Received a Copy the Beautiful Book "A House Rejoicing"

Hi Artists and Friends,
Received a my copy of the book "A House Rejoicing" personalized and signed by the author Pavel Chichikov yesterday. It is beautiful Book with wonderful life inspiring poems. Was nice to see my credits.  Here are some pics:

My Painting on a Book Cover - A House Rejoicing by Pavel Chichikov

I am so very pleased and honored to announce that the book "A House Rejoicing" Poems by Pavel Chichikov has now been published and my painting image "The Little Festive House" was licensed for the cover!   Here is the link to the Book at Barnes and Noble. I have also attached a picture of the cover. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-house-rejoicing-pavel-chichikov/1111619667

 

Special 45th Birthday

Hi Friends, I had a wondeful birthday this year. My birthday was on a Friday and our long Thanskgiving weekend.  I had a nice week in Montreal and then a wonderful dinner out with my husband at the new StoneRiver Retaurant here in Cumberland.  Beautiful old Mansion along the water that has been transformed into a restaurant.  The owner is of German descent and her fiancee is wonderful Chef.  For the whole month of October they are celebrating Octoberfest and they have wonderful menu and live music everyweekend by the wonderful Diamonds.

Here are few pics from my birthday week and Thanksgiving:

Dinner at the Stone River - Wonderful live music by the Diamonds

The staff was all dressed in German attire...the famous Bavarian Octoberfest hat

The Wonderful Roulade

 Delicious Beef Stroganoff

 Their plum cake was also wonderful.

 Outside the restaurant. a bit dark but a beautiful place

Thanksgiving Dinner at my Sister's place

 

 My adorable Boo who made all the headbands. She is 3 1/2 and she is very creative and talented.

My beautiful Bee...1 month shy of 1 year old. Her first Thanksgiving

 Mary's beautiful Dining Table, all festive for Thanksgiving

 

 The beautiful colours at my home.

 Love the Autumn

Flavours of Provence II - My Commission Painting

Hi Everyone, Well I finsished my Flavours of Provence commission painting.  I am pleased with the results and I believe my new customers will be happy. Just need to varnish, frame and then deliver.

Also here is a video I created of my painting process of my New Painting "Flavours of Provence".

Cumerland Show and New Commissions

Hi Everyone, Hope you are all doing well and had a great weekend.  We had a quiet one and lots of rain. I was not feeling very well and had bad allergies...the ragweed levels were high here and I was suffering big time.

I have also been busy working on a new commission piece.  I met some local customers at the recent Cumberland Art in the Park Exhibit on August 25th and they have commissioned two paintings.   After the show they came by my studio the next day to see some of my bigger pieces and see the colourful paintings hanging in my home.  They fell in love with my work and in particular my "Flavours of Provence" painting and one of my long florals.  The original Provence painting is not for sale at the moment. It is in my private collection and will be available, along with my Cinque Terre series at another time. I am building a series for a gallery and a future show.   I have decided to re-paint them the painting and of course it will be somewhat different from the original.  I am not very fond of re-painting the same image, but this is a good sale and promotion for me.  They have also commissioned me to paint them a long floral painting with orchids.

"Flavours of Provence"

I thought I would also share some pictures with you all of my booth at the show. Was a good show for me.

 My Wonderful Helper and Husband, Andreas