An Affiliated Member of the Society of Decorative Painters

Volume 12 Issue 2 March/April 2010

Happy Spring to all of my fellow painters,

May 8th Paint-In
Project: Painting Rocks
It finally looks like Teacher: Joann Kilduff
Old Man Winter is leaving
us and Spring is heading Supplies: Normal painting supplies, water bucket, pa-
our way. It was so good per towels, wax palette, simple wet palette, tablecloth,
this week to see our white chalk pencil, photos or magazine pictures of
neighbors out raking and sunflowers, Sealer.
cleaning up in their yards. Paints: 3-5 shades of yellow including a bright yellow
Just great! Before the to an antique gold shade,, 3-4 shades of green for
weather gets too good to be leaves (suggestion—Hauser light, medium, and dark
inside, we need to open up green), 1 shade of orange, Burnt Sienna, Burnt
the windows and let the Umber, Black, Red, White.
cool breezes come through, Preparation: If you are bringing your own favorite
put some music on the ste- rock already prepped choose a shape you can carry eas-
reo and get inspired to ily that is round, smooth and plump looking and will
paint. sit nicely on a surface. Remember to think of it like it
As if the weather was not inspiring enough, Bon- is a canvas or any other project surface.
nie and Debbie have out done themselves with a line Wash the rock well with soap and water. If it has
up of wonderful classes for 2010 and some awesome crevices on the sides or underside, scrub with a nail
national teachers, also. One of which is the Beth Wag- brush. Wipe dry and leave to dry overnight. Turn it
ner Seminar. If you have not signed up for Beth’s over once or twice to make sure all sides get dry. Then
classes yet, do yourself a favor and sign up now. She is mix 1:1 Sealer + paint, picking a dark color like black,
an excellent teacher. You will thoroughly enjoy her deepest brown, black green, deepest crimson. These
class, and learn a new way to paint roses in the process. colors will make your sunflower stand out. When dry,
So get your surface prepped and join us. . . . And check for missed spots or give it a second coat. Bring
don’t forget to bring a friend. to class ready to paint.
To find out more about painting on rocks read the
Beth Wagner Seminar article on page 5.

Beth Wagner will be teaching her Rose method at

our seminar on April 9 & 10 at Spenceola Community Center starting at 9
a.m. each day.
She will teach her method on the first day and work with students the
second day to design and paint a piece of their choice. It could be a piece
of wood furniture (such as an end table, small cabinet, plant stand, etc.), a
box, a canvas or any other piece easily carried to class. If you don’t al-
ready have a piece, head out to the local thrift, consignment, or antique
shops in our area. And don’t forget Just Cabinets in Aberdeen for un-
painted furniture. Check the phone book under Antiques or Thrift Shops for
names and addresses.
If you haven’t registered yet, take note that this is a wonderful chance
to learn a new skill and put it practical use to brighten your home or to give
as a gift. There are a few spaces left, but hurry to get your registration in.
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 Calendar 2010 Painter’s Tip
March 6 Linda Foster HCPL Bel Air Getting tired of searching
Easter Pot 2 p.m. through every book you own
for a design to paint?
April 9 & 10 Beth Wagner Spenceola
Take a look at your com-
Rose Workshop Comm. Center
and Furniture 9 a.m.
puter. You’ve spent a lot of
Painting money to purchase the
“confuser” so put it to work.
May 8 Joann Kilduff HCPL Abingdon Among the Microsoft programs on it is Microsoft
Sunflower Rock 10 a.m. Works. This program has a data base which is
June 16 Memory Box HCPL Bel Air fairly easy to use. You set up fields (columns) in
Paint-In 10 a.m. which you can record information about your pat-
terns, such as locations (in books, magazines, pack-
July 10 Beverly Cratty HCPL Bel Air
ets), authors, and details about designs such as
Sailboat Necklace 10 a.m.
shape, media (oil, water color, or acrylic), color
range, and subject.
