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1 1 VILLAGE NEWS AND VIEWS Volume 37 Issue 4 The Village Painters is an affiliated chapter of the National Society of Decorative Painters July/August 2014 Web page The Village Painters Board 2014 President Linda Christopher (734) lindachristopher60@ gmail.com Vice-President Linda Morgan (734) morganlj@sbcglobal.net Secretary Ruth Vernacchia (248) rvernacchia@comcast.net Treasurer Kathy Fischer (734) fischerk@umich.edu PRESIDENT S CORNER Wasn't the June meeting fun? After such a long cold winter it was refreshing to paint flowers. The coal buckets were gorgeous. A great big thank you to Sheri Redd, Leslie Williams, and Doreen McLain for turning them into works of art. Even though I was out of town for Debra Houts' seminar I heard it was wonderful. It's always such a pleasure when she comes back to visit us and a great big bonus when she leads us in a project. The August picnic is right around the corner. Don't forget to paint your flowers on the boards Sally handed out, and bring a dish for the potluck. This is also a great opportunity to clean out your stash and stock up on new-to-you treasures with our trunk sale. Happy summer Linda Newsletter Editor Linda Morgan (734) morganlj@sbcglobal.net Membership Loretta Huebler (734) lhuebler@wowway.com

2 2 At the Village Painters' October general meeting we will be electing Board members and Chairpersons for Volunteers are needed to fill these positions. Contact us if you are willing or if you have any questions. You can view a list of all positions on our website. Nomination Committee Karen Capshaw Karen Lavella paintdrop@aol.com klavella3623@gmail.com Thank you, ladies, for stepping in to the position! Denise Robert Deni831@aol.com "Volunteers are seldom paid; not because they are worthless, but because they are PRICELESS! " Calendar of Events 2014 Aug HOOT Aug 16 Aug 17 STILL OPEN Wall Mural Aug Lydia Steeves Sep Sherry Nelson Oct 11 Leslie Williams Beary Christmas Oct 12 LTP Fall Harvest Mason Jar, Rondi Bur Oct Fall Retreat Nov 9 LTP Birthday Cupcake on a Charger, Linda Christopher Future Events Save the date! Apr 11, 2015 Apr 25, 2015 May 2, 2015 Spring Fling Judy Ribitch Michigan Mixer May 11-16, 2015 SDP Conference St. Charles, IL June 6-7, 2015 Jamie Mills-Price Registration forms can be found on the website or at the General Meetings. What is going on at the National Museum of Decorative Painting? Check out the web-site at Sign-up for the newsletter! DAC Liaison, Diana Winn **General Meetings are held at the Livonia Senior Center in Livonia ** General Meetings 6:00 pm 6:45 pm social period 6:45 pm business starts 2014 Feb 6, Apr 3, June 5, Aug 7, Oct 2, Christmas Party Dec 4 Minutes from the last General meeting can be found on the website. Board Meetings Plymouth Library 6:30 pm

3 3 Memory Box Update: Deliveries have been made to Providence Southfield and Children s Hospital during the last two months. The supply of boxes has been depleted. Please find it in your heart to paint more boxes for the inventory. Unpainted boxes are available at all meetings or call me to arrange. Thank you in advance! Michelle Handley Welcome to our newest members! Audrey Gusmano Janet McFadden Marge Sinkovitz Our Free Little Library was installed at Houghton Lake. Be Wise sign up for the 2014 Fall Retreat Owl Be Painting October 17, 18 & 19 We have a great weekend planned for you, so come and join the fun! If you don t want to paint the planned projects bring some of your UFO s! What a great chance to finish those projects while enjoying the fellowship with your Village Painters. Registration form is on the website. Any questions contact Paula Atkinson paulawog43@aol.com or

