the photo's I took on the weekend, enjoy! Lyn.

Circus Convention 2011

Turners, Orange taken from the hill.

On Arrival

Workshop with Reberta



Workshop with Janice







Convention Teachers




Frday night dress up!



AGM and Lunch.

The 9th July 2011 will be our Annual General Meeting and lunch. (please bring a plate).
Guests and new members welcome. Memberships are due 1st July, Australia $30, Overseas $A40.
Send to PO box 289, Round Corner, New South Wales 2158, Australia.

Our Guest teacher will be Christine Whipper, please book well in advance for this workshop. Cost; $15 for Members and $20 for guests. (you can join our membership and the workshop for $45). Bookings essential, contact Janice on 4657 1536 or email; mountains2rivers@gmail.com

Meetings are held at, CWA rooms, Tindale Street, Penrith. At 12 noon - around 4pm.


Our weekend away to Orange will be this weekend!
Around 40 ladies will be on there way to Orange on Friday morning, for a whole three days of painting! Fun! and more painting!

I intend to take plenty of photo's to show when I get back
Have fun painting!

Next Meeting

Saturday the 12th May at 12 noon, at Penrith CWA rooms, Tindale Street. This is our meeting just before the Circus Convention at Orange, NSW.

We will be able to pick up our prep-work for the convention. On the 12th we are also having a mini workshop with a very talented lady, Leonie Orme on Quilling for beginners. Please bring along a quilling tool if you have one. The cost of this will be $15 for members and $20 for others.

Of course if you would just like to visit us sometime through the afternoon you would be most welcome. Have a coffee, cake and meet some nice ladies!

Our next meeting and workshop will be with another well known and very talented lady, Christine Whipper, look out for more details later.

February Meeting and Workshop 2011

Saturday the 12 th February, some of the photo's taken at the meeting and workshop, our Teacher for the day was Joy Sherbon. We had a special day with Joy, and a pre-view of our Convention pieces. The theme for the convention this year will be "Circus". So, join us, Dress up, have fun!

Thankyou Joy, looking forward to meeting you again at the convention!

New Members and Meeting

If you are looking for something fun that can deliver opportunities to grow and at the same time make new friends, then think about getting involved in our Mountains and Rivers Painting Group!

Workshops are fun and there is plenty of experienced teachers available to help you get started.
For workshop bookings email us, book in plenty of time before the day of the meeting

Our weekend away Convention is on in May, If you are thinking of joining us on this fun painting weekend, then this meeting is for you, our Teachers Convention pieces will be on display, you will be able to see all our awesome teachers latest works of art, new and ready for May Convention, these works of art will not be available anywhere else untill after the convention!

Sorry no pre-views, come and see them at the meeting!
We have members from all over Australia and overseas.

Next meeting, workshop and lunch is on the 12th february, at the CWA rooms, Tindale St, Penrith.

Next meeting and Workshop

Saturday 12th February, 2011 at Noon

CWA rooms, Tindale street, Penrith.

Guest Artist will be Joy Sherbon. Joy has been painting for 20 years and teaching for 18. Although she can paint anything her great passion is traditional and in particular Historical subjects. Joy has, over the years won many prizes at the RAS. A class with Joy is always an enjoyable experience. 

Joy will be teaching 'Talavera' a 17th Century Spanish design.

The design  Joy has adapted for us, will be painted on a plate.

Joy's plate was on display in the November meeting, so if you would like to register please call Janice as soon as possible. $15 for members. Non-members welcome, please  phone or send $20 to mountains and Rivers ASAP. details will be given when you phone to book. This is a great opportunity to refresh your techniques.  

Also at this meeting our Convention pieces will be on display, so if you are thinking to join us on our weekend Convention in May then this meeting is a must!