August 14 Festival of Trees HCPL Bel Air You can then file your painting books and
Outreach Paint-In 10 a.m. magazines in magazine files at a very reasonable
September 11 Dorothy Woflkill HCPL Bel Air cost when purchased at Ikea.
TBA 10 a.m. When looking for a pattern the database allows
you to sort by any field. For instance, in looking for
September 17 & Sally McAloon TBA
a round design you ask the program to sort by
18 McNaughton De-
sign
Shape and see all at once the designs available
with pertinent information. This is a real time and
October 2 Lorraine Ban- HCPL Bel Air frustration saver.
nasch 10 a.m.
TBA BADP Board Members—2010
November13 Diane Weih HCPL Bel Air
President Beverly Cratty 1-410-636-2174
TBA 10 a.m.
December Annual Luncheon Holiday Inn 1st Vice President Bonnie Rae 1-302-378-4906
Aberdeen Program Deborah Rae
10:30 a.m.
2nd Vice President Lorraine Bannasch 1-443-643-6520
March 2011 Linda Lock TBA Membership
Acrylic w/altered
Secretary Regina Schuch 1-410-557-740
Art
September 2011 Rosemary West TBA Treasurer Lyn Skillman 1-410-273-7996
Acrylic Design to
be Determined
Community Ser- Pat Zelechowski 1-410-638-2200
vice
Bel Air Decorative Painters Secret Pal
Historian Elaine Kohles 1-410-557-7440
hereby gives notice that various paints, finishes
and solvents are being used during meetings and Librarian Deb Leister 1-410-848-2511
seminars. Each participant is responsible for as-
Newsletter Dorothy Wolfkill 1-410-692-5195
sessing his or her own potential risk or exposure
Michele Fiore 1-443-567-6599
to these products and their components before
electing to participate in these events. Bel Air Publicity Jackie Burke 1-410-836-9519
Decorative Painters, its teachers and agents assume
Scholarship Lynne Russell 1-410-942-0077
no responsibility for the participant’s use or expo-
sure to these products.
Ways and Means
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Minutes of the BADP Meeting
February 20, 2010
The meeting was called to order at 10:40 a.m. by Bon-
nie Rae. No guests were present.
The treasurer, Lyn Skillman, reported on income and
expenditures with an ending balance of $3082.52
There was no reading of the minutes.
Committee Reports: Membership Chair, Lorraine
Bannasch, explained there were discrepancies in the
membership. The 2009 roster had 61 names, but only
38 renewal forms and the SDP had verified 41 mem-
bers. Lorraine is trying to reconcile the discrepancies.
She has 2 sign-in sheets; one for those for whom she has
paperwork, and one for those for whom she has no
paperwork. She will be asking for membership forms
from the non-paperwork people and needs a physical
copy of their SDP membership card to go with the pa-
perwork.
Debbie Leister, the Librarian, described the materials
she had brought to the meeting.
Program Chair, Bonnie Rae, explained that the time of
the March 6th meeting had been changed to 2—5 p.m.
The library needed to “bump” BADP because of their
need for the meeting room on that morning. She an-
nounced that because we had contracted with Martin F.
Weber for a seminar, BADP members were eligible for
a discount from Martin F. Weber. The chapter would
also receive monies as a percentage of purchases by
BADP members. Details were subsequently sent to the
membership. Bonnie passed out the possible projects
for the Martin F. Weber seminar and asked members to
vote. She will then work with the seminar instructor
to identify which projects to do based on member in-
terest and allotted time.
Bonnie described the Beth Wagner seminar scheduled
for April 9-10 and opened registration. A rose work-
shop[ will be held on Friday and Furniture Workshop
on Saturday. Members were encouraged to attend, as
this is shaping up to be a very fun two days.
New Business: Debbie Rae created a website for
BADP. The hosting site is free. Members were invited
to look at the website at: http://
badp.web.officelive.com and suggest additions.
