Making jewellery, learning more shodo (Japanese calligraphy), making monoprints, making a new tenkoku (stone carving signature block) and revising monoprints with collage and digital manipulation.
May 31, 2019 First Art Crawl – Three art openings, one night in KW. KW Society of Artists Members show at Button Factory Arts. Art District Gallery Juried show Solstice. Art$Pay launched the opening of their new Incubate space. Collaborating and working together make for a better community and success for all of us.
My monotypes reworked with aluminum plate photo etchings collaged. At The Art District Gallery until July 18th.
Butterflies and flowers. Collagraph print and watercolour painting, 2 of my artworks currently at The Art District Gallery.
On the side.. playing with laminated clay at The Button Factory in a handbuilding class taught by Karen Fletcher. Practising my Japanese calligraphy. This character is “sakura” cherry blossom in cursive kanji. It is going to Japan to be juried and mounted on a scroll by Shodo Canada.
Some traditional watercolour painting. With a record snowfall in Waterloo ON, I can only enjoy the beauty of the season. Teaching how to paint snow at Button Factory Arts and Luther Village this winter. Catch the new exhibit at The Art District Gallery March 1.
The Art District Gallery is hosting a juried show called Sweet 16. All artwork is no bigger than 16×16. Opening reception is January 18, 2019 at the gallery. My submissions include new works using hand painted washi (Japanese paper). Parts have practise sheets for my Japanese shodo calligraphy in sumi ink such as kanji for the word love and words relating to water. Other parts simulate the Japanese tie dying technique shibori. I have used resists and stencilling on hand sized and unsized paper, exploring the nature of washi and chigiri-e or ripped paper collage.
I painted some sumi ink cards for The Art District Gallery. The new art exhibit opens with a Holiday Art Splash Party Dec. 7, 2018. I am also teaching a suminagashi marbling and origami card making workshop for seniors Dec. 6th at Button Factory Arts.
