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August 31, 2010 5:39 pm

The Joel Plaskett Emergency

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by Sharon    in art,chance harbor,color,colour,commentary,festival,fog,guitar,joel plaskett,light,live painting,music,new brunswick,outdoor painting,sharon hodgson,sunseekers

“The Joel Plaskett Emergency” – acrylic on 30×36″ canvas in 1.5 hr on stage next to Joel Plaskett while they performed their set at the Sunseekers Ball Music and Art Festival in Chance Harbor, NB.

The last band I live painted at Sunseekers this year Joel Plaskett, a Halifamous Atlantic Canadian staple. It was an honour to paint someone who has entertained audiences in Halifax and beyond with so many concerts over the years. Here is a sample for those of you unfamiliar:

There was an abundance of guitars on stage which were switched off frequently. The audience was so excited they pounded on the stage.

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The other paintings I did at this festival are here and here.

This festival runs for five full days next Summer — longer than it ran this year!

My many thanks to the promoters for mixing art and music in a festival format, and inviting me to be a part of it. Well worth the trip to New Brunswick!

http://www.sunseekerfestival.ca

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4:14 pm

The Sunseekers Ball Music & Arts Festival

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by Sharon    in art,commentary,divine heist,festival,live painting,music,new brunswick,outdoor painting,panel painting,sharon hodgson,sunseekers

“The Sunseekers Ball Music & Arts Festival” - painted from the field looking at the stage, in Chance Harbor, NB. This painting is done on two panels, each 20×20″, and painted with acrylic.

Sunseekers ran for four days. [Next year it will go for five, so don't miss it!!] I was there for three days of the festival. The second day I was there, I went out into the field and did a painting of the stage and the Sunseeker cutout letters one one panel and the bands playing on stage on the other. This was done a day after painting on stage next to the Meters Experience.

Divine Heist was on the stage.

People laid or sat on the grass in the hot sun enjoying the music and the festival atmosphere. People sat beside me while I painted to watch the work unfold. A juggler in stripes went into view for a couple minutes to juggle some pins.

(There were more entertainers than just musicians at this well-organized festival.)

I was honoured to be there to catalog this event with a few paintings.

I want to travel more to paint more bands elsewhere. Email me if you are interested in having a live painter paint you while you play. I can paint you in as little as an hour.

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3:50 pm

The Meters Experience at The Sunseekers Festival

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by Sharon    in Leo Nocentelli,art,ball,chance harbor,commentary,festival,live painting,music,new brunswick,outdoor painting,sunseekers,the meters experience

“The Meters Experience” – live painting on stage with The Meters Experience during their two hour set. 24×36″ stretched canvas with acrylic paint.

This work was done at The Sunseekers Ball Music & Arts Festival in Chance Harbor, NB. There were probably around a thousand people in attendance.

I was on stage next to The Meters Experience from New Orleans. Some of the members from that band were original to The Meters back in the 60s and 70s laying down and creating funk music for countless musicians to follow and be inspired by later. I found them to have an awesome stage presence and I was honoured to paint them live as they worked their magic. Seriously. I don’t know if I sound like I’m making stuff up just because I was there on stage but you can even tell from the composition. The stage itself feels smaller and more intimate in the painting because of the warmth I felt from the band. I bowed slightly to them on stage and received a bow back in kind.

It’s been two years since I went to New Brunswick to live paint a show — I was long overdue!

It was a Friday night in Chance Harbor out in the woods next to a lake. Mist was rising up in a beautiful mood-setting fashion that makes the usual fast-drying characteristics of acrylic paint unlikely. But you know me… I love a challenge… and after live painting the Halifax Jazz Festival earlier this Summer I felt like I was up for live painting in fog without batting an eye lid about how I knew it would be wet the entire time. I just change my live painting strategy while rendering the piece to compensate…

Dry ice and coloured light shows created swirls of smoke around the band which seemed to fit the mood of the festival, and it worked it’s smoky way into the piece.

The painting was done in the duration of their two hour set (though the paint stayed wet on the canvas for hours afterwards!)

What a serious honour. Thank you, Meters Experience!! New Orleans is lucky to have you!

Here’s a sample of their magic:

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August 12, 2010 11:09 pm

Wedding Reception in Wolfville

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by Sharon    in art,canada,commentary,fog,lack of room to paint,live painting,low light,music,nova scotia,painting in the dark,reception,sharon hodgson,wedding,wolfville


“Wedding Reception in Wolfville” – Live painting in 3 hours on a 3×4′ canvas. 2010

Now this was an adventure. Not only was it the third live painting of the day…

Somewhere in between Halifax and Wolfville I managed to get myself lost. I panicked a moment, then got back in that car and found my way to the party.

I set up a giant 3×4′ canvas with no real genuine room to paint, but I made do. (I always do – if the Powers That Be for any given space will let me in…)

It was at a private home under a tent in the yard. There was a fireworks show outside the tent while I was setting up, so I painted those in early in the piece creation. There was a live band moments after that. People were just starting to dance! Soon there was wild happy dancing in front of me. The day had a thirties gangster theme, so everyone was dressed in fedoras and vintage attire. Fun.

The floor was bouncing up and down from people’s dance steps, and the mist of the night threatening to spoil my live painting fun (like it tried to do at the Halifax Jazz Festival.) It’s moments like that where the experience of painting in different settings and locations throws unexpected challenges into the process of creating the art… and it makes me feel just a little nuts for doing it. But I think secretly (or not so secretly) I cherish those moments.

