Sunnybrook Hospital Art Show

Today is the first day of the show by a few of the MGA members at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. It runs until the end of March 2012. I entered a few pieces this year, mostly abstract.

ala John Stuart Pryce

I am just about to finish a landscape that I started in November in a workshop with John Pryce. He started with an underpainting in rose, burnt sienna or ochre in white-- a light mid tone and outlined the large background shapes roughly with alarizin and white. John uses retarder for softer edges with acrylics and 2 " brushes from Walmart. He prefers blue paper towel. The scene we worked on had reflections in the water and he showed us how to draw down the rocks and trees into the water. Reflections should be vertical strokes darker and lower in chroma than the rocks and trees. He prefers to work dark to light. He paints the sky last and cuts it into the trees.

Silk Painting II "FLAUNT IT"

Here is my new silk painting just finished in Oct. 2011.
It has just been accepted into the fall show Transitions at the McKay Gallery on Main St. Unionville. This show is on until Sunday Dec. 4th at 4 p m.

Markham Fair 2011

Well I entered some art in the fair this year and received three second place ribbons. Two people left their names with my art as they were interested in buying Topaz and Arabian Nights.

Dinner for the Arts York Region

I received this email today: Growing the Arts 2nd York Region Dinner for the Arts Exhibition in the lobby of Le Parc. I am pleased to inform you that the jury process is over and your work has been selected for the show!

Art in the Park Markham 2011

Here I am in July 2011 at the Markham Art in the Park. It was the first time that the MGA had been represented as a group of 19 at this venue.

Non objective art

I am here at Haliburton School of the Arts for the week studying with Lila Lewis Irving of Toronto. She is teaching us about non objective art and it is surprisingly much more difficult than it looks. We are doing acrylic studies on watercolour paper. We started with tiny line/shape drawings for a design idea. We use only 5-7 shapes. Then we did colour design studies using light and dark also. Next we tried value studies on 1/4 and 1/2 sheet using darks that we created ourselves. Today we started on full sheets with colours also. The town had a parade tonight which I went to and tomorrow is the walkabout at the college and high school showcasing all the art from the different classes.Thursday and Friday we continued doing pieces with colour, value, shapes, repetition . Lila demonstrated the use of textures that she orders from Curry's. Lastly on Friday afternoon we did a critique of 6 pieces of art done by each student. Here is the address for Lila's own work.
wwwlilalewisirving.com