I’m so happy to be rejoining the amazing collective of artists at Art District Gallery!
We’re also welcoming our newest artist, Gary Barnett!
Hope to see you all on Thursday evening of July 7th at the opening reception of our newest exhibition!
Category: art installation
One Hour to Paint a Rain Barrel?
What a great time I had at the Summer Lights 2016 painting a rain barrel for REEP Green Solutions! Thanks to everyone for coming out to cheer me on, to James Howe of REEP for the unique painting opportunity, and to my fellow rain barrel painters, nik harron, Julian van Mossel-Forrester, and Jennifer Gough for their artistic fellowship! You guys did some amazing paint jobs!
My idea for the rain barrel was to have two distinct intertwining webs in earthy yellows encircle the barrel having over a deeper jewel-toned purple. The intertwining webs are about community and interdependence, while the purple background symbolizes the importance of what goes on in the unseen realms.
While the idea was to paint the barrel during a one-hour time slot, I’m afraid the design I chose to paint just wasn’t doable within the one hour timeline! What was I thinking!!!? I was so grateful that nobody seemed to mind that I took extra time to complete the rain barrel the way I had envisioned. And big thanks to Marco and Jessica Loof for jumping right in to help execute the painting! All in all, I put in 5 hours on that barrel…. so it’s a big fail on my time management skills, but still, I’m fairly pleased with how the barrel turned out. It’s not every night that one can sit smack in the middle of King Street in Kitchener and paint!
Happily, all of the rain barrels painted are available for sale! All of the painted barrels are being auctioned off at www.reepgreen2016.eflea.ca until June 27.
Public Painting Project at the Maker Expo!
I’m very happy to announce that I’m doing another public art project!
Tomorrow – Saturday the 19th – I will be at Kitchener City Hall from 10am to 6pm presiding over another paint-by-number tiling project. My public art project is brought to you by KWARTZ Lab Maker Space, and is a small part of Waterloo Region’s Maker Expo. It should be a most interesting collection of exhibitors and all kinds of creative goodness!
Now, last time I did a paint-by-number tiling project, the piece was based on one of my paintings of tulips. This time, the image is quite different, and is based on….. well…. you’re just going to come out and see for yourself!!
Below is a pic of me working on preparing the tiles… we’re really going to need some public participation to paint all 105 tiles, completing a sizeable 4ft by 8ft painting!
So Happy!
I’m so happy to have the tulips from ‘Amy’s Art Attack’ hanging inside the Regina St. entrance to Waterloo City Centre! Woo Hoo!
Thanks, Waterloo!
A BIG Thanks to everyone that came out to Waterloo Town Square to participate in my ‘Amy’s Art Attack’!!! What a wonderful experience to have so many people help me out with my very first public art project. Please stay tuned for the whereabouts of the final piece!
Amy’s Art Attack
Come on down! Join me on Saturday, May 9, as I attempt to engage the public to help me paint a 5ft x 5ft painting at Waterloo town square!
The City of Waterloo (with the help of Button Factory Arts) is working with me to produce an “Art Attack” style installation in Waterloo Public Square in celebration of National Youth Art Week. This event will be delivered in conjunction with eyeGO to the Arts’ event, Extra Curricular.
I’ll be inviting participating youths – along with everyone else – to help me express my view of Waterloo (#PictureYourWaterloo). It’s going to be a classic ‘paint-by-numbers’ scenario, and my painting will come together with the public’s and YOUR help. There are going to 100 individual 6in x 6in tiles that will need painting, so there’s plenty of opportunity contribute to this enormous work of art!
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