I am really busy trying to get everything reading for next week-ends show. I have been exhibiting and selling paintings at the Greystone Grill, a restaurant in Constance Bay, ON. since it opened in April but have just got it together to have a vernissage. I hope it goes well. Come! Bring your friends!

Ottawa Watercolour Society Show starts this weekend

The Ottawa Watercolour Society will be holding their 67th Juried Show at St. Brigids Centre for the Arts, 314 St. Patrick Street, Ottawa, Ontario (Cumberland Entrance). 
The show will be open daily from 12-5pm April 27th until May 5th, 2013.

The Vernissage will be held on Saturday April 27th, between 2:00 PM and 4:00PM. I won't be able to attend as I am working weekends for the CHEO foundation. When i signed up for that job I had forgotten about all the shows i was in this spring. There seems to have been one every weekend. Thank heavens I don't have to attend them all.  Here is the poster for the show that opens tomorrow;

First Place at the Ottawa Orchid Show! Yippee!

The following drawing of mine got First place in the Drawings Category at the Ottawa Orchid Show last weekend!

There was some fantastic artwork there, I was so surprised when I saw a red ribbon on my drawing. This is a Pink lady Slipper, a wild orchid that grows in the Torboulton Forest in Constance Bay. Finding these in the woods in the spring is like finding a surprise present!
I also submitted a watercolor painting of a group of Calypsos - we used to call these Lady Slippers but Calypso is the common name. They grow in Banff National Park and have the sweetest perfume!

 This one is an orchid that my daughter Nicky has, one night when I visited her she had a candle lit beside it and I wanted to capture the effect of the light on the flower and the pot.
I was cursing myself for entering when i am so busy with 2 part time jobs and an art class and a show every weekend until mid May. I was framing these the afternoon that they had to be delivered! But, in the end, I was really glad I did enter. It's not everyday you get a red ribbon! It really encourages me to paint more.

Art Show this Weekend

I will have a booth at the following show this week-end. Drop in if you get a chance.

My paintings are now hanging at the Greystone Grill, the new restaurant in Constance Bay.

The address is 179 Constance Bay Road and the food is great!

April Watercolor Class

Here is the information for my next watercolour class at the Kanata Art Club. You can also get a registration form on the KAC website at http://kac1.ca/index.html.

Evening Watercolour Landscape Classes 

Kanata Art Club

 

Suitable for beginners and rusty intermediates.

Each week a different element of landscape painting will be taught. Learn how to paint sky and clouds, trees, foliage and water.

Instructor: Brenda Beattie

http://www.brendabeattie.com/

Mondays 7 to 9:30 pm

1030 Riddell Dr. 

Kanata

4 weeks

April 8th - April 29th. $80.00 plus membership

To register, call Kathy 613-435-3141

Christmas Sale Dec 8th and 9th

Art Show and Sale in the country outside of Carp On. A few of my artist friends are having a Christmas Sale at Lis Allison's pottery studio, Pine Ridge Studio. Lis has fantastic deals on pottery plus a dollar table, Janis has beautiful hand made soaps with  beautiful packaging made from her paintings, Janice has multimedia art with hand made original art cards and bookmarks and I have miniature paintings on easels, large watercolors and Christmas cards, bookmarks and fridge magnets made from my paintings, and beaded jewellery from Tarnished Angel.