Golden Spike Decorative Painters

2015 October Newsletter

Hi Painters and Happy Halloween

THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH

"A moment for you! You’ve got built-in happiness boosters! It’s easy for frustrations and aggravations to steal our joy. But they don’t deserve it!  So the next  time stress tries to nibble away at your day, let yourself ignore it. And when worry demands your attention, give yourself permission to postpone it!  YOU HAVE THE POWER!"

!f you haven’t signed up for the fall seminar and other classes we have, be sure and check out the blog  and see what we will be painting.  This next week will be Rosemary West’s Seminar on October 7th & 8th.   Hope you are all signed up to do this great stationery box.

We will be holding elections for 2016 Chapter officers  at the seminar this next week.  Hope everyone will either go on line and vote or come to the seminar and cast your vote for those officers you would like to have serve.  

Hasn’t it been a wonderful summer!  Peaches are all gone but there are beautiful apples and pumpkins available for Halloween.  Really love this nice Fall weather but can’t say I’m looking forward to the snow (even though we really need it).

Our Christmas party will be coming up soon. Check out the blog for date, time and other particulars.  Let’s everyone attend!

EVERYONE COME JOIN US,  bring your unfinished pieces and Tirzah will help you to finish them. We meet at the Riverdale Senior Center on Wednesday’s from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. They also serve a great lunch for $2.50.

Hope we see  you soon and may God bless.

Gloria

2015 Seminars and Paint-ins

October 7^{th -} 8^th (Wed-Thurs) – Rosemary West Seminar

November 28th (Saturday) – Kristen Birkeland - Evening Angle Plate and Cookie Exchange

December 5^th (Saturday) – Christmas Party

2016 Seminars and Paint-ins

January 23^rd (Saturday) – Calico Butterfly Box – Wendy Ouellette

February 27^th (Saturday) – Nutcracker – Juanita Denton

Note: Hobby Lobby has 11" tall nutcrackers in 3 styles for $9.99 now. So if you want to paint a nutcracker in February, now is the time to get it.

April 13^th - 15^th (Wed – Friday) – Heidi England Seminar
(See Seminar link to view project)

2016 Elections

The Chapter will vote on new officers at the October Seminar. Below is a list of those who are willing to serve the Chapter in 2016. 

President -  Pat Reeder

1^st VP - Eileen Barnard
2^nd VP - Nancy Coley
Treasurer - Wendy Ouellette

Secretary - Lydia Gossett

You may 'write-in' a candidate for any Board position, but please make sure that person is willing and able to serve before you nominate them. All 'write-in' candidates must be added to the ballot before voting begins at the Seminar.

If you are not attending the October Seminar, you may vote by E-Mail by October 5th. A special E-mail has been sent to you and you may vote by responding to the E-mail. Please indicate your approval of the candidate(s) or your 'write-in' candidate for a specific Board position.  

2015 Chapter Service Project

This year the Chapter will be trying something different for our Community Service Project. Instead of bring food items (which we so often forget) for the Food Bank, we will have a donation box where people can drop in spare change or a dollar or two. You'd be surprised how quickly little bits can add up. There is a lot of need, so we hope everyone will support this effort.

October

Rosemary West Seminar-- Stationary Box
Teacher:      Rosemary West
Date:            October 7th and 8th (Wed - Thurs) 9:00 am - 5:00 pm 
Cost:            $200 (class fee, surface, photo/pattern packet, and lunches)

                    $250 Non-Members (class fee, surface, photo/pattern packet, and lunches)

Note: Rosemary will be bring the paints for the seminar.

Seminar: (There is a limit of 20 people for this seminar.) A $100 non-refundable deposit must be paid by August 15th to hold your place in the class and pay for the wood. The balance for the seminar must be paid when the pattern and wood is picked up.

The Seminar will be held at the Riverdale Senior Center, 4433 S. 900 W. in Riverdale. Directions: Exit I-15 at Riverdale and go east 0.6 mi to stop light at 900 W. Turn left onto 900 W and proceed north for 0.2 mi. (The Community Center will be on the left.

Lunches are included in the seminar price. All lunches will include beverages and dessert.

