Saturday, December 15, 2012

My books

Here are the links for my 2 books. It took me awhile to figure out how to post it on the bookstore, hopefully I've got it right.




http://www.blurb.ca/books/3543032

http://www.blurb.ca/books/3543004


I haven't been in the studio for awhile. Getting ready for Christmas has kept me busy but I can feel that urge starting, I'm missing working in the studio I need to get in there soon. I am hoping next week I will be in there assuming I can finish my Christmas shopping.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Still experimenting

I have painted landscapes occasionally just in black & white, I find it an interesting change from using colour. So recently I thought why not try it with my perfume bottles?

I will need to work on the background some more but it is getting close to what I wanted. Although I am considering adding maybe just a touch of colour, maybe yellow or gold, not sure yet, I'll have to think about it.


Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Experimenting

Now that the studio tour is over it's back to work. I have been working on several pastels lately, trying new things some are working & some? well we will see. The first one is a view of the bottom of a river that my husband & I love to kayak on. The river is shallow, with trees on both sides & the sun often shinning onto the golden sands. I was having problems with the image, then after watching the movie Gerhart Richter Painting (great movie by the way, worth watching) & seeing him use his sqeegee I thought why not on my pastels? I have used one before for acrylic but never pastel. So I did it

It didn't quite do what I wanted but the result was still pretty good. I think I had to much pastel on the board. I'll definately try this again.
The next one I tried was a pastel that I had painted on Pastelboard. I had never used pastelboard before, it is a hard surface, like clayboard. I didn't like it. It doesn't have that same soft, velvety feeling of my usual sueded mat board. Because I didn't like what I had painted I was going to wash it off then thought maybe just wetting it I could get it to drip, it could be very interesting. So I sprayed it with water, a lot of water. This is what happened.

This is still wet but I think I really like this, can't wait to see it when it dries. I may actually buy more of this board just to do this if it stays like this.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Studio tour

Well the studio tour is over for another year. We had quite a few people through again this year. It's always fun talking to people about the art, explaining my process & getting their reactions. My daughter did really well with her scarves but then I knew she would. Her silk scarves are really very beautiful. Now we just need to find other venues for her to sell at. Now that the tour is over with it's time to get back to painting.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Count down to studio tour

I've been cleaning the studio, finally, and getting ready for the studio tour on Saturday. Actually I need to be ready for Friday because that is when the artists on the tour get to view the new artists. With my daughter joining me this year that means my studio will be part of the Friday night crawl. We've both been busy. Jara's been painting her scarves, baking cookies & I've been cleaning, wiring paintings & generally trying to get organized. I know it will all come together by Saturday but right now it seems like we still have a lot of work to do. Oh well back to work.

Friday, September 28, 2012

The books are here

It's taken a while but I have finally finished both books. They have been printed and delivered and they look pretty good. The colours are bright and I am very happy with the outcome. I will be selling them at the Studio Tour, Oct. 13 & 14 or you can see them at blurb.ca

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Great news

I have just recieved noticed that this painting, Rainy Night 2, has been accepted into the Pastel Artists of Canada juried show at the Joseph D. Carrier Gallery, 901 Lawrence Ave. W. Toronto. The opening for the show will be on Oct. 11 from 7-9. The show will run from Oct. 5 till Nov. 10. Getting into this show has also qualifies me for Master Pastelist status, a great honour that has taken me a long time to achieve.