Victoria wants a workshop with Doug Swinton and also one with Liz Wiltzen in the spring if you are interested in these please click on the Doug Swinton tab just north of this blog.
Barry is working on a three fold brochure and would like anyone with an old copy of our old one to contact him or bring it to painting on Tuesday.
Please subscribe by email to this blog. Just enter your gmail email in the box just right of this blog where it says Follow by Email and you will be sent an email alert when this blog is up dated. Wolfgang has already entered his.
I see Wolfgang that you have started a blog do you need help with it? Painting Nature is a good title.
Rowena you may want to up date your gmail account so that your name is published when you blog instead of unknown and Wolfgang you might like to update yours too so that your name appears like ours.
You will see that I added some tabs above this blog where if you move your mouse over they will highlight and if you click on them you will be taken to another page where we will keep important even news so that you can see what is going on and sign up if you want too. To get back to the blog simply hit Home.
See that wasn't too hard. I just wish that you folks had been the bloggers not me so that you could say what you want not what I wrote. LOL in my book that means Lots of Love Sandra. Check out my new blog Laughoutloudorlol.blogspot.com Sandra
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Here is the link to Robert Genn's web site where you can sign up for his twice a week news letter about all things art. I will also add it to our favorite links .Robert Genn .
Pynelogs Show 2012
At our meeting earlier this week, I agreed to liaise with CV Arts on arranging the dates for next year's show. We would like to have the show moved to a time when the restaurant at Pynelogs is open. Ideally, our show would include the September long weekend. I will be keeping the group posted via this blog, so please watch for postings.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
New day new look.
I am hoping that you continue to look here for new posts on a regular basis to get familiar with checking here. I have removed some of your blogs so we don't have to wade through stuff. We have8no just in 9 members so far. This is good! If you haven't received an invitation I will send it again and hope that it works. In bloggers "known issues" it says that invites to certain Internet providers don't let this type of invite through. They suggest that you not click on the link but copy it and paste it into your browser. Does that sound like Greek to you I will show you. Your browser is the address bar at the top of your screen the part were you enter www. etc. Also the invite may have gone to your spam or junk mail check there. Another thing that "known issues" said it that the link would only work once so if you tried it and it didn't work the best would probably be to open a gmail account and then phone me with that address and I will send another email invite. I hope you will persevere so that we soon get all connected. PS Sandra B said that the black background colour was hard to read. I will be experimenting with colours so check back.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Invite to be a contributor.
Please reply to your invite to be a contributor to this site, which you should have recieved in your email box. I just invited all on our PMP 2011-2012 membership list. Since all our information will be in one spot now we should get less emails and we will just check here. Please stick to PMP business when you post after your inital try. I will help you make a blog spot of your own if you want to ..... . It's fun believe me...
One more post today.
I have been working on the layout of the blogspot this morning. It seems now that as more contributors are added the picture profile is not showing. I have reseached this and that is how it is so don't fuss trying to get your pic here. If you have already created a profile picture for your gmail account no harm done. I am also learning as we go along. In my research I also learned that we can have over 100 contributors so no worries there. I guess some were able to sign in the first time with other than gmail accounts but will have to create a gmail account if you want to continue to view this site once we close it up.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Sandra H here
I just sat down and added you as authors. It seemed to work even if you don't have a gmail account. Maybe you only need that to start a new blog. Anyway if you accept the invitation to be authors/bloggers you should be on your way. Just sign in with your account info and try it for yourself. For now just write a little blurb and publish it we will understand then as time goes on we can add relevent information as it comes up. Just check back once in a while to see what is new. Gwen tried it and so did Sherry now it is your turn. Hope this works for every one and we can make use of this wonderful tool.
We are still a public site so don't add any personal information in your blog. Once we get set up we can close this up and use it for our own group.
from Gwen
John Swallow and Donna, Invermere Family Chiropractic want to hang some of our paintings in their reception and other rooms at the end of November. We have the opportunity for 11 paintings. If there are any who would like to hang some artwork, please let me know - Gwen
Thursday, November 11, 2010
On Monday November 8, 2010, a meeting was held to discuss the future of PMP, and twelve members attended. The general consensus was that PMP has been a very valuable group for local artists, providing a venue for members to learn new skills, to receive support, and to receive critiques on their work in a safe and supportive environment. The opportunity for learning through the workshops that have been sponsored by the group have been invaluable for members, and have been very appreciated. There was muchos gratitude expressed for the work, and many hours that first Vivian and now Victoria have devoted to our group.
The reason for the meeting was to address some concerns around organization of the group, and address the issue that Victoria needs more support and help in different areas as the group moves forward. We do not want to see her burnout, because her input, enthusiasm, and passion for art are so needed by our group,
I remember sitting at the meeting when we were deciding to rename the group from the Wannabees to the Purcell Mountain Painters, because some members thought they had moved to the next level. Now we are at another similar transition point. We have had our own PMP show now for three years, we have been a part of the Tour for all three years it has taken place, some of our members have applied to be juried into their own show's at Pynelogs, have been accepted, and have sold paintings through that venue. We have been asked as a group to have our own show in Kimberley, that will run between January 3 and 31, 2011. How great is that? We are very fortunate to have these wonderful opportunities to show our work.
In the past few years several of our members have made leaps and bounds in their painting and have moved from the place of trying to figure out how to do certain techniques, to how do I now market , and present, all of the paintings that I have sitting around. We would like to be able to provide some assistance and expertise in this area, not necessarily just on our own but maybe, by partnering with others if possible.
