Hung Out to Dry 1-4 - Four Works in Progress

Today I am painting with the Buckhorn Artists' Group at St Matthew's Church.

Once we arrived we were greeted with the news that the boiler had quit during the night and that there was no heat in the building.

Fortunately, the temperature didn't drop below freezing overnight and there was still some heat remaining in the building but, there was also no water available so we couldn't use the washrooms.

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We had brought new paintings to hang on the wall to replace the ones that were there since the Covid 19 shut downs had started.

After the paintings were hung most of us decided to tough it out and stay to paint or draw for the day.

In the meantime we talked about what we had stored in our two cupboards at the church so I pulled everything out and we sorted through all the reference paintings we had from various artists who had instructed us over the years.

Hung Out to Dry 2

We sorted the paintings, drawings and kept the works from each artist together and returned them to the first cupboard.

Next we sorted through all the reference material, booklets and tear sheets from magazines and decided to put some of them in a file in the cupboard.

The old guest books dated back to our first show called "Among Friends" held on the Victoria Day weekend in May 1989. One of our members wanted to keep them and create an archive for our group.

Hung Out to Dry 3

After everything was put into the second cupboard, I pulled out these pieces that I had started a number of years ago (see post on 30 November 2017) and decided to get at least the background painted into them.














Hung Out to Dry 4

I wet the background area with water and brushed in French ultramarine blue to give the impression of sky behind the laundry.

I will post each of these pieces at a later date as more work on them is completed.

Poster for Buckhorn Artists' Group Exhibit at APFTA

Today, I completed the poster for the Buckhorn Artists' Group exhibition at A Place For The Arts in Bancroft, Ontario and had it printed.

I will take it up to Bancroft on the weekend and put it in the window at the Gallery.

Their exhibit will go in the day after my show comes down.

If you get a chance please come out and visit my exhibit which opened yesterday as well as their show, which runs from 29 July to 30 August 2020.

SPARK Photography Show

Today I am at the Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio sitting the SPARK Photography Show which started yesterday.














There are two parts to the exhibit. The first part is photography. The second part is of paintings shown with a reference photograph.











If you have a chance please come to the opening on Sunday 08 April 2018 from 1-4 p.m. and meet some of the exhibitors or come and see the show which continues until 03 May 2018.

People's Choice Award

Today I was informed that my painting "Frozen Barns" was the People's Choice for Best Painting in the "150 Years of Canadian History Featuring Peterborough County" exhibit at the Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio.















I would like to thank everyone who enjoyed viewing my painting and selected it as their favourite.

The Uncommon Marketplace

Today we took our paintings in for the Uncommon Marketplace show at the Canadian Canoe Museum, 910 Monaghan Road, Peterborough, Ontario.

We were fairly busy all day starting with bringing the grids from KAGS to the show site first thing in the morning and getting them set up in our space before the paintings started to arrive.

The artists could bring their art in starting at 10am with the last piece being accepted at 1pm.

Then it was time for the hanging crew to get busy with the task of hanging all the paintings onto the grids and having them arranged in a pleasing display to show each piece at its best.

It certainly isn't an easy thing to do when you have sixty two paintings from twenty three different artists in a wide variety of media and styles.

Then all the lighting had to be checked and final changes were made to the exhibit.

Next the tables was set up with the artists' business cards, brochures about KAGS and an information box for the sitters with receipt books, pens, sitting schedule, an artist contact list and a list of procedures.

Lastly the demonstration areas were set up for the artists that are going to be painting throughout the weekend.

The hours for the show are:
17 Sep 16 from 10am-5pm
18 Sep 16 from 12pm-5pm

I hope that some of you will be able to come out and enjoy the art show and the canoe exhibits at the Museum.