Second Watercolor Workshop Added At Black Spruce Gallery

Dipping my toes and my brushes in the waters at Cannon Beach, Oregon.

Are you still thinking about registering for the one day Splash & Squiggle Ink & Watercolor Workshop that I’m delivering at Black Spruce Gallery next month?

Well, here’s some news you need to know.

Since the workshop on Friday, August 10th is now fully subscribed (Yahoo!), I’m also going to be delivering a second one-day workshop on Thursday, August 9th. (Yahoo!) 

It will be the same great ‘See & Try’ format for learning on each day. So if you’re interested in joining us, delay no longer!

To register and reserve your space in the workshop: Contact Cheryl Tuck Tallon at Black Spruce Gallery.  Phone:  306-229-1471 Email: ctuck@sasktel.net

PS1 – If you were hoping to attend the workshop on the 10th, check with Cheryl anyway. With the opening of a second day, there may be some individuals who shift to the Thursday, freeing up a few spaces in the Friday session.

PS2 – In case you missed the initial description of the workshop, you’ll find it below.

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Commissioned Painting For CAPS

I’ve been a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers since its inception two decades ago. Over the years, I’ve attended and presented at conventions and chapter meetings, played roles on various committees, and served as the President of our National Board.

Last year, CAPS celebrated its 20th anniversary as an organization. In honor of the occasion, I was invited to use my skills as an artist to create something unique to mark this special milestone.

Since our 20th Anniversary aligned with the 150th anniversary of Canada, and our 20th convention was held in Ottawa, I was asked to create a painting that featured Parliament Hill and to include a special element that would reference the CAPS 20th.

The image you see here is the original painting that I created featuring an autumn view across the Ottawa River looking towards the Peace Tower and the Parliamentary Library. Cruising down the river in the foreground is a boat carrying the name, CAPS 20.

This original painting was presented to the CAPS National President, Suzanne Stevens at a special pre convention reception hosted on Parliament Hill. Here is a photo of Suzanne with the framed original ready to take a place of honor in her home.

In addition, each person who served on the planning committee, volunteered for special tasks at the event, or presented a session at the convention received a reproduction of the image, matted and ready to frame and display.

Print in Recipient Grant Ainsley’s Office

The paintings were a tremendous hit. Some declared it the best convention gift they’ve ever received! Many recipients have sent me photos showing their prints proudly on display in their homes and offices.

I was delighted to be able to use my skills as an artist to support an organization that has played such a significant role in my professional life. Special thanks to Rhoinda Scharf for the inspiration that led to the request and, ultimately, a throng of happy recipients.

 

PS – You can purchase your own copy of Celebrating Canada 150 – CAPS 20 through this online link.

 

Special Bonus Offer – Celebrating Sketches of Saskatoon Reprinting

I’ve recently taken possession of the third printing of my book, Sketches of Saskatoon. Copies of SOS continue to be very popular as gifts for travelers, family and business visitors, colleagues, clients, as well as lovers of art and this city of Saskatoon.

To celebrate the third printing, this special offer is available from now until the end of 2017. With each bundle of 10 or more copies that is ordered from my online shop, I will also include a special bonus gift of an original painting with a Saskatoon theme or image.

Each original will be 5×7, mounted on a 6×8 mat board (as shown here) and wrapped in a cello pack ready for presentation and gifting – or to keep and enjoy yourself.

The image shown on the right (that of a Saskatoon classic – the Delta Bessborough) is the gift that will accompany the very first ten-pack purchased.

The price of a bundle of 10 books is already discounted by 10%. The bonus painting is in addition to that discount. Deeper discounts are available on larger quantities.

To take advantage of this special offer, go directly to this link for complete pricing details and to place your order.

If you’re new to the book, this SOS website will give you an overview of the contents, and then link you to the online shop.

DoodleWash Featured Artist

How cool it was to be invited to appear last week as the November 3, 2017 Featured Guest Artist on the Doodlewash website. Click here to see the feature for yourself.

You’ll be able to read about: my philosophy of art, my creative process, how art evolved in my life, how I market my work, and my favorite materials.

