“Praise Be” had been relegated to the back waters as
I attempted to fulfill my professional and personal obligations over the month
of November. So finally the day came when I began to clean up my studio in
preparation for my new series in mixed media. A lot of things were in need of
attention and completion. Even my main watercolour palette needed dusting. I
suspect I had done a little woodwork, spreading the sawdust everywhere,
sometime during the summer. I decided to put everything under cover as I am never
sure what I will be doing next! And I turned my attention to the demo I had
started for the Glenrose Hospital group who stopped to watch me paint. I looked
at what I had accomplished and decided to change direction now that I had time
to think! Instead of dark green I threw in some purple around the yellow
flowers creating some lovely contrasts and movement around the piece. Using
negative space around the splotches already created and a mixture of tonal
values in both purple and green the garden suddenly came alive. Life is so
good.
Monday, November 30, 2015
Monday, November 23, 2015
Concurrent Shows
I was going to write about this last week but I did
not have the photos to post… I had forgotten my camera on both opening nights
and I was fortunate to have my son-in-law available with his iPhone on the 6th. It is not
often an artist gets to open concurrent shows in the same month. I was very
blessed to have the openings on different evenings, more luck than good
management! Both were fairly quiet events, always a delight to have time to
chat and meet new people. The watercolour show is already down (it finished on
the 18th November) and the mixed media show closes on the 27th
November while I am in Montreal. I have wonderful daughters. They have agreed
to pick up my mixed media paintings for me on the 28th and ,
although they don’t know it yet, they will be dropping off the paintings at
VASA for the member show opening the 3rd December at 6pm. Life is so
good.
Monday, November 16, 2015
Editing
Monday, November 2, 2015
Final Touches
Adding code number for each painting |
Checking for unwanteds under the glass |
Securing the image and adding the wire |
My husband is my biggest fan. He is also an analytical
mathematician who loves working with numbers. When I announced I had finished my
eleven paintings for CAVA he celebrated with me and thought I was done… Last
Friday he asked me what framing all involves… Indeed. Watercolours need
protection. The framing does not take long if one has all the ingredients at
hand. I had checked some time ago and ordered ten new frames as I already had a
few on my shelves. Most of them were silver and I wanted to show them in black.
It looks far more professional if all the frames are the same style and the
same colour in a show. The glass was abundant. There is a case on another shelf
waiting to be emptied. I had forgotten about the matting until last week so I
cut some scraps and had them belevel cut at my frame shop. Should be
everything… Luckily I did have the other needed supplies such as acid free
tape, window cleaner and bandaids. Glass is sharp on the edges and I usually
get at least one nick. So everything is ready to deliver on Wednesday and I can
turn my attention to other things… like mixed media! Life is good.
Just a reminder:
Two concurrent upcoming shows this week!
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