This is a photo from my book launch at the Wallack's Nepean store this summer. Many more launches happening this fall/winter in Pasadena, Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto & Anaheim.

Opus Granville Island book signing & Demo

Granville Island is home to a bevy of creativity, always lively, always inspirational. Drop by Opus Framing and Art Supplies and say hello on October 22nd, 2009 from 2-4pm. I'll be there to sign my books and give a little demo on Keeping things Green in you Acrylic Studio or Classroom. Hope to see you there!

Get your GLOW on

Did you know there was such a thing as UV reactive acrylic polymer? This is an acrylic polymer medium with a liquid consistency that glows under black light. I kid you not. This stuff is cool!!!

Available from Tri-Art in 120ml to 16L pails.

Lori Richards at Queen West ARTCRAWL

Spending time in Toronto mid-month? If so, check out the glowing, luminous landscapes and abstract work by painter Lori Richards. She will be exhibiting her beautiful work in the Trinity Bellwoods park during the Queen West Art Crawl 2009. Loose yourself in the stunning intensity of her palette, the mystery of her imagery and the strength of her skill. Lori's paintings are stories, places you travel into and inhabit. They have a way of making the space around them warmer, invoking a sense of nostalgia and reverence. There is magic in her hills.

Lori uses Tri-Art Liquid acrylics to produce her lush colours, adding an organic earthiness with the use of Tri-Art's recycled acrylic paint, the affectionately named, Sludge.