I tried to capture the dance party that happened on one side of the tent vs the quiet of the wedding tables and settings left from earlier on. I think that the guests were overwhelmingly having a grand time. I hope that the wedding couple enjoy the resulting artwork.

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August 3, 2010 2:32 pm

Afro Musica – Last Waltz – Halifax Jazz Festival

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by Sharon    in available for sale,canada,canadian,commentary,fundraiser,halifax,jazz,jazz east,jazz festival,last waltz,light,live painting,music,nova scotia,outdoor painting,painting,painting in the dark,sharon hodgson,td canada trust

“Last Waltz of the Halifax Jazz Festival” – Live painting in 3.5 hrs of the final show of the TD Halifax Jazz Festival 2010. 30×40″ canvas.

This work will be auctioned off at a gala event supporting Jazz East on December 9, 2010 of this year. (More details will be posted closer to the time.)

This band could definitely be described as Cuban-inspired. The mix of horns and drums mixed it up and made the time and paint fly by. This was another band that made it hard to sit still – you had to get up and dance!!

The last day of the Halifax Jazz Festival was nicknamed by crew organizing the event the “Last Waltz”, as it was the last performance at that location off Spring Garden Road. I was sorry to see the festival was over when it was all said and done.

If you like this work, 80% of the proceeds will go towards Jazz East, as with the other three I did of this event. [The other three have been sold.]Show up at the gala event in December and place your bid! Keep jazz festival events happening in Halifax!

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March 6, 2010 2:18 am

Record Girl

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by Sharon    in DJ,abstract art,abstractions,color,colour,computer,conceptual art,figurative,headphones,movement,movement studies,music,records,red,sharon hodgson,woman

“Record Girl (and Record Man)” – acrylic on stretched canvas. 2010. 80cm x 100cm

This is the second in a series I’ve been developing after the creation of Record Man. These pieces aren’t solely fixated on representing movement, but on visually morphing the person with his/her behaviors. In Record Man, I made a figure made up of records. In this piece, I wanted to create the impression that the record player was the record player.

The last few times I have watched female DJs spin, I’ve noted a sort of stern concentration on their faces, and that observation has worked it’s way into this painting. [That may just have been from the few I've watched.] I used an intense red to communicate passion for the music mixing process.

The female DJ’s left hand [upper right corner] appears polydactyly, which Wikipedia claims is far less likely to occur in women than in men. The apparance of extra limbs, digits, heads, etc has in many of my paintings due to my desire to communicate motion in a painting.

If I add too much realistic detail to one of my movement gestalts vs. abstracted (albeit repeated) works, it looks as though the subject is “standing still” with many different additional limbs/digits.

In some of my movement gestalts, I attempt to add more detail visually to each repeated shapeform. It creates the photographic sense of a “still” rather than a motion blur (when I render more shading, detail), in this case leaving the odd visual impression that this is a six-fingered DJ.

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March 5, 2010 10:06 pm

Rave at the Cathedral [Revisited]

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by Sharon    in DJ,cathedral,color,commentary,commissions,dance,gothic arches,music,new brunswick,new paintings,older pieces,raves,remake,revisited,saint john


Rave at the Cathedral [Revisited] – 18X18″, acrylic on stretched canvas. 2010 [commission]

This is a repeat of the piece, Rave at the Cathedral. I don’t normally do this sort of thing… produce the same work twice. But in this case I made an exception. The DJ I painted into this work – DJ Nexus6ix – is the one who requested the remake.

Please check out the music of DJ Nexus6ix on Facebook.

The cathedral/venue depicted in this work is the very same one in St John where I live painted two shows, Momentum and Adaptation. Good times…

Here’s what the original looked like:

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February 2, 2010 10:39 pm

3rd Planet House

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by Sharon    in DJ,atmosphere entertainment,blacklight,dj atmosphere,halifax,low light,music,radio4by4

Thought I’d mention again – on the correct night of the week no less – that my friend DJ Atmosphere is playing on radio4by4.com right now. If you like house music, check it out:

http://www.radio4by4.com/english.shtml

Here’s some screencaps from the show in progress tonight:

His blog is here, with regular news on shows and free sets. He hosts 3rd Planet House on radio4by4.com every Tuesday at 10pm AST. Don’t miss.

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January 27, 2010 5:28 am

DJ Painting in a webcast – 3RD Planet House!

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by Sharon    in DJ,atmosphere entertainment,dj atmosphere,halifax,music,radio4by4,webcast


I was pleasantly surprised last week to see one of my works in a webcast! One of my paintings has become a fixture behind the DJ booth in a regular webcast hosted by DJ Atmosphere  of Atmosphere Entertainment. You can tune in tonight for 3RD Planet House at radio4by4 TUESDAYS from10pm-2am AST to hear music by DJ Atmosphere and others in the crew.

You can find out about their new set downloads, webcasts and more on the Halifax DJs blog.

Getting married? Need professional wedding DJ services? Look them up!

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September 18, 2009 4:33 pm

Musical Instruments on Table 2

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by Sharon    in color,colour,commentary,halifax,music,new paintings

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“Musical Instruments on Table 2″ – acrylic on stretched canvas. 31″x38″

I don’t know that I ever posted this one. It’s the second in a still life series I have been gradually putting together. It’s really weird for me to paint anything still rather than moving.

I want to paint the table from different angles over time with different instruments/objects and different colour schemes. The first one I did was the same size and used colours more “true to life”. This one is a touch more Van Gogh.

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