Thankyou to all our readers. 2014

All of us at Mountains and Rivers hope that you had

 a lovely Christmas and that the new year

will bring all that you  hope for in 2015.

 

Our next meeting will be on the 14th February 2015.

 

 

Ellen Valenton will be our guest teacher.

We will be painting a Sunset Orchid.

Our workshops will cost

$15.00 for members or $20.00 for a guest.

Painting Competition

Sadly, Ladies an Gents no one entered our painting competition.

Entries are now closed, Thankyou.

5 days left for our painting competition

On August 26th post see our pattern for our painting competition. Last 5 days to enter!

Painting Competition! 

Mountains and Rivers wish to let you know that we are          Hosting a, Painting Competition! 

The lucky winner will spend an afternoon among a lovely group of painting enthusiasts, as our Guest  attending a Workshop with the talented Lorraine Wingfield, Including a lovely lunch. Everything will be supplied for you, you will just need to bring your brushes and be able to get to Penrith, N.S.W, on the 8th November, 2014, at 12 noon.

Painting Competition

Mountains and Rivers Painting Competition is running well, we have 13 downloads of the pattern and there is plenty of time to download your copy and start painting, you have untill the 17th October to make sure that a photo of your painting gets to us, either by email or post.

Just for our overseas visitors to this site you may join in downloading the pattern in a post below, follow the rules and email your finished photo of your painting.

For our overseas visitors who wish to join us in the competition, I will include a lovely small cowl and fingerless glove set, for the first prize, If there is no picture below, these can be seen at; www.artbylyn.etsy.com  Cheers Lyn.

Some photos from Penrith Show. 2014.

Thank you to all the Ladies who contributed to the 2014 Penrith Show by exhibiting some folk art pieces. Robyn passed on these photographs to me today of the winners, so I thought I would share them with you, Well done!

Mountains and Rivers support the Folk Art  prizes in this show.


If you placed in a piece and did not win anything, a big special thank you to you too for participating in this yearly event, without which such an event would never take place.

                                    

Dervian Open Day 2014

DERIVAN OPEN DAY 2014Come join us and celebrate 50 years!!

Saturday October 18th - from 10am to 2pm

www.derivan.com.au 

Painting Competition Pattern.

Use this pattern for Competition. left click on the pattern and it should come up in another window, right click, a pop up window should show, click on print. Make sure your printer is turned on. any problems just email me and I will email the pattern to you. Thanks, Lyn.

Mountains and Rivers Painting Competition

Painting Competition! 

Mountains and Rivers wish to let you know that we are          Hosting a, Painting Competition! 

The lucky winner will spend an afternoon among a lovely group of painting enthusiasts, as our Guest  attending a Workshop with the talented Lorraine Wingfield, Including a lovely lunch. Everything will be supplied for you, you will just need to bring your brushes and be able to get to Penrith, N.S.W, on the 8th November, 2014, at 12 noon.

Details will be sent to the winner.

Rules and Details of the competition;

• Download the pattern or email for a copy of the pattern. The pattern is free and you must use this pattern, no other paintings will be allowed. You may enlarge the design. Do not add to or change the pattern in any form. Email for pattern.
• You may use any item to paint on, wood, watercolour paper, canvas, matt board, cardboard ore anything you have at home.
• You may paint the design in any medium you like, the pattern is a traditional piece, that does not mean it has to be painted in a traditional way.
• You may paint the piece in any size you desire, just remember you have to take a photograph of it afterwards.
• Take a clear photograph of your painted piece and email it to us or send it along to Mountains and Rivers. You may also take a close up photo of the details if you wish, and tell us the painting medium you used.  Click to email 
• Do not sign the piece before you take the photograph, you may put your name and a contact number on the back of the photo if you are posting your photo. 
• All photographs are to reach Mountains and Rivers by the 18th October 2014. The winner will be announced in late October.
• Please be assured that no details will be kept after this competition is finalized, they will not be passed on to any other third party.
• We reserve the right to use some of the photographs on this web site, no other  details will be shared.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  We hope you will enjoy entering this competition and painting this piece, we look forward to receiving your photographs! Cheers, Mountains and Rivers Committee.

August

Hi all, late August now and we are having a little rest before our weekend away in October. six teachers with some lovely projects, you can see the photo,s if you scroll down to older posts. We are looking forward to meeting up again and having a fun weekend. Remember you can book into the workshops by the day, Saturday, Sunday or both. All welcome, but you must book. email me if you would like an application form.  click for application form. Or apply to our PO box.

 It's wet and windy in Sydney right now and I am just trying out my new computer!

Competition! look out soon for details of an on line competition!

We also have a new page for any paintings you would like to share, it does not matter if you are a member or not, if you would like to share your paintings, drawings, just send me a photo by email or by post and I will place it on this blog. email

Our donation to the Winmalee Neighborhood Center.

At the news of the bush fires in the Winmalee area of the Blue Mountains, the Mountains and Rivers painting group decided to give a donation of one thousand dollars to people who have suffered through this tragedy. We simply did not want it to go to a charity in general, but to donate directly to those in need.

This proved to be quite a challenge for Loraine and after much homework, Laraine found the Winmalee Neighbourhood Centre, this centre provides a Fire Recovery Assistance for the Winmalee area. WNC has a website, www.winmaleeneighbourhoodcentre.com.au Please visit this website to see more of the work they do in the area of Winmalee.

The website says; “our community has been devastated by the October bush fires and the WNC has initiated a range of assistance available for fire affected families”

The center works closely with the Springwood Rotary, Winmalee Lions club and Springwood Uniting Church, who between them provide assistance needed to help fire affected people through this process of renewal.

