In four classes, you will be doing a small still life painting to go through the processes of traditional Renaissance master painters. Learn proper use of non-toxic, archivally sound materials to achieve incredible luminosity and illusion of depth, just as Rembrandt did. Inquiries: www.kathymarlenebailey.com
The night is lit up with perpetual cultural happenings, singers, dancers, painters, mime, rap, live bands, interactive installations and crazy skateboarders! Here, we are, the Canadian Glaze Oil Society, live painting works about the ‘Frog In Hand” Dance Troop - also performing each night. Behind us, behind the spectacular old windows, outside, is a huge installation. CGOS members Cathy Jackman Griggs and PJ Bell also have huge installations (Cathy's is an outdoor sculptural work with canoes, and Pam's is part of the Morphology Project - huge projected photography presentation. This place is BUZZING!
What a spectacle! You just wouldn’t believe how fantastic this is! For the arts, it a brand new concept! The public can see the full spectrum of arts, all working together. The breath of talent presented at this incredible historic building is enough to take your breath away. I feel exceeding honoured to be any part of this phenomena that is happening in Mississauga!
There is one more night of In Situ Multi Arts Festival 2018! See you Saturday November 10, 7pm- 11-pm at 1352 Lakeshore Road East, Mississauga. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-situ-2018-tickets-50980902251
This five-week program will have you understanding the science of light within the paint surface that gives the old paintings their luminosity. Learn what was common knowledge for artists for five hundred years. Learn it quickly and learn it well. Then apply it to your own painting practice.
http://auroraculturalcentre.ca/learn/classes/adults/traditional-glaze-oil-painting/
Artists, join me for this must-do full day workshop at the Aurora Cultural Centre, to learn my unique process that I developed to nail the likeness of a face. This is a one-day, stand-alone workshop for all artists interested a novel, revolutionary and exceedingly effective approach to portraiture. You will never do conventional processes again!
http://auroraculturalcentre.ca/learn/classes/adults/portraiture-with-kathy-bailey/
Although the sunsets take your breath away in Old Perlican, the most vital part of the harbour is definitely the people that frequent the boats, the docks, parking lots, roads and fish plant of this busy, busy hub. The people ebb and flow seamlessly into the many various social structures that co-exist within the shelter of the port. Weather, water and fish news, jokes and gossip pass like rapid-fire batons from crew to crew, family to family, captain to captain, neighbour to neighbour. It is an ancient version of the internet, really - reliable for keeping all news instantly up to date and all connections flowing like well-greased lightning.
Childhood in Newfoundland in some ways was not much different from my own. I spent mine catching things. My fondest memories of my childhood are of the being in and around the water at Boshkung Lake, north of Toronto, at my grandparents’ cottage. What was under the water kept me spellbound, all day. I kept a bucket of water on the beach, ever-ready for the day’s catch. As I stood knee deep in the gentle waves, toes anchored to the hard sand bottom of our shore, no polliwog, minnow or frog escaped my intense pursuit. I am taking care of my daughter’s puppy today. Dried leaves that have escaped being trapped in the shrouds of snow are targets of his childish game of hunt as well.
As these boys make game opponents of the flounder, resting benevolently at the bottom of the harbour in Elliston, they hone their primal instinct to hunt – instinct that will perhaps serve them so aptly as the Newfoundlander men they will become. Children would count on becoming fishermen, for hundreds of years. What will our radical changes to the environment in the oceans allow our current generation to do? Can we as a worldwide society be adequate custodians of ocean health and our fish supply? There is nothing that can be taken for granted now. The only assurance is paying careful and abiding attention to research and following up with pro-action - responses at every level, immediately.
I just simply love the water and the colours. How many colours can be in water, reflecting beneath a white boat? And how beautiful and diverse could the colours be, within the white hull of a boat?
This work-horse of a boat defies its humble stature, juxtaposed against the racy and slick ripples of water; it elegantly dances with light and colour by means of its radically modified hull. It might be practical to alter the form of the side of your boat to make hauling lobster pots easier, but who would guess you would be creating such beauty by doing it? And there is the paradox, right there.
2017 – it is an extraordinary year. Ice pans and icebergs litter the huge and small bays and harbours of Newfoundland and Labrador into the summer. The flotilla wanders day in, day out at the whims of the wind and currents. The harbour is completely packed one evening and empty the next. Icebergs the size of skyscrapers move at speeds of motorboats, or lodge on underwater shoals and stubbornly stay for months.
Mostly, the ice pans pack the bays. They pack enough and they are substantial enough to STOP the fishery entirely. The emergency rescue services simply cannot get to where they need to when fishermen come to peril in the mine fields of wandering ice.
It is a very mixed blessing to behold the breathtaking beauty of the ice pans as they circle Old Perlican Island, at the mouth of the harbour. How can a Newfoundlander deny this incomprehensible level beauty? How can a Newfoundlander deny the peril of both the moment and of the much larger issue of the future, as they witness global warming changing the face of the Arctic, of Newfoundland and of the world. Everything is at stake.
