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Dear Friends, here is an invitation to “West Coast Folk Art” exhibition. Please send this information to anyone you think could benefit.
Here is the official poster for the show and beginning of one painting depicting Vancouver in the background, Enjoy!
Vancouver through Q Market Sketch
West Coast Folk Art Show
Dear Friends, here is information for FCA – Federation of Canadian Artists Exhibition “Small, Smaller and Smallest”, Federation Gallery, 1241 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC. Runs from 16th November to 5th of December 2010. There is some great art pieces here and prices are excellent for great gifts for the coming holidays. It is a juried show and one of my paintings is on display as well: Ferry Building Gallery #4. I filmed a short movie today at the gallery, but I could not browse around because of the copyrighted material. Here is a link to the movie and a few photos are bellow:
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Ferry Building Gallery #4, Acrylic on canvas, 10" x 12"
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FCA Gallery on Granville Island
During Harmony Arts Festival I did plein air (painted outside on location) painting of Ferry Building Gallery. It was pouring rain, I had two umbrellas mounted on the easel and still got water behind my neck and drips of water on the canvas. Fortunately I work in acrylics and it worked out great at the end. It was good experience to feel all the elements of nature while focused on canvas. Actually I was so focused on painting that I did not even notice water dripping down my back, until the end. I think these are precious moments when you lose a track of time and you exist only in your chosen world. We often (or all the time) forget that our world of creation is the only one that is real and from which everything comes into the existence. Like painting, everything else, in our life, could be created with same effort and painted as we wish.
There is a few photos from the festival and one is with Raymond Chow, great artist that visited my booth and had few questions. It was a great show with lots of interest, great chats and good sales. Thank you all for your support and love of art.
Atza
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Plein Air Ferry Building, Acrylic on canvas, 12"x10" (30x25cm)
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Harmony Arts 2010
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Harmony Arts 2010 with Raymond Chow
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Harmony Arts 2010, Nadja and Me
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Harmony Arts 2010
Here is third painting of Ferry Building Gallery in vibrant red. Today is last day of first weekend at Harmony Arts Festival and it was success in many ways. As first big public exposure of my art pieces, tremendous amount of people had positive feedback and great interest in technique and art process. I would like to thank all the buyers and visitors for their passionate curiosity and thirst for knowledge they expressed. People recognized in paintings places where they work and live, where their friends and relatives live, cars their friends drive, signs and details they pass by every day. I learned about history of our neighbourhood as well. I heard that Ferry Building Gallery after Ferries stopped operating was a bus depot and that drivers took they break inside the future gallery where they ate their lunch and rested.
Huge thank you to all that came to see me at the Harmony Arts, to have a chat, to enjoy the art, to buy the art, it was amazing experience for me.
Love you all,
Atza
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Ferry Building Gallery 3, acrylic on canvas, 8"x8" (20x20cm)
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Harmony Arts Festival 2010 2
Yes I think sooo…I care… and I also think that we are not here to change the world, change others, change life…we are here to change what we think, feel, what we are, consciously. Change ourselves in a conscious meaningful way with heart full of love and mind filled with creative thoughts. Then every situation, we are in, becomes creative process and synchronistic event that we enjoy immensely.
Hey, after all this is another finished painting that is not perfect, like all of us, but ready for enjoyment. Tell me what you think…
Ferry Building Gallery Final, 61x46cm (24"x18") Acrylic on canvas
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Ferry Building Gallery Final detail
Imagination could be real thing if believe in it. Could you expect the outcome of the art process and see in your mind how artwork in progress would look like at the end. If you imagine it with conviction and belief are you influencing the outcome, modern science ( quantum physics ) says, yes. Artists while working and in deep focus on his art piece is connected with higher realms of creation and inspiration, who says you are not in communication, through that portal, with the artist himself. Reality is much more sublime and infinitely creative than we think.
Do not limit your abilities, possibilities, thoughts, feelings…Stay open for new, every moment, that is coming, is new anyway.
Everyday think one thought that is new for you and watch magic unfolding.
What about experimenting with this art piece, I am up for it!
Ferry Building Gallery 2 Stage
Dear Friends,
Here is the first stage of work in progress, Ferry Building Gallery acrylic painting on canvas. For deeper insight on what is happening around painting in creation, read bellow, please.
Sometimes world around us seems hostile and harsh for our creation to surface out of the cherished and protected world of our dreams. They seem not to match and we have to choose which world is real. For me, dreams are always right choice. Why? Because creation originates in mind, soul and heart and then is realized and materialized in outside world-world of our creation. So, which world is real? They both are, it’s just that we have it backwards. Mostly we regard world around us as only value in our lives, but story of that world always starts in someone’s mind, thus it is art piece created and painted on a canvas called life.
Please pay attention to your dreams, wants, desires and choose what inhabits your mind because that is only true value we hold. We always share it, but the best is when we share it consciously, by choice.
Choose well and enjoy,
Love & Light,
Atza
Ferry Building Gallery
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Ferry Building Gallery detail
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Ambleside Landing is historic site, where ferry from Vancouver (British Columbia) used to bring people to the North Shore/West Vancouver, before the bridges were built. Now it’s favourite spot for many, especially art lovers, with Ferry Building Gallery being its symbol for many years. In 2006 I had art exhibition at this beautiful building. Now with new style of painting it is natural to me to go to one of my favourite places and paint it my way.
First thing you will notice to be different on new painting is neutral tonal value coat of colour that I put before the initial sketch. One half of canvas is warmer, for the sky and second cooler for the bottom of the canvas. I love to work on darker backgrounds and bring out bright parts and simmer it down with darker details with background left as it is, in some areas.
Well, here it is and we’ll see what kind of magic comes out of it.
Hmm,
Atza
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Ambleside 1a, acrylic on canvas, 24"x12"
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Ambleside 1a detail