4 4 Spring Fling Baskets 2015 Hi Ladies, It's time to start thinking about our baskets for the Spring Fling in If you start now you can watch for sales and end of the season discounts. So choose your theme and have fun collecting! Remember one item in the basket needs to be hand painted. You will receive 8 pence for your donation. This year our Charity Basket donation will go to benefit the Penrickton Center. The Pendrickton Center is for children 1-12 who are blind or have multiple disabilities. Our theme this year is Barbeque/Picnic. Your donation can either be purchased or hand painted. You will receive 1 pence no matter the number of items donated. I will start to collect items at the Oct. meeting. Karen Capshaw will be collecting for a community basket (kitchen). One pence per person no matter the number of items donated. Some past baskets to give you some ideas are: Spa, Christmas, Kitchen,Pool Party, Margarita, Coffee and Tea, Fall,Wine and Cheese, Cherry, Frog, Golf, Butterfly, Movie, Italian, Snowman, Chocolate, Birthday, Painters, Heart, Cupcake, Baby, Dragonfly, Easter, Halloween, Americana, Birding, Children s, Movie/popcorn. You can bring your basket to any meeting. I would like to have it by the Feb meeting if possible, the April meeting is the final date! Please me a list of your contents in a word document. Remember you don't need to arrange your basket or cover it, I will be doing that. Just make sure all your items will fit in your basket. : ) Let me know if you'd like to donate a basket. Paula Atkinson Paulawog43@aol.com Sheri Redd Doreen McLain Thank you to our wonderful artists for the fantastic masterpieces they made out of old coal scuttles. Leslie Williams

5 5 Happy Birthday! July 1 Sam Farah 4 Charlene DeBaske 9 Pat Butler 18 Carol Sneary 19 Dianne Winn 21 Loretta Huebler 21 Nancy Silver 24 Maureen VanBuhler 26 Darlene Greenwood 27 Charlene Wenzel 30 Linda Christopher The Village Painters Spring Fling 2015 Saturday April 11, 2015 Crystal Gardens Banquet Center Fort Street, Southgate August 2 Karen Capshaw 3 Louise Brown 4 Sandy Freese 25 Eileen Carroll 29 Michelle Handley 30 Barb Faulkner 31 Denise Robert Spring Fling Boutique Spring Fling is LESS than one year away!!! We are still storing smaller finished projects. Larger items can be donated closer to the celebration date. Heritage Decorative Artists is accepting submissions for teaching at the 2015 Michigan Mixer. If you are interested, submit your picture by the end of September. Please call or write: Nancy Nicastro, Katherine, Taylor, MI Please check the Boutique Table at our meetings for items to complete, and return yours there also. Donations of other items are gratefully accepted as well. Questions? Call us. Another Paint In is tentatively planned for Fall. Stay tuned! Michelle Handley Linda Morgan

6 6 Education Diane Stiller We just finished our two day seminar with Debra Houts. It was so nice to see her again looking so fit and tan. Colorado must agree with her! We learned her dry brushing technique and she described how to apply the paint and liquid lead to get the stained glass look. The two day seminar was attended by 60 people; 4 of them non members. There was a cash profit of $47.14 after $116 in pence was covered. Please make sure to send in your registration forms for the classes coming up in August and September: the Wall Mural, Lydia Steeves, and Sherry Nelson. Make sure to order your Subway lunch from Joan Mueller for the Saturday class for Lydia Steeves and Sherry Nelson. I need 7 more students in order to break even for the Lydia Steeves class; the deadline is July 26. So far we have made a cash profit on our seminars; let s not break our perfect record! The registration form for the Wall Mural Extravaganza is on our web site. I hope many of you are thinking of registering a team or two or even three! It will be a fun day as you all create your very own masterpiece. It will end with a spaghetti dinner while the judges select the top three wall murals. You will have a chance to win a gift certificate to either a Sherry Nelson or a Leslie Williams class. Don t miss out on the fun! The deadline to register is at our annual August picnic where you can also pick up the image template. I need at least 12 teams to make this event a go; so I need 9 more teams. This is the perfect opportunity to paint with a friend or family member including grandchildren. I have ed the pattern and prep instructions for Lydia Steeves, Sherry Nelson, and Leslie Williams to everyone who has registered. For Lydia and Leslie, there is an attachment for the pattern and prep instructions. For Sherry, there is only an that contains her prep instructions. Sherry will give you the pattern at class since she wants to demonstrate her method of transferring the pattern. If you register for the Saturday reverse glass painting class, the crow quill pen and ink are included. If you are registering for the Beary Xmas class taught by Leslie Williams, you can purchase the ornament shaped surface from her for $4.50. If you are paying by check for the surface, then please make the check payable to Leslie Williams. Leslie will be bringing the surfaces to the August meeting. Very Important! Don t forget to submit your application to teach next year. The application is on our web site. There is also one for the Learn to Paint! program. The application should be postmarked no later than July 20. At this time you only need to submit a photo of the project with your application. You can have multiple entries. The popular vote will take place at the August picnic. If selected, then you would need to bring the painted project to the October meeting so we can take pictures to display in our brochure and on our web site. If you admired someone s work during the year, encourage them to teach. Jamie Mills Price has sent me a file of proposed projects for the June, 2015 seminar. We are going to have a hard time narrowing it down to two. We will conduct a popular vote at the August picnic, as well as, for the Judy Ribitch class project.

