Art by the Lake, Harbour Days, July 23, 2011, Whitby, Ontario was a blast. One Lake, 2005-09, drew lots of interest and discussion about painting with adults and kids! Terrific. I’m so happy.
I haven’t done an art show before, let alone an outdoor art show, but it was appropriate for this work, so I took a chance and pleased with the outcome.
We had great weather. What better place to be in 33+degree temperatures than by a lake. A cool breeze and in the shade and sun for the afternoon, watching the tall ship port and embark on short trips on Lake Ontario.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by and chatted, and questioned.
And thanks to my big sister for her help – that’s her waving under the canopy.
Just confirmed my participation at the Harbour Days Art Show and Sale this Saturday July 23, 12 to 5pm. Whitby, Ontario, Canada. First showing of both series, should be interesting, and hopefully will make some sales. Will let you know.
I’ve begun painting again! It’s very hot here so I work in the mornings or after 6pm when it is cooler outside. There is no place to paint indoors yet.
And, I have a tentative deadline that I am working towards for a show/sale at the end of the month.
I’m attaching works in progress, at different stages. I’d like to continue abit more with the Patron paintings, because I’m getting somewhere with them conceptually and with the material of oil paints. I love what oils can do for the painting, and gaining in some appreciation for doing less with them, using glazes, and thinning with linseed oil.
Will post more about the show when I receive the package that will confirm it. It’s in the mail!
The ‘Patron’ paintings and I are South. They will be completed here in the summer, in the back yard, under the sun.
This is a change from the sub-basement I was working in during the short winter days of the North and the long spring days.
What direction will they take here? They look like old paintings. I find myself working on them over and over, layers of glaze and oil and pigment. Until the gesture is right in the figure or fabric or light, the whole picture is whole, working, when I work in this way. Colors such as blues are missing, and reds. Browns, whites, and yellows, and black prevails. The colors of the North, too.
I’ve come home and taking out the old and in with the new. Unpacking slowly, and sorting and repacking for moving on. It’s a good feeling, like sheding a skin, and shaking free.
I may have a showing at the end of July!
[Goose Break – my two week holiday to the south at the end of April was extended by 5-6 weeks due to the sudden need for palliative care and burial of an immediate family member. I was glad to be there, and would not have changed my presence for him, for anything. I am back north now for the final month of the school year.]
I don’t feel up to painting, it takes time to get back into the head space of the paintings. But, I put a dark umber and yellow glaze to warm them up. The colors and surface looks stark to me. It should also unify them as a series. This may get my mind back into painting.
One proposal has been sent out for a possible summer exhibit.
