It has been a great summer and fall! This week I learned that I won the honour of having my image of Celeste be the Royal Winter Fair poster! Then later that week I won the Readers Choice for Best Local Artist in Hamilton, Ontario. I am thrilled and humbled for both of these awards. I am looking forward to attending the Royal Winter Fair this year. It has been a while and I will [...]
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 [...]
Some times I am asked what my technique entails. I thought I would walk you through the stages of a painting! Stage one is the preparation of a canvas. I usually paint the canvas red, although you could use any colour. 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" [...]
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Julia Veenstra Studios
363 Beach Blvd Hamilton
Ontario L8H6W4
Phone: +1 905 906 3368
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