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A very big 2025!

Mallee Artists would like to thank all of our supporters for a fabulous 2025!

Highlights:

Community Mural Project


Two Exhibitions of our Artworks!

Balranald
“Home is where the ART is”
January: 4 February to mid March.

Woorinen South 8-9 November
A Celebration of Art in our Community

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August! Winter is almost over!

Our First Wednesday in August produced some great drawings for our panels on the old piano we are painting. The murals are currently getting their shiny coat of Anti-Graffiti seal and they will be ready to go up very soon!

A Committee meeting will be held on 20th August to plan activities for the remainder of the year. It seems to get really busy from now on!

A trip to the “Spannerman” gardens in Boort.

An image of a horse and rider made from spanners.
Horse and rider made from spanners. “Spannerman Sculpture gardens” Boort.

Perhaps a visit to the quirky and original artist, Steve Cole in Goodnight.

Image of Steve Cole with his sculpture of a Bunyip.
Image of Steve Cole with his sculpture of a Bunyip. Source: The Guardian Newspaper Swan Hill.
Noel Fisher Jun 11 2024

During the School Holidays in September we will be offering Children’s art workshops again, as well as some “Brush ‘n’ Brew workshops for the grown ups during the warmer months 🙂

MASH will be helping out at the Annual Show as we do each year by donating prize money to the art section, and by helping to hang artworks.

We will be holding an exhibition to help raise funds for the group. This will be held on the weekend just prior to the Melbourne Cup. Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November.

Our usual First Wednesdays will be on offer with topics to be announced shortly. So buckle up for a busy few months!

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The year so far….

President Gail Groat and Treasurer Val Waylen at the opening of the Balranald Exhibition.

The group has been very busy this year. Our Annual General Meeting was held in January and we welcomed a new President, Gail Groat and Treasurer, Val Waylen (pictured below at the Balranald Exhibition Opening).

We travelled to Balranald and exhibited a collection of art, new and old for 6 weeks. The exhibition ran from the last week of January until mid March. At the conclusion MASH donated $100 to the Balranald art gallery as a thank you.

February: In conjunction with the Woorinen District Progress Association we were granted funding to create 5 small murals for the Woorinen South township. This was a community project with members of MASH supporting residents to paint the murals. These are now in their final stages of detailing and further funding is being sought for the installation. (see the Mural Project Post for more information)

WORKSHOPS: We have held 4 “First Wednesdays”

February: Mixed media (newspaper trees on painted background) with Maxine

March: Funky Trees and Animals with Merrilyn

April: Meditation and mixed media faces with Donna and Gail (Lorri was ill)

May: Neurographics with Donna

Upcoming in June: Paint like Picasso with Jenny and Norma

Please bring good quality paper suitable for the medium you choose, or can be done in your journal. A pencil and eraser. A dice. A Black Marker ie Sharpie or similar and paints, (watercolour or Acylic), pencils, paint pens. Whatever you like working with.

Picasso image from NGV
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First Wednesday in June!

Next week is the FIRST WEDNESDAY of the month 5th June … so its workshop time! Lorri is presenting a short MYSTERY WORKSHOP! Just bring along your usual painting & drawing supplies…. you will be given some cartridge paper and scissors… the rest is a mystery! By the end of the morning we will have a mini exhibition!

PS: The image is not what we are doing, but I wanted something to attract attention.

M.C. Escher, Hexagonal tessellation with animals: Study of Regular Division of the Plane with Reptiles (1939)

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Feb/March Newsletter

End of Month Cuppa

This is a great social get together for MASH members and friends. 10.30am, Last Friday of each Month.
February 23rd at the Paragon Café (inside the Pioneer Settlement)
March 29th at 128 Doors, Curlewis Street Swan Hill.

Weekly Art Group

Wednesdays 9.30 to 12.30 @ Woorinen South Community Hall.  $5 cover charge.  All welcome!

These weekly sessions are for members to bring along their current art project or to get some inspiration from our library of art books and others in the group.  Guests are welcome to come and try, we have plenty of supplies on hand.  Membership is payable now, $25 per annum. First Wednesday of the Month Workshops

7th Feb:  Donna introduced the group to the relaxing neurographic art.  Everyone had an enjoyable and relaxing morning.  Thanks Donna for your time and enthusiasm.

6th March: Making Covers for all your works on paper.

Lorri will show some techniques to create artist book covers to safely store all your loose works on paper, or to cover your sketchbooks that you have already filled up. Includes making Faux leather with cardboard, cloth & tissue paper.  Plus using fabric, paper and other scraps.

Please bring the following if you have them:

  • old cereal boxes or pieces of cardboard  
  • Cotton drill fabric or calico, or other scrap fabric with a bit of weight.
  • Sketchbooks that you have filled or want to cover or a blank sketchbook.

3rd & 10th April: Paverpol

Paverpol is a sculptural art, using a liquid that dried like concrete so that your sculpture can be placed in your garden.  This will be a 2 week activity.  Week 1 at the hall creating our armature (structure to coat in paverpol) Week 2 will be at Sue’s house to coat our structures. (address to be supplied in week 1)

Materials list and cost will be supplied after we have conducted an inventory of the materials we have on hand.