Contact Tirzah (801-825-2660) if you have any questions about the seminar. Checks can be made out to Golden Spike Decorative Painters and mailed to the Chapter at 2825 W 5875 S, Roy, UT 84067

November

Evening Angle Plate by Shirley Peterich

Teacher:        Kristen Birkeland 

Cost:              $7.50 (class fee)

Surface:         Provide your 12” plate
Date:              November 28^th (Saturday) 10:00 am

(setup and chat time 9:30-10:00)

Note: This class will be taught in acrylics, not the oils  as printed in the Decorative Painter's Magazine, Issue No 6, 1995.

We will be having a Cookie Exchange at the Paint-in. Bring 2 dozen cookies to share and your recipe.

The Paint-in will be held at the Westwood Village Clubhouse (1111 N. 2000 W., Farr West, UT).Take I-15 #346 and go north on 2000 W/UT-126 0.6 of mile. The Clubhouse is on the west side of the street with parking on the west side of the building.

December

Christmas Party

Date:           December 5th 3:00 pm (Please note the time)
Cost:          $5.00 Members

                 $16.00 Non-members


The Party will be held at the Prairie Schooner restaurant (445 Park Blvd, Ogden Ut)

Meal Choices:

Country Fried Steak

Saucy Grilled Pork Chops

Chicken Cordon Blue

All meals include warm bread; salad; baked potato/Au gratin potatoes; steamed vegetables; drink; and desert.

We will have the 'Looser' raffle drawing and door prizes for those in attendance. We will also have the ornament exchange (bring a nice Store-Bought or Home-Made ornament if you wish to join in the fun), some games, good food, and friends. So mark you calendars and plan on coming.

We do need a count of those planning on attending. Please RSVP with your meal choice to Terry by phone (801-731-6425) or by email (tpulver1@weber.edu) by November 28th.

Checks for you and your guest(s) can be made out to Golden Spike Decorative Painters and mailed to the Chapter at 470 W 4900 S Ogden UT 84405 by November 28th or you can pay at the November paint-in.

January

Calico Butterfly Box by JoSonja Jensen

Teacher:        Wendy Ouelette

Cost:              $7.50 (class fee)

Surface:         Provide your box
Date:              January 23rd  (Saturday) 10:00 am

(setup and chat time 9:30-10:00)

Palette: JoSonja

Brilliant Green         Red Violet

Carbon Black          Seedlings

Gold Oxide             Titanium white

Marigold                 Ultramarine Blue

Vermilion                Naples Yellow Hue

Wild Grape             Napthol Crimson

Raindrop                Yellow Deep

Prep Instructions:

Seal piece. I mix sealer in with my first coat of paint. I based the whole piece in Azure mixed with the sealer 1:1. The second coat shouldn’t have any sealer in it, or the piece will feel sticky. Paint area behind the flowers Azure. Paint area behind the butterflies Raindrop.The color behind the compass rose on the top is seedlings. The trim is wild grape. The small trim is Marigold.

Purple borders:

Mix a little white into wild grape and pull a straight stroke vertically all the way around.

Glaze the piece:

When finished base coating all these areas, Use blackberry to glaze color next to any place where the colors meet. To glaze it, side load in black berry and walk the color out. You may want to use retarder medium to give yourself time to walk it out. You can take a mop brush to soften it. Then take rain drop, gold oxide and/or vermilion and dry brush some highlights here and there all over the painted areas.

Transfer design to piece.

Please have the above complete before class.

The Paint-in will be held at the Westwood Village Clubhouse (1111 N. 2000 W., Farr West, UT).Take I-15 #346 and go north on 2000 W/UT-126 0.6 of mile. The Clubhouse is on the west side of the street with parking on the west side of the building.

More Painting Opportunities - 2015 UGHA (SLC) Schedule 

SLC November - Candy Cane Basket  - Betty Roberts 

Still More Painting Opportunities

October 14th - 17th - Boris and Tatiana Kamardin, Russian Palekh Painters, Seminar

I am hosting a 4 day seminar to paint Baba Yaga with Boris and Tanya at Glenna’s Studio in Holladay, Utah. This is the first time I have hosted this type of seminar and hope it will be the first of many.

The cost is $450 and includes the surface and paints. A breakfast break and lunch is included in the fee. A non-refundable deposit is due by July 1st with the balance due on September 9.

Please plan to attend this wonderful opportunity. If you have any questions, please contact me at 801-966-4604 (home) or 801-300-3217 (cell).

Hope you can join me for this event.

June Skollingsberg

P.S. I wanted to let everyone know that I’ll take students for this seminar until the day before the seminar.  You will need the surface painted and the tracing completed for class.