Victoria Street

It was a partly sunny day and just above freezing when eight of us got together to paint on Victoria Street in Dundas.  I love the old houses on this street however with all the porches, posts and dormers they are challenging to get right.  I have failed attempts at most of them to prove it.

I was trying to decide which house to struggle with when I turned and looked up the street.  Everything seemed to be pointing to this big old house at the end of the street.  There was a Hydro one tuck at the other end of the street but well out of the way, or so I thought.  There was a steady stream of big hydro trucks coming and going the whole time that we were there.  Add to that the fact that every once in a while a car in my painting would leave and another different coloured one would show up and park in a different spot.  All plein air painting has it's challenges but today was more distracting than normal.

Having said that I was outside, the sun was shining, it was above freezing (just) and I was with friends and I had a paintbrush in my hand.  It was perfect.  I also ended up with a painting that I am happy with.  Maybe.

I'm In!

My plan two months ago was to focus on my art and then life got in the way.  I have been extremely busy doing non art things since before Christmas and sadly I can't see that changing for the next month at least.

On a brighter note I just received notice that my painting "Agawa Point" was accepted into the Burlington Fine Arts Association's annual juried show.  A large number of very talented Burlington area artists submitted paintings and a juror selected what they thought were the 28 best for the show. This is especially exciting for me because most, if not all, of the other works are much more refined studio pieces and plein air paintings don't usually fare well.


The show runs from Friday January 18th until January 27th in "The Hub" which is a community space in the Burlington Centre (Burlington Mall)  just inside door #1 and across from Cogeco.  The Opening Reception is Friday January 18th from 7-9 pm.

I want to remind my friends whose work wasn't select that the choice is purely subjective and at the whim of the juror and they all have biases.