Display at Penrith Library

Last Thursday three members of  Mountains and Rivers committee spent a few hours arranging a display of Members Folk Art and Decorative Painting's along with some painted Memory boxes. Thankyou to Merriel, Laraine and Lesley, you did a great job!

The Display is on at Penrith City Library from the 8th March until Friday the 30th March 2012.


Today, I arranged a photographer, with the Penrith Press at the display,  Merriel and myself  were on hand to help with the photo's. Kevin, our photographer took hundreds of photos' (it seemed that way) Kevin was very impressed with the quality of the painting's and every photo the comment was, "Oh look at that" "Oh that's nice" I think he is going to have a hard time choosing his photo's. Hopefully we will see them in the Penrith press soon!

There are three glass display units  full of painted items from our very talented members of Mountains and Rivers. I had a hard time trying to photograph the glass units so I apologise for the poor photo's, my camera is a Cannon IXUS 8015, digital but not SRL. It gives not bad photo's normally but not under the conditions of all that glass and lights.

Hope as many of you visit the Display if you can get there! for the country ladies who can not, here are a few photo's. How about adding a comment if you have seen the display? even if you are not a member. Thanks, Lyn.

Credit card Painting

 Have fun painting with credit cards and jo sonja paints. Thanks Larraine!

Missed out? not to worry, Check out the FDAA stand at the Royal Easter Show where you can book in for a lesson with Larraine. Paint a small canvas with a sea view using credit cards.

See mountains and Rivers in action?

 Demonstrations of Decorative Painting will be held by the ladies of Mountains and Rivers on Monday at the Royal Easter Show.

Penrith Library Display

Mountains and Rivers will be having a Display of Hand Painted Memory Boxes, Folk Art and Decorative Painted items at;

Penrith Library, 601 High Street, Penrith

 8th March -untill-30th March

Open times as the Library

Free!

See; www.penrithpress.com.au - click on events and scroll down till you see our add, click on the title for full details.

Please support us by attending the display, thanks.

Photo's later when set up.

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.