Sandra Howard has put all of the lists of emails together and come up with what we hope is a list that contains the names of everyone who wants to be included in our emails. I f you wish to have your name taken off please email back to me. It was decided at the meeting that we want to keep the group fairly informal so that it does not take time away from our painting, but have it formal enough so that we all know what is going on, and the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. To allow Victoria to do what she does best, and to give her more time for painting some members have volunteered to take responsibility for some of the organizational areas.
- Victoria will continue to lead our group, plan workshops, motivate and do many of the other things she does. We will just be taking some of the paperwork tasks off of her plate, and some of the busy things that others can do.
-Sandra Howard will be the liaison person between PMP and the Tour of the Arts Committee
-Bill Croft will sit on the Visual Arts Advisory Committee, as the liaison for our group, he will coordinate the Kimberley show and research other places where we might be able to show our work, like Cranbrook and Golden.
-Sherry Mallach will be the group treasurer. She will keep track of who has paid fees, who has registered for workshops etc. The PMP fees are 25.00 for the year, due in September. If you have not paid yet please make sure that Sherry gets your payment. She can be contacted at: sherbob@telus.net. She will soon be sending out a list of paid up members. We also pay 15.00 to the seniors for a membership and use of the hall, if you paint there. In order to display paintings in our Shows or the Tour under our umbrella you will need to be a paid up member.
- Gwen Pratt & Rowena Sinha will be responsible for scouting out local venues where we can hang our work and will keep it current.
- Sandra Brown will oversee the coordination(keep track of things) for Victoria, so hopefully nothing gets missed and Victoria has more time to paint. I will see if I can track down the real and virtual library we had and see what we can do to revitalize it. We invite everyone to our blog to see what Sandra H. has developed for us. The address is: purcellmountainpainters.blogspot.com . We wonder if it could become another method of members sharing information, asking questions, getting ideas on techniques etc.
If you have any ideas for any workshops you would like us to sponsor, or any teacher you would like us to bring in please email Victoria and Sandra B. If you would like to volunteer for anything please come forward. Remember our group is only as strong as we make it.
I took some notes at the meeting, but they are very sketchy so if I omitted anything please let me know. I look forward to seeing many more years of a robust PMP and the amazing art that our members are producing.
Thanks for your interest in, and contributions to our group. Cheers, Sandra Brown
The reason for the meeting was to address some concerns around organization of the group, and address the issue that Victoria needs more support and help in different areas as the group moves forward. We do not want to see her burnout, because her input, enthusiasm, and passion for art are so needed by our group,
I remember sitting at the meeting when we were deciding to rename the group from the Wannabees to the Purcell Mountain Painters, because some members thought they had moved to the next level. Now we are at another similar transition point. We have had our own PMP show now for three years, we have been a part of the Tour for all three years it has taken place, some of our members have applied to be juried into their own show's at Pynelogs, have been accepted, and have sold paintings through that venue. We have been asked as a group to have our own show in Kimberley, that will run between January 3 and 31, 2011. How great is that? We are very fortunate to have these wonderful opportunities to show our work.
In the past few years several of our members have made leaps and bounds in their painting and have moved from the place of trying to figure out how to do certain techniques, to how do I now market , and present, all of the paintings that I have sitting around. We would like to be able to provide some assistance and expertise in this area, not necessarily just on our own but maybe, by partnering with others if possible.
Sandra Howard has put all of the lists of emails together and come up with what we hope is a list that contains the names of everyone who wants to be included in our emails. I f you wish to have your name taken off please email back to me. It was decided at the meeting that we want to keep the group fairly informal so that it does not take time away from our painting, but have it formal enough so that we all know what is going on, and the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. To allow Victoria to do what she does best, and to give her more time for painting some members have volunteered to take responsibility for some of the organizational areas.
- Victoria will continue to lead our group, plan workshops, motivate and do many of the other things she does. We will just be taking some of the paperwork tasks off of her plate, and some of the busy things that others can do.
-Sandra Howard will be the liaison person between PMP and the Tour of the Arts Committee
-Bill Croft will sit on the Visual Arts Advisory Committee, as the liaison for our group, he will coordinate the Kimberley show and research other places where we might be able to show our work, like Cranbrook and Golden.
-Sherry Mallach will be the group treasurer. She will keep track of who has paid fees, who has registered for workshops etc. The PMP fees are 25.00 for the year, due in September. If you have not paid yet please make sure that Sherry gets your payment. She can be contacted at: sherbob@telus.net. She will soon be sending out a list of paid up members. We also pay 15.00 to the seniors for a membership and use of the hall, if you paint there. In order to display paintings in our Shows or the Tour under our umbrella you will need to be a paid up member.
- Gwen Pratt & Rowena Sinha will be responsible for scouting out local venues where we can hang our work and will keep it current.
- Sandra Brown will oversee the coordination(keep track of things) for Victoria, so hopefully nothing gets missed and Victoria has more time to paint. I will see if I can track down the real and virtual library we had and see what we can do to revitalize it. We invite everyone to our blog to see what Sandra H. has developed for us. The address is: purcellmountainpainters.blogspot.com . We wonder if it could become another method of members sharing information, asking questions, getting ideas on techniques etc.
If you have any ideas for any workshops you would like us to sponsor, or any teacher you would like us to bring in please email Victoria and Sandra B. If you would like to volunteer for anything please come forward. Remember our group is only as strong as we make it.
I took some notes at the meeting, but they are very sketchy so if I omitted anything please let me know. I look forward to seeing many more years of a robust PMP and the amazing art that our members are producing.
Thanks for your interest in, and contributions to our group. Cheers, Sandra Brown
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