Doodlewash is a website coordinated by Charlie O’Shields. It and Charlie are dedicated to all things watercolor. One of the services that Charlie provides is profiles like these on various watercolor artists and their work.

So far, some 340 watercolor artists from around the world have been featured on World Watercolor website. This map shows you who has been featured in the past and where they live. It also offers live links to their feature articles.

I hope when you enjoy these peeks behind the scenes in the lives of artists around the world.

I’d be delighted if you’d share link to my Guest Artist Feature with the art appreciators in your circle of acquaintance.

  • PS – A special welcome to all the new PauseWorks Studio blog subscribers who have joined in to follow news from the studio as a result of the DoodleWash feature. I look forward to staying in touch and sharing more of my art and my world with you.

Canada 150 Gallery Of Images Now Online

I hope you enjoyed the series of paintings of our ten Canadian provinces that I released over the summer as my Canada 150 art project.

It was such fun recalling my experiences with all of these parts of this great country of ours, and creating images to represent each.

All but two of the paintings have found new homes. Quebec and New Brunswick originals are still available.

If you are interested in either of those, you can contact me directly and the same special Canada 150 pricing will apply.

Many people have asked if they can purchase prints of one image or another, and the answer to that question is yes.

I have now posted all ten of the images to a Canada 150 Gallery on my fine art website. You can view all of them and their accompanying stories online. And you can order prints in sizes and styles that suit you best.

The Fine Art America service that hosts my online gallery reproduces images on paper, canvas, metal, acrylic and wood. So many options !

Here, again, is the link to the Canada 150 Art Gallery.

Happy browsing! And Happy Canada Sesquicentennial!

And thanks for all the kind words about the project and the paintings.

Hues Plein Air Art Show – September 2017

For the last couple of years, I’ve been participating with the Saskatoon Plein Air Painting group on outdoor painting excursions in and around Saskatoon.

For the month of September, Hues Art Supply has invited our group to show some of the work we’ve created in and around Saskatoon as well as places further afield.

I’ve contributed three pieces to the show (including a couple of garden scenes and a lakescape).  All three are available for purchase.

Our Artists’ Reception will be held this coming Saturday (September 9/2017) between the hours of 2:00 and 4:00 pm at Hues Art Supply – 1818 Lorne Avenue here in Saskatoon.

Drop on by to say hi, enjoy the refreshments, and take a stroll through a sampling of our plein air work.

Hope to see you there!

Canada 150 Art Project – Saskatchewan

Welcome to the last in a series of ten watercolor paintings to honor Canada’s Sesquicentennial – this one featuring Saskatchewan. Read on to learn more about the backstory behind this painting, and to find out how you can make this painting yours.

 

 

The Backstory: The final image in this Canada Art 150 series brings us to my home province of Saskatchewan. I know there are many who believe this place is one flat grain field stretching from horizon to horizon. Those folks might expect to see a painting of the great plains as seen cruising along the Trans Canada Highway.

But wait, as they say, there’s more to Saskatchewan than that. For example:

  • the Big Muddy badlands with its rough terrain and sandstone outcroppings
  • the grasslands and the Cypress Hills with their Ponderosa pines
  • the Great Sandhills with their shifting sands and desert topography
  • the parkland with its rolling hills, sloughs and willow bluffs
  • the Boreal forest with its lakes, spruce and aspen
  • the northern shield with its rock, muskeg, and moose

So, what did I choose to share with you? A country road. And not just any country road. This one runs past NW 17 33 26 W2 – the farm where I grew up eight miles south of the village of Viscount. The rise of land looked north to our home quarter on the right and to our land on the left.

This scene was my ‘coming home’ greeting at the end of a daily 40 minute school bus ride. The road was designated Thoen Road in 2008 in honor of our family, and in particular my Dad who drove the snow plow that kept this road open through all the winters of my childhood.

 

How You Can Make This Painting Yours: In honor of our country’s 2017 anniversary celebrations, I’ve created one watercolor painting to honor each province.

One unique provincial landscape, seascape or streetscape will be featured each week throughout the summer. Ten paintings are up for grabs – one for each province – and one each week.

