Vol. 24 No. 4 July/August 2013 Penn’s Woods Painters Newsletter www.pennswoodspainters.com General Membership Meeting July 15 , 2013 6:00 p.m., doors open Messiah Village Community Room Christmas in July Program: Acrylic on Tin By: Jane Allen Our doors open at 6 p.m....We'll be ready to paint at 7 p.m. This month we are having a whimsy bit of Christmas in July. Our quick and easy project is a Jane Allen original sea shells and holly on a tin ornament. Penn's Woods is supplying the ornaments, just bring yourself and your painting tools. We will have all the paints available for your use, so don't worry if you don't have all the colors. Following are the paints that we will be using: DecoArt Americana Acrylics: Arbor Green, Buttermilk, Camel, Deep Burgundy, Evergreen, Hauser Dark Green, Hauser Light Green, Hauser Medium Green, Honey Brown, Light Buttermilk, Milk Chocolate, Raw Sienna, Sand, Sea Aqua, Terra Coral DecoArt Dazzling Metallics: Emperor’s Gold Brushes: Jane uses an angle shader and a 2/0 and 10/0 liner plus some brushes for base coating. Bring whatever brushes you like to float and do line work. Bring your basic painting supplies and tools for flyspecking. A paper palette is fine.
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Membership: We are currently at 81 members, two of which are lifetime mem-bers. If anyone would like to have a paper copy of the 2013 mem-bership roster please call me at 795-9845. I will make sure that you receive a copy. Barb Lehman
Roommate Wanted!
Group of 3 would like a fourth to join them at this years annual HOOT
convention. Staying at The Drury Inn.
Interested?
Call Betty Lou @258-3024
ALERT! CHANGES AHEAD ALERT!
In order to get to the stuff we love the most (painting) we are changing our meeting times. Saturdays Doors open at 9:00 am Meeting starts at 9:30 am Program starts at 10:00 am Mondays Doors open at 6:00 pm Meeting starts at 6:30 pm Program starts at 7:00 pm
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Penn's Woods Painters remaining 2013 Dates and activities
All meetings, seminars and paint-ins are held in the Community Room at Messiah Village
100 Mt. Allen Drive, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Day 2013 Dates Time Purpose Ways &
Means
Sat 7/20/2013 Field Trip R. Baer Scharff
brush sales
Mon 7/15/2013 6-9 meeting, program (Jane Allen)
Mon - Sat 8/5- 8/10 HOOT Convention
Sat 8/17/2013 9-3 Paint In - Dottie Shultz, faux leather
Mon 8/19/2013 6p Board Meeting
Sat 9/21/2013 9-4 meeting, Art Show & tea
Wed - Sun 10/9 - 10/13 New England Traditions
Sat 10/19/2013 9-3 Paint In - Pat Meyers, Santa
Mon 10/21/2013 6p Board Meeting RADA
Cutlery
Sale
Fri - Sun 11/8 - 11/10 9-5 Seminar with Sharon B
Mon 11/18/2013 6-9 meeting, program / Election
Sat 12/7/2013 10 to 1 Children's Christmas Party
Mon 12/9/2013 6p Board/Planning Meeting
Penn's Woods Painters
Treasurer's Report
04/01/13 -05/30/13
Beginning Balance: $ 16,003.44
Income:
Membership $ 60.00
Seminars $ 763.00
Ways N Means $ 2,749.50
Ways N Means - Bingo $ 4,549.72
$ 3,572.50
Expenses:
Operations 110.90
Programs 50.00
Seminars 4,038.06
Ways N Means - Bingo 2,796.74
Ways N Means 1,750.00
$ 8,745.70
Ending Balance as of 05/30/2013
$ 10,830.24
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This is great! Never before have the membership and friends of Penns Woods Painters had an opportunity this terrific. What am I talking about? Free meeting space? No dues? Sorry, no. I’m referring to our Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pennswoodspainters/344353589013366?fref=ts How many of you have your own Facebook page to keep up with your family and friends? Penns Woods Painters is no different. We want to stay connected and share the things in our lives that we are passionate about. And we all know the whole reason we belong to PWP is be-cause we love to paint and love to share what we have painted, things we have seen, ideas that we have had regarding new projects. The Facebook pages are different from our website because this will allow more conversation to take place about things that are happening or have happened. If you have missed a meeting and want to know what you missed out on, several of us might just have posted a picture or a comment or two to let you know how it went. Did you take a great picture while at the meeting, or of your latest project, or need to show friends what you are planning to tackle next? Share it! Let’s use the pages to invite friends to come back and join us at PWP. Let’s introduce others to what we do and encourage more people to paint. The pages are yours, so put your brand on it. Wendy Beckmann
Landscapes/ Seascapes Portraits --- this is one we missed
Flowers & Fruits Original Design
Seasonal --- includes Holiday; 4th of July, Easter, Halloween, & Christmas Folk Art/ Primitive
Animal/Birds
We will be looking for volunteers, sign up sheets will be available at future PWP events. Look for your invitation to our Victorian inspired event soon.
