Newsletter December 2006

Ros & Alison Singleton P.O Box 1324    Warrnambool, Victoria 3280 Australia. Ph: 03 55651939 Mobile: 0417 033 900 Email: ros@rossingleton.com Website: www.rossingleton.com

Dear Painters and Friends,

Another great year in our world of rose painting and certainly a busy one!
We have been to 9 Craft and Quilt Fairs and 2 Stitches and Craft Shows since March this year, traveling to all the major cities in Australia and in Hamilton, New Zealand.
We have had the pleasure of meeting so many new students and catching up with those of you who just keep “popping up” for another “rose refresher”.
Through the Pre Show classes and our daily classes in the Show Studio we have introduced over 1400 new happy painters to the beautiful art form of Decorative Painting. Welcome!
The seminar we held at home here in July was fabulous .Thirteen ladies attended and it was a very relaxed and enjoyable time. Each left with four beautiful completed projects and a big smile on their faces.
With such a great response we have decided to add three more weekend seminars to our 07 schedule.
If you need a wonderful weekend of pure painting pleasure with nothing to think about than painting beautiful roses, the dates will be listed on our Itinery for May, June, July and November. We look forward to seeing you in class!We have also just finished our first” Ros Singleton TEACHER CERTIFYING COURSE”.

We are happy to announce our 3 certifying teachers from around the world, who are now certified to teach Ros Singletons Roses as well as conduct Teacher Certification Classes.

Barbra Teeple Reno Nevada, U.S.A Email: Barbra@paintsplatters.com Website: www.paintsplatters.com

Shaan Hammergreen Lambton, South Africa Email: shaanh@urjera.com Website: www.shaanberrylane.com

Pat Osborne Brighouse, U.K Email: pat@patosborne.co.uk Website: www.patosborne.co.uk

Congratulations to the girls and all the best with your classes beginning in the New Year.
If you are interested in taking one of our  Teacher Certification Courses in 07 to be qualified to go out and teach under our name. Please contact us for more details and dates.

Having a project published in the Decorative Painter Magazine – USA was another highlight to our year.
For those who didn’t see the article in the July/Aug 06 issue, it was a lovely  plate with White roses.    
We are currently planning our 07 Itinery, but there are a few dates to be finalized.  It will be up on our website shortly and includes two visits to the USA, which we are really looking forward to. 

We have a booth at the Creative Painting Convention in Las Vegas U.S.A in February, as well as a few seminars in the area. This will be a great time to meet and teach more enthusiastic painters on the other side of the world! Contact Barbra Teeple for more information.
New Products
Many of you have been telling us that you have everything that we have brought out and “how about something new”??? Being more at home next year is going to give us the opportunity to do this, as well as a regular newsletter! We have lots of new ideas and projects to keep you inspired with some great new colour combinations.

Latest Release
Alison and I have just finished making our latest Dvd, “Backgrounds and finishing off Techniques”
to be released just in time for Christmas.
The Dvd is an hour of teaching skills for basic backgrounds, sponging, crosshatching, scrolling, Gold Pen work; magic taped lines, Iridescent Medium, Crakling Medium and more.
You will love incorporating all of these lovely soft backgrounds to enhance your roses.
Order your Dvd NOW in time for Christmas and as an introduction offer pay only $25.00 (normally $33.00).
Email through your order to us by January 1st to receive this special offer.

Video Special
For the months of December and January we have a special on all of our Video titles at only $25.00 each.
(Normally $33.00) For those of you who haven’t yet painted a landscape or some round brush flowers our titles “Australian Landscapes” and “Daisies and other Cottage Flowers” are great. You will enjoy all of the fun techniques that are just that little bit different. Have you ever thought to turn your work upside down to paint a tree? Ros takes you through all the clever ways to make painting a landscape lots of fun! Great present for a male who’s looking to get started.

Here is a good tip for practicing Highlighting
Take a sheet of black paper and transfer any of the patterns onto the paper using light coloured graphite.
Turn to highlighting in the book on page 24 and follow the illustrations through using Metallic Gold flow paint. You will create a rose just by using highlighting techniques and the dark background will act as the shadow.
You can often pick up little note books, diaries photo albums etc. in dark colours that these roses look great on. Paint the roses on and then finish them off with some gold dimensional scrolls (page 25). They make fabulous gifts, and you get to practice your highlighting.

Did you know?
Matisse Background colours have an in built sealer of highly pigmented gesso that can be applied to almost any surface. It can be used directly onto wood and will cover and create a smooth matt- velvet surface to paint on.  It works as a perfect partner with Matisse Flow.
“The most beautiful roses are painted in Matisse. “

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and blessed Christmas and hope you enjoy a wonderful holiday season with your families.
Alison and I sincerely thank you all for supporting us and look forward to another fabulous year in 07, with plenty of beautiful roses and lots more!

Happy Painting everyone,

Ros and Alison

We are currently updating our mailing list, could you please email us at alison@rossingleton.com if you would like to keep receiving news and great offers!