November Feast?

Cedar Waxwings feasting on Purple Beautyberry:

Good Grief!

 Is it November already? 

My life is going by too fast.

I think someone pushed the "Fast Forward" button.” 

Charles M. Schulz

“Winter is an etching, 

spring a watercolor, 

summer an oil painting 

and autumn a mosaic of them all.”

Stanley Horowitz

“Hello November! Thank you for reminding us we have so much to be grateful for.”

 Unknown

“It was November–the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.”

M. Montgomery

“November at its best – with a sort of delightful menace in the air.”

Anne Bosworth Greene

“There is October in every November, 

and there is November in every December! 

All seasons melted in each other’s life!”

Mehmet Murat ildan

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News from the studio:

"Ancient Expression" SOLD in the online fundraiser Artfully Anonymous.

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Upcoming Show:

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I have four paintings in the "Celebrations" Exhibit at Gallery 1710 in Tsawwassen  

from November 19 to December 19, 2021:

Orca

Nesting

Liar, Liar

Early Clematis

Plus a glass showcase:

With my husbands help I have made stands to hold the decorations I made:

A tree that swivels and

a fireplace with mantle

I will also have packages of my Christmas cards in the showcase

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New Work:

new watercolours

Orca is done and framed

and Raven Watching is almost finished

New polymer clay decoration:

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Sad news - our young cat is missing

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That's all for this week,

happy Wednesday, with whimsy

Gillian

 

October Colours

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

 L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

October Haiku:

Colours are changing,

spider webs are everywhere

oh, fall must be here!

“Autumn is the mellower season, 

and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

Samuel Butler

“Spades take up leaves

No better than spoons,

And bags full of leaves

Are light as balloons.

I make a great noise

Of rustling all day

Like rabbit and deer

Running away.”

Robert Frost

“I loved autumn, 

the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.”

Lee Maynard

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I sit beside the fire and think 

of all that I have seen

Of meadow flowers and butterflies

In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer

In autumns that there were

With morning mist and silver sun

And wind upon my hair.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

October, baptize me with leaves! 

Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. 

October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. 

O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” 

Rainbow Rowel

“Days decrease,

And autumn grows,

 autumn in everything.”

Robert Browning

“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.”

John Howard Bryant, Indian Summer

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News from the studio:

"Standing Together" has SOLD 

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I have four paintings in the "Ode to Emily Carr" Exhibit at Gallery 1710 in Tsawwassen  

from October 1 to 31, 2021:

This is the lobby wall at Gallery 1710, so proud to have my paintings (three on the left and one far right) displayed here.

The "Ode to Emily Carr" show includes over 100 paintings, several pieces of sculpture and 14 pieces of pottery from the Delta Potters Group; there is a prize draw and art cards featuring some of the paintings in the exhibit and decorated tote bags. I am the co chair of the Exhibits Committee and very proud of this show. If you haven't been to Gallery 1710, (home of the South Delta Artists Guild), before maybe give it a try:

Gallery 1710

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The Artfully Anonymous online Fundraiser is coming up. 

All paintings are 10" by 10", all are originals and all are just $100!

 I love this chance to pick up a beautiful piece of art at a very reasonable price.

Starts Saturday, October 16 at 10 am:

here is a link to the South Delta Artists Guild Home Page

 

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 New Work:

New Christmas Cards:

Chickadee Christmas

River Santa 

Training Run

Special Sailing

New 3D work:

This is carved from Cedar bark, a Christmas decoration.

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YouTube offering:

Autumn Leaves - Frank Sinatra

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That's all for this week,

happy Wednesday, with whimsy

Gillian

Welcome rain

 

After a long hot, dry summer the rain is very welcome!

Rain In Summer

(excerpt)

How beautiful is the rain!

After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!

How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout!

Across the window-pane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 “Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; 

without rain, there would be no life.”

 John Updike

"Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
 Let the rain sing you a lullaby."Langston Hughes

The sound of the rain needs no translation.Alan Watts

"Rain showers my spirit and waters my soul."Emily Logan Decens

"The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans."Sherwood Smith

"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet."

Roger Miller

"I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again." 

Arthur Freed

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News from the studio:

I sold 3 paintings:

"Ancient Wisdom" sold from the Small exhibit at the Federation Gallery on Granville Island.

"Out for Lunch" sold from the Past Times Exhibit at Gallery 1710 in South Delta.

"Heart of the Beach" sold from the Wayfarer Exhibit at Knox United Church in Vancouver.

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 New Work:

Paintings:

"Standing Alone" inspired by pole seen in SGang Gwaay, Haida Gwaii

"Standing Together" inspired by poles seen at Van Dusen Gardens.

More 3D work:

I will be selling these one of a kind decorations in the fall with Christmas Cards

Dali Santa

Hippie King Santa (commission)

Icicle Santa

and two smaller ones, Frosty above and Small Santa below

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I have one painting and one sculpture in the Changes Exhibit at Gallery 1710 in Tsawwassen  

from September 3 to 26, 2021:

"Dancing Tree"

"Sherlock"

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To follow the theme here is Gene Kelly "Singing in the Rain".

That's all for this week,

happy Wednesday, with whimsy

Gillian