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Vol. 25 No. 3 May/June 2014

TIME: 10 a.m. Business meeting, all members welcome 10:30 a.m. program beginsDATE: Saturday, May 17, 2014LOCATION: Caromal Colours 13 East Main St, Mechanicsburg, PA Check for space available by contacting Dee DeLorenzo at 717-728-9470 or ddelores@verizon.net

Our May Program is soooo very special. It’s an exciting look of stencils and brush work. We know that reservations have been made so we are set. However, if we exceed our maximum number of students, we will create a waiting list. Just as a reminder, please bring your usual painting supplies, stencil brushes (if you have any), a sack lunch. Caromal will provide the canvases, stencils, paints. Doors will open at 10 a.m. We’ll have a short business meeting , which all members are welcome to attend. The program will begin at 10:30. Bring your own lunch, Caromal Colours will provide Coffee, Water and light snacks. The program fee of $25 includes the stencils (which retail for $30). Please mail your Non Refundable Payment to Dee DeLorenzo at 214 E. Main St, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055. Any checks should be made payable to PWP.

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Hi Fellow Painters!!

With all the cold weather we’ve had I have taken the opportunity to finish those pesky “UFO’s” that we all have sitting around but also learned a lot about myself as well and thought I would share.A friend wanted a “realistic moose” and as a Thank You I wanted to paint her a “realistic owl” as well and kept putting it off for months because of my fear that I could not do it as I have never painted “realistic” before. I have not taken

classes nor studied animals. I not only tackled both subjects but they came out so nice and I can say I’m PROUD of myself.I learned that we have more talent

and knowledge of painting any subject than we realize. We just need to step out of our comfort zone and change the “I

can’ts” into “I Can”!! Maybe there is something that you have wanted to try but were intimated by it – JUST GO FOR IT!!! You can do it. Your

might just learn a thing or two about yourself along the way.With that being said I hope to see you all at our next meeting as well as at our Paint-Ins we have sched-uled this year. Without our volun-teers and board members putting all these great projects together we would not be Penns Woods Paint-ers!!

Have a great Painting Day!!

Joyce

President’s Message

Raffle for May 2014 Meeting. Nevermind

June 2014 Memory Box Paint-InJune 7, our Paint-In date, will be here before we know it. Pat Mey-ers will be teaching her “Cat with a Ball of Yarn” class. Pat has been a long-time member of PWP. She isa dedicated and talented member. If you have not signed up for the Paint-In, please do so soon. We need at least nine members attending in order to have the Paint-In. If you would like to sign

up now, please send your sign up form (found as last page of this newsletter) and check of $20.00 to Hattie Ogle, 1239 Kuhn Rd.,Boiling Springs, PA 17007. You may also sign up at the May 17th meeting. We look forward to see-ing you there.

Hattie Ogle 717-258-3438

OGLE@PA.NET

Last month we high-lighted in this space that a raffle would be held at the May 2014 meeting. Given the fact that there is a limit to the number of people who could fit in the Caromal Colours’ facility for the May program and meeting,

the board decided that it was best to wait with the raffle until a later meet-ing. Just to remind you what we are

talking about: Members who at-tend the future PWP meeting will be able

to participate in a Silent Auc-tion for a chair painted by Judy Diephouse and also a Raffle for “Roses” by Trudy Beard (Lazore) and for “Flowers” painted by Maureen McNaugh-ton (which needs just a little finish-ing.)

 

 

 

It is with great excitement that I share that Jane Allen has stepped up to help me with seminars for 2015. Jane will be contacting artists to travel to our chapter in 2015 and beyond. If you have any suggestions, please email Jane and myself. I have shared the recent names that were emailed to me recently for Jane to follow up. We look forward to sharing more in-formation in the months to come. In the meantime, is anyone interested in traveling to another chapter to support their seminars? It is a lot of fun traveling with other PWP members for the day of painting!! I am also wondering what interest we have for World of Color Expo in November? Are members interested in a bus trip for one day or more? Will we have different groups of painters attend-ing at different times that we can arrange car pooling? Please drop me a quick email indicating your intent for the expo, that way I can prepare if necessary.

