Winner

Guess who won the Jurors Choice Award at the Lambeth Art Association this weekend?
  I was so surprised when judge Suzette Terry http://www.suzette-terry.com/ picked my painting of Buddy as the judges choice.  Suzette comments were "It's in the eyes! Effective cropping and simplicity of paint handling. I couldn't look away. Well done."
The LAA buy the judges choice painting and people bought tickets to win it. My friend, dog lover and fellow artist Donna Andreychuk was the winner.

It was a great art show. Thanks to everyone for their compliments and all my friends that came out to see the show.

Lambeth arts show

Next week is the Lambeth Art Show. I always thought the name sounded very posh, like the Westminster Dog Show. I imagined artists in long gowns and tuxedos running around a ring holding up paintings for people to purchase.
Of course that would be mad. The real art show and sale is a much more relaxed affair. The 100  Members of The Lambeth Art Association work all year painting for the show. There are so many styles and mediums that you cant miss finding something you like. There is a draw for the painting picked as best in show by our judge.
This year is the 40th anniversary of the show, so a special invitation has been issused. Click on the photo, print the invitation and bring it to the show for 5% off your purchase.

Don't miss the tea room, where I can be found working all weekend.

Lambeth Art Show and Sale
Lambeth United Church
Colonel Talbot Rd, Lambeth Ontario
Thursday April 26  7pm to 10pm
Friday April 27th 10am to 9pm
Saturday April 28th 10am to 4pm

Cleaning up!

Spring always brings to mind Spring Cleaning. Today I tackled my art room. It is such a small space and things can pile up quickly. My plan is to be visious and throw out things I haven't used in years. Like my old oil paints. I use alkyd oil now and I am sure the oil paint is rock hard.

And those old paintings that didn't work. I will pitch them in the trash. Oh , but look at that pastel, a bit of work and it could look great. And that brush I bought in China and never used, how can I throw that out.

 

Now I am too tired to continue, but tomorrow I will get a start early. May be I could throw a few of Jerrys things out instead.

the dog show

Don't miss this Group show

Encouraging Moira

Hi friends, One of my favorite website is Dog Art. Moira McLaughlin the web creator lost her dog this year and wrote about her experiences at a dog pound. I was touched by her article and wrote to her and she posted my letter.....  http://dreamdogsart.typepad.com/art/2012/02/a-note-from-kit-cutting.html

 

The miniature show is on at Portside Gallery this month http://portside.cuttingpromotions.com/ I put in three this year and two were photos. 3x4

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Fanshawe Winter

Paintless

In the midst of painting my old dog Buddy's portrait for the art show "Dog Show" in being held in March, I ran out of paint. Black paint, a mixture of ultramarine blue and burnt sienna. It gives a nice rich black. I was out of Burnt sienna and almost out of the blue.
 "Just go to the art store and buy more" you might say. We have two art stores in London and they don’t carry Alkyd Oil paint, so I will have to order it. This kind of paint is not popular with artists despite my constant encouragment that people try it.

W&N Griffin Alkyds were developed in response to oil painters' requests for a product that dried quicker than traditional oils but slower than acrylics. In 1976, Winsor & Newton responded by launching Alkyd Oil Colors, a range of fast drying genuine oil paint

I heard Currys Art Store is new London, on Southdale road, so off I went to see if they carried it.
Their new store is all clean, pristine, and well layed out. They have a display of alkyd oil ... they are out of sienna. Disappointed I ordered it in and have to wait to finish Buddy.

Here he is half done. I kind of like him like this.

I also was blessed to have a self portrait picked for the show Identity Transfer show at the St Thomas Public Art Centre in St Thomas Ontario. The reception was on Saturday, the show runs January 14 to March 3, 2012. http://www.stepac.ca/home.html