Our Morning at Mattisse

Last Saturday was open Day at the  Mattisse Paint Factory, three of us, from our group spent a leasurly morning browsing through the displays from various teachers and painters. We arrived early, parking was good, there was plenty of street parking. One advantage of being early is that it made it easy to speak with teachers and representives, later the crowd grew and it was hard to get even close to the stalls. 

Barbara at one of the stalls.

I spoke to a representive of Art Sprectum about water colours, I have dabbled with water colours in the past, and as you see from the next entry I have painted a couple of Carol Swan's pieces, it was nice to be able to have my questions answered on the day and even try some of the brushes and lovely colours.

This was only a small area of stalls.

Two factory tours were available during the day, along with raffel's and give aways on arrival,  a small band playing light relaxing music made the day. Coffee and yummy cakes were available in the car park, and we found a lovely spot to sit before getting our second wind and returning for a second look!

Outside in part of the car park they had set aside for the larger canvas and painters. Sorry I only took three pictures! I was busy catching up with friends I had not seen for ages and of course all the lovely goodies!

I might add that the open day is mostly for displays and to have your questions asked, The only stall selling anything had books for $6, everything else was for display, a couple of teachers had pattern packets for sale.

Look out for next years Open Day, it always seems to be in early October!