Welcome in 2016

2016 marks our 6th year for this blog, Wow!  

 

We have reached over 10 Thousand views.

 

A very big thank you to all who support Mountains and Rivers Folk and Decorative Painters Group through this blog and Membership.

 

Last AGM I resigned from the Mountains and Rivers committee due to my ill health, the ladies on the committee do a great job every meeting/workshop, working hard to set up the room and clean up after everyone, and all the preparations in between

 I have enjoyed spending time with these lovely ladies and would like to thank every one, I will miss you all, and look forward to seeing everyone at the workshops.

 

This blog will remain open and I would like to contribute as much as I can, I hope you have as much enjoyment as I do when you read

from Mountains and Rivers blog maybe this will encourage you to join our membership from whatever country you are in. We welcome overseas visitors and members.

 

Thank you for your continuing support - Lyn.

 

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Saturday 13th February 2016 Meeting/workshop

12 noon, CWA rooms, Penrith, NSW

First meeting of the year will be with Denise Shulik
 painting "a view to the ocean"

 

Some homework; prepare with 2 coats of white gesso, dry, sand smooth. apply 1 coat of yellow oxide. trace on pattern and apply the colours as shown on pattern.

 

Thank you Denise for a very relaxing workshop, enjoyed the afternoon very much, the flowers at the end really made the painting colourful and playful, bringing it to life.

 

Convention 2013, Journey to Africa.

Well, they are out! Our Convention pieces went on display on Saturday and I have just recieved the photo;s off Robyn. So here they are, I have no idea what will be on which day untill the booklet goes out, but you can have a pre-view of the proposed workshops. They are not in order, more details will be in your booklet, out soon.







Meetings

We have two gorgeous workshops at our next two meetings, don't miss out on these, please phone or let me know by email if you would like to attend. Cost $15 for members and $20 for guests.

All workshops are at the CWA rooms, Penrith.

They are booking up fast!

The first one is by Chris Roy, 'Chook in the Dawn Light'

On Saturday the 14th July, 2012 at 12 noon.

Try out this gorgeous pastel with Chris, you will be supprised how lovely it is to use pastels and with Chri's expert hand she will show you how you can achieve great results too.

Chris will supply the pastels, pattern and the Tex paper on the day.

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Next one is by Roberta Small, 'Soft Hydrangeas'

On Saturday the 4th August, 2012 at 12 noon.

This time we will be painting this gorgeous piece with Roberta, the play with light makes it a special piece to paint. With Roberta's expert hand she will guide us all so we too can achieve gorgeous results.

Roberta will supply pattern, instructions and paints used on the day. Also the Some homework is needed on this one, Members see your Newsletter, Guests, please email me for more details.

Sample photo's of Convention 2012

Sample of photo's in the slide show below. Grab a cup of coffee, Please left click on the black screen in the post below, then sit back and watch, they will go through slowly by themself's. there are over 300 photos in the slide show! ENJOY!

May 2012 Mountains and Rivers Meeting and Workshop

This month of May 2012 at the Mountains and Rivers meeting.

We painted "his Masters Voice". by Laraine. Thankyou Laraine for such a lovely piece to teach us on the day, it was a pleasure to paint with you. An enjoyable workshop.



Some more photographs of the afternoon we spent together.

                                            A few raffle prizes on the day.

Happy New Year!

Wishing all our readers a Happy and Peacefull Year for 2012.

Our First Meeting will be on the Saturday the 11th February

Our Guest Artist will be Larraine Wingfield!

Painting with old credit cards - not to worry- no need to cut up your credit cards just yet, Larraine has a few to go around, you may also bring your own old credit or store cards you no longer use.


This meeting will also have our Display of Convention Pieces for our May Convention, so please come along and see these cool projects our expert teachers have to share with us this year. All the projects are New for the Convention, they have not been painted anywhere else, seeing the painted pieces in person is much more fun and textile that seeing just a photo.

For the Full List of our Dates to Remember for 2012, check out the Meetings Page.

Many thanks for your support through 2011, I do hope you continue to view our Blog and keep up with the latest news. I would love to hear from you all, all messages will be passed onto the Committee Meetings.
Thanks, Lyn.

Around 30 ladies attended our meeting, we had Larraine to guide us through the afternoon of painting, Thanks Larraine we had a good time!

The display of folk and decorative painting for our Convention in May was quite impressive and the quality was outstanding. It is going to be hard to make choices for the three paintings we have to choose, well first in best dressed girls!!!!!

Good Luck,  and see you all on Saturday 12th May, Lyn.

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..

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.



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)

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.

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!

Photo's of November meeting/workshop

My results from a workshop with Susan yesterday at the Mountains and Rivers meeting. Well done Susan! we all enjoyed the day, about thirty members in total attended the meeting and workshop. It was a hot day, the air conditioners going full blast made us quite comfortable, till we got outside to our cars. lunch was lovely, company even better, we all got our sugar hit for the day.

 Merry Christmas all and see you in the New Year!

A few of our members who attended the workshop, I can see a few hiding from the camera at the back!

 The two photo's above are of the class in progress.

Welcome to Mountains and Rivers!

Our last meeting, we all had fun painting a lovely Australian scene,

Our teacher for the afternoon was Janice. 

Painted free hand with detailed instructions and demonstration by Janice.

Thanks Janice for a lovely afternoon!