Ways and Means and Secret Pal activities were con-
ducted.
BADP Memories
We spent the first months of 1999 planning our
chapter activities, deciding whether to affiliate with the
Society and then beginning the procedure to affiliate.
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We studied the Society By-Laws and adapted the Stand-
ing Rules to our own chapter. We found places to
meet each month. Then we got down to programs and
painting.
March 1999—Annette Stark started us off with an
“artist’s audit” in which she demonstrated free hand
painting, embellishing, staining, and lots of tips done
with her inimitable humor and made it all look easy!
May 1999—We had a silent auction at Steppingstone
Museum where we found great bargains in paint-
ing supplies.
June 1999— Elaine Kohles taught our name tags with
the chapter logo. Do you know where yours is?
August 1999—Our first fabric painting project was
taught by Robin Benjes. Do you still have your shirt
painted with the brush flower in a pot?
And so the first year went. We got to know each
other, learned or polished some painting techniques,
and after meeting in several places settled on the Bel
Air Library as the best place to meet.
During our second year we met affiliation require-
ments and were inducted into The Society. Dorothy
Wolfkill, then President, accepted our Certificate at the
2000 SDP National Convention in Nashville, Tennes-
see.
We held our second silent auction at Harford Glen,
began building our chapter library, had our first semi-
nar with national traveling teacher, Sandy Aubuchon,
toured and had lunch at Steph’s Folk Art Studio, and
participated in the Society’s first “Learn to Paint” ex-
perience.
We also began looking into ways we could use our
painting skills to serve our community. Annette Stark
was our leader and members quickly followed with
ideas for discussion. Our first project was painting mu-
rals at Anna’s House in Bel Air. This was only the be-
ginning of a long list of projects our chapter has accom-
plished as you will see in future articles.
For more information about our activities over
the last 11 years take a look at the collection of newslet-
ters at the meetings.
Editorial
In my opinion it is unfortunate that the fundraiser at
Applebee’s had to be cancelled. This could have been a fan-
tastically good fund raiser for the chapter. I wonder if mem-
bers realized the breakfast was to be held before the restau-
rant was open to the public, and that over 75% of the pro-
ceeds would go to our chapter. This is phenomenal! Also, it
would have been held the morning of one of our meetings,
so we would already be going out that day.
I hope members will think about this and perhaps con-
sider rescheduling this event . This one activity could totally
support our art scholarship program.
—Dorothy Wolfkill
BADP on the Web Standing Rules

Debbie created a website Changes in the Standing Rules to come in line

for us and it is free! It’s just in with the change in status of our chapter in relation to
the beginning stages, but she has MAASC and to clarify our position on eligibility for
done a wonderful job and it committee chair or officer have been proposed. These
looks great. changes must be discussed and voted upon by the mem-
Please take the time to look at it and if you can bership at the next regular meeting. The part proposed
think of anything that you feel might be an asset to to be changed and the change are underlined.
have on the website, please send it to: Deb at:
drae@udel.edu or Bonnie at: tinsel- Standing Rule 10 at present states: Workshops and
baby5858@yahoo.com seminars are for the benefit of chapter members. Non-
Your input would be appreciated. If you are a members may only attend upon payment of a fee twice
chapter member who teaches and would like to be on the cost of chapter membership in addition to the cost
the website please send the information you want per member of the workshop or seminar.
added. Change underlined to read: Non-members may at-
tend upon payment of an additional fee to be deter-
Sunshine mined for each seminar. Members of chapters belong-
ing to MAASC are to be considered chapter members.
We are pleased to announce that This is reciprocal to all MAASC member chapters.
Annette and Ronnie Stark have Therefore, if a BADP member wishes to attend another
welcomed their first grandchild, chapter’s seminar, it will be at the member fee.
Leah Penelope Kim.