Open Garden Day – Tyntynder Homestead Sunday 5th May

We have been invited to participate in this event that will be a fundraiser for “Friends of Tyntynder Homestead”.  Renovations are currently underway at the homestead, so only the gardens are open.  We are welcome to come along and do some plein air painting/drawing on the day; to have an information stand, and Lorri had offered to have a table set up to “draw with us” for visitors.  We will not be charged, however other visitors will pay an entry fee.  Morning and afternoon tea and a BBQ lunch will be available for purchase.

Contact Lorri if your wish to participate.  # We can also promote our upcoming exhibition at this event.

Mothers Day Exhibition & Devonshire Tea to raise funds for Cancer Research 

This will be held over two days.  Friday 10th & Saturday 11th May, 10am – 4pm at The Grain Shed, 2 King Street Swan Hill.  MASH members are invited to have a table to showcase and sell their art.

Our display stands will be set up in the foyer to feature a variety of artworks by MASH. 

We also need helpers to work in the kitchen and help serve the Devonshire tea /coffee.  A roster will be set up for this.  Anyone who can lend a hand on one or both days will be appreciated!

The public will be charged $10 per person for Devonshire tea.  Lorri will handle sales and she has an EFT device for card sales.  All proceeds will be paid into MASH bank account and artists will be paid after sales have been reconciled.  Proceeds from the Devonshire teas plus 10% of art sales will be donated to raise funds for cancer research.

Donna will be collecting milk jugs and teapots next Wednesday for our Mothers Day Morning Tea in May. We would gladly accept any that you can spare. We will take good care of them, and a permanent marker will be available if you wish to write your initials on the bottom.

Volunteers will also be needed for a roster at Coles to sell raffle tickets and hand out flyers to promote our exhibition.  Please talk to the working group for further details.  Merrilyn, Gail, Donna and Norma.

Other Events planned for this year:

  • Cohuna Art Exhibition in July/August
  • Bus trip to Balranald.
  • Pastels and watercolour workshops.
  • Lake Boga morning tea and gallery visit.
  • Possible Bus trip to the Spannerman

#All efforts have been made to ensure the information contained in this newsletter was accurate at the time of printing, some events and activities may be changed and notification and updates will be published on Facebook and our website.

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Annual General Meeting

The AGM will be held on Wednesday 17th January, 2024 at the Woorinen South Community Hall. This will be followed by a General Meeting to discuss exhibitions, workshops and activities for the coming year. Contact Secretary Lorri 0467 879 261 for more information.

All Welcome!

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TWILIGHT MARKET – SWAN HILL TOWN HALL

SUNDAY 16TH JULY 2-6PM

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Do you want to participate in the Twilight Market next weekend? Helpers will be needed for set up/pack up. (Times to be given to us on Tuesday)

If you want to put artwork on the stall you must be willing to go on the roster!

Please message here or catch up with Lorri on Tuesday (at the Motel) or Norma on Wednesday at the Hall.

3-4 small to medium artworks 60cm on longest side. Works over 60cm in height/width limited to one feature piece per person. Items that are hand crafted and hand painted, or feature your original artwork can be included. What else will be there?

* Market Stalls in the auditorium

* An exhibition on the Mezzanine level

* Entertainment in the café area

* Delicious food that can be enjoyed either inside the hall or in the outdoor area

* A creative activity for all generations

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How to photograph your artwork

DIGITAL CAMERA PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS

  1. Hang your work on the wall. Find a neutral coloured wall (white or grey) and hang your work at the height where the middle of your piece will be parallel to where your camera is pointing – either on a tripod or sitting on a hard surface, such as a shelf or table.

2.     Light your work. If shooting indoors, make sure you shoot in a room with plenty of windows and natural light. Avoid direct sunlight on your artwork as this may create glare and affect the colours of your photograph.  You can light your work with lamps. For 2D works, all you need is two lights. (Preferably using Daylight bulbs). Place the lights halfway between the camera and your work on the wall at a 45-degree angle pointing towards the wall (this angle will help eliminate any glare you might get from the lights). If you are still experiencing glares from the lights – you can diffuse the lights with white sheets in front of them. See image for camera placement.

3.    Once your artwork is hung on the wall and lit with lamps, double check that the camera is set to where the lens lines up with the middle of the painting.  The artwork should take up the majority of the frame in your picture. The ISO and aperture of your camera are very important to get clear, crisp and bright images of your artwork. In this case, since we want very crisp images, we want a low ISO. Studio shots will generally be shot at ISO 100. The f-stop of the aperture of your camera adjusts how much light is let through the lens by making the opening bigger or smaller. The higher the number, the less light is being passed through. With a DSLR the ideal range for shooting artworks is between f-8 and f-11. Set your camera’s timer to four or five seconds so that pressing the shutter button doesn’t create a shake in your image.

#NOTE Look up specific instructions for your Camera or Smart Phone for step 3

4.     Take the picture!

WATCH THIS VIDEO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQmt8y9V6wc&ab_channel=PaulRichmond
Photo editing app demonstrated in this video that you can download:  Snapseed