This is a part of Old Perlican Harbour where smaller local boats are tethered. The harbour road runs beside the docks, but the harbour is quieter here, away from the frantic hustle and bustle of forklifts by the main wharfs, near the fish plant entrances. Button’s Marine is here, providing for the hardware needs of the independent fishermen that run the boats. These docks are where smaller operations quietly and diligently execute the daily tasks of prepping and finishing their fishing excursions. Men gather to talk on the road of this area at the end of the day. I particularly love this part of the harbour.
- Featuring my latest paintings, Old Perlican Harbour Series.
I will be at the opening on the 13th!
We are on a roll - our website is up and running! Keep checking it as we add information about each artist in our membership! Would you like to be on a mailing list that sends you the link when there is an update, invitation or news? Let us know!
Hope to see many friends and colleagues at our Inaugural Members' Exhibition this Saturday! See you there!
BUILD AND MAKE YOUR OWN CANVAS PANEL
Join Kathy Marlene Bailey, B.A. Art Ed., Creative Arts
October 1, 2017 - Sunday - One day Workshop all materials included.
Description: The substrate of your painting is critical to the long-term life of it. Using new ideas and new products, learn state-of-the-art ways to equalize the pressure on the canvas fabric, make the canvas impermeable to the acidity of paint and protect it from cracking and/or getting punctured. Learn how to protect your paintings from the ravages of an array of current bad manufacturing practices that radically reduce the life of your painting. Easily and quickly stretch your own, using the latest and soundest practice, very much recommended by leading art conservators. Your substrate will cost about the same as one that you would buy in the store but it will be a beautiful, infinitely superior product – built with an excellent foundation for paint and built for the long, long haul!
$100.00 PLUS TAX, ALL MATERIALS INCLUDED, DEPOSIT REQUIRED CALL TAMMY 573-0180
tammy@tewstudio.com
Check out the catalog of our exhibit that is currently running at the Tillsonburg Station Arts Centre! I am super-proud of the work of these amazing artists, and proud to be the first president of this brand new Society. I hope that many of you will make it out to Tillsonburg Ontario to see it. It is running now, until June 3rd. The artists' reception will be June 3rd, 2-4pm. See you there!
Faith is integral to my being. I put myself out there; it feels just like this painting. I reach to God. I aspire to serve God. God is mightier than anything comprehensible. The world is wildly complex and also beyond anything comprehensible. There are forces out there that are way beyond us, but all around us and connected to us. We are merely a tiny, tiny part of a massive network of surging forces, but we are a mighty force as well. We put ourselves out there - tiny, but mighty.
I am getting there! These images show: 1) the Grisaille Underpainting on the right, done in brown and white over an Indian red priming, 2) the Velatura Foundation on the left, that sets values into colour, but most importantly establishes a light structure for the glazes to "harness", 3) The First Hardening Glaze, where colours are glazed on to harness the light, and further refinements are dropped into the wet film. I still have a long way to go, still! Onto the complex final glazes!
"Powers In Heaven and Earth", by Kathy Marlene Bailey, Glaze Oil on Cradled Panel Canvas, 24"x24"
Whoever 'likes' this post will be given an artist and has to post a piece by that artist, along with this message, the idea is to occupy Facebook with art, breaking up all the political posts! Thank you Wayne Moore, for assigning me Ted Godwin! I was unfamiliar with Ted’s work, so I googled him. I was delighted to have been greeted on the screen by this painting:
I think it is called “Small Cove”, and is at Wallace Gallery in Calgary, AB.
Seeing this visual feast was wonderful to behold. I love the complexity of this landscape. Because it is so integrated, it does not overwhelm my vision; instead, it engages it. This is a difficult and fastidious task to embark upon, when an artist takes on such subjects. It is like riding a bucking bronco. You are always on the edge of “pulling it off”. Finally, if you are lucky, you do. But it has taken all you’ve got. But what results! I could look at this painting all day. It is in the same way that I could look all day if discovering this pond in nature. It gives the same sense of splendour, wonder and enchantment.
And this is not all the latitude Ted Godwin had! You should see the rest of his work! There are two more that I cut and pasted below.
Ted Godwin just died in 2013. He was a contemporary of my parents. When I look at his larger body of work, it reminds me of my parents who were both artists. His work is different from theirs, but just as you can look at old photos of other people’s families and it reminds them of your own times, you can look at old artistic paths of those of the same eras and see similarities. It was very interesting.
Ted Godwin is an accomplished and much acclaimed Canadian artist, whom I had never heard of. I am quite glad that Wayne Moore assigned him to me, and that I got to share this wonderful painting and discover the work of this artist.
Here are two more that show both his latitude and why his path reminds me of my parents – especially my dad.
All these works can be found at Wallace Gallery in Calgary, Alberta.
