Packing up my paintings again.......

Today Aggie and I headed to Thornbury to gather up our work from the L. E. Shore Library gallery.  Sheila met us there to pick up her work as well.  The great news is that we all sold paintings during the month of the show.  I was very pleased to have sold 5 pieces!!  They ranged in size from 24 X 30 to 6 X 6.  It was very encouraging!  One of them was this 24 X 30 acrylic called "Whimsy Valley".

Another one was this watercolour I have always liked, called Evening Glow. (I felt sad to see it go!) 

I am feeling more confident to look for other places to have a show, whether on my own or with fellow artists.  Most places require well over a year's waiting time to get in, but the time seems to fly by.  And there's nothing like a deadline to make me actually get out the brushes and a fresh canvas.  

I'm hoping to finish my current acrylic in time to enter it into the competition for the Art Map calendar this year.  I had a winter painting in the 2011 calendar, but I think there are more and more Art Map participants who will enter for the second calendar.  There is some stiff competition around!

I also have a commission ahead of me that I'm looking forward to getting at-- a portrait!  (Shhhhh!!  I can't say much yet-- it's going to be a gift...)

My next effort will be to take several new pieces up to the Southampton Gallery for the new hanging in a week's time.  Then I will begin working towards the next event, which will be the July "Show and Sell" weekend put on by my Art Group, the Saugeen Artists Co-op. 

Never a dull moment in my studio!!

A whole Studio Tour in one room!

The Owen Sound Artists Co-op has invited participants from a couple of local studio tours to display some pieces in the store.  As a new member of the Autumn Leaves Studio Tour, I took two of my pieces there to be added to their April show.  You get to see samples from a county-wide studio tour in one place!  While you're there you can enjoy all of the art in the rest of the store.

These are my two new pieces:

"Barn Window Box"
12 X 16
acrylic

Chicadee
12 X 16
acrylic

The Thornbury Show is up!

What a joy it was to see my own work and the work of my two dear artist friends, being hung in the L.E. Shore library in Thornbury, the town where I taught for 13 years.  It was a dream come true for me!  Perhaps I will see some of you at the "Meet the Artists" reception on Saturday, April 3, from 2:00 to 4:00.  Here are two of my new paintings that are there, and also photos of the hanging.

"Waiting for Apples"
acrylic
24 X 30

"Whimsy Valley"
acrylic
24 X 30

My acrylics are now up.

Sheila's work was grouped so well.

Aggie's work is so colourful!