7 7 The Village Painters presents a Wall Mural Extravaganza Sunday, August 17, 2014 Is it a castle, a spaceship, an iceberg, a race car? You decide! Here s an opportunity to let your imagination go wild! You will pick up the above pattern at either the June or August general meeting. The size of the image cannot be altered; however, you can cut the outline out so you can use it to trace the image onto your surface. The rest of the painting is up to you. On August 17, you will be given a 2 x 2 foot square of masonite which will be base coated with your choice of one of four colors: Blue, Green, Beige, or Dark Gray. The only medium that can be used is acrylic paint including paint with glitter in it. No other embellishments can be used: no gluing anything on, no sprinkling glitter, no crackle, etc. Remember above where it says the size of the image cannot be altered? There is one exception and that s if you will repeat the image multiple times. In that case, the size of at least one of the images can not be altered; the others can be smaller. For instance, if your image will be a race car, at least one race car must be the original size of the image and the other race cars can be smaller. Register as a team. A team consists of either one or two members. One member must be a Village Painters member; the second member (if you choose to have one) must be someone with little to no painting experience. The Village Painter member can be on multiple teams. For instance, one team can be you and your daughter, another team can be you and your grandson. Use a separate registration form for each team. Each team costs $ You can paint from 9am to 2:30 pm. You will need to bring your own lunch. Lunch is whenever you want to eat. This gives everyone the maximum amount of time that they want to keep painting their masterpiece. At 2:30 all painting must stop. While you are eating a spaghetti dinner (which will include desserts, of course!), I will have judges selecting the top three paintings. The judges will have the image and make sure that they can match the outline of the size and shape of it in your painting. They will also be looking at creativity, and the overall look of the finished product. Winners will be announced at the end of dinner. The Village Painters member will receive as a prize: 1 st Place: A $45 gift certificate for a Sherry Nelson class 2 nd Place: A $30 gift certificate for a Sherry Nelson class 3 rd Place: A $20 gift certificate for the Leslie Williams A Beary Xmas class If there is a second team member, they will receive as a prize: A $15 gift certificate to a 2014 Learn to Paint class and a bag filled with painting items.

8 8 Date: Sunday, August 17, 2014 Surface: 2 x 2 foot masonite Time: 9:00 am 4:00 pm Paint: Acrylic; you provide Where: Livonia Senior Center Farmington Rd. Livonia, MI Cost: $15.00 per team Registration: Now through Thursday, August 7, (our picnic) Please remember that all fees are non-refundable. Contact Diane Stiller (313) or dianestiller@sbcglobal.net if you have questions or cannot attend. A Wall Mural Extravaganza, Sunday, August 17, 2014 Team Member #1 Name Amount Enclosed Team Member #2 Name $15.00 Address Circle one base coat color: City State Zip Blue Green Beige Dark Gray Phone # Make check payable to: The Village Painters Mail to: c/o Diane Stiller, 674 W. Canfield, Detroit, MI Bags painted by our members for the Lutheran Social Services -

