Canada 150 Art Show – May 7 Community Day
DVAC Diary
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Friday Night with Artist Dominique Prevost – May 5 2017
{written by Ingrid Mueller} This Friday was filled with images of watercolour paintings by Dominique Prevost. Like most of us, her love of creating started at an early age, and she lead us through her transition of styles and experimentation that has given rise to a successful career as a watercolourist. Dominique’s discovery of hand-made…
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Friday Night with Artist Nola McConnan – April 28, 2017
{Submitted by Ingrid Mueller} Dynamic, enthusiastic, not to mention talented, Nola McConnan shared her lifelong love of painting and drawing with the DVAC Friday Night Club, and her passion for creating art was infectious. Although Nola works with a variety of mediums, her demonstration was with watercolours. She tends to like using watercolour and coloured…
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Friday Night with Artist Bill Burns
Bill Burns was the DVAC guest artist on Friday March 24. Bill brought a number of his very impressive landscape paintings and talked about his technique. Bill uses a very limited palette and uses value to convey depth and a 3D image. Bill tries to paint the patterns he recognizes in a landscape scene and…
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Friday Night with Artist Dan Murphy
{submitted by Ingrid Mueller} On March 3, artist Dan Murphy spoke to the DVAC about his contemporary realist paintings. Influenced by the likes of Magritte, Ortega and Coorte, Dan’s work combines elements of these influences using clearly defined composition and capturing realistic representations of qualities of light. His recent visit to Holland and the Rijks…
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Friday Night with Kal Honey, “Text in Art”
{Submitted by Ingrid Mueller} On February 24, artist Kal Honey discussed the use of text in art. A graduate of OCAD, Kal Honey has honed his skills in graphic art and has a penchant for painting, assemblage and collage. However, his eye for detail and gravitation towards graphic art has led Kal to create stunning…
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Should my Art match my Sofa?
[written by Joan Philip] Well, the short answer is No. Or, not necessarily. Or, it depends! There are designers, decorators and stagers who actually make decisions about art based on the overall design considerations of a space — including the sofa. If the furniture is contemporary, blue and green, with a touch of yellow, then…
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Friday Night with Olexander Wlasenko
{Submitted by Ingrid Mueller} Olex Wlasenko, Curator of Station Gallery in Whitby, presented our Feb 17 Friday night group with a very interesting topic: Synchronicities: Art and Cinema. Olex gave examples of films that use art in their sets and film scenes that were inspired by specific artwork. He showed clips from specific movies and…
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5 Steps to Building a “ Real” Art Collection
[written by Joan Philip] A recent letter to a major home decorating magazine noted that the writer had managed to successfully renovate her home and put in place many of the big decorating elements like paint and furniture, but was completely stumped as to what to put on the walls. She asked how to approach…