Lunch with Gabriela Delworth

Early Morning Mist 36x48

available at Canvas Gallery

Today was a day out of the studio. A networking day. I met my friend Gabriela for a quick lunch and a brainstorming session. She is blogger/craft instructor extraordinaire. See her blog here. I recently saw her on an episode of HGTV's The Decorating Adventures of Ambrose Price. She was showing her fine art of gift wrapping and I was truely impressed. Like Ambrose, I didn't know you could wrap a round box and make it look as wonderful as Gabriela did. I must admit when it comes to gift wrapping I prefer gift bags and some tissue. Easy peasy! Today we talked about many things. The state of the economy, how the media is affecting and has been affected by this recession. Some of our favorite magazines have stopped publishing. How some are changing and adapting to stay afloat, while others are seizing the opportunity to start a new business endevour or expanding on what they have already. We both agree that it's important to shop indie and support your local artists and craftspeople. Buy handmade!! Thanks for a nice lunch Gabriela, I always get a big burst of inspiration after one of our meetings.

Now it's back to work for the rest of the afternoon. I've been working on some paintings that I'll be submitting to my publisher. I'll post more about that soon. Tomorrow I'll be checking out The Artist Project Toronto as artist friend Lynn Kelly is exhibiting.

Seasons End and Meet My Friend.

Here is "Seasons End". A set of 2 mixed media on canvas, each piece is 12x12. This set of paintings sold last year but I thought it appropriate to show you as we are almost at the seasons end. It will soon be autumn and it's my favorite season!!

I had the pleasure of meeting up with my friend Gabriela last week. We chatted over coffee at Starbucks (mmmm!!) and then went on to Arts on King so she could see my paintings. If you love beautiful gift wrapping papers and crafty embellishments as I do you have to check out Gabriela's blog!!! She is one very busy designer and instructor, creating beautiful crowns for all occasions. These are not just ordinary crowns we've seen such as in Christmas crackers, these are drop dead gorgeous high end crowns. Each is a work of art made to be worn at fancy parties and soirees. Especially popular for bachelorette parties, Gabriela's crowns have been featured in Somerset Wedding Magazine. I can definatly see her crowns being worn by runway models during fashion week in Paris!!!!! They are that beautiful!!! Love the color pink??? Gabriela participates in Pink Saturday posts. You can see all of her beautiful crowns and so much more right here.

See you all in September and remember, next week is my Giveaway!!!