Rafiki - A painting for Jenna

This past week I did a piece for my niece Jenna for her birthday. She is a fan of the Lion King and went to see the live production at the Jubilee in Edmonton with her mother. I hope she enjoys the painting. It will be hanging in Powell River, BC where Jenna lives with her mom Karen, dad Wally and brother Reade.

The Whyte Avenue Art Walk is over. It was a couple pretty good days. Today there was a lot of traffic but not much interest in art? For any of the artists it seemed. Oh well. I sold half the MJ mini's so that was fun and Penguins III also. Here are the ones that are gone. They were some of my favorites too.

MJ Mini's

I spent the weekend doing some more MJ Mini's. I really enjoy doing these mini canvases. Getting excited for the Whyte Avenue Art Walk this weekend July 10 thru 12. I'll be at 106 Street & 82 Avenue in front of St. Anthony's Church. Rain or shine. Hope the weather here in Edmonton turns for the better. We are having a few cool and rainy days right now.

Michael Tribute

I painted a couple of mini painting last night while remembering all the fun times me, my girls and their dad had when they were little. We danced and laughed and just had pure and simple fun to the beat of the many great hits.

Painting a Day for Five Days

I tried the exercise of painting a painting a day for 5 days. Here's what happened. Took a break tonite. It's not that easy when you have a full time job outside your artwork. Perhaps I'll try a commitment of one a weekend.

Ukrainian Girls 3 x 3 acrylic on canvas

First was the Ukrainian Girls done on Friday, June 12, 2009. This is one of the cute little 3 x 3 canvases on the little easel. I really enjoyed doing this one. Second is Lei Lady done on Saturday, June 13th and I also had a lot of fun doing this one. It's a 16 x 20 acrylic on canvas.

Lei Lady - 16 x 20 acrylic on canvas

This is the painting from the still life of Cezanne that I did on Sunday, June 13, 2009 at the class put on by Frank Haddock. As mentioned, I thoroughly enjoyed this class.










Cezanne's Still Life -
My version - 24 x 20 acrylic on canvas



I was admiring what the others had done in their attempts at a few of Cezanne's landscapes and I decided to force myself to try a few little landscape studies / experiments of my own in the painting for five days.

Below is the first little 8 x 10 of Bow Lake, Banff National Park from a photo I found on a tourism site. I quite enjoyed this one and like the way some of the colors came together. I would try this one in a larger version.

Bow Lake 8 x 10 acrylic on canvas



Last came a landscape from a photo of a lavender field in Provence, France. This again is an 8 x 10 quick painting done in less than two hours. Painted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. So here I am now today taking a break.

What did I do for my art passion today. I sent in membership applications to Visual Arts of Alberta Association and Harcourt Art Centre. I am really interested in trying the drop in sessions there which seem to be something I think I could really get into.



Lavendar Fields 8 x 10 acrylic on canvas

And, of course, lastly I uploaded my efforts from the last few days onto the blogspot. So in essence, I dedicated 2 - 3 hours tonite to art.

June 14, 2009

Just spent a most enjoyable day. Attended an art workshop by Frank Haddock "Paint Like Cezanne". I am once again inspired to paint, paint, paint. In fact, I painted a wee mini one on Friday night. Ukranian Dancers. And another one on Saturday. Portrait of a hawaiian beauty. I'll post them soon. But back to the workshop, it was very good for me. Being my nature to avoid nature and I chose to try the still life. I thought it turned out quite nice but more important still is the fact that I have decided to try a landscape. I was impressed at how the other students landscapes were coming along and have decided to try a few. In fact I can't wait. Too bad I have to be at work tomorrow. I'd rather be painting.

Blue Beauties

It was very cold all weekend but I kept myself busy with my newest painting 24 x 28" acrylic on canvas. Blue Beauties