doreyme

pink eared

Angus, oblivious to his flipped over ear on beautiful Mount Royal this morn.

what? another vernissage?

Annual Student Exhibition
Vernissage: Thursday, March 30 at 6 pm.
Exhibition: March 31 to April 22

Students registered in the School of Art’s winter session are invited to exhibit their work in our Annual Student Exhibition. The exhibition, which includes hundreds of works in a wide variety of media, gives students the experience of seeing their work in the context of a professional gallery. It also provides an opportunity for students and public to see the great diversity of creative activity that takes place at the Centre. (I have a humble little watercolour in this show, as I take a fabulous watercolour course each Monday at this fabulous hands on art school, on Victoria Ave, just up from Sherbrooke.)

A huge duh-uh epiphany today! Less is more...

I could count twenty such ... Who strive ...
To paint a little thing like that you smeared Carelessly passing with your robes afloat--
Yet do much less ... --so much less! Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged. There burns a truer light of God in them, In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped-up brain, Heart, or whate'er else, than goes on to prompt This low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand of mine. Their works drop groundward, but themselves, I know, Reach many a time a heaven that's shut to me, Enter and take their place there sure enough, Though they come back and cannot tell the world. ... Somebody remarks
Morello's outline there is wrongly traced, His hue mistaken; what of that? or else, Rightly traced and well ordered; what of that? Speak as they please, what does the mountain care?
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? ... (Robert Browning's sad poem about the painter Andrea del Sarto's relationship with his unfaithful young wife Lucrezia)

+ lastly

don't have a pix of the original painting of this one, which was an oil, not a watercolour. The rest, below are all watercolours of watercolours + a tip of the hat to the master. It's a wonderful learning experience wearing another's beret...

which hockney has the tony?

catherine the not so great

show at the Montreal Museum. Too many people with their stupid 5 dollar machines of entitlement. For 5 bucks the art lovers can push and shove in front of #whatever block everyone else's view, while being told what to see + what to think. As for Cathy's taste, must go back early on day on a week day to see if she ever bought or commissioned any great art. What I did manage to see this weekend was pretty academy m.o.r. although the Voltaire's Folly or whatever it was called seemed unusual + funny.

apparently it was hard to

me. To post comments here. I've readjusted the dials, 86'ed some irritating procedures + now it should be easy to write comments here, should anyone be so inclined. And I'm just about to go pick up my 2 paintings at Ogilivy. Alas, unsold, but proud to have hung in such a lovely oak lined room. Now that they've seen Paree...

Angy is a trouper

acting as normal as he can with the collar, stoic or oblivious...can't tell. As for home e-mail, our decidedly unsympathetic Sympatico provider has screwed up + they don't seem to care. Our Nortel modem is ancient + now nonfunctioning+ Bell didn't even bother to inform us. Should be okay in a few days, meanwhile can only be online at the Jointe. Oh the deprivation.

now he has to wear

poor fella, not happy, but not as spaced out as he was yesterday

I have been Nurse Heidi

tending my incredibly pathetic puppy. It wasn't until late this aft that he became "human" again. Before that he was cowering+shivering + hiding in the bathroom+under tables. Hopefully the tide has turned + he's back to his usual irritating, loveable ways.

it will be a challenge to keep my ego in check now that I am an award winning artist, but for the sake of the little people I will try.

my poor pathetic puppy

who loves everybody + everything got severely bit in the face by a dog in the park today + had to have stitches.

one two five

I'm at Ogilvy's, at the exhibition, minding the store today. And from 2:30 to 5 tomorrow. Hope there's a good window to see the parade of drunken revellers below.

Golliwog girl wins!

the Mary Alice Skelton Peck Award at the Women's Art Society Show tonight. Which is 2nd prize! Judges were Jennifer Hornyak + John A. Schweitzer + I missed the last judge's name...anyhoo...I had to get up, on stage, get kissed by the gov general, get my certificate, my pix taken, etc in front of a very big crowd + it was all pretty swell + afterwards, lots of congrats + kisses etc. Show is on for a week, 5th floor of tony Ogilvy in the Tudor Hall y'all.

verni

5th floor, Ogilvy. Enter at your own risk. This is my first juried show ever.

Vernissage

Women's Art Society of Montreal -- Ogilvy's Department Store, 1307 Sainte-Catherine W., Tudor Hall, (The fifth floor, Montreal's first Music Hall, built in 1928. This impressive oak paneled room rapidly gained prominence partly due to the existence of a grand concert pipe organ, an important feature of Tudor Hall. For several years there were virtually daily organ recitals and at least once a week, a variety of local radio station broadcasts emanated from the Hall. In 1931, from their broadcasting studio adjacent to Tudor Hall, CFCF and CKAC aired the first Montreal Orchestra broadcast across Canada. During the 40s, the Hall was used for war effort purposes.) I digress. Verni is at 6:00 on March 16th which is next Thursday. The show-- in which I have 2 paintings -- goes from the 16th to the 23rd, at 8:00. Store hours. The Honourable Lise Thibault Lieutenant Governor of Quebec will be there so mind your p's+q's.

Kilo

my beautiful wolfy I bought in the Yukon for 5 bucks when I was 18yrs old. She went to art school in Van with me, then to NSCAD in Halifax, then to Montreal where she became a bilingual sophisticate.

my friend Ron

Jamieson is having a super show at HAN ART MODERNE CONTEMPORAIN PRIMITIF 4209 Rue Ste-Catherine Ouest Westmount Québec from March 9 to April 6.
Canada H3Z 1P6

well I'm not being bombarded with

e-mails...better get hustling and start e-mailing various artists...A friend suggest a dif name...the Chien Show...by gawd, I think she's got it. As for my painting...coming along, coming along. Went to a great lecture at the McCord yesterday, on Bio-art. Very scary. Victimless meat! Mice with human ears growing on their backs. Check it out.
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/digital/stories/s877305.htm

artists who love animals

First call: for submissions to the Artists Who Love Animals Monteregie SPCA Benefit Exhibition -- where, when TBA. Paintings or photographs of artists and/or just their animals by artists who loves animals. For more info, e-mail [email protected]

only 3 more weeks until spring

+ perhaps it's not a good idea to have a "loser" blog. So my one day blog within a blog is discontinued. Should listen to Chip Wilson who says you have to have at least 9 failures to have one success.