Each original painting is 8” x 10” in size and each one will arrive mounted in a double white mat bringing the outer dimensions to 11” x 14” – ready to pop into a standard frame of your own choosing.

The price for each painting will be $150 (taxes included) plus $15 for shipping to anywhere in Canada.

If you are looking for a unique remembrance of Canada 150, and you’ve always wanted to buy an original watercolor from the Pauseworks Studio, here’s your chance.

Just send me an email message ( to pat@patkatzart.com) with the words ‘Canada 150 – I’ll Take It’ in the subject line. The first reader to call dibs on each week’s masterpiece takes it. Good luck to all!

 

If you wish to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to notifications from the Pauseworks Studio Blog,

you can do so in the Let’s Keep In Touch area on any page of the Pauseworks Studio website.

Canada 150 Art Project – Quebec

Welcome to the ninth in a series of ten watercolor paintings to honor Canada’s Sesquicentennial – this one featuring Quebec. Read on to learn more about the backstory behind this painting, and to find out how you can make this painting yours.

 

The Backstory:

I first visited Quebec to attend Expo 67 in Montreal. That experience opened my eyes to the world and seeded my lifelong interest in travel. The Expo extravaganza was something this prairie girl could never have imagined – even in her wildest dreams.

I’ve since returned many times to explore more of Montreal and Quebec City. I’m always delighted to have a chance to: converse in my sadly lacking but serviceable French, enjoy the amazing food, and soak up the European atmosphere.

I’m especially enamored by the Vieux-Quebec area with: the Chateau Frontenac, the funicular, the Breakneck Stair connecting upper and lower town, the shops, stone buildings and narrow cobblestone streets. La Fresque des Quebecois near Place Royale is a massive trompe-l’oeil mural that is definitely worth a visit.

This restaurant, Aux Anciens Canadiens, sits on Rue Saint-Louis. It operates out of one of the oldest houses in Quebec, which was originally built in 1675.

One of the most nerve-wracking experiences of my life as a Canadian was the night of the 1995 sovereignty referendum when (thankfully) Quebecers voted to stay in the confederation by a narrow margin of not quite one percent. I did not then and do not now wish for a separate Quebec. La Belle Province is most definitely a part of my Canada, and I look forward to exploring more of it in the years ahead.

 

How You Can Make This Painting Yours: In honor of our country’s 2017 anniversary celebrations, I’ve created one watercolor painting to honor each province.

One unique provincial landscape, seascape or streetscape will be featured each week throughout the summer. Ten paintings are up for grabs – one for each province – and one each week.

Each original painting is 8” x 10” in size and each one will arrive mounted in a double white mat bringing the outer dimensions to 11” x 14” – ready to pop into a standard frame of your own choosing.

The price for each painting will be $150 (taxes included) plus $15 for shipping to anywhere in Canada.

If you are looking for a unique remembrance of Canada 150, and you’ve always wanted to buy an original watercolor from the Pauseworks Studio, here’s your chance.

Just send me an email message ( to pat@patkatzart.com) with the words ‘Canada 150 – I’ll Take It’ in the subject line. The first reader to call dibs on each week’s masterpiece takes it. Good luck to all!

If you wish to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to notifications from the Pauseworks Studio Blog,

you can do so in the Let’s Keep In Touch area on any page of the Pauseworks Studio website.

Canada 150 Art Project – New Brunswick

Welcome to the eighth in a series of ten watercolor paintings to honor Canada’s Sesquicentennial – this one featuring New Brunswick. Read on to learn more about the backstory behind this painting, and to find out how you can make this painting yours.

 

The Backstory: New Brunswick is probably best known for its powerful tides that surge up and down the Bay of Fundy.   You can see the impact of that tide in action most dramatically at the iconic Hopewell Flowerpot Rocks.

Other curiosities of New Brunswick include the optical illusion of Magnetic Hill in Moncton where cars seemingly roll uphill, and the Reversing Falls of Saint John where the Fundy tides meet the Saint John River.

I’ve traveled to both Moncton and Saint John several times over the years for both work and pleasure. What intrigued me most on my recent visit to Saint John was the architecture of the city.

