Golden Spike Decorative Painters

2008 Seminars

April 17th-19th (Thur-Sat):     May 17th (Saturday):     June 14th (Saturday)     July 12th (Saturday)     August 9th (Saturday):     September 12th-13th (Fri-Sat):     Oct 11th (Saturday):     November 8th (Saturday):     December 13th (Saturday 1pm):

Heidi England Seminar: Emperor and Nightingale Chest Eileen Barnard: Cornucopia Lid (Note: Moved fom May 9th - Surfaces delayed) Juanita Denton : Watercolor Apple and Lemon Glenda Mitchell (Coordinator): Treasure Box Work Project Kristin Birkeland: Nancy Baur Seminar Nola Phillips: Snowman Sing-a-long Plate Susan Fukunaga: East Meets West Plate Christmas Party Lunchon

April Heidi England Seminar

Heidi England literally had a hobby turn into a career. Her early training took place at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. It was later she met and studied with Jo Sonja Jansen in Conroe, Texas. Heidi relates, "It was here that Jo Sonja introduced Folk Art into my life -- and I fell in love with the art form and its history. This was 25 years ago! Jo has been my teacher ever since. Heidi has also studied in Germany and at Vesterheim in Decorah, Iowa. Travel teaching and teaching for the Society of Decorative Painters gives Heidi a chance to share her love of painting with people from all over our beautiful country as well as the world. She has taught in America, Canada, Australia, France, and Japan. Heidi has four books on the subject of Folk Art. She has shared her designs in the "Artist's Journal", "The Decorative Painter", and "Paint Craft" of Japan. She has also developed a line of Pattern Packets.

Emperor and Nightingale Chest Teacher:   Heidi England April 17th - 19th     (Thur - Sat)      9am - 5pm Cost: Class Fee   Members                     $150                           Non-members              $195          Chest w/Hardware (14x16x12)     $150 Seminar:   1/3 of the seminar fee ($50) must be paid by February 9th to hold your place in the class. (After that date we will open registration up to non-chapter members.) The balance must be paid when the patterns are picked up. Chest:    If you wish the Chapter to order your chest, w/hardware, you must pay 1/3 ($50) of the cost of the chest by February 9th. The balance must be paid when the chest is picked up. Attention: Chest and patterns may be picked up beginning April 1st at Tirzah's. (Please call to make sure someone is home.)

(For more views of the finished chest, go the main web page and click on the Heidi England Seminar link in the bottom right box.)

The Seminars will be held at the Clearfield City Municiple Building, 55 S. State, 2nd floor Multi-purpose Room. Take I-15 #335 and go south on Main Street about six blocks. The City building is on the east side of the street with plenty of parking around the building.

Lunchs are included in the seminar price. All lunches will include bottled water and dessert. Coffee, tea and hot chocolate will be provided during the seminar. Lunch on Thursday will be lasagna and salad, Friday will be taco salad, and Saturday will be a baked potato bar.

Contact Nancy (621-7564) if you have any questions about the seminar. Checks can be made out to Golden Spike Decorative Painters and mailed to the chapter at 1037 W 4600 S, Riverdale Ut 84405.

May

Cornucopia Lid (Give Thanks) by Debbie Cole, CDA Teacher:   Eileen Barnard Cost:      $7.50   (class fee only)               $22.50 (class fee and Cornucopia Basket with Lid) May 17th, 10 am (chat time 9:30-10:00) Palette: Delta    Avocado    Barn Red    Black    Burnt Sienna    Burnt Umber    Dk Burnt Umber    Dk Goldenrod    Dusty Plum    Dusty Purple    Gamal Green    Georgia Clay    Golden Brown Light Ivory Maple Sugar Tan Moroccan Red Raspberry Royal Plum Spice Brown Spice Tan Straw Terra Cotta Trail Tan Metallic 14K Gold Metallic Silver Prep Instructions: Mix Elmer's Wood Filler with a little water until it has a creamy (cake filling) consistency. Coat lid with filler using a palette knife to create ridges and texture similar to stone. Use a stylus to add cracks to edges. Allow to dry at least 3 days before sanding the pattern area smooth. Apply design. Float perimeter of design with Bk Burnt Umber. Basecoat large gourd with Straw + Golden Brown (1:1), small gourd with Spice Tan + Straw (1:1), background pumpkin with Georgia Clay, foreground pumpkin with Terra Cotta, light grapes with Moroccan Red, medium grapes with Barn Red, dark grapes with Dusty Purple, and leaves with Barn Red + Terra Cotta (1:1).

