A Beautiful Friday

Spring Birch Forest II

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Today has been one of those days where everything that was frustrating me earlier in the week, comes together nicely. I started 5 different paintings on Monday as I like to work on a few at a time. Especially larger paintings. I've managed to completely finish 3 of them and only have to add some minor details to the other 2. The above painting is Spring Birch Forest II. I really enjoyed painting this piece as this shade of blue and green together just screams "spring" to me. I use a palette knife to paint the birches which I normally don't use in my landscapes. This shakes it up a bit and keeps things from getting boring as I work along, after all, I am trying to "step out of the box" as much as I can these days. Would you like one for your collection? I happily do commissions. Drop me an email. Prefer to deal with a gallery instead/ (and many people do) contact Art Interiors. I think they still have a painting or two in my birch series.

Supria and I got a very nice mention in "Staff Picks" in the spring issue of Agenda, VAO's magazine for it's members. It seems that we were picked as faves around the office for making fantastic use of our skills gained through their online marketing seminar. Our blogs and Etsy shops, Facebook, Twitter. Imagine me, the techno phobe! The Inner Works Collaborative also got a nice mention. Thanks Kim, Avril and everyone at Visual Arts Ontario.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.Cheers!

Read my blog-Please

One of the newest trends these days is blogging. It seems that anyone and everyone has a blog. Even fictional characters on prime time TV shows have blogs, such as Barney Stinson, the "suited up" womanizer on CBS's How I Met Your Mother. I attended a marketing seminar last night at Visual Arts Ontario. Thanks Kim!! It was a wonderful and very informative talk that you gave. The seminar dealt with online marketing. A very broad topic especially for a newbie such as myself. So much to learn so little time!! We talked about blogging and what an effective tool it can be for an artist. It not only serves me as an online journal, it also connects me with potential clients and other artists and well, people in general. And let's face it, working in the studio can be isolating at the best of times so blogging is a nice break from that.

My blog is a work in progress and will only get bigger and better. I chose Google's Blogger for my blog as it is very easy to use. It will be a place for me to show new works and works in progress, chat about the ups and downs of being a working artist, and yes sometimes even rant. I have signed up for an "Artful Blogging" course being taught by paper artist/designer/instructor Gabriela Delworth and this will be very helpful to get my blog looking just the way I want. I suppose I could do this by myself but I find it much more helpful and fun this way. So, I'm working very hard at this, read my blog-Please!!!