Paintings in My Studio...

I want to thank everyone who wrote to me after my last post.
My daughter is still in the hospital, but she really is getting a ton of great help and things are looking brighter and I cant wait to have our little girl back again.

One of the questions I got was about a painting that hangs on the wall behind the easel that holds my new painting that's being worked on right now.  It's an acrylic painting I did of the many lovely long sand beaches that we have gone too here in Ontario, and I tried to capture the look of the wet sand as the water drew back after each wave came through.  Needless to say the title of my painting ended with "Wet Sand" 

And then it comes to another painting (on the opposite side of the work space), I call it my gallery wall and the place I can store larger canvases, my inspiration board, I like to change things around all the time and this wall is perfect for that.

Any how, on that wall I have one smaller canvas, a landscape painting from a canoe trip we did in Algonquin Provincial Park.  I really hate being in stormy weather, and thunderstorms scare the living crap out of me.

A few years ago we were in one Mother of all storms and ever since then, you could say I have turned in to a big chicken...  But I still like to capture pictures of the heavy majestic clouds, paint them and look at them.

(Just don't ask me to sit through them when they go right over)

Okay, so here is my problem with this painting, I cant for the life of me remember if I did it in oils or acrylics.

Sure, I could always check and not sure why I haven't done it yet...  Maybe, just maybe I'm a bit worried to find out and then start fiddling about with it and screw it all up.  

I'm not sure how to fix the water, any ideas?

I leave you again with more pictures I took from my morning walk two days ago.

Lovely frost had settled above everything, all was covered in a sweet sugar dusting, dew drops frozen in to beads.  I just love this time of the year where even the smallest detail is dreamy.

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One is in and one not so much...

Well, here is my two pieces that I put in to the annual juried arts exhibition, and this year the theme was/is "Mix of Emotions".  This one below, is a mixed media piece and its more abstract.  The title of the piece is "Winter Blues" and most people (well about 99% of everyone I know), think winter blues is negative, depression and very dark.  However, for me winter blues means something totally reverse to that, to me its that one very short moment when day and night meets...


"Winter Blues" (True Winter Blues),  in Mixed Media

Makes no sense?  well you see, when the sun goes down and the night sky creeps in, there is this magic light that covers everything that has snow on it.  And it only lasts for a very short moment, everything turns this beautiful and dreamy shade of blue.  And all that cold and frosty, looks warm and comforting.  Its the time you stop and just breath, enjoy the view and then when its gone as fast it came...  Then you go and sit back, sip tea and enjoy the warmth of a nice blanket. 
In Finnish its called "Sininen Hetkinen" and in Swedish "Blåa Stunden"  Brings back a lot of memories from my childhood days in Scandinavia.

Any how, Winter Blues, didn't make it in to the show (maybe if the jury had heard my artist statement, they would have understood the title more and the thought behind it...  Or maybe one of them were fighting their own winter blues...   Who knows). 
But not all so blue and not everything can make it... 
However, my other piece "Struggle" made it and its in  Yeahhhhh!!!!

"Struggle" water colour & Ink

If you have seen some of my past work, then you might have noticed that there is few things I love to paint and draw...  It is barns and umbrellas, so I tried to think of an emotion that is a struggle, and why not fighting Mother Nature.  You just never know what she will hit you with and many times its hard to fight back.  But you can fight and it might be a hard struggle at times, but if you hold on you might just make it (kind of reminds me the nasty thunder storm I had to live through last summer while we were out on a canoe trip, it scared the living lights out of me (no pun intended). 

The Mix of Emotions" exhibition will open up on February 16 at the Trinity Gallery, Shenkmans Arts Centre.

Happy first of February everyone!!

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