Raffles

Thank you to all who brought raffles last month. They were great!!!

Senior Center

Thanks to Glenda for teaching paper folded Iris in March.

Ladies, we need teachers for the rest of year, so please support the chapter and help pay our rent. Contact Cathy Jensen at 475-7711 if you are willing to teach.

April      May      June      November

Cathy Jensen Nancy Coley - Magnetic pencil holder Eileen Barnard Rebecca Chaffee

Contact Nancy or Sue at the Senior Center for more information about time and dates of classes, costs, supplies, and to sign up for classes.

Painters Tips

Eileen received the following e-mail from Glenda Lallatin, Plaid Enterprises Designer Relations Specialist, and wanted all our members to be aware of web site for Plaid's catalog. Eileen urges each of us to let Plaid know that we appreciate their gift and their support of our Chapter.

Golden Spike Decorative Painters

Hi, I have ordered 30 each of the 6 new FolkArt colors for 2008. I hope your members enjoy them. If you could put in the newsletter that our catalogs are on-line at www.plaidonline.com, I would be most appreciative. Plaid is trying to save paper and make sure that our catalogs are available 24-7.

Glenda Lallatin
Designer Relations Specialist
Plaid Enterprises
e-mail: gjlallatin@plaidonline.com
Ph: 678-291-8140
Fx: 678-291-8360

March 2008 Treasury Report

Chapter Minutes

Attending:

Nancy called the business meeting to order at 10:12 am.

The Chapter has purchased a number of boxes for the members to paint for the Treasure Box Program. Our July monthly paint-in will be set aside to paint the boxes. Glenda will be coordinator for the month and she has ideas, patterns, etc for us. Members are asked to check out one or more boxes. We would like to complete as many as possible. Glenda would like to have 40 done to take to the Shriner's hospital at the end of July. She already has a bunch done, but we need to support her efforts. The boxes are for boys and girls ages 5 thru 17. Keep the painting simple, but nice. We would also like to have a potluck lunch with the paint-in since there is no 'instruction' being given. So plan on bringing you yummist dish.

Eileen talked to us about the May Cornicopia project. The surface has been delayed, so the paint-in will be pushed back a week. Those present decided to go with a Saturday instead of Friday date, so it will be May 17th at 10 am. There is prep that needs to be done and Eileen warned everyone not to wait until the last minute. The filler needs to dry at least 3 days before sanding the pattern area and tracing the pattern.

Cathy Jensen asked the members to consider teaching at the Senior Center. We only have teachers for February, March and May. Cathy will be teaching in April. Eileen agreed to teach in June and Becky said she would do November.

The April Seminar was discussed. The chests will be ready the first of April Tirzah reported. Any outstanding class and surface balances will be due at that time. Trizah also reported that the Gesso that Heidi used as primer now only comes in black and white. Traditions Primer can be used to get the brown tone Heidi suggests for prep. You can also use Black or Raw Umber. Tirzah has also ordered as much Red Earth as she has been able to find for the base coat.

Members were asked if any one else had an entry for our Logo contest. They are due today. Juanita will be judging them.

Time was then turned over to Carol for the Card Box project.

The meeting was adjourned at 2:30 pm till our Spring Seminar April 17th-19th, 2008, at 8:00 am.