The Dutch Connection

Coming up soon...

I will be visiting the Van Beek Art Supply stores in Holland, and giving demonstrations of Tri-Art paint and talking about my books.  Very exciting! I'm looking forward to visiting Amsterdam again, as it has been many years, and eating some fine Indonesian cuisine while there!

The Van Beek stores are enthusiastic supporters of Tri-Art materials, and as well stock my books in the Dutch translation.  Click the pages towards the back of the newsletter for details.

Demo dates:

Eindhoven: October 1, 2010, 2-5pm
Rotterdam: October 2, 2010, 2-5pm
Amsterdam: October 5, 2010, 2-5pm

Workshops

Here is the LINK to the Learning & Product Expo: ART! page that has the details on my upcoming workshops in Pasadena.

Tri-Art has a flock of new fabulous Acrylic Educators, all brimming with great ideas, enthusiasm and inspirational information.  We will be adding many new workshops this fall.  View them on the Tri-Art Acrylic Ed Workshop page!

Tongue Twister

You know what's tough? Giving an informative and hopefully inspiring demo/lecture in French! Whew.  I have not done that for a while, and it is quite the brain drain.  Sure, my first language is French, but I stopped going to French school after third grade, and switched to speaking English at home when I was 9.  My French is basically limited to third grade vocab, and the kinds of phrases used when talking to my uncles about fishing, and my grandmother about her garden.  I think I need to brush up on my technical jargon before I attempt to do this again! 

Thank you to the wonderful people at Encadrement Des Cedres, and the patient artists at the Festival de Peinture a Mascouche! 

FYI

I will be deleting this blog soon.  Will be working on creating a proper website and downsizing my internet presence in order to upsize my creative time and space.

Thanks for the support!

textural library from my world

In my world there are textures, images, plays of light, that become a library of sorts.  Visually eloquent, little eye poems.  I peruse, use, loose myself in the details sometimes. 

 This first is a collection of water bands.

 Flora, etcetera.

Woodsy stuff.

Delegating, travel & super heroes

It's that time of year again, when most of my work time (and a sizable chunk of my other time) is taken up by planning the fall shows/workshops/conferences.  Thankfully, due to having hired wonder girl, I am able to delegate my tasks and not completely loose my marbles.  As much as I have enjoyed giving workshops, and working with artists to hone their acrylic skills and find their voice in it's expression, I am feeling a gathering sense of relief as I pass this task on to some very capable, inspiring and talented teachers.

This fall I will be giving a couple of workshops in California, at the always a blast, Learning & Product Expo: Art! in Pasadena.  Dates for the workshops are now up on the website.  I will also be giving one or two workshops at CHA this year (Jan. 2011 Los Angeles), but these have yet to be confirmed.

Beyond these few workshops, my professional path redirects me, and I take on the roles of Tri-Art Acrylic Education Program Director, Writer (book three is taking shape!), and Factory Girl (this role is too complicated to describe with any accuracy or consistency).  If you are looking for workshops with a similar style and content to the ones I have given in the past, there are will be a whole new string of them being offered, primarily in Canada, in the coming year.  Look for them on the Tri-Art website.

There is a lot of travel in store for me again this year, so if you are interested in booking a lecture or book signing, let me know!  At the TAAEP (Tri-Art Acrylic Ed. Program) we are designing a series of New Acrylics Books related workshops, some exciting plans simmering in that pot right now, stay tuned!

Flux

OK, I've changed the look of the blog.  I think that this will have to remain a work in progress.  I'm not quite ready to commit to it.  
It would seem that my present involvement with words, rather than images, has had much to do with the thematic shift in design.