Art show

The art show is over, it took a really long time to get ready for it {at times it felt like never ending}, and then came the show, it just flew by and then it was over. This was the second time this show was held "Orleans Festival", so its still new to most people. Yet this year there were lot more people attending than previous year, and I'm sure it will get better with each year it will be held. I'm glad I took part of the festival this year and I a got lot of great feed back, contacts and connections and met a lot of other great artists. And I want to thank each and every one of you who came by my booth, thank you so much!!


I'm glad its over and done with, now I can concentrate on my water colour and ink paintings and few other abstract paintings. And I can now finally get my studio in to a better shape, starting today after work I'm going to go down there and start cleaning and clearing out stuff I don't need or ever use. Here is a few pictures of my art I had at the show and my little booth area.

One of my new painted chairs "Rose"

And my little booth area and how I set it up this time.

And before I sign off, I just wanted to make a note, that the parcels for the Blog Give-away has been mailed and hopefully they will arrive soon {we are having postal strikes going on here in Canada right now, its a long story... But, the good news is that the strike is done in stages and it was not on when I mailed the parcels, fingers crossed}

Happy painting everyone!!!

Mari

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The project I worked on...

Today, I finally had the art project delivered to my clients home, all with huge help from my Mr B and my client Christine who kindly came with her van to drive it to her house. It all started with Christine, contacting me after she had seen one of my paintings in a store {see below}. She wanted me to paint her a mural on to her wood screen, for her living room.

This is the screen, almost 7 feet tall and each panel 20 inches wide solid wood panels {very heavy}... Don't mind the messy garage, yes, yet another space that I have taken over for my projects {sorry dear, but your car will have to sleep outdoors for now on}.

Before and then first 6 coats of whites and yellows, followed by the bottom blue green part, again followed by yet another 2 coats of white.

Then all different reds, oranges and yellow circle like flowers {all with different amounts of coats, all from 2 to 6 coats}

And the after and finished screen, I put 1 coat of varnish on top to protect it.

Christine was very happy with the end result, and she was a great client to work with. I really enjoyed this project, only thing it took too long to get it done {all due to the weather, too hot and humid and then I got sick in between}, but thank heavens Christine was wonderful about it and she was very patient with me.

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Painted furniture

"Keep Us Warm" Old childrens school chair (oak), painted in acrylic.
seat hight 15.5", backrest hight 30"

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