stand alone

Working with pastel, too bad the photo didn't have more detail, not what I expected, will try again.

working on a new oil painting

I need to do a few pieces for the federation show to submit on the 15th of October. So here is the drawing on canvas board of the first image. She is looking between fencing and I am not sure if I will put the upper plank in, so its to sleep to paint another day...The 2nd image will be a still life of a chess game, the third a landscape of the country just west of here.

Irricana Fire Hall Mural

Well I finally made it out to the quaint little town of Irricana which is a very vibrant art minded community. It displays murals through out the entire town, so take a drive around and don't forget to check out the Grasshopper Gallery too, its worth the drive.

Chinook

Working on this as my Airdrie scene, Just east of the mountains we see alot of CHinook Arches. They can be orange pink purple and red, what a palette!

Something else I am working on for the Ukrainian festival

Ukrainian Air Show

Working on paintings for the Ukrainian Village celebration in August -this painting is one in my series - Ukrainian Air show

Calgary Stampede Western Showcase Window

My yearly venture to the Western Showcase at the Calgary Stampede. Here I am working on Blue Eyes. It was nice to talk to Michelle Grant, Julie Poppelwell, Rick Berg, Adeline Halvorlson and Ken and Kathy Hoehn. It wasn't vey busy but Cheryl and I had a good time painting.

Ukrainian Music Festival August 29th

The Ukrainian Festival is coming up and I will be submitting this picture on Ukrainian Day August 8th, I'll be working on the wonderful athletic jumps of the men as well as a few ladies for artwork in late August.

blue eyed beauty

I see it is time to post a new picture so here is one i am woking on for the Stampede. I finished a spanish dancer earlier in the week but I am not supposed to advertise her yet. This horse is from The Airdrie Canada Day parade- 2009, I wonder if I will see it tomorrow.

Art Hanging

Members Please bring two Western Paintings for Smitty's on Monday June 28th thanks

Quick Study of a white mare

For my last class with the seniors we painted horses. It is the right time of year to be thinking Western. I brought in photos of the horses from the Lauder Ranch and each member chose one to paint, they did brown, blonde and white horses, everyones was different. In just over an hour they all were wonderful paintings. Shows how much their skills have developed. The idea we had for Jane turned out so well I decided to paint it myself.

Paint

Yeah, My paint has finally arrived from the states, Thank you to Jodie who made the arrangements and to my aunt and Uncle- Lil and Lorne for bringing it to Alberta from Alamo. I have started an acrylic and can't wait to try it out. Acrylic is not the medium I like to use but it should make me a more prolific artist being able to paint quicker. It will take some getting used to as I like to blend on the canvas, but we will see what happens....In the meantime here is the horsey bowl I created for the empty Bowls Festival held here on Saturday.

Calgary Stampede Series

I am still tweeking the painting but here is the last photo of the painting.

Along with the Series: "Girls Love Horses", I am Painting a miniature series on 8 x 10 canvas "Faces of the Stampede". This includes this rodeo clown I am working on.

lilly white

I am painting a lilly to go with the my other lilly painting

Pow Wow Dancer and Pow Wow Princess

This image I painted for the Stampede, Pow Wow DANCER, 8 X 10 to go along with Pow Wow Princess

painting eggs

Now when I told the seniors they were painting eggs they probably didn't think that this was how they would do it, remarkably they turned out pretty well.

TIME TO PAINT

THIS WAS THE LAST WEEK OF THE ARTIST PLAYGROUND HOME SCHOOL ART PROGRAM. WE HAD A FANTASTIC YEAR OF ART CREATION. OUR LAST FEW WEEKS WE CONCENTRATED ON 3D ARTWORK THAT INCLUDED FABRIC COLLAGE, CLAY SCULPTURE, MASK MAKING, TISSUE FLOWERS, TYEDYE TSHIRTS AND MOSAICS. THIS IS MY TYE DYE VERSION

Caricatures with Kelli

Kelli Gannon hosted the Airdrie Artist Guild Demo Night on April 14th, Here I am with his renditions of Me!

Fireweed

I was teaching the seniors to paint mountains and decided to finish my own version, seems I never finish any of the paintings I demo, so this is a first. You can see their versions at myhomeschool art site in the Prince of peace members pages.

Didsbury Memorial Complex Expo

Didsbury 25th art, travel and trade expo
April 10th and 11th sat 9-6 and sunday 12-5
Two reasons to come out, I'll See you there & Jennifer Jones and her losing curling team will be here too For more info visit www.didsburychamber.ca

Speaker Night with Michelle Grant

On Tuesday I had Michelle Grant of Calgary come out to talk to us (The Federation of Canadian Artists - Calgary) about drawing the skeletal proportions of the horse to prepare for the painting. Thanks Michelle. This is great for preparation for paintings for the Calgary Stampede!

