COMMITTEE NEWS:

CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2016 Bundoora Extended Care - May The work of DVAS will be on display and for sale throughout the entire month of May. Ted Dalton: Painting Demonstration Saturday 21st May 2 pm at DVAS Rooms Ted will be doing a Portrait in Pastels Cost: $5 Members & $8 Non Members Annual General Meeting: 14th October 2016 DVAS ANNUAL AWARDS SHOW 21st until 23rd of October 2016

President Ellen Jenkins 0432 438513

Vice President Peter McGough 9432 0526

Treasurer Rob Gardner 0417 576 066

Member Sec. Anna Dalton 0400 343859

Minutes Sec. Anna Dalton 0400 343859

Secretary Rob Macaulay 9439 7050

News Letter Ed’ Mary Chawner 9458 4015

Show Convenor Diane Gardner 0409 016695

Gen. Committee Dalia O’Brien 9431 5013

Gen. Committee Anna Dalton 0400 343859

Library Monitor N. Robertson

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We Salute You And Goodbye

Ronald Schultz

One of the Founders of DVAS Passed away on Tuesday 12th April

Roland Schultz and his wife Maria

Helped to set up the Diamond Valley Art’s Society in 1970

Roland who was an all round artist

Sculpted, painted and welded.

Our Sympathies are extended To his wife, family and Friends

The Melbourne International Garden Show – Reported by Diane Gardner (Summary) Our Art Society had a very successful amount of sales this year (20 paintings were sold). Congratulations to all the artists who entered. Our standard was superb! What unusual weather it was and we could never have predicted that this year it would be like that. On the Thursday it was unbearably hot which brought a lot of the public inside and we had many, many visitors looking at and buying artworks. Then on Friday it was so wet that again it brought the public inside and again they purchased paintings. The standard of the entire show was very high and it was fabulous to walk around and look at the displays of the other art societies including some of the fabulous sculpture work. A big thank you to John Sutherland who donated the use of his van to deliver paintings to the show. It was greatly appreciated.

It was a successful and entertaining evening at the DVAS Rooms on Friday evening 8th April. About 25 people watched Nerina with a bubbly personality demonstrate her artistic skills. Nerina who uses encaustic wax and gold leafing in her work certainly has some very good techniques and everybody would have gained something useful from the evening. Her artwork is very different from the run of the mill and extremely decorative. Thanks Nerina for coming and also thanks to all the people who came along and showed support for our DVAS Demonstration Evenings: It was a really good turn-out.

GET YOUR FREE GIFT VOUCHER FROM DVAS ROOM 2

GREENSBOROUGH COLLEGE This voucher gives the recipient two free

sessions in any of the workshops (One voucher per person)

Participants in the Life Drawing sessions must contribute equally to cost of model

An eclectic collection of Naïve paintings

And 3D piecesMade from cast Deer antlers. Steve Junghenn's unique style draws inspiration from his

raw experiences in rural Australia

NERINA LASCELLES DEMONSTRATION 8TH APRIL - See also Diane Gardners Report Page 3

Camberwell Art Show - JULY 9-17, 2016 Entries close: 26 May 2016 JULY 8 - Opening Night Preview

Swinburne University, Hawthorn - See more at: http://www.camberwellrotaryartshow.org.au

Long Gallery Montsalvat

18th May to 10th July

Steve Junghenn

“Out of the Darkness”

NERINA’S DEMO: REPORT BY DIANE GARDNER What a fabulous well attended demo’ with Nerina who is such a creative and lovely lady and is a member of the Nillumbik artist’s Residence Program. Nerina looked at indigenous people all over the world and really got stuck on Japan. She uses gold and silver tin foil paper and leather from Bali, also Japanese Washi paper, cut up kimonos, wallpaper and glitter. Nerina doesn’t plan paintings, she just starts with a square and it grows from there or maybe I’ve had a meditation and a painting comes to me. She works on a few paintings at a time which allows them to dry in between Every painting starts with a layer of tissue paper then layers of acrylic paint or whatever is water based. She also uses bitumen which she buys from the hardware shop and encaustic wax (from the Greek word meaning to heat or burn in), a mixture of Damar varnish and beeswax. This adds a uniform layer and over that she burnishes with a hair dryer then polishes it with a rag. She started with tissue paper and said little rips and tears in it are wonderful. She then painted on PVA glue brushing it quite hard even allowing the tissue to tear in places. “As she said there are no rules”. She then used masking tape which she put on her clothes first to remove some of the stickiness, then put it on her painting where she wanted to divide off areas. She said cheap Chinese tape is great because it isn’t as sticky. She glued on some Kiko Hanibashi paper (one of her favourites) which looks like a beehive. She then painted on some size to add some gold leaf. It needs to be left for a while as the longer you leave it the stickier it gets, then after some time added the gold leaf. Nerina used Jo Sonja’s crackle medium over the green acrylic paint she already had painted on the canvas then started washing it off in places. After using the golf leaf tin foil from Bali she always keeps the plastic backing paper (which has an interesting pattern on it) then uses this to mask off areas where she doesn’t want paint to cover what she has already done with her silk screen printing process. She arranged it in a way so that it represented a river. She put Japanese paint on one area then left another area plain “so the eye can rest” she said. She then silk screened over the top. Sometimes she uses the plastic to also stick onto the painting giving another layer and visual effect.

Here is her process of the painting she demonstrated:

Step 1 1. Lay down tissue paper, PVA glue over it. 2. Layer on paints – portraying aged effect.

Step 2 1. Apply masking tape to create a foil edge, and cutting part of it into a circle to create a moon. 2. Glue on strips of Japanese paper.

Step 3 1. Cover areas with plastic ready for screen

printing. 2. Silk screen print area.

Step 4 1. Apply more silver leaf and foil in a diagonal

arrangement.

Step 5 1. Apply waves of mist with Japanese paper.

Step 6 1. Apply details and then a fine spray to give the

final effect. 2. Lastly a layer if encaustic wax to protect the

piece.

One important thing Nerina said was that the finished piece must never be hung where it gets sun on it or heat as the wax will eventually melt. When asked what rules do you follow she said I divide my piece into 3’s making sure there are areas of space to rest and it always must have a sense o f mist and mystery.

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Phone/Fax: (03) 9439 8798

Dianne has many specials and don’t forget DVAS members still have a further 10% off all purchases.

EARY AUSTRALIAN POTTERS

MOTHER’S DAY

Tahitian Woman and Two Children by Paul Gauguin 1901

“Child with Toys” Gabrielle & Jean By Pierre Auguste Renoir 1895

Left La Belle Jardiniere by Raphael

Above and Below

Anne Garvin Dangar

Above & Bottom Right Klytie Pate

Above: Gladys Reynell