Linda Kapp

Membership Report

Seminars

5/3 & 4 Sandy Scales teaching Betty Caithness design, Southern Maryland Decorative Painters, MD5/12-17 SDP Conference5/16-17 Chris Haughey, Pocono Painters6/6-8 Lynne Andrews, Chesapeake Bay Decorative Artists, MD6/13-14 Ros Stallcup, Old Dominion Decorative Artists, Richmond, VA8/22-23 Della Wetterman, Pocono Painters9/12-14 Brenda Stewart, PA Mountain Laurel, Hughesville, PA9/22 Beth Wagner, Keystone9/26-28 Debbie Cotton, Chesapeake Bay Decorative Artists, MD10/3-4 Peggy Harris, Lehigh Valley Decorative Painters10/10-12 Retreat, Old Dominion Decorative Artists & Tidewater DecorativePainters,Wakefield,VA10/18 -19 Roxanne Puchalski, Southern Maryland Decorative Painters11/12-15 World of Color Expo, Hilton Washington/Dulles Airport, Herndon, VA

Seminars in the area

Our 2014 membership is currently at 50 members.

Show and Tell

Remember the simpler days of a lovely tea, beautiful art and won-derful company with those who are like you, passionate about painting.Linda Kapp and Wendy Beckmann have met and plans are being made to plan such an afternoon. Put it on your calendar now for 2 pm, Sunday, October 26th. And if you are so inclined to help, we will be

happy to have your assistance with setting up, food, or with the art show judging.

Painting at the Simpson Library

Who is

Missing?is there someone that you used to

see at every meeting/paint-in?

help us invite them back to

PWP!

PWP is set up to instruct a make-it/take-it project for Wed., May 7th. The faux salt glaze pottery was suggested to be a good beginner project. So, mark you calendars if you can lend a hand. Program will start at 6:00 p.m.. PWP will be represented by a few members, so far, who would teach and assist in doing the project. If you would be able to help with this, contact Barb Lehman.

We, the PWP members, were asked to display our personal artwork in the hall at Messiah Vil-lage for the month of April. Five members participated with 49 pieces, either hanging on the wall or displayed in the curio cabinet. The staff, residents and guest enjoy looking at our beautiful pieces; with some of them purchasing a piece or two. Thank you to Barb Lehman, Fran Huffman, Carol Henry and Melissa Crowther plus myself for sharing. If you missed

this month, watch your newsletter for our next opportunity, probably in the fall. Linda Kapp

Art Display, Messiah Village Commons

Art & Tea Show Sun. October 26.

Next year marks our 25th Anniversary as Penns Woods Painters and the board has come up with the idea to have a PARTY!!! We will be painting all day and

Penns Woods Painters will provide lunch and surfaces and there will be no cost to the membership. We will have goody bags and other surprises to mark our 25th Anniversary. Volunteers will be needed to put this party together so please consider volunteering to make our 25th Anniversary truly special to all. Please contact Joyce to volunteer.

Penns Woods Painters 25th Anniversary

Since we are having our May meet-ing at Caromal Colours, we will not be raffling any items. We will also not have a silent auction. In other words, we will not be doing any fundraising activities at our May meeting, since we will be at Caro-mal Colours. As things stand right now (April 24th), this change in plans may also mean that we may have more than one item for the Silent Auction,

and maybe more than two items for a Raffle, at our September meeting! So, look ahead and do your best to be able to join us in September, too! Keep your eyes on the newsletter and web page to see what we will have for both the Silent Auction and the Raffle as we move past the May meeting! (Besides what you see on that front page.)Hope to see you there!

oooooRemember how it works...for

the Silent Auction, you each will need to write in the amount you are bidding on the chair. For the raffle pieces, when you purchase

your raffle tickets, you will put one ticket of the pair in the ‘bucket’

next to your selection. ooooo

Ways and Means

Treasurer’s ReportFebruary 1 through February 28 Begin balance 17,821.84 Income Membership 120.00 Retreat 396.18 Programs 50.00 Memory Box 174.28 total Income 740.46 Expenses Programs 100.00 Memory box 174.28 Retreat 396.18 Operations 3.00 Total Expenses 673.46 Ending balance 2/28/14 17,888.84 March 1 through March 31 Begin balance 17,888.84 Income Membership 40.00 Retreat 64.95 ways and means 6.00 Memory Box - total Income 110.95 Expenses Programs - Memory box - Retreat 1,021.86 Operations 88.00 Total Expenses 1,109.86 Ending balance 3/31/14 16,889.93

May/June Birthdays

Sylvia Bean - May 4Sue Wenning - May 14Kathy Swigon - May 14

Melissa Crowther - May 25Carol Henry -May 26Amy Mogish - June 2

Donna Brown - June 3Hattie Ogle - June 18

Kathy Morrow - June 27Dottie Shultz - June 27Linda Sutphin - June 30

Is this how we all started?

