Wednesday, June 2, 2010 New Group of Artists to join the show! The following people have sent in paintings (matted only) that will be for sale on June 12 and 13. They are all members of the Brush & Palette Club, and many of them are also members of the Gallery Painting Group. The website for the Brush & Palette Club is www.brushandpaletteclub.com Anita Caveney Jean Glover Barbara Ludgate Marion Simpson Wendy Reid Patti Fisher Debra Graystone-Gildea Barb Jursic Jeannetta Drobot Catherine Goodmurphy Wyn Slemon Carol Drudge Mio Kovacevic Sarah Cowling Anne McLean Helen Allen Hilda Markson Gray Lloyd MacDonald Sheri Cappa Margaret Bakkenes Pam Wilkinson Diane McLure Gayle Kumpf Amelia Husnik 10:24 pm edt  Friday, May 28, 2010 Schoolhouse Studio Arts & Crafts Show: Artists Attending The show plans are coming along very nicely indeed! The orchard has been stumped, trimmed and generally prettied up. To this date, we have the following super artists booked, ready to set up their tents, tables and show us what they have been working on all winter: Ian Bradshaw of Toronto: photographic visual art   www.lookslike.ca Karin daFonte of Toronto: Fused glass, Sterling Silver & Silk jewellery www.kazadaza.com Jamie Sabot of London: Bath & Beauty  www.battysbath.com Lindsey Fair of Kingston: Beach Glass & Sterling Silver jewellery www.lindseyfair.com Scott McKay of Newbury: Metal sculpture & blacksmithing www.strongarmforge.com   Shannon Scollard of Toronto: Fine beaded jewellery, glass sculpture, and corsets www.glitzandglass.com   Carol Pitter-Kopp of Toronto: Gemstone beaded jewellery www.heartlinegems.com  Tara Shelton: Sterling Silver jewellery sculptures, oil paintings, Belt Buckles www.tarashelton.com Angela Lloyd-Briggs: Poplar Hill, visual artist  Michael D'Avirro of Komoka: wood turner: bowls,platters and vessels all made from local recycled woods. Plus hand made limited edition prints, of mainly local landscapes. littlebigstitch@rogers.com 4:08 pm edt  Sunday, March 21, 2010 Schoolhouse Studio Arts & Craft Show 2010 Announcement! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Schoolhouse Studio Arts & Craft Show 2010   Indoor & outdoor show in a sweet, old Ontario schoolhouse-turned artists studio! Trendy, unique, handmade artwork by local artists and crafters. Unique gifts and decorative items. One of a kind work!  Sat. June 12th & Sun. June 13th 2010 10am to 6pm  At:  Schoolhouse Studio  9924 Gold Creek Drive  KOMOKA London, ON N0L 1R0 Just off Komoka Road!!    please visit:  www.schoolhousestudio.ca for more details and for artist applications   4:06 pm edt  March 21, 2010. Is it Spring yet? I'm so looking forward to the new season in the sSchoolhouse Studio! I have been working on lots of new plans. Hopefully one or two of them will actually rise up and be counted! 2010 will hopefully see me creating much more, and using the space I made, more wisely. I plan to hold the painting groups, and create a better retail space within the studio. Gone are the table hockey air air hockey games, and the prominent wet bar! There will be at least one craft show held at the Schoolhouse Studio, hopefully on Mother's Day or in the early summer, to make use of through traffic and out of towners. 2:21 pm edt  Tuesday, September 1, 2009 Well hello, lots of news... I will be partaking in a workshop, Saturday, September 12th all day in the Strathroy Fall Arts Buffet, taking place at 7880 Walkers Road. For info contact info@arts-council.ca  The workshops are free! So many to choose from, from several disciplines.  I'll be leading a workshop in glazes, and a workshop in "Alla Prima" painting, which I specialise in my painting groups. The first of my studio painting group series has been announced in brochure format. Here's the blurb from it:   The Schoolhouse Studio is a working artist’s space, for painting, sculpture, jewellery making and whatever else takes flight of fancy. Group Painting Sessions are offered in 8 week terms on Saturdays 12-4, starting Sept.19th to Nov.7th, closing with a group show & auction November 14th.  Term cost: $160Space  is limited to 8.  Easels provided.Email your questions, and to reserve your spot. We discuss our project of the day, start to work, finish our works in 3 hours (in Alla Prima style: meaning “At Once”, in one sitting) and then have a group critique, usually with glass of wine in hand.   Very fun.  Very Civilised!  Absolutely ALL  levels encouraged.  The weekend of September 26 & 27, I will be participating in the Strathroy Arts Council Studio Tour. Please drop by Saturday 26th! Sunday I may not be available. 7:18 pm edt  Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Now a partly furnished studio... Two kindly gentlemen assisted my large item exodus from the urban studio to their new rural home. Thank you Stuart & Bill! We all had alot of fun riding the subway, inspecting the city laundromats, talking to strange city folk, and drinking lots of fine ales. Its May (soon) and the studio is (or should be) a working studio. Soon, my ducklings, things will be created...but first...a party must be thrown! I'm thinking more about the end of May or even June, so that it really has the lived-in look by then... Please stop by whenever you see my blue horse outside the studio, or call me cell to get me back to work. 3:07 pm edt  Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Still painting... Yah, the re-decorating is taking longer than expected. Too much fun to be had on the side of getting work done! Soon my children... 8:15 pm edt  Wednesday, April 8, 2009 My new studio!! Welcome to the website in progress! I am quite sure there won't be many consitant blog entries, but one can never tell. I will be painting the studio (walls) this Easter weekend, and moving the gear down the next one after. I see an Open House Party coming up! How about May 9th, 4PM-9PM Invites will follow! Primarily the space will be for me to unleash all the creative juices I have kept penned up inside since my last collection of jewellery, Insects & Animals, and the series of oil paintings of barnyard animals. That collection of works were to keep my desire to be in the countryside in check until the day actually came that I made an actual movement towards my dream! That day has come, thanks to the Balderstons, and a certain excellent friend who has provided a comfy roost for weekends in the country! My dream for painting in the country has evolved into getting into the bigger sculpture works that I have been salivating to start, and a bigger, messier space is certainly in need! *** I will be starting a painting group, for anyone wishing to benefit from the movitation from group painting. ANY level of painting skill/desire is welcome. I have learned that we all learn from each other, and naiveity is sometimes the purest place to create from. I model this painting group after one I attended in Toronto with a fabulous artist, Catherine Hobart. The plan is to meet every Saturday from noon to 4, or thereabouts. I'll have a subject, genre or idea chosen, unless there are suggestions, (welcome always!) we will discuss the idea, use books and examples, and then paint solidly for 2 hours, (and only 2hrs, with the firm idea to have a completed piece within a timeframe) and then drink wine, eat food that we all have brought, and positively critique our own accomplishments. This session is not designed to be a class, or led my myself, but rather a group project. The cost of this group will probably be $12/session, in a block of 8 sessions.  It can start as early as May. I'd like the 10 week committment so that I can plan the sessions properly. Perhaps we can invite guest speakers in sometimes too, paint outside, etc. Equipment needed: paint, canvass, paper, brushes, cleaning solutions, etc. I will provide the easels, chairs and tables. ****** ****** Well, bloggers, or blog readers, that's it for now...please peruse the site and keep in touch! All welcome, anytime! Keep the love alive! Keep it real! Keep breathing! 2:55 pm edt

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