This image features the welcoming front steps and doors that can be found leading into the two story brick Italianate homes along Germain Street in downtown Saint John.

Many of the grand homes along this street were built following the Great Fire of 1877 which destroyed 40% of the city.

 

How You Can Make This Painting Yours: In honor of our country’s 2017 anniversary celebrations, I’ve created one watercolor painting to honor each province.

One unique provincial landscape, seascape or streetscape will be featured each week throughout the summer. Ten paintings are up for grabs – one for each province – and one each week.

Each original painting is 8” x 10” in size and each one will arrive mounted in a double white mat bringing the outer dimensions to 11” x 14” – ready to pop into a standard frame of your own choosing.

The price for each painting will be $150 (taxes included) plus $15 for shipping to anywhere in Canada.

If you are looking for a unique remembrance of Canada 150, and you’ve always wanted to buy an original watercolor from the Pauseworks Studio, here’s your chance.

Just send me an email message ( to pat@patkatzart.com) with the words ‘Canada 150 – I’ll Take It’ in the subject line. The first reader to call dibs on each week’s masterpiece takes it. Good luck to all!

 

If you wish to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to notifications from the Pauseworks Studio Blog,

you can do so in the Let’s Keep In Touch area on any page of the Pauseworks Studio website.

Canada 150 Art Project – Alberta

Welcome to the seventh in a series of ten watercolor paintings to honor Canada’s Sesquicentennial – this one featuring Alberta. Read on to learn more about the backstory behind this painting, and to find out how you can make this painting yours.

 

The Backstory:

Alberta is right next door to my home province of Saskatchewan; and it’s the province I’ve visited most often over the years – both for work and pleasure.

Alberta has plenty of attractions – from the Japanese Gardens in Lethbridge, to the world famous Calgary Stampede, to the Badlands and Hoodoos of Drumheller, to the many diversions of the West Edmonton Mall.

As a family, we made an annual Labor Day weekend trek to Edmonton for some twenty years to visit a favorite aunt and uncle. We now travel as often as possible to Calgary to visit our two youngest grandsons and their parents.

In addition to friends and family, what draws me back again and again to Alberta are the Canadian Rocky Mountains. In fact, just this year, we took another trek along the Banff Jasper Parkway and enjoyed both old and new sites along the way.

Here are a few of my favorite remembrances from our many visits to the Rockies:

  • the colorful poppies sprinkled across the grounds of Chateau Lake Louise
  • hiking the Lake Agnes Tea House Trail and the views along the way
  • sketching the beautiful blue-green waters of Moraine Lake
  • camping near and hiking up Johnston Canyon
  • sweet tooth purchases at the fudge shop on Banff Avenue
  • whitewater rafting with the family on the nearby Kananaskis River
  • the bugling elk roaming the grounds of Jasper Park Lodge
  • the thundering Athabasca Falls as they carve their way through their rocky sidewalls
  • taking a wintry ice walk through the frozen waterfalls in the depths of Maligne Canyon

This painting features beautiful Lake Louise, one of the most visited and most photographed sights in the Rockies.

 

How You Can Make This Painting Yours: In honor of our country’s 2017 anniversary celebrations, I’ve created one watercolor painting to honor each province.

One unique provincial landscape, seascape or streetscape will be featured each week throughout the summer. Ten paintings are up for grabs – one for each province – and one each week.

Each original painting is 8” x 10” in size and each one will arrive mounted in a double white mat bringing the outer dimensions to 11” x 14” – ready to pop into a standard frame of your own choosing.

The price for each painting will be $150 (taxes included) plus $15 for shipping to anywhere in Canada.

If you are looking for a unique remembrance of Canada 150, and you’ve always wanted to buy an original watercolor from the Pauseworks Studio, here’s your chance.

Just send me an email message ( to pat@patkatzart.com) with the words ‘Canada 150 – I’ll Take It’ in the subject line. The first reader to call dibs on each week’s masterpiece takes it. Good luck to all!

 

If you wish to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to notifications from the Pauseworks Studio Blog,

you can do so in the Let’s Keep In Touch area on any page of the Pauseworks Studio website.

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