Grand Opening of Julia Veenstra Studios

Save the date!

On June 13, 2013 I will be holding the Grand Opening of my new studio space at 167 James Street North, Hamilton Ontario!

My husband and I bought a building and renovated the street level space to be a new gallery and working studio.

Please come and celebrate with me!  June 13, 2013 at 7 pm-10 pm.  The James Street North Art Crawl happens the next night, so take advantage of all that Hamilton has to offer in the Arts.  Art is the New Steel!

Stewart Jones will be joining me and showing his amazing oils!

The Red Door

Whew!  The Artist Project 2013 at the Better Living Center in Toronto is over!  Thank you so much to those who visited me and purchased work.

I had a very interesting experience with a particular client.  Jennifer and her husband Bill bought a piece called “The Red Door”.  It was the story as well as the image that caught their attention.  I had painted the image from a photo I had taken of a home in Cambridge, Massachusetts while visiting my son who attended MIT.  Just outside of Harvard University, the light, the day and the house caught my imagination and are forever imbedded in my mind!  Jennifer and Bill have their own relationship with Boston as Jennifer’s dad had attended Harvard and she has qualified for the Boston Marathon several times.

All that being so, the painting was too tall for the desired location in their gorgeous house.  ( I got to check it out when I picked up the too tall painting)  They have commissioned another version of the beautiful Cambridge home and they found a link to a blog that had photos and told the history of the place! Go to the bottom of the blog page to view and read. Fun eh?

http://centersandsquares.com/tag/cambridge/page/9/

 

Wild Hope Artisan Project Featured in Canadian Living!

Wild Hope Artisan Project had the privilege of being featured in Canadian Living Magazine.  I am very grateful for this amazing opportunity for national exposure! Purchases of Wild Hope products provide so much for the ladies I work with out to Tanzania.  Funds provide clean water, school fees, medicine, goats and cows and so much more! www.wildhope.ca

Summer 2012!

The summer has been great!  In June my eldest daughter married a wonderful man and at the end of June my son married a wonderful woman!  It was a busy June!

I participated in the monthly Art Crawls, they happen every month on the second Friday.  My Studio is located at 195 James Street North and is studio 213.  Drop in in August and of course come for the Supercrawl in September.

In August, the civic holiday will find me at the Oakville Art in the Park one day show.  This show is wonderful and has quality artists.

I hope to see you soon!

Stages

Some times I am asked what my technique entails.  I thought I would show you through the stages of a painting!

Stage one is the preparation of a canvas.  I usually paint the canvas red, although lately I am experimenting with hot pink, yellow and orange.

I then draw on with chalk my image and then “ink” it in with a paynes grey or purple paint.

Stage two is colour blocking.  I start to fill in the positive, or “foreground” first and then work in the back ground.  I find this technique gives a life of its own to the image and movement.

Stage three is the finishing and developing of texture and the final varnish.  I will upload a pic of that when I am done.

Done!

It is now available!

Thanks for your interest!