Standing Rule 11 at present states: New members
“Thank heaven for little girls.” may not volunteer for a position as a Committee Chair
Maurice Chevalier or Officer on the Board until they have been an active
member in good standing for at least 6 months.
Change underlines to read: New members may vol-
To Regina Schuch, unteer for a position as a Committee Chair or Officer
Our condolences at the passing on the Board subject to Board approval.
of your father. Our thoughts and
prayers go out to you at this difficult Notes and Reminders
time.
To BADP Members, • Remember to return library books and recordings at
Thank you very much for the Star Member Award for the May meeting.
2009. • Check out the painter’s packets for new ideas. Or
I means a lot to me. bring one to share. Don’t forget to return those that
—Annette Stark have the owners’ names on them.
To My Secret Pal, • Ways and Means needs your help. If you won a
prize last meeting, don’t forget to bring one to the
Thanks for your thoughtfulness.
May meeting. Donations
—Dot Wolfkill
are welcome, too!
• Bring a painted item to
share and tell us about it.
Membership We’d love to see what you
Lorraine Bannasch, Chair painted at the Beth Wagner
Member information is still being collected. We seminar.
need a filled out membership form and a copy of each • Your Secret Pal will be de-
member’s current SDP membership card. Please help lighted to hear from you.
us get our information up to date so we can get out a • Bring your newsletter along
to the meeting as we will be
new member directory.
discussing some of the
Don’t forget to sign in as you arrive at each meet-
items in it.
ing.
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Let’s Paint Sunflower Rocks!
Painting rocks is a pro-
ject anyone can do at any age
and find a great deal of fun
and satisfaction. You can
freehand the design with a
chalk pencil and you can
teach it to a child or grand-
child. Sunflowers are a per-
sonal favorite as they are a
happy looking flower. [Northern Harford County was
just about covered with Sunflowers this summer. They
brightened the fields and “gawkers” came from all
around to see the unusual sight.]
Your supplies are simple: a small nicely shaped
rock, limited paint palette, a few favorite brushes,
sealer and varnish. You can paint rocks at night watch-
ing TV, keeping it simple. You will find how easy it is
to make more advanced designs perhaps painting a tray
table top or found treasure. Samples of painted rocks
and painted sunflowers will be available to look at dur-
ing class time.
There are resources everywhere for sunflowers—
seed catalogs, calendars, seed packets, nursery catalogs,
magazines, library books besides painting magazines.
Drawing a sunflower is a matter shapes—circles, ovals
and various pointed ovals for leaves. Your surface is
simple; a round or smooth oval rock sized 2, 3, or 4
inches works best. It can be a smooth flat rock. It’s
your choice. Starting on a small or moderate rock size
is best as they are light to carry. But don’t stop there.
You can paint on larger rocks to made a door stop or a
wedge shaped rock for the mantle as your confidence
grows. Painted floral rocks make great happy gifts for
girl friends, grandchildren, moms and “get well” gifts
when visiting someone in the hospital, especially in
rooms where flowers are banned. They can be used as
paper weights, “thank you” gifts to teachers, mail la-
dies, nurses and doctors for their desks. Rocks can be
dated for special events like births, marriages, birth-
days, etc. Sunflowers can be any color range in yel-
lows, oranges, browns, even tinted with reds, and any
size including multiple sizes on a good size rock. Let
your imagination run wild. Bring your camera so you
can take home memories of everyone’s sunflowers or
use your cell phone camera.
We will supply some clean, dry rocks for your use
and a few base coated/sealed rocks in dark colors, so
the sunflower stands out. And, of course, you may
bring your own rock, prepped.
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Program
Co-Chairs; Bonnie and
Deborah Rae
We will not be able to take the field trip planned
for May. Instead, we will have a regular meeting, to be
held at Abingdon Branch Library on Saturday, May 8
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Members will be informed of
the painting project before that meeting.
