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What's to do:

 The Three Generation Watercolour Artists are taking part in the QEII Foundation Festival of Trees this mid-November weekend in Grande Prairie.  Thousands of people will be milling through the TEC Centre, looking at displays, buying gifts, and eating delicious things.  Hopefully they will donate generously to the QEII!

Our Adult Drawing Class through PALS has started.  It's a pleasant evening of drawing in various styles using media including watercolour, ink, pencil, and marker, as well as different types of drawing surfaces.  So far we've done some scribble sketching, flower studies and drawing with a brush; now we'll continue with design and drawing animals.

Our Kids' Art Classes have also begun. We've got a great group of artistic students aged 6 to 13 in two classes.  They've already shown remarkable skill with watercolours and cartooning; next they'll try sculpture, more watercolour (by demand) and who knows what else!

Unbelievably, it will soon be time to gather pieces for Christmas Members' Shows throughout the Peace Country.  The Three Generations and Robb will be showing in Fairview, for sure, and maybe Dawson Creek this holiday season.

We're back to painting at the Pleasant View Lodge on Thursday morning with the Pleasant View Painters.  They hardly need their lessons now and we just enjoy painting together, although we do have three new ladies coming and hardly enough table space for everyone!  Fall skies and autumn colours are still available just out the window, although snow will soon take over.

The Van Go Project, a fund raiser to purchase  a new handivan for Spirit River's long term care patients, is complete!  Enough money has been raised to order the van.  What a great Christmas present it will be!

All three painters have a small selection of paintings for sale in Spirit River's drug store.  The mass collection is in our "studio," and is available for viewing here in Spirit River whenever someone is home.  Contact us for more information.

We have an ad in the Art of the Peace Magazine this year.  Look us up!  You can download issues of the magazine for free here: http://www.artofthepeace.ca/magazine  but you can also pick them up for free at art-related businesses in down town Grande Prairie.

As always the Three Generations have paintings at the gift shop in the Fairview Fine Arts Centre, including miniatures perfect for gifts (including Carolyn's books).

Carolyn has miniature albums of the Three Generations' work for sale.  She can also do personal photo albums on commission.  Her newest pursuit is making miniature books to fit in lockets.  Click here for pictures.


What's Done:

January:

Evelyn has returned to her home in Toronto for the season, perhaps to paint.  Judy and Carolyn have resumed Thursday sessions with the Pleasantview Painters.

A day off school meant that kids could come for Art Day!  A fun bunch of girls came and painted rabbits in acrylics and hoar frost in watercolour. No homework!

February:

The Three Generation Watercolour Artists had a big show at Picture Perfect in Grande Prairie.  If you missed the opening, you missed trying a vast array of goodies.
The show was up for almost a month, and it looked great on the wall in the down town gallery!

Carolyn and Judy went almost every week to paint with the ladies at the lodge.  They are getting to be expert watercolourists
and are gearing up for the Library Art Show and Sale in April.

Judy and Carolyn also visited Long Term Care, once to help the residents paint with washable markers, and once to do
Northern Lights in watercolour.  They did a fantastic job on both projects, and the results are now framed and on the wall
at Long Term Care.


March:

Judy and Carolyn's Spirit River kids' classes and adult watercolour wrapped up in March.  We covered a variety of subjects and media with the kids, including watercolour, mosaic, cartooning, scribble sketching, pastels and animal drawing.  The adults painted mountain canyons, northern lights, mountains, colour studies of fall trees, and an animal.  Amazing stuff!

March was a busy month with Artists at School, the Banner Program, and Wine, Women and Watercolour in Fairview.  It all went well (despite typical March weather) and some amazing painting was done!

Judy and Carolyn also did a day long kids' workshop in Watino.  It was a lot of fun, and the kids ended up with three watercolour paintings each (and really good ones, too!).


April:

Carolyn enjoyed an afternoon at Ste. Marie School, painting spring flowers with Grade Threes.  Beautiful work Grade Three!

The Annual Spirit River Municipal Library's Art Show and Sale went well.  The walls were covered with beautiful, colourful art!  Here's a link to some of the artists and their work at the show (thanks Town Spirit!)

Carolyn once again taught the watercolour/drawing portion of Artists at School in Fairview.  200 students enjoyed five weeks of art exploration (two of pottery) at the Fairview Fine Arts Centre.  Grade Fours drew quirky creatures and painted a forest scene, Grade Fives painted northern lights and studied two-point perspective, and Grade sixes drew a variety of animals and painted bears of character.  May 1st their show goes up at the Fairview Fine Arts Centre.  Go and see their tremendous efforts!

The Banner Program in Fairview has grade 3 students create colourful banners to hang from street lamps around town.  This year's theme is the 55+ Summer Games, hosted by Fairview this July.  The banners are all finished and are up for the summer.  Hopefully the kids' work is much appreciated by the athletes and organizers!

June:

Judy and Carolyn put six paintings each in the Dawson Creek Art Gallery Summer Members' Show and Sale.  It was a successful show and the Three Generation Watercolour Artists look forward to showing there again.  Carolyn also left some miniature books in the gift shop.

Project Van-Go reached it's goal and the Long Term Care Handi-Van has been ordered!  Thank you everyone!

July:

Carolyn and Judy had paintings in the Fairview Fine Arts Centre Members' Show and Sale.  Many members contributed a great variety of work.  Judy, Carolyn and Robb also filled 16 display cases at Fairview College to represent local artists for the Alberta 55+ Summer Games.   They recieved many good comments about their work.  The students' banners looked great!

Judy and Carolyn tried soap stone carving during several warm days in July and got better than expected results!  Another relaxing and rewarding art form that promises to provide many happy hours.

August:

Evelyn is back in town and ready to pick up the paint brush once again.  She's got a few new supplies in her luggage to try out.

Carolyn and Judy donated a painting each to the Compassion House Golf Tournament.  The event went very well!

September:

Judy had a Peace Watercolour Society Show and Sale at the Centre for Creative Arts in Grande Prairie.  It was a retrospective of the 35 years the Peace Watercolour Society has been together and featured pieces from members both past and present.  All three generations got a lot of painting done while Judy was preparing for the show.

We had a lovely trip to Miette Hotsprings, where we stayed in a cabin, enjoyed the hot pool and mountain climbing, and even did some painting en plein air!  It was the perfect time to go to catch the fall splendor.

We also went to the Peace Valley Guest Ranch at just the right time to see the Peace Valley in all it's glory.  The Ranch is a patch of paradise where we ride horses, stuff ourselves with steak, and this time, listened to ghost stories in a 100 year old home by candlelight.  It could not fail to inspire many paintings.

Painting the Fall Colours at Dunvegan, a Sunday afternoon course, was a chilly but rewarding experience.  The fall colours were still beautiful and we had good company and good results.  What more could an artist ask for?

October:

Unseasonably warm weather this month allowed us the chance to go out and sketch or paint in the great outdoors.  We enjoyed several locations at the ends of dirt roads where the dogs could roam free while we worked.