It's Been a Long Time!

Tonight is the 'Little Gems' small works group show and sale at The Mix downtown.  It's been a LONG time since I've shown my work.  (April I think?).  I'm really looking forward to this evening.  The little white gallery house is right off of Spadina Avenue at 24th street.  It has several rooms on the mail floor that are packed with beautiful art.  There is such a range with over forty artists involved!   Everyone was asked to limit their entries to five.  I submitted these three pieces.  Everything else I have was just a couple inches too big.

The Meewasin River Valley, 2012   3x9" framed (click to enlarge)

Lakewood 2, 2012  4x6 framed (this photo is pretty close to the actual size)

The above piece is framed in a brown washed barnwood frame.  The one below is in blue barnwood.  The photo is dark.

A Perfect Summer Day, 2012   4x6" framed

I framed these ones myself because I needed them right away.  Oh!  I have a little Prairie Rug there too.  All unsold work will go into my show at The Centre Galleries the following weekend until the end of the year.  (!! Can you believe 2012 is coming to a close!??)  If you need one last peek at the ad for the show, here it is:

I plan to be there Friday 6-9 and Sunday afternoon 1-4.

What to wear?  What to wear?  ...  : )

A Perfect Summer Day

A Perfect Summer Day, 2012, a photo by My Sweet Prairie - Monika Kinner on Flickr.

I'm spending the entire four day weekend with my kids, trying to finish up a few things for the Little Gems group art show and sale. I need to deliver my work in a couple days even though the show is Fri (4-9), Sat (noon-4), and Sun (noon-4) of November 16, 17, and 18 only at the Mix Gallery. I found this blue barnwood frame and just fell in love with it! I think it's pretty with this canola field. Maybe I'll get lucky and my friend Rita will once again count the French Knots out for me. ; )

In other news: snow, snow, and more snow. It's falling softly and very pretty with no wind blowing... but it is piling and piling. It's cool enough that it's super-fluffy. Once my camera is charged up, I'll head out and snap some pics for you. : )

Have a great weekend!

~Monika via Flickr.

Did Someone Say 'French Knots'?

Yesterday afternoon during the show & tell portion of our quilt guild meeting, a member mentioned thousands of French Knots.   Several women looked straight at me and giggled a bit.  Yeah - I am obsessed too.  I love French Knots because they really are fabulous to work with.   Really - How can you just stop at one or two?  Here is a piece I am making for the "Little Gems" exhibition and sale.

'A Perfect Summer Day' 2012, work in progress

I know - you've seen me do Canola before, but I love this particular crop/composition.  I tend to work this one in a landscape horizontal.  The vertical orientation shows off the hugeness of the sky.  (Is hugeness a word??)  I love the simplicity of it even though it took hours and hours and hours over the course of a few days... oh my.  The horizon couched down perfectly.  It's such a common summer scene around here.  If you look close, there are shadows here and there in the field because of the scattered puffs of cloud. 

I hope some one falls in love with it.