Looking up the sky

I thought there were quite many artists submitted to the street banner competition. But turned out only 7 submissions by the artists plus 13 elementary school students. And I wasn't even chosen top 3, either.

 I found the winner's design in the newspaper and I think it's far better than mine. So I was able to accept I wasn't the winner without upsetting. 

After the EXCITING(?) street banner competition, I felt a little empty and didn't know what to paint.  But one day, I was walking my every day route in the nice day and just looked up the sky. Here, there was a blue sky and beautiful clouds and shadow of the dry trees.

I went home and took out one of the "demolished" canvases. Demolished means I often put the solid colour of paint all over the canvas in the middle of the painting when I feel this painting will never get better or something so wrong. And hide it under the bed. I always keep some of those canvases under the bed. And I don't feel like using a new canvas, I take it out and start painting on it pretending this is a "coloured" new canvas.

Took me 3 weeks to paint this "LOOKING UP"painting.

Street banner design competition

It's been a exciting, frustrating and disappointing weeks. But also a very good experience.

When I found "Call for Artist" for the street banner competition, I was SOOO excited. I submitted the same competition 3 years ago and ended up the 2nd place. So my design has never flown in  the  Squamish sky.

More over, there were several confusion for me to submit this competition. First I received the old guidance for submission and that wasn't effective for this time. But I recognized it long after I've sent my submission.

Even my submission wouldn't go through to SAC by e-mail as they wanted me to do. So I tried to send it from 3 different account including from my husband's e-mail account. But never accepted. Each one came back.

At that point I was panic. Then I decided to follow the older guidance for submission and sent my original design paper to SAC knowing the newer guidance said "don't send in your original design".

Then I could contact the chair person of SAC and she was kindly accepted my submission to her own e-mail account. This time it went though. STRANGE?????

Yesterday was the day the winner should get the contact from SAC or DOS. No one contacted me, of course. My dreaming day is over...... Well, it was something wrong at the begin with.

The 4th painting of sunset from my window

I painted the first "sunset painting from my window" more than 2 years ago. I had so much trouble to make bright clouds. I wasn't so happy for the result but I couldn't make it any better.

The second one was painted last year. I used vivid orange almost whole canvas. Because I couldn't make nice soft orange clouds that I wanted to paint. But I liked it.

Then, I tried and tried and gave up several times and left it some time. Finally the 3rd one was done used rose violet colour. Titled "Rose Violet Sunset". I wanted to paint that beautiful soft purple clouds for long time and I think I did it. I liked this one very much.

After that, I wanted to try another orange sunset again. I had to repainted the canvas 3 times but I could finished it at last.

I don't think I'm going to paint sunset a little while.

Blue and green again...

Another 24"X12" painting has done and turned out my typical "BLUE and GREEN" painting.

I never intended to use only blue and green in my painting but my landscape always turns out blue and green. Now I'm even curious about how far I can go.

Another painting for the next exhibition

Always difficult for me to follow the theme. I think my imagination is so limited.

But I've just finished another painting for Visuals next exhibition " Home for Holidays" at Foyer Gallery next month. I don't think there is any necessity to paint this scene using oil paint and it may be better using acrylic or something, but only this image came up to my mind.

Now I'm going to start painting whatever I want!

Painting people...

I've been thinking for two years to paint this one of the scenes of Alta Lake. Why it took me so long? I was afraid of painting people.

I've painted some paintings with only one woman in my painting like self-portrait. But never done people in. I always find it so difficult. But I tried this time. And didn't turn out excellent but I did it, anyway.

Along the theme...

I often feel it's very difficult or frustrated to paint something along the theme. My imagination is quite limited, also I'm not good at painting anything I  want,either. Very rarely, as soon as I hear the theme, the vivid image comes up in my head.

I've told there is a theme of our next Visuals exhibition in November a few months before.
" Home for Holidays". At first, nothing came up to my mind. So I even asked some of the artists to give me a hint. But finally I've got an idea and finished painting a few days ago.