Time to get organized

With paintings seemingly coming and going in all directions, I've been working on getting organized. Other than running a 1/2 marathon (very slowly), I spent the weekend photographing, wiring, varnishing, etc.  I have a booth at a show at the Carriage House in Manotick this weekend.  It's kind of an impromptu thing so I hope we get traffic.

In other news, my brand new business cards arrived from Vistaprint today, and they are quite nice.  Just wish I had put my QR code on the back but that's OK.  Oh yes, and I finally put a couple of images on my Imagekind site so I can sell prints more easily.

Here is a recently finished piece.  I think I'll call it "Escape".

Persistent Visitor

My inspiration for this piece was a very persistent oriole that was hanging around the house this summer.  He kept going around to all the wondows and chirping and looking in.

Small Wonders Show Opens

I belong to an art group called "Ottawa Mixed Media Artists" and every year we have a show called Small Wonders where all the pieces are 12"x12" or smaller and are square.  The vernissage was last night at the Britannia Gallery in Ottawa, Ontario. The show looked great!  This image is of one of two paintings in the show and I'm happy to say that it sold.

September Virtual Paintout

This is my contribution to the September Virtual Paintout.  This month's location is New Orleans.  I chose this image to paint because I like to ride my bike(s) but what really struck me as I explored the area using Google Street View was the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.  It was incredible to see the number of people who are still unable to live in their own houses, so instead, they live in trailers in front of their houses.  Entire neighborhoods  have trailers in front of their homes. You can't help but feel for those people. My heart goes out to them.

Here is the link to the location: Hampson at Burdette

Award Winner!

It wasn't very long ago that I posted this painting but the big news is that it won some awards!  Not only was this painting accepted into the Everyday Patterns show at Gallery Perth in Perth, Ontario, but it won an Award of Excellence and the Juror's Choice Award.  Sooo exciting for me!

A Little Something 3-Dimensional

I took a wire sculpture workshop earlier this month with Charles O'Neil but I wanted to see what I could do to incorporate that type of thing into my usual more 2-dimensional work.  This is what I came up with using the back side of a cradled wood painting panel.

Now, what am I going to call this ??????