Louise Smith

The best thing about this show is the wonderful artwork that will be on display.  The second-best thing is that the show is FREE!  Who doesn’t love the free?

I don’t plan on exhibiting at this show–it’s all I can do to produce enough work for the Fall Show at my usual slow rate!–but I’ll be there helping out as an Art Focus member and having a good look around.

I’ve put up a picture of The Outlet because you may have seen this building downtown and not known it as the venue for Art Focus shows.  It’s also where we hold our artists’ demo sessions (also free!) on the last Wednesday of each month except during the summer break.

If you’re standing looking at the same view as in the photo, the Gathering Place is behind you, another venue for art shows.  To the left are City Hall and Shaughnessy St.

I’ve fancied doing some moon miniatures (mooniatures?) for a while.   I put a blob of gutta on the silk aiming to keep a white patch to paint a moon on later.  (The gutta stops the silk paint spreading where you don’t want it to go.  The kind I use dries white).

You’re supposed to set the paint with an iron then wash off the gutta.  But after I spray-painted on the blue-green sky colours using my little travel-size spray bottles, the blob of gutta sure was looking moony.  So I left it there.

I hope to use this background to make two or three miniatures featuring different phases of the moon.  Watch this…er…space.

Hello there!  Welcome to my blog.  Hard to say what it will be about when I haven’t started it yet, hence the tagline “art & life” which sort of covers it all.  I hope to post pictures of my work, finished and in progress, and will also unashamedly promote art events, music I like, and various things I find delicious, humorous or inspiring.  Irrelevance and randomness guaranteed.  Enjoy!