NEWSLETTER

I hope you are able to come to the show. We will be there from 11 am to 4 pm for all 11 days. Please see the map below and the websites of my fellow artists; Nancy Dean, Birgit Coath and Gabrielle Greig. Feel free to send this invitation on to others you think might be interested.

I have created a new temporary gallery (4 Women 4 Stories) with the paintings I will have in the show on my website. So check it out at www.lindabell.ca.

Remember the reception is Sunday afternoon April 21st from 1:30 to 4 pm. Come alone or bring your friends and enjoy a glass of wine, some cheese and goodies, meet up with other friends ----- and of course enjoy the art. I am looking forward to seeing you there.

I am in the final stages of getting my paintings ready for our April show which includes the framing and some final touch ups to some of the paintings. When I went to do some minor changes to "Stalking the Wild Ostrich I realized I was not happy with the saturated orange sunset sky. The rules for clothing on safari are no bright clothes and no black or dark blue. So there is a lot of beige, earth tones and pastels which is what the 3 women in the photograph are wearing. It was also early dusk so the actual sky was not that intense orange --- so I harmonized the painting with a more pastel feel and toned down the sky. See what you think.

Touched up painting

Original Painting

Just a small painting done again from a photograph that I took in that small village in Zimbabwe. I liked the play of sun and shade in this one. It is called "In the Shade" and is 10" x 10"

I am almost done the still life paintings i want to get done for my April show. I have now resorted to using my groceries for painting inspiration. I completed the following 2 paintings this week - the first one is called "Lean on Me" and the second one is "Onion Row". This is the first time I have used the long horizontal format which I think worked really well for these paintings.

I am back to doing a few still life paintings again in preparation for our Show in April. See the stages this painting took -- I think I will call it " Bearly Spring".

Some information about my second place win on the Winter cfai juried show is posted on their blog. Check it out at cfaidailynews.blogspot.com

Here is the final painting. Let me know what you think.

I am not sure what I was thinking when I decided to do this -- the 3 parts add up to a width of 6 feet x 30". Clearly it does not fit on my easel and painting on the floor is very tricky for a variety of reasons - as they need to be connected. I took a photo of where I am at and propped the 3 canvases against the wall to shoot it. The lightening is not great - but this is where I am at so far. I am taking a bit of a rest from it for a while but I think I am close to being finished.

WE ARE HAVING OUR SECOND FOUR WOMEN FOUR STORIES ART EXHIBITION IN APRIL. PLEASE CIRCLE YOUR CALENDAR TO ATTEND OUR RECEPTION APRIL 21ST.

Feel free to forward this invitation to anyone else you think might be interested. I will be creating a specific gallery of the paintings I have selected for April later this spring as well as a link to the work of the other 3 artists who will be exhibiting with me.

In the mean time please have a look around my website as I have added a number of new paintings as well items in my blog. www.lindabell.ca

I was just notified that I won the 2nd place award in the juried CFAI winter show. Go to the links page and click on CFAI. The poster for the show is attached below. What a wonderful surprise! My work will apparently be featured in the February on line Magazine.