October 14 up coming shows

The  end of summer and I have been most remiss in doing this blog thing.  For those of you who know of the health issues that hit me two years ago and threatened to cut my carving career short I would like to say I have returned to the world of stone and dust.  For how long I am not sure but I have done a few small carvings and am still marketing those along with the paintings that I have done in the duration.  Hopefully I can continue both art forms in the future.

Just to let everyone know that I will be doing Reflections of Nature Wildlife Art Show in Saskatoons, Prairieland Park;  October 25-27 followed by Wintergreen in Regina Centre of the Arts: November 15-17 and Sundog in Saskatoons, Credit Union Centre: November 29, 30 & December 1.  That will close out a very quiet year.

I will probably follow the same pattern next year with a spring REGINART show .  The latter is an artist organised show we did for the first time this spring at the Regina Delta to excellent reviews.

I am also taking a painting class on doing prairie skys next week so that I can improve my technique and get to meet some other Regina artists besides my Oldtimers Friday drop in at the Balkwell Centre.  below are examples of the small carvings done recently.  The first is a soapstone otter and the latter an alabaster polar bear on soapstone base.  These are about six inches long with the bears base representing icy water and that being about 9 inches long.

Well that is it for now but try to drop into one of the sales if you can and catch the reality not relayed by the photos.