Plan Ahead for 2014 Paint-InsAugust 23rd

Taught by Lois Eckert

October 18thTaught by

Fran Huffman

Library ExhibitPWP will be displaying painted items at the Joseph T. Simpson Li-brary, Mechanicsburg for the entire month of August. Barb Lehman will be collecting painted items starting July 1st. Please bring your items that you wish to display to the July meeting or contact Barb at 795-9845 to make other arrange-ment.

Did you know...

...that To create perfectly straight painted lines on a flat wood surface, score lines in the wood using a stylus and a see-through

ruler. Load a liner brush with thinned

paint and follow the depressions created in the wood by the

stylus.

On Mar 1st, Bobbi Brady wrote to Linda Kapp regarding the March 1st Retreat:“I want to thank you for all the hard work, planning and time spent on making this day possible. It was one of the nicest, most perfect days I have had in quite a while and I can not express to all of you how much I enjoyed this day.”

Thank You

Penns Woods Painters 2014 Dates and activities

All Penns Woods activities are held in the Community Room at Messiah Village, 100 Mt. Allen Drive, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, unless otherwise noted

Saturday meetings - doors open 9am; meeting - 9:30 am; program - 10:00am Monday meetings - doors open 6:00pm, meeting - 6:30pm; program - 7:00pm

Paint Ins and Seminars - doors open 8am; painting - 9:00am.

bi-monthly board meetings are held at a location to be decided by the 2014 President, unless otherwise noted.

Board meetings start time and dates TBD (2014 President decision).

Day 2014 Dates Purpose Sat 1/18/2013 Installation of Officers

Meeting Program Glass Jewelry Painting

Mon 2/17/2014 Board Meeting Sat 3/1/2014 Member Appreciation Retreat - Sandy Scales

Mon 3/17/2014 meeting, program Melissa Crowther Silk Painting Demo

Mon. 4/15/2014 Board Meeting

Sat. 05/03/2014 Memory Box Paint In - Dove and Lace Mon -

Sat 05/12–17/2014 SDP Convention

Sat 5/17/2014 meeting, program- Caromal Colours

Sat 6/7/2014 Paint-In Pat Meyers, Cat with Yarn Mon 6/16/2014 Board Meeting

Mon 7/14/2014 meeting, program TBD

Mon - Sat

Aug 11-16 HOOT Convention Columbus OH

Sat 8/23/2014 Paint-In Lois Eckert, Rose Mon 8/18/2014 Board Meeting

Sat 9/20/2014 meeting, program Amy Mogish, Colored Pencil

Wed - Sun

Oct TBD

New England Traditions Marlborough, Massachusetts

Sat 10/18/2014 Paint In Fran Huffman, Noel Banner Mon 10/20/2014 Board Meeting Sun 10/26/2014 Tea, Art Show

Wed - Sat

Nov 12-15 World of Color Expo Washington, DC

Mon 11/17/2014 meeting, Ornament Exchange, election All

month December Art Display at Messiah

Mon 12/8/2014 Board/Planning Meeting

 

Our 2014 Memory Box Paint In is scheduled for May 3. As I write this for our newsletter, we have approximately 13 people, besides Dottie Shultz and myself, who will be joining us. I thank you for your dedication to our Memory Box program.Look for pictures from the Paint-In on both our Facebook page and our website!Since our May meeting is being held at Caromal Colours in Me-chanicsburg, please do not bring any Memory Boxes in to the shop. If you must bring your Memory Boxes with you on May 17, I ask that you let me know beforehand. That helps me figure out where to park, etc. to help make it relatively easy to transfer the boxes from you

to me. Let Hilary know via email (hilaryfelinski@comcast.net) or phone (leave a voicemail) (717 730 9220).We have delivered another 31 Memory Boxes to our local hospitals in the past 6 weeks or so. Hopefully, our hospi-tals have enough ‘stock’ of our Memory Boxes that will last them a few months. But, we never know, so it is important that you return boxes that you are working on, so we keep our inventory ‘at the ready’!Unfortunately, we may never know how many folks find themselves receiving one of our boxes. I will tell you that I wish that I had

known about this program 23 years ago when the tragedy of a stillborn affected my family. I do have the honor of knowing that a friend of

mine, unfortunately, received one of our boxes, a

few years ago – in fact she

received one that I had painted. As

sad as this situa-tion is for everyone

affected, I am glad that we continue to

provide these boxes as a symbol of our caring.

Thank you.

