Glue - Paper - Scissors and Culture Crawl

Every year in November, I just love to take the ferry to Vancouver and visit Eastside artists in their studios. The Culture Crawl Nov. 15 to 18 is always a feast for the eyes and the heart, always an inspired and inspiring week end; it's just as pleasurable to discover new artists' work as it is to follow the career of some favorite painters like M. A. Tateishi, Erin Ishi and Carla Tak.  There is the traditional reunion with friends and family at Mrs Gomez on Union Street in Strathcona, my old neighborhood, and brunch on Sunday at a new cool joint. I can also count on good cardio exercises in climbing up and down the many staircases of the old factories and warehouses where visual artists work and show their art. I will try to take pictures and tell you a little bit about it in my next post!

The collage workshop has been postponed to next week end, Sunday Nov. 23rd and is going to be lots of fun, very relaxed, free spirited and light hearted.  We will play with glue, paper, and scissors to create many intriguing and seductive little pieces of art mixing images and words.  I have set up a table in the studio to make a few collage pieces on wooden blocks to show at the workshop, it was easy to get carried with all the material laid out in front of me, I made 20 in the end,  there will be some for sale at the coming Artwalk on Nov 30 - Dec 1.  They are small in sizes, from 3"x 3" to about 6"x 12", some are kind of cute and I just want to keep them.

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 Enjoy the week end, I might meet some of you at the Crawl or at Mrs Gomez's, who knows?

Workshops - Pear Cake - Smiling Faces

Last Sunday, I launched the Creative Series with an all day workshop exploring Oil and Cold Wax.  The day started with a latte, a piece of pear cake and an introduction to the program of the day. Then off to mix colours with beeswax and walnut oil for our first layer of impasto. Soon, everyone was involved in their own painting process, exploring with stencils, grid printing, rubbing, mark making and scratching.  All fun things to do!  And just look at some of the stunning images that were created.

There are two more workshops coming up, one before Artwalk and the other, the week end after.

I have a little show out of my studio window as the last fig leaves are somersaulting all the way to the ground on the soundtrack of Alegria from le Cirque du soleil . www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOIdB-GPa24
 Enjoy sweet moments and happiness in your creative pursuit.