Update: I just received this email from the FCA "I am delighted to let you know that your piece "Cheers", featured in the 2024 On The Edge Exhibition, has been awarded the Honorable Mention in the Awards Jurying. Congratulations!"  What great news for such a fun painting, both in painting it and the memories of the event itself!
I am so excited that my painting "Cheers" has been included in this prestigious show at the FCA Granville Island gallery from July 29th until August 18. This show is an open call to all artists internationally and Canadian artists to enter and hopefully to be juried into the show. To get a sneak peak, click HERE to read and view all the paintings and sculptures. They are in alphabetical order by the artist's last name. Still doing my happy dance, cheers!

"Cheers"
​Acrylic on gallery canvas with painted sides, 36" x 22", $900 For sale through Federation of Canadian Artists, Granville Island gallery until August 18 2024

Wow, I am so pleased and amazed I actually finished this challenge! I now have card fronts for 100 art greeting cards that were made into cards for sale and gifted. Each one was from something that inspired me or I wanted to try in my daily life. . Lakeside again with birds building nests under our deck (#91, 92), seeing if oil paint can be painted on a photo of one of my paintings (#93), cutting up a large painting for pieces that I like (#98, 99) and of course the celebratory "YAY" for #100!!! When I thought I was done and getting ready to put them on my blog, I realized I did not have a #96 so that was completed after my "YAY", just how things work in my world!

I put these cards in the Eagle Valley Brush and Palette show and #22, 51, 53, 96, 98 and 100 were sold. #100 was going to be a wedding card, how great is that!

For this project, I looked around during my day to find something that inspires me. The tulips were up and looking so sunny in our yard, they were the perfect choice for #71, 72 and 73. The view out my studio window (#74), #77 painting with my 2 year old grandson, an Instagram post, ripening bananas and their stickers, etc.

So excited to share that Morning Call has been juried into the current FCA Abstract show. It runs until July 28. You can view all the paintings (by artist's last name alphabetically). This is the second year I have had a painting in this show and I am thrilled as abstract art is so much in the eye of the beholder. This mixed media painting is small (by abstract painting standards). You can see all the paintings here.

Flowers were still my primary focus for these 5" x 3 1/2" card fronts. Then I noticed and took off the banana stickers, stuck them on a card front and drew bananas around them. Back at the lake and beach scenes started emerging. It is funny to put these on a post in groups of 10 knowing full well that there is usually not a theme, except something in my daily life.
It seems strange to post these 4 months after completing them but life just got in the way. The project was finished in time (my second year in a row competing the @100dayproject, yay!).