Hilary Felinski

Memory Boxes

We just love to see a happy presenter. Melissa Crowther showed us her Silk Painting and it is way harder than it looks.

Treasurer BoxesThis week, Barb is delivering 12 beautifully painted boxes to the Catlin Smiles Foundation.Thank you all for the fantastic job well done. Due to the fact that our next meeting(looks like a fun project) will be in a retail shop; please hold any boxes that are painted until our next meeting in July.

Lois Eckert

From the teacher’s perspective . . . we’re not a bad looking group. : )

Penns Woods Painters Officers

Brush Stroke InformationPlease send camera ready ad along with check made payable to Penns Woods Painters to Hilary Felinski, 11 Circle Drive, Camp Hill, PA 17011-2608. Brush Strokes, the Newsletter for Penn’s Woods Painters is published six times a year. In addition, Brush Strokes is posted on the chapter’s web site. PWP’s advertising rates are very reasonable and offer a targeted audience for those wishing to advertise their business, shop, classes, woods, painting supplies, or other services. If you would or someone you know would benefit from advertising in Brush Strokes, please contact us for additional information.

Newsletter CommitteeWendy Beckmann - EditorHilary Felinski— Proof EditorJoyce Gutierrez — Proof EditorHilary Felinski— Advertising

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Penns Woods Painters’ Committee Chairs

President Joyce Gutierrez makeme0803@yahoo.comVice President Programs

Dee DeLorenzo ddelores@verizon.net

Vice President Membership

Barb Lehman RBLehman2@verizon.net

Secretary Elaine Moran demoran@verizon.net Treasurer Hilary Felinski hilaryfelinski@comcast.net

2014 Retreat Hilary Felinski hilaryfelinski@comcast.netArt Display at Messiah Linda Kapp lindakapp21@gmail.comArt Show/Tea Linda Kapp

Wendy Beckmannlindakapp21@gmail.comwendybeckmann@verizon.net

Historian TBDMemory Boxes Hilary Felinski/

Joyce Gutierrezhilaryfelinski@comcast.netmakeme0803@yahoo.com

Newsletter Wendy Beckmann wendybeckmann@verizon.netNewsletter Ads Hilary Felinski hilaryfelinski@comcast.netNominating TBDPaint-Ins Hatti Ogle ogle@pa.netPublicity Wendy Beckmann wendybeckmann@verizon.netSeminars Linda Kapp lindakapp21@gmail.comTreasure Boxes Lois Eckert eck1035@aol.comWay and Means Hilary Felinski hilaryfelinski@comcast.netWeb Page Hilary Felinski hilaryfelinski@comcast.net

So,if you weren’t there, can you guess the theme-of-the-Day for our last meeting and program?Thanks Dee for laying out such a Good looking and delicious table. Root Beer Floats, Yum.

Member Appreciation Retreat with sandy scales

We had a really great day on March 1st with Sandy Scales, painting a Betty Caithness piece.Terrific teacher, good food, great company and of course, doing something that we all love to do.

What could be better?

Well, there were these really nifty bags full of goodies.

And did we mention good food?

Penns Woods PaintersMembership Application

2014Becoming a member in our chapter is very easy once you have joined SDP. Just send your check for $20 made payable to Penns Woods Painters along with the membership application to:

Penns Woods Painters ATTN: Barb Lehman PO Box 1518 Mechanicsburg, PA 17055

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What committee would you be interested in serving for 2014?○Art & Tea ○Memory Boxes ○Newsletter ○Paint-Ins ○Publicity ○Ways N Means ○Treasure Boxes ○Seminars

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Penn’s  Woods  Painters  

June  7,  2014  Paint-­‐In,  9  to  4  

Pat’s  Cat  –  designed  by  and  taught  by  Pat  Meyers:  

Name:  ____________________________________________  

Address:___________________________________________  

                             ___________________________________________  

Phone:  _____________________________  

Email:    ____________________________________________  

Cost  is  $20  for  the  whole  day!  

To  register,  complete  this  form  and  bring  it  to  the  March  or  May  meeting,  with  your  $20  fee,  or  mail  the  form,  with  your  check  to:    PWP  Paint-­‐Ins,  

P.  O.  Box  1518,  Mechanicsburg,  PA  17055    or    

Hattie  Ogle  1239  Kuhn  Road,  Boiling  Springs,  Pa.  17007.          

We  must  have  a  minimum  of  nine  (9)  to  go  forward  with  the  paint-­‐in.  

   

Hattie  will  provide  the  list  colors—remember,  we  are  each  responsible  for  bringing  our  own  paints!