9 9 Learn to Paint! Our next class is on Sunday, October 12, instructed by Rondi Bur. It is a fall harvest on a mason jar. Please make every effort to encourage people to register so that this program is successful. Don t forget that October is Decorative Painting month and is typically when we held the Paint with Us! Plan on asking all of those people who came last year. We would like to continue the Learn to Paint! program next year if there is enough interest. Debra Houts June 21 & 22, 2014 Acrylic Revenue for 2 day seminar Students Registration: Seminar Coordinator (1,1) 2 0 $0.00 Fee Members (26,28) 54 $25.00 $1, Non Members (1,3) 4 $35.00 $ Total Revenue (28,32) 60 $1, Expenses Debra Houts Seminar Fee: $300 x 2 days $ Airfare $ $25/1 bag each way $50.00 Office Depot - Photos $23.68 $1, Livonia Senior Center $60 x 2 days $ Total Expenses $1, Profit/Loss $ Less Pence $ Net Cash Profit $47.14

10 10 The Village Painters Application to teach a class in 2015 (Please print) Name: Phone#: Project: Description: Pattern by: Medium: Acrylic Oil Watercolor Color Pencil Mixed Media Other: (Circle one) Suggested Surface: Wood MFD Glass Metal Vinyl Fabric Plastic Other: (Circle one) Any Special Brushes or Supplies: What will students learn either in prepping, painting, finishing, embellishing, or sealing the project? Please submit your application with a color photo to Diane Stiller, 674 W. Canfield, Detroit, MI postmarked no later than July 20, At the August General Meeting, there will be a popular vote by the membership in order to aid in the selection of the projects for A photo of your project will be displayed if you don t have the project painted at that time. If your project is selected, then you will be expected to bring your painted project to the October General Meeting. Three to four projects will potentially be selected.

11 11 The Village Painters Application to teach a Learn to Paint class in 2015 (Please print) Name: Phone#: Project: Description: Pattern by: Medium: Acrylic Suggested Surface (Circle one): Wood MFD Glass Metal Vinyl Fabric Plastic Other Any Special Brushes or Supplies: What will students learn either in prepping, painting, finishing, embellishing, or sealing the project? Please keep in mind that the entire project needs to be completed in class since we are supplying the surface and all of the paint and painting supplies. If there is any prepping, then you will have to do it. You will need to coordinate with Linda Christopher in order to use the paints that she is storing at her house for the program. Please submit your application with a color photo to Diane Stiller, 674 W. Canfield, Detroit, MI postmarked no later than July 20, At the August General Meeting, there will be a popular vote by the membership in order to aid in the selection of the projects for A photo of your project will be displayed if you don t have the project painted at that time. If your project is selected, then you will be expected to bring your painted project to the October General Meeting. Three to four projects will potentially be selected.

12 Here s a sample of what our members brought to the June, 2014 General Meeting Show and Tell Nancy Stanford Barbara Reinholz Cathy Uhring Karen Copeland Denise Rogers Sheri Redd Maureen VanBuhler Susan Rhodes Sam Farah Sandy Tyo Eileen Carroll Diane Stiller Karen Lavella Sally Thirjung Denise Robert 12

13 Linda Morgan Connie Vasilnek Paula Atkinson Peggy Mack Memory Boxes Jan Kaplan Kathy Ziemba Karen Capshaw Treasure Boxes Maureen VanBuhler Linda Morgan Sam Farah Pam Hypnar 13

14 Next General Meeting Livonia Senior Center Farmington Rd. Next General Meeting August 7, 2014 Social period 6:00 pm Livonia, MI Meeting 6:45 p.m. See you there!! 14 Linda Morgan - Editor 2043 Bellingham Canton, MI 48188