Dog Show 2 and Friends

Last years Dog Show was a great success, so we decide to do it again.  We have 11 artists in the show. Virginia Morley will have her hats in the show again. http://puppiesonmyhead.blogspot.ca/ 

Lois Fuchs has a friend painting ready.

And Bunny Warner too.

I have been working all winter on the show so hear is a sneek preview.

Mr Smithers is a dog who lives in St Marys NFLD. He is an old dog and leader of the pack. Very friendly to people.

Shrink art

My grandson Brennan and I were making dog tags for our Dogs out of Shrinky Dink. It is a plastic that you can draw on with coloured pencil, pastel and marker. When you put the sheets of plastic in the oven they shrink and the colour gets intense the plastic also thickens

I thought, "an artist might be able to do something good with this". Brennan kindly gave me a sheet.

I cut it in half and with coloured pencil I drew a wolf on one and a lion on the other.  Here is the result .

I put them in the Portside Gallery Miniature show and the wolf won honourable mention.
Here is a closeup.

I'm back with more work

Can't believe I haven't written on this blog since April 2012. I am a painter not a writer so I quess that is why. I have made several new paitings last year.

 One I am exploring I call drip paintings. Here are two, about War of 1812.

Now that I am back to the blog you should see more work in the future

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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