right this is our mcgregor from senior perspective in tonight we're going to take a little turn to something else other than history i thought you might be interested in some of the artistic work reach my guests today and i'm going to ask her some questions and about how she started and what made her interested in all this and everything so let's get started on this and marianne this is your d so thanks for inviting me to come i started painting and many years ago probably over thirty years ago it is it started with me going up to my mother's house and my brother he had just bought a set of paying he was a student in college and he thought he'd try it and he painted a couple little pictures and he said to me i said boy would i love to paint and he says here take the pa go home and paint and that's just what i did i took him up on it i took the paints went home and i started taking classes and just more or less self taught lot of times than i and i enjoyed very very much well we can see by all the work that you have here i mean it will be showing all your paintings and then the little bit but first i'm wrong oh you've been painting what you said for quite a while then grab by hand roughly around over thirty years watercolor acrylics oils i started out as an oil painter and then i gradually went into the acrylics and now i'm painting in the water write different products and the oils that's what i started with but then the acrylics i had a hard time when i first went into painting acrylics because it was i was used to painting an oil and it's inconsistency but it's just a different type of medium and then you go to watercolor in your watercolor you have to know how to control how much water you have in your brush and how you put it on the paper you know the watercolor paper i'm not real sure if i've heard live up in ligonier area but i really don't know for sure and i've never seen it after it's left you know one chain but when i heard about it or read about it in the newspaper that they side in you do not have to have a frame for it it's just grass right around the sun very interesting and then this year i like to paint on wood and this is a wooden box or with this band i love to paint san as and i've painted quite a few of those and then we have the porcelain eggs these are cute and i leave the really nice i belong to an organization and we're going to be oak wastebasket painted she wanted the front painted and so she went where she lives and marilyn they have a lot of amish people down there and she went to one of the amish outlets there and she purchased this non finished wastebasket and then i brought it home from her house she lives in maryland and this is the this is the front of and this is what is actually on top of it two little amish children i well she has a boy and a girl so i said well once ruby and once jonah they're five and three so i think that's joan and ruby going down the path to pick some strawberries and there's a little patch up there that i designated being the strawberry patch so this is a project that i just finished lately and i also had a bench i brought pictures of a bench but i i teach for community college i'm currently teaching at canon max high school watercolor class i have also taught acrylic up there in oil painting  and i've taught also at trinity high school and then also teach for the golden triangle decorative painters we have a retreat went to your league in the year and it's a four day retreat and it's just you teach them for this golden triangle ok we came to the golden triangle decorative painters we were formed but twenty six years ago we meet at the  bethel park on the third sunday of every other month starting in january that we just had a meeting here on in march march the twentieth and now the next one will be in may  we have usually two two classes at a meeting and the local teachers will be to you know teaching there and the classes are like a group of see you know what is being offered and they'll still in and they'll sign their name to what they want to do for that meeting and the classes start at nine o'clock in the morning and then we go to  lunch we always we always have a nice lunch a drill you have a talk all you can do without the girls bringing all this good food is that we and then it sometimes we then we have one o'clock our meeting starts and then after that we go have you know more younger people coming in and anyone who is interested in art or painting i would love to have you come to our meeting so remember the third sunday of every other month starting in it's going to be for a project bundle up resource project right but we will be offering it to the project bundle up and they have an auction i'm not sure exactly when but  like i mean a memory box is a memory box it would be similar to a box like that around box and like for the children they would put something you know the more you know adapted like know none of the girls even lined the boxes inside they're gorgeous and they've given to the hospital this way if a loved one would pass away or a baby you know they can put all the little memory larry right into the we're going to have a basket luncheon and that's going to be held on april the chance and it'll be a peters place you have to purchased your ticket before april the first and it's  and the tickets are twenty dollars and you can call me or there's another number there'll be a couple numbers and you can call for tickets but the money has to be in by people first because they have to know how much if if anybody is really interested in getting away and painting i mean this you go way there's no t v in the room we have a five star chef who produce who provides the food and anymore like you or your painter like me you cumulate a lot of things that you think you're going to paint on and then you go through june and then you move on in your life when you get you know you do better and more larger things and   and it's one big large building and you know is that for the public or is it just for members of will they hold retreats we've been having our retreats up there for oh probably last so anybody  know if we want to it's interested in painting or after anything we get can come to grips yes all you have to do is contact one of our our members or come to a meeting you can contact me and i'll see that you get the information while we were talking about the basket lunch and let me show you a couple samples of the porcelain eggs everybody who comes to the basket luncheon will receive as a favor one of our were decorated porcelain eggs and these are just a couple that i have done several years ago i've done a but there are every one will be a different and they're just gorgeous they have and then we will be having a chinese raffle for the baskets that we're preparing and the girls of this the putting together baskets in each basket should have at least two painted items in it and then you purchase your ticket and you drop it in the basket that you'd like to win and then we have the drawings and this we in the past we've decorative painters were affiliated with the national society of toll and decorative painters out of wichita kansas and they have retreats for seminars one see here they'll have a convention type thing and they've had them in the past all over the united states and i've been lucky enough to attend quite a few of them i've gone salt lake city florida cancer city wichita kansas just to name a few places in any time you meet other painters i don't know we're just a different group of that i could look at a picture in where i was she would be nothing compared to what you would see right after a while you know you well you know you look at something and you can just about see what's wrong with it being a teacher someone once told me you can't be a teacher unless you can and you know it's line six everyone's problem and i i believe that's true because sometimes you know you look you know they'll be painting will win or something you're interested in it just seems to float you know the that's true so this has been very very interesting in there you brought so many beautiful things and everything is  i've taken a lot of classes i still take classes all the time you know i don't really have to you can always learn and you know don't take classes just from one teacher i always tell my students take classes from many different  teachers because you learn you pick up a little things that they do you mean not even know you know that you know or they may not know that you know they're doing some things extra special but meeting come to one of our meetings and see what we're all about i think painting is great therapy you know people you can get lost for hours painting i hanging together for over ten years this group and we started because i was teaching a class of community college and after the class was over one of the girls approached me and she said if we find a place for you to paint will you come and continue teaching us and i've been ok so she she found the place in our home and  we've been going up there for over ten years now we meet every week we met on thursday evening for many years and now we switched it to friday afternoon because we're all retired and how can you paint in the evening and we don't you need the painting and some of the things that she painted it beautiful and then some of those things in the sense that it always amazed me is what she could see that i couldn't see from like i said a painter can see so much more into an object then what an ordinary person does to see if it's the so ok now is there anything else you want to talk about there's really not too much more others and you write your name and where everything's going to be held great demand to i wish you lots a lot thank you thank you so very much for having me on the show oh it's been great thank you so much this is our mcgregor from seeing