Today it is the day before Canadian National Exhibition's [CNE] opening in Toronto. I woke up early this morning to gather my artworks and drove down to the Queen Elizabeth Building in CNE. My guild, Ontario Porcelain Artist Guild, set up its own booth every year there and the members take turns to demonstrate the painting technique there. This year I won't do any demonstration there and I only went there today for putting up other members' artworks in the glass cabinets.
This morning, around 10 a.m., the ex-OPAG president, Elizabeth Fry and her husband showed up at the booth. Joy was burst out from my heart all of the sudden when I saw her. I haven't seen her a while. Later, an another member, Jayne Paradiso showed up. Jayne is the co-ordinator this year for the CNE event. They set up the booth with me together. This time it took us about four hours to finish setting up. After I finished it, I felt very hungry, then I realized I hadn't had my lunch yet. So I said bye to them and drove back to my home. Anyhow, it was so pleased to see them. With fingers crossed, I hope people will like our booth.
For your information, our booth will be opened from August 17th to September 3rd 2012 at booth #171 of the Queen Elizabeth Building.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
My Studio
Tata, I finally put on all the shelves onto my studio. I feel so good while seeing all the porcelain wares piled up. yeah!
Location:
Toronto, ON, Canada
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Trinket Box
Hellooooo, how are you? How is your day? I feel energetic in these recent weeks, probably because it's summer time.
Here is another porcelain painting I started to paint around the end of this July. The study is from Gigi Branch's French style porcelain painting. The box was fired about 4 to 5 times. Honestly I cannot remember exactly how many times.
Everyday I came to home after work, I quickly prepared a meal for my family and I started painting porcelain wares, not until midnight. Then I woke up around six and refreshed myself a bit, going to work again!! Luckily, I have a long weekend this week, so I don't need to wake up at six.
This morning I collected my artworks from the kiln. I was tremendously happy because my hardship really was paid off. Each of the paintings turned out pretty and adorable.
Top View |
Front View |
I haven't decided what topics I paint in the box. Any suggestion? |
Rear View |
Labels:
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butterfly,
french style,
gigi branch,
porcelain painting,
rose,
trinket
Location:
Toronto, ON, Canada
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Meissen Style Paintings
Last two months I received a set of four blank porcelain dishes in a meeting of Ontario Porcelain Artists Guild. These dishes were left by one of our senior members, who was passed away months ago. I think it is good to make sure of them and turn them into some "nice things".
Behind each dish, it is marked as "Hutschenrzuther, Germany, Dresden". I think the plate should be painted in Meissen style to match the origin of manufacturing. This time I painted Uwe Geissler's studies onto these beautiful dishes. The studies are Honeysuckle, Forget Me Not, Sweet Peas and Iris. The topics are identified based on the colour tone, i.e. red/purple and blue/purple.
Behind each dish, it is marked as "Hutschenrzuther, Germany, Dresden". I think the plate should be painted in Meissen style to match the origin of manufacturing. This time I painted Uwe Geissler's studies onto these beautiful dishes. The studies are Honeysuckle, Forget Me Not, Sweet Peas and Iris. The topics are identified based on the colour tone, i.e. red/purple and blue/purple.
Vivid yellow red stands out the contour of splitted Honeysuckle flowerings. |
Nice red purple flower petals |
Tiny blue florets - Forget Me Not - how can I forget? |
Beautiful English Iris standing tall and high |
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