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“CoHo” - live painting in 3 hrs on two 20×20″ panels. July, 2010
This is a live painting I did at the Company House a few weeks ago during Pride Week. I actually snuck myself into the back of the bar in my “usual” spot and did this two panel piece on 20×20″ canvases, trying to capture the vibe of the CoHo. I would very much like to sell this work in support of a Pride-related group, and am currently finding out if the trans group that was there would like the work for that purpose. If you are someone I should talk to in regards to this… please contact me!
“Poetry Slam 2010″ - 12×48 live painting on stretched canvas. Painted at the Company House.
I did a 12×48″ during the poetry slam. I often want to fit an entire room in and I cannot unless it’s on a panoramic-shaped canvas. I really like this piece – how it turned out. The colours are especially vibrant and turned up. I seem to be continually bumping up my colours in recent works.
I sold this work to someone there who said he has been going for a few months now who said he draws great inspiration from this event. Proper thing – that’s the reason I started going to this event years ago.
This was a poetry slam competition for Word Iz Bond’s slam team to go to the nationals in Ottawa. I got on the microphone and threw down a couple poems in the slam… but I’m starting to get the picture that I’m better off behind the canvas instead of in front of it. [I never paint myself into a work and perhaps there's a reason for that.] There are some really amazing poets in this city; I’m better to painting than wordsmithing.
I have some exciting stuff coming up for this summer which I will announce soon.
Thanks for reading and looking at ze art.
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I haven’t yet posted the latest SPEAK! painting, and since I’m going to get behind again if I don’t catch up I’d better get to it. This was a quick 2×3′ painting I completed in three hours. It sold to someone who had never seen the show before.
February SPEAK! – 80x100cm, acrylic on stretched canvas. Painted live within 4 hrs.
I’m getting behind the times, here. I haven’t posted February’s SPEAK! painting yet.
I did a big canvas for this one, nearly 4×3′ in size. Some good colours in this… sense of depth from the back of the room where I was sitting up to the stage.
(I will be doing a large canvas live painting for the March SPEAK! event as well! It will be their nine year anniversary. [Nine is a nifty number.]) Don’t miss it. It’ll be at The Company House on February 18th starting at 8pm. (I’ll probably setup early.)
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Here’s my latest SPEAK! painting, on a 2×3 ft canvas. I really seem to be pushing the bright colours lately [she types as if this is something odd for her]. My candle went out towards the end so I was painting with occasional unidentified colours.
Two by Two play at SPEAK, with Brendan McLeod headlining. Open Mic as per usual. The man with the guitar is Brendan McLeod (described in quoted text below), the rest of the musicians are Two by Two, and I included a few open mic performers or hints of them… and plenty of the crowd. Two by Two played jazz and improv background beats to the words of the performers on stage. It was a totally different SPEAK experience to have music. Suddenly every poet becomes a rockstar.
“Brendan McLeod has been Vancouver’s SLAM poetry Champion, the Canadian SLAM poetry champion, and finished second at the 2005 World SLAM championships, held in Holland. His first novel “The Convictions of Leonard McKinley“ was nominated for the 2008 RE:Lit Award for fiction. His music group, The Fugitives, was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award.
Two by Two rocks post-modern fusions of funk, jazz and blues performed by a quartet playing a classic Hammond B3 organ sound. Comprised of Matt Myer on Hammond’s XK-2 organ synthesizer, Dustin Lindensmith on tenor sax, Ross Burns on guitar and Paul Keddy on drums, Two by Two’s repertoire is selected from composers such as Ray Charles, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, Jimmy Smith, James Brown and Stevie Wonder along with originals from the group.”
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I’m pleased to announce that I will be live painting Light After Dark at The Company House on February 4th. As usual, I will paint the event itself, and the completed work will be auctioned off to benefit the Avalon Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This is your chance to support a good cause and possibly get yourself an original live painted Sharon Hodgson. 
Show starts at 7, and the comedy portion of the show starts at 8. (I am stoked about that! I have been wanting to live paint comedy for a while now…) Tickets are $35.
Below are live paintings I have done in The Company House in the last few months, to give you an idea of what to expect from me stylistically when I live paint this show. [More on these works here]
The red walls in The Company House are fun to paint.
Hope to see you at Light After Dark on Feb 4th, 7pm at the Company House, benefit for the Avalon Centre. If you see me, say hi!
