When my daughter was young, we used to go to the Value Village and I'd take photos of her in different outfits. The winter hats often had twinkly bits knitted into them; giving an interesting effect.
When I saw the painting of "St Catherine Crowned" by Bartolomeo Veneto, it just reminded me of some of the photos I had taken of my daughter in various hats.
We both love the Renaissance paintings, but the content sometimes gets somewhat tedious for us. My title for this drawing: "It's a nice hat mom, but I'm not buyin' it."
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I'm going to post date the next two - I just didn't get around to posting them at the time.
This is my nephew TJ - he always reminds me of Raphael's cherubs from the Sistine Madonna when he sits patiently waiting for us to finish our coffee!
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Same girl as Week #22. (My waitress). Had to take a number of photos of her because she's so shy. There's something about this pose though haha.
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The exhibition is coming along ..... such a variety of interesting work! I'm really looking forward to the reception, so I can meet the artists.
Took my mom and nephew to see the drawings I have in the show.
Battlefords News-Optimist
June 3, 2019 03:32 PM
The annual Adjudicated Arts Exhibition 2019 was held in Biggar at the
Biggar Museum and Gallery, where West Central artists were welcome to
enter their art. The show was hosted by the Biggar and District Arts
Council along with the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Council and was
on exhibit from May 1 to May 25
Rolf Krohn was the adjudicator for the public critique, which was held May 25.Selected artists can now go on to submit exhibition proposals to
OSAC to be considered for a touring exhibition across the province.
Forty-one pieces of art were submitted this year in total
Best in Show winner was Lynn Strendin of North Battleford.
Honorable Mentions went to Rosemarie Stadnyk of North Battleford and Linda Hoult of Saskatoon.
The People’s Choice Award went to Joyce Wirachowsky of Biggar.
The winning piece was a charcoal and pencil drawing of a girl named
Talissa. Each of Strendin’s five drawings had a corresponding QR code
below it, and exhibition viewers were able to scan the code with the
reader provided, and could read a story and watch a video about the
people in her drawings. Many viewers participated in the interactive QR
component. Strendin’s drawings and corresponding stories can be seen on
her webpage (under Exhibitions) https://lynnstrendin.ca/
Artists could enter up to five pieces. Strendin entered five
drawings, and her theme was “one drawing per week.” Strendin has been
completing one drawing per week since January and she is documenting her
progress on a weekly blog, which can also be accessed through her
webpage. Strendin gets her subject matter largely from the people she
knows around the community. The winning drawing of Talissa is the
granddaughter of another local artist.
She has entered the Biggar adjudication once before, in 2016. At
that time, three top artists were selected from the show, of which
Strendin was one. That time, she entered five drawings from her “one
drawing per week for a year” that she completed in 2015.
Adjudicator Rolf Krohn was born in 1939 in Consort, Alta. He studied
at the Alberta College of Art and Design (then the Alberta Provincial
Institute of Technology and Art) in the late 1950s. After moving to
Saskatoon, Krohn spent 20 years as an instructor with Saskatoon Bridge
City Painters. He has also led painting workshops and given lectures in
both Alberta and Saskatchewan, and continues to act as a mentor for
other artists. Krohn’s work in watercolour, acrylic and oil features a
variety of subject matter, including the human figure, portraits,
wildlife and Saskatchewan’s northern landscape. Drawn to colour and
shape, Krohn enjoys experimentation in his work. He has exhibited in
solo and group shows including, in 2010 and 2011, at the Canadian
Federation of Artists’ Juried Art Show in Vancouver, B.C. Krohn is a
member of the Canadian Society of Painters of Watercolour and the
Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists and works full-time as an artist
and lives in Saskatoon.
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Drawing for Week #22. Went to a restaurant last week to hear a friend
do Country and Western music and as soon as I saw the waitress, I knew I
had to ask her if I could draw her. Lovely girl. A pleasure to draw.
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