Ajax Festival of the Arts

The Ajax Creative Arts show is now behind us and it's on to the next event. This Saturday is the 2nd Annual Ajax Festival of the Arts. It will consist of 3 locations: The Village Community Centre, the Arena and Cultural Expressions Gallery. I'll be setting up a gallery for our club in the arena which will be 50 feet long by 10 feet. There will be approx. 90 pieces of original art to browse through, plus 3 stands filled with unframed matted works and art cards from a number of our members. The arena will be filled with a number of artisans displaying original hand made works including jewelery, woodwork, painted rocks, fabric creations, etc. There will be music in the field with an outdoor stage and artists doing demos in the Comm. Centre. Check out the art at Cultural Expressions along with the specialty food.

Everything opens at 10am to 5pm - Pickering Village, Ajax, Ontario

Another Art Show Week-End .. YEAH !

The ACA Show is this week-end and I'm so looking forward to talking art trash with my friends during the show. Even though we are all working at the show it's such a fun time for us. Looking at all the work and hoping everyone sells at least one piece.

The weather is certainly co-operating as it will be sunny and beautiful all week-end. I'm going to do my whole display with sepia watercolours that I finished this spring, especially because they are all local scenes too.

Gardening Season...... Almost !!

The plants are all purchased even the vegie garden ones. Hanging pots ready to go up and sway in the breeze.....

Now all my friends (and the weatherman) are saying "Frost on Sunday Night" :(

So all the pots and flats of flowers are sitting on plastic in the library on the floor..... I keep popping in to take a peek at my "almost" garden.

I'll have to paint in the studio for the next few days to take my mind off gardening... at least until Monday....

Ajax Creative Arts Show - May 22, 23 24 - 2009

Check out the ACA Spring Show and sale ..... over 50 local artists exhibiting original works along with unframed works and art cards.

22 Sherwood Rd. Pickering Village, Ajax, Ontario

Ajax Festival of the Arts

Just got back from a steering comm. mtg. for the Ajax Art Festival..... this promises to be a great 2nd Annual event. May 30 in Pickering Village.

Almost 40 artisans and artists set up in the arena, and outdoor stage with lots of entertainment, a Kid's Zone and the Community Centre filled with local artist and Cultural Expression Gallery serving up amazing art and carribean food.

One day only..... so get your event "Passport" on the day and win some awesome prizes.

Check out the Trilliams

Hubby and I went on a photo shoot this morning down to the lake...... then we went over behind the hospital where there was a whole wooded area filled with Trilliams. I think it's called Clement's Woodlot.

I took a lot of pictures so I hope I can get some painting ideas from some of them.

Grand Finale At The Dunbarton Show

Well, the Dunbarton show is over and I'd say it was a grand success. I sold lots of my miniatures and some art cards so I'm very pleased.
So..... now it's on to the next event which will be the Ajax Crative Arts show on May 22nd. This is always a great event because so many of us paint together all year and we finally get to see the works all dressed up in the Sunday best with frames and matts and price tags.
We hang out for three days and just have the most wonderful time talking about our work and differnet processess and new products.

ACA Show Program Almost Ready

Spent the day at the Dunbarton Show....... really a nice show.... lot's of miniatures to see in a variety of mediums and the prices are a steal !!!!!
I just finished working on the program for the Ajax Creative Arts Show on May 22nd, 23rd and 24th. I'll get it proof read tomorrow by the show convenors while I'm at the Dunbarton show and hopefully I can go to print on Monday.

Ready to Sell... Sell..... Sell

Ok..... everything is labeled and priced and tagged ...... packed in the van for the morning so I can just dash off early. Heading to the Dunbarton Art Show early morn so need to be organized.
Now I'm off to dinner... hubby is taking me out.... YEAH !!!!

Dunbarton 3-Day Art Show

Just got back from a PineRidge Arts Council mtg. and now trying to put some artwork together for the Dunbarton Church annual art show.

It opens Friday at 1pm - 9pm, Sat. 10am to 5pm and Sun 1pm to 3pm.

Check it out at 1066 Dunbarton Rd. Pickering

There will be a lot of original artwork at reasonable prices along with art cards and a small amount of jewellery.

Portion of the proceeds go toward the Church.

I have this image of the church available on an art card... The original watercolour is hanging in the church.....

Latest Work Off the Easel

Calling it finished...... Eagle Point, Cape Breton. This is along the Cabot Trail where we were watching some bald eagles fly around. They would land in the trees and also land on the rocks close to the water. We took so many photos....

Not sure what this bay is actually called, but we named it Eagle Point for obvious reasons.

Acrylic on canvas 24 x 40"

Astoria Magazine Article

On-Line mag. "Astoria" is promoting our Ajax show..... wow.
Check out the magazine here...
http://astoriamagazine.com/artists

A Fresh New Canvas... YEAH !

Starting a new canvas today.... nice big one ! 30" x 40" I've sketched my design on there with a thin wash of sienna acrylic.
This will be another Cape Breton Island scene around the Cabot Trail..... or at least my attempt :)

Yahoo Finally Fixed

Finally got into my site..... now I'm off to the library to check out some art videos

Trouble with Yahoo Web Hosting %&**#%.. AGAIN

Not the first time this has happened and it's so frustrating. I can't get into my website to do any maintenance because Yahoo has put an ad campagne on the page I log into and I can't get past it to my site.
The make it extremely difficult to find anywhere to send a msg of complaint also. Maybe it's time to find another host.
Annoyed in Ajax......

Photo by Allan O'Mara from Conference Place Show

Thanks Allan for taking this shot of me with my work. I neglected to bring a camera.

The Conference Place Juried Exhibit

Went to the opening reception of the Conference Place juried show this afternoon at the Whitby Health Centre. What a blast...... lots of faces I haven't seen in awhile and some old pals that I see a lot.

The show looks great, although right now it's all being shown on easels in the front rotunda. It will be hung later for a three month exhibit.

This painting is Fantasy Forest, acrylic on canvas 36" x 30" and has been accepted into the show.

So Now I'm Blogging ?????

Never thought I would do this..... but here goes!

I'm sure I'm out of my realm here as I have no idea exactly how this all works. Flying by the seat of my pants might be just the way to go here though.

This is the latest work off the easel........ Audley Road Meadow, acrylic on gallery stretched canvas - 18" x 18"