Lois Eckert and Sue Wenning
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Donations to Veterans Hospital grow to take over
PWP President’s home!
While we were setting up for Sheila’s Sale, I was contacted by Mary Dunlap who has been working with the Veterans at the Mar-
tinsburg, WV VA Hospital.
In Mary’s own words: Sharing the Love Of Painting with our Veterans in May will complete six full years. All supplies have
been donated during the course of that time. My time is volunteered (nonreimbursible) as is Eileen's, Gail's, and Joe's. My time
and expense to prep, pick up, and deliver the supplies are also volunteer (nonreimbursible). Our Veterans are so happy to re-
ceive any supplies. I always tell our Veterans who donated the supplies, and each of them in succession around the painting ta-
bles says, "Please be sure to thank them for us" or "Don't forget to thank them for us."
I don't know if you remember how this program started. A Physician's Assistant at the Martinsburg VA said to me, "Mary, the
brushes we throw away are better than the brushes our Veterans are using." Our local painting chapter began donating brushes,
then paints, followed by surfaces, books (even the DP), tapes, etc. There is almost nothing they cannot use--partial bottles of
paints as well as unopened paints, used sandpaper, etc--any supplies. The Government pays for their medical needs but provides
nothing for their recreational therapy.
There are two parts of the Martinsburg VA that receives donations. I teach in the Nursing Home Complex to our Veterans who
have lost the use of their dominant arm or hand and are in therapy learning to use their alternate arm and hand. The largest
class I have had is eighteen Veterans. They appreciate every item donated. The Martinsburg Veterans Administration Hobby
Shop is open only to all veterans. They paint on wood, metal, glass, ceramics, canvas, watercolor paper, slate, etc. The Hobby
Shop has an art show every March (for the past three or four years). Every item has been made by a Veteran and many, many of
the surfaces were donations. There have also been crocheted afghans, leather masks, jewelry, pillows, etc., in addition to the
aforementioned surfaces. They have more than three hundred entries--each completed by a Veteran. There is judging with first,
second, and third place ribbons presented at noon as well as Best Of Show. Our Veterans are extremely talented.
I am happy that I have been able to Share the Love
of Painting With Our Veterans for the past seventy-
one months.
As many of you know, Ed Rouse donated all of the
items left in Sheila’s Stash, at the end of the sale, to
the VA program that Mary leads. In addition, you
may recall that I put an email call out to our PWP
members, asking for your donations to the same
program. I am pleased to note that many of you
donated many items! Mary and her brother, Tim,
picked your donations up on Father’s Day, June 16,
2013. I thought you’d like to see some pictures of
the volume of your donations, so I’ve included some
snapshots along with this article. Thank you for
your donations to help those who fight to keep us
free.
Camp Hill
Library
Display
June 2013
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Library Art Display - Thanks to everyone who donated painted items,
the displays looks good! A few folks commented on how lovely the
items were. I hope that everyone had a chance to stop by the library to
have a look. Barb Lehman
I am excited to share our next seminar is Friday, Saturday and Sunday, No-vember 8 – 10, 2013 with Sharon Buononato, CDA. Sharon has been teaching since 1980, had articles printed in Decorative Paint-er and PaintWorks magazines, designed a technique brush line, author of 7 books and many design packets. Visit her website at www.SharonBsOriginals.com We will be painting two projects during this seminar. “Artist By the Sea” is the first project we will be painting on Friday, 1pm – 5pm and Saturday, 9am – 5pm. Then on Sunday, 9am – 5pm we will be painting “Four Tidings Orna-ments”. Painter is responsible for their own surface. Here is the information that was provided by Sharon.
“Artist By the Sea” was originally painted on a 11” x 17” oval tray which is no longer available. Sharon suggests an oval Bentwood Placemat box from Hofcraft #WD1152. Currently this box sells for $25.28. I noticed on Hofcraft website that they have 16” x 11” oval placemats as well.
“Four Tidings Ornaments” is a new packet for 2013. The four ornaments were painted on 3” x 4 ½” oval. A set of four is available through Hofcraft #WD5117-4
Please refer to the registration form within the newsletter to reserve your seat at the low cost seminar.
If you are interested in helping on the Seminar Committee, please let me know as soon as possible.
Linda Kapp 717 580 8547
Web Site Update For the past few months, Jane Allen, Linda Kapp, Sue Wenning, Wendy Beckmann and Hilary Felinski have been working on creating a new website for Penns Woods Painters. While our new site is still in the ‘finishing phase’, we wanted you to know where to look! The hope is that we will be able to keep this updated more quickly and easily as we move forward! Our new website is………drum roll please…… www.http://pennswoodspainters.wordpress.com Please take a look! Sign up to follow our Blog! Let us know what you think – you can leave a reply right there on the web site. Please note that posts (your replies) may not be immediately available.