Alberta Flood Rose Project

Heavy rains have brought extensive flooding across Alberta, especially in our part of the province Calgary/ High River. This impacting multiple communities and forcing thousands of people from their homes. Canadian Red Cross teams are actively responding across the province to ensure that immediate needs are being met. 
 Welcome to The Alberta Flood Rose Project.  
During July 2013, The Alberta Flood Rose Project invited all Calgary and area working visual artists to create and donate an original, unframed 4"x4" (inch) piece of wall art, depicting the provincial flower of Alberta, the wild rose.  The finished pieces were arranged into eight groups of 81, and were framed together as larger "collection" pieces
The flood waters rose... Albertans rose to the challenge!
This is my contribution, I painted up two different roses and added sparkles beads and resin to set them. A little different for me but they look like tiles with a nice hard gloss finish.

This is the website to view the collection and fundraisers this project is still committed to. There are posters of the art, books and even some wonderful original panels of the original artworks for purchase.

http://www.thealbertafloodroseproject.com/gallery.html

Jazz Man

Jazz, Man

This fellow was sitting beyond the market in New Orleans and played a few tunes for us.  He had just a joyful soul and made us smile. 

Donations to the Airdrie Food Bank Fundraiser for the Flood in Calgary

The Quote on the bowl is from Hellen Keller, It reads

" One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar "

The Painting is "NOSE CREEK" 12 X 16 

It was generously framed by Red Leaf Framers on Calgary for the fund raiser.

Wolf Drum

My friend Sandra set me up to paint her friends home made drum. Very authentic. So here is the underpainting.  I had many ideas of plans but did not find a Cherokee symbol of the wolf lots of eagles so omitted my original idea and am going ahead with just the glare of the wolf portrait style on the drum face.

I am going to call this finished as soon as the whiskers are added

European Trip

Adding to my trip portfolio which includes new york, new orleans, hawaii, mexico, western and atlantic canada
Here is venice

Western Art for the Airdrie Rodeo

Every June the Smitty's restaurant is dolled up in Western Artwork.  here is a new one I painted, This is one of the horses in the Corral from last years rodeo.This year I have quite a few at Smitty's but there are three other artists participating as well. These will be up all during the Calgary Stampede and throughout the summer as rodeos around Alberta Commence.

Here is another little painting I have at Smitty's 

more zhaoming wu workshop

My Paulina Zhaoming Wu workshop Painting

This is one of the workshop paintings I started at the workshop and had a moment to work on it a little but kept it in the light of a workshop painting.  I tried to remember to lose some lines so I lost the edges of her hand and arm and inside dress, then I melded lines of the chair and the dress.   I could have worked on the background but choose to leave it instead of lightening it or warming it, and I focused on the face .   MY favourite part is the bodice actually.

FCA Calgary Workshop Weekend Group with Zhaoming Wu

Federation of Canadian artists Calgary Branch Paints a figure At the Zhaoming Wu Workshop