The Critique

Recently we had a critique with Jean Geddes. Here she is examining my artwork and commenting on all the artists artwork who came out for the Federation of Canadian Artists critique with Jean Geddes Workshop

thinking of you sandra

Whilst my friend Sandra from elementary school is in the hospitalI painted a thinking of your card just for her.

The Karin Jurick Painting before the artsy style took over!!

portrait for the Karin Jurick paintings challenge

karin jurick portrait challenge

The portrait challenge for Karin Jurick

I love secrets and this was a secret project where the artists submitted their own renderings of Karin Jurick
.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf5CYNe50os

Inukshuk

Ok Something else a little different from me, maybe in the new year I will get back to painting in My own style. This is for my Christmas Card MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

Karin Jurick portrait challenge

This was the latest challenge from Karin Jurick. In early December she sent artists a photo of another participant, I don't know who the lady is but I was pretty excited about doing the challenge and actually completed her in 2 days, then made a few minor adjustments but then I had to repaint it after scrubbing it off. Hmm, Let well enough alone...

Paintings of the Totems in Airdrie

A Gift for the mayor of our sister city Gwacheon in Korea.

Vote so Aviva insurance pays for our seniors art program

http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf1160

Senior Art Enrichment | Aviva Community Fund
Source: www.avivacommunityfund.org
"Painting sees no age or gender, and speaks to every language found on earth."- anonymous

"Seniors make up the fastest growing age group in Canada." We must help by encouraging healthy and active lifestyles, to promote mental and physical well-being, to encourage sociability and to engage in an atmosphere of creativity and learning.

An art enrichment program designed to enrich the livelihood of the seniors in our community strives to offer satisfaction.To experience the pleasure of painting, to satisfy their creative spirit , to develop a sense of self appreciation and to find value and accomplishment in their work of art.

Art is possible for all people. Programs are also designed to motivate individuals who have physical challenges associated with aging and the constraints of health issues. Whether it is a hearing disability, Hodgkin’s, dementia or the entire realm of age related suffering, It is therapeutic to every individual who is involved in the art creation process. Persons confined to wheel chairs and other devices will be able to participate in this cognitive approach to learning. Individuals who have had a stroke can introduce the skill of painting to relearn. Painting is a way of expression and freedom. Its rewards go beyond the physical nature of the process. Let us give a program the seniors will benefit from, each in their own way.

Footnotes 1. anonymous quote - L.Rossin webpages. 2. Seniors make up the fastest-growing age group. Statistics Canada. Estimates of Population, Canada, the Provinces and Territories (Persons). CANSIM Table no. 051-0001. Ottawa.

The same mountain view from Canmore painted in 2 different mediums

I used the same photo to do both workshops I have not completed either of them but here they are.

Workshop with Doug Swinton

This weekend I attended another workshop. This one was oils with Doug Swinton. I like his strategy - SIMPLIFY. By painting with the biggest brush you have and by finding the correct value the colour is yours to see. I probably will not use this approach to many of my paintings but I do enjoy watching him as he pounds out a big 24 X 30 painting in 45 minutes. I realize I like to watch others paint as much as I like painting!
Here are pictures from the workshop.

Art Workshop in Cochrane, Alberta

Well I attended the workshop with Marilyn Kinsella Watercolourist She sure has become proficient with her skills. I must say I was impressed with the way she moved the colour onto the paper and could delicately conjure up the rocky mountains with out even using a photo. She said - I have painted them thousands of times from every angle. And she was so very good. Here is a simple painting I worked on.

Artists view of the hoar frost on a tree

This is part of my fair weather series. I thought I would post a cold tree as this is how it is feeling out there at this time of the year. It is a 12 X 12 painting so part of the left side is missing in the view.

Art Book Contest - Watercolour

Enter Your ArtEnter Your Art

Posted using ShareThis

In the Danyluk Family

This is a Cover I have been working on for a family tree, genealogy Book. It is a watercolour of the homestead from family on my mom's side.

This is the top of the mural -The Building on Fire

Mural for the Irricana Firehall

This month I will be working on a mural for a firehall. This is the drawing. I hope it will be very dramatic once I get the paint and get it started later this week.

Jellybeans

Jellybeans in a candydish, This was my own challenge and I had alot of fun with it. Just arranging the jellybean colours was interesting and time consuming. You can attempt to do this too the picture to chose is in the RockyviewArtclub.piczo website - under demos. My particular picture is not posted but I am tempted to do another one.

Sprinkles

This was the challenge with Different Strokes from Different Folks