We can only imagine the anguish that the fires and the aftermath bring to people that are affected.

Early in July Laraine and Genevieve were invited along to visit the Winmalee neighbourhood Centre and Mountains and Rivers presented them with a cheque for $1000.00. They were warmly met by Morna Colbran (in blue) from the center and two of the ladies who had lost their home in the October bush fires,

Morna, Laraine, Genevieve and the two ladies who lost there home in the fires.

This photo also shows Jai Allison who is from the local Council and just happened to be there. 

Now added

No Frills Photographs are now on show, 

see post below.

I have Just added a Language-Translate feature, it may help our overseas readers. 
Please let me know if you have problems with this.

Also a Contact us via our email and a Search feature to this blog. 

I Have added a new page for photographs of any paintings you would like to show. See pages tab near the top of page.

Workshop paintings for Weekend of October on display at this meeting.

AGM meeting and Workshop 

12th July

Have you ever thought about going along to a painting workshop for the day? would you like to have a try at painting and thought you could never do that?

Our weekend "No Frills" at Winbourne, Mulgoa on the 24th, 25th and the 26th October may be just for you.

(If booking for the weekend it includes Friday night and Saturday night).

Friday and Saturday night with breakfast, 2 days workshops, dinner Friday and Saturday night, lunch Saturday and Sunday, all morning and afternoon teas and other freebies over the weekend.

Twin room, Members; $305. Non-Members; $330.
Single room, Members; $335. non-Members; $360.

You do not have to commit to the whole weekend, (although all those that do have a great time) just pop along for a day, Saturday or Sunday, meet some great ladies, learn a new craft or just polish up with some new techniques. You do not have to be a member to join us on this day or weekend and you can bring a friend!

Bookings a must! 

Prices do not include the wood or canvas, you can paint any of the projects on something you have at home, you must provide your own piece at a No Frills weekend.

One day workshop is; Members $68 or Non-Members $78.
A great price, it includes lunch, morning and afternoon teas as well!

Maybe you can paint or have an Art Journal and would like to know more about shading or highlighting, then you will find on of our painting workshops might just help you achieve this, we have 6 workshops to choose from and all will be on display at our AGM meeting, of course if you cannot get to this I will have the photo's after the meeting and will display them on this site. Cheers, lyn.

Photo's now available. Click on the photo to enlarge.

Laraine Palmer - Saturday 25th October

Pam Jones - Saturday 25th October

Lorraine Dick - Saturday 25th October

Lore Barratt - Sunday 26th October

Josephine Louwen - Sunday 26th October

Lorraine Wingfield - Sunday 26th October

All Welcome Meeting and AGM

Queen Of Zentangle by Josephine Louwen. 

Make this card at our next meeting on the;

12th, July 2014.

Workshop $15

The card and envelope will be provided in the price. 

Paints will be available to use on the day.

Please bring with you; A very fine waterproof permanent pen in black, small round and flat brushes, a backing to put your on while working, also graphite paper and water jar etc. 

There is no preparation for this piece.

Come along and paint this unusual art form "Zentangle" with Josephine. She will guide you through the process. Beginners welcome.

Meetings are held at the;

 CWA rooms, Tindale Street, Penrith. 12 noon.

Contact; mountains2rivers@gmail.com For bookings.

10 May meeting, 2014

  Our Next meeting on the 10th May 2014. We will be painting this unusual  painting with Denise Shiluk as our guest teacher.

Waiting for photo's.

Follow me through the blogs February 2014

Follow me through the Blogs;

This time I found a blog by Jordan Straker, Jordan is from Canada and has been carving wood and gourds for over 20 years, a master in his field of carving he has won many shows and he also paints. please check out his site, you will not be disappointed.

www.jordanstraker.com 

Please click on the first page to enter the site. 

Some samples of Jordan's work.

2014 Convention/ Happy Hippies

Our 2014 convention will be held on the 
23rd, 24th and 25th May.

At the Marina Resort, Nelson Bay.

Theme will be 'Happy Hippies'

A great venue, a large and pleasant painting room, plenty of space. Triple, twin or single rooms available.  

This will be our 15th Convention.

The following pieces are the entrants in this years Convention workshops. Lots to choose from, see the convention booklet for more details of days and times of projects.  

Larger pieces that require more time, possibly Saturday, all subject to change, this is students choice so not all pieces may go ahead. See the convention booklet, this booklet will be sent out to all members, if you would like to join us on the convention you are welcome, however you must be a member to attend this convention. Membership is $30 per year, then convention fees, these will be available when the booklet comes out. Please contact us by email if you would like further information, thanks.

Meeting 8th Feburary

Our first meeting of the year 2014 will be on the 8th February with our guest teacher Janette Newman. We will be painting a lovely delicate piece called 'Church Window'. Janette won the first prize with this piece at the Gulgong show. I am looking forward to painting this, it involves salt, and then painted in the negative. 

Church window



Please bring with you your usual painting supplies, brushes, graphite/saral paper, masking tape and a piece of cardboard to tape the watercolour paper to, this will keep it straight.
The watercolour paper will be 14" x 10" (35cm x 25cm).
So your board will need to be slightly larger than this so you can tape the paper down.

Please book in as soon as possible, Janette has to provide and cut the watercolour paper to size, as I have to contact Janette no later than the 1st February! Thanks Lyn.

If you are thinking you would like to see what we are about but are not sure of meeting new people, just send me an email, 
 click here or call into a meeting and see what we do, no pressure, it might just be what you are looking for! We will always welcome you with a cup of coffee and a piece of cake.

Update!

Some photo's on the day.