At the meeting discussion of and voting on sug-
gested changes in the Standing Rules, participation in
the Festival of Trees benefitting the Kennedy-Kreager
Institute, Service at Lorien, and selection of the Nomi-
nating Committee.
Because our chapter has contracted for the
Martin F. Weber seminar we are entitled to shop at the
company’s website: www.weberartstore.com and at
the sister company Martin Universal Design
www.martinuniversaldesign.com
The chapter has received a code to use at Check-
out. Members who shop will then receive a 20% dis-
count. (If you did not receive the code please contact
us.)
Because the chapter referred the member the chap-
ter will receive an honorarium equal to 15% of the
members’ purchases in the form of a check issued quar-
terly.
Community Service
This year, as part of our com-
munity outreach efforts, we will be
doing a wreath for the Festival of
Trees to benefit Kennedy-Kreager
Institute at Timonium Fairgrounds.
Our theme will be “Maryland”, i.e., blue crabs,
sailboats, flag, state bird, flower, etc. BADP will pay
for materials, but we need a volunteer to create the
wreath.
If anyone has experience with floral arrangements
or has done wreath making, we ask for your assistance
and hope you will volunteer to assist us in this effort.
We need one or two volunteers for two classes a
month at Lorien nursing home in Bel Air; the second
and fourth Tuesdays from 1:30 to 3 p.m. We have
been painting with residents for 4 years and would like
to keep it going. Annette and Claudia will be glad to
help out from time to time.. Call Annette for details.
Don’t forget to collect ideas for the Memory
Boxes we will be painting in August.
These activities carried out by our members help our
chapter receive yearly Achievement Awards from the SDP.
Please volunteer and keep our record of 8 awards growing.
Bel Air Decorative Painter
Dorothy Wolfkill, Editor
4048 Trebor Court
Jarrettsville, MD 21084
Directions to Seminar at Spenceola
1999 Mardic Drive, Forest Hill, MD 21050
From I-95: Take Exit 77, Rte. 24 North through Bel
Air onto the By-Pass staying in the right lane following
signs for Rte. 24 North. After crossing under the By-
Pass, drive to the third traffic light and turn right onto
Spenceola Parkway; follow to Mardic Drive and turn
left. Follow to the community center on the right.
From I-83: Exit at Rte. 439 and follow signs to Rte. 24
South via Rtes. 439 then 23. Turn right and follow to
traffic light at Spenceola Pkwy. Turn left, then turn
left again on Mardic Drive. Follow to the community
center on the right.
Directions to HCPL at Abingdon
2510 Tollgate Road, Abingdon, MD 21009
From North on Rte. 24: Turn right at Singer Road,
follow to the traffic circle; take first right onto Tollgate
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First Class Mail
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—Libbie Fudim
Road and follow to the Library on the left.
From South on Rte. 24: Turn left at Singer Road, fol-
low to the traffic circle, take first right onto Tollgate
Road and follow to the Library on the left.
Directions to HCPL at Bel Air
100 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Bel Air, MD 21014
From I-95: Take Exit 77 North and drive approximately 6
miles to Business Rte. 1; turn right, follow to 5th traffic light
and turn left onto Main Street. Follow 3 blocks to Pennsyl-
vania Avenue and turn right; follow, crossing Hickory Ave-
nue and park across from the library.
From I-83: Take Exit 36: at end of ramp turn onto Rte. 439
(to Bel Air) and follow 6.5 miles to Rte. 23. Follow to traffic
light in Jarrettsville and turn right following Rte. 23 to next
traffic light and turn left. Drive approximately 6 miles to
Rte. 1, Conowingo Road and turn right at traffic light. Fol-
low to 4th traffic light at Pennsylvania Avenue and turn left.
Park across from library.
From East on Rte. 22: From intersection of Rtes. 22 and
543 drive 1.9 miles to Hickory Avenue. Turn right and fol-
low to Pennsylvania Avenue. Turn right and park across
from the library