Floral Warm-Up Series ~ Petroleum Club ~ Kimbell

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9"x6" Floral Warm-ups Acrylic on Gesso Paper, created in the Robert Burridge Workshop in Corpus Christi

Bob is a favorite workshop instructor and he has the students do loose, painterly warm-ups each day before painting in a small format (5x7, 6x9). See the two previous blog posts about this floral workshop. You can read on his October 08 Newsletter, ArtsyFartsy News how he prepares his watercolor paper.
How to know when a painting is finished or when to stop? Bob says "Keep painting until it looks good." (But it usually takes several painting sessions - maybe 6 to reach that place.) He recommends you begin abstract and very loose with lots of water and work on all of them at the same time.
On Wednesday night, October 29th, Canvas by Canvas had a reception at the Petroleum Club in Fort Worth. It was a great time to dress up and socialize on the 40th floor and it was my 73rd birthday and fortunately no one had a cake with that many candles.
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth has presented The Impressionists, June 29 - Nov. 2 and yesterday it was the most crowded I've ever seen, from baby strollers to seniors on oxygen in wheelchairs. There was an excitement and electricity in the air on this beautiful fall day and it was great to see young mothers bending over to explain a painting to their young children. A great follow up would be to view the 2 disc dvd BBC miniseries, "The Impressionists", that dramatizes the lives of the French Impressionists who boldly created a new style of painting. I ordered it from Netflix and it told the stories of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, and Manet. We owe these visionaries for reinventing painting from browns to color, from smooth looking canvases to canvases with visible brushstrokes, from historical and myth themes to painting en plein air showing life as it was being lived. They could not separate their life from their art.
When I viewed the 5 paintings about "Stacks of Wheat", by Monet (1890-1891) I was reminded about Bob's charge to us to paint in a series. Monet did many paintings of one subject. Bob says "The more I practice the luckier I get." Now paint your series of "stacks of wheat", or pears, or florals. Paint small warmups in a series. This is one of the many lessons I've learned from the Burridge workshops.

Orange and Violet Floral ~ Fall Birthday Celebration

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11 x 15 acrylic floral on watercolor paper
This was painted during a Robert Burridge workshop on the Dena Wenmohs Ranch. I haven't posted it as I was reluctant to put a price on it as I like it.

Canvas by Canvas has a birthday tradition to give each member an 8 x 10 gallery wrapped canvas painted by a member in a rotation schedule and eventually, each member will receive a painting from each member in the group. We have divided up the party into a fall and a spring celebration. The 2007 fall celebration was held Friday 26^th at Antiques and Moore in Arlington. We had a delightful lunch in the Rose Garden Tearoom before the gift presentation. Five of us celebrated birthdays in the fall.
It was difficult making a luncheon choice but we all had to try the special tea “a special blend of rose pedals, vanilla and strawberry.” The sampler plate in the slide show was chicken salad, fresh fruit with poppy seed dressing, cheese and green chili quiche, spinach soup, and a pumpkin bread sandwich.

We were loud and boisterous with talk of our previous nights opening at the Petroleum Club and the sales and possible sales and 10 of our 11 members were present for the birthday event.

We decided I needed a microphone embedded in my turquoise necklace so a blogger wouldn’t have to take “blogging notes”.

One of the photos is of Jesse, our server and bringer of the birthday cupcakes we shared. I didn’t get photos of all the gift paintings as I had to leave the party early to start the journey toward Stephenville and Tarleton State University's homecoming weekend.

See the slide show below for photos from our fall birthday celebration. Miss Nancy will be 72 on Monday. Wow!

Dancer's Skirt ~ Petroleum Club Show ~ Acrylic ~ Blog

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8" x 8" Acrylic on canvas panel (Maybe I should title her Dancing Lady)

This was started in the Robert Burridge workshop in Mendocino, drawn and painted from a live model and I've finished it since I retuned home.
Our CBC group felt like dancing ladies last night as we had a spectacular opening at the Petroleum Club in Fort Worth. See the slide show below. We were on the 40th floor, overlooking the city and 17 of our paintings in a beautiful setting. The Petroleum Club of Fort Worth is one of the city's oldest and most distinguished private clubs and it symbolizes how Texans view themselves: Texas bold, Texas proud, Texas unique.
We sold http://www.canvasbycanvas.com/Texas_Cactus.html and http://www.canvasbycanvas.com/R1_Old_Red.html
A few sales really helped put us in the dancing mood.

Brian Plotkin from Gamut Control was there. He is a representative from Gamut who is representing us in reproduction and marketing our art worldwide.
Thanks to all of our friends and patrons who attended. It was a wonderful time. All 11 of us were there but we never were still enough to get a group photo. Maybe next year. Thanks to the Petroleum Club for hosting us.

Petroleum Club ~ Canvas by Canvas Opening