Finally the E1C exhibition is happening

The everyONEcounts exhibition opens tomorrow at the Quays on Timeball, Point Waterfront, Durban at 6.30 for 7pm. 

We set up the exhibition this weekend and put up 639 artworks. This could potentially translate into R639000 to support babies abandoned in South Africa if we manage to sell all artworks. A lot of the art has already been sold on our official web site.  Some absolutely beautiful pieces are suprisingly still available. (Perhaps don't read well on a computer screen?) 

Make your way down to the Quays tomorrow to buy an artwork and support a life.

Below are piles of paintings freshly unwrapped from their boxes:

Placing the paintings for hanging:

Lara and Fred preparing paintings for hanging:

Decisions, decisions, decisions! (Margie & I sorting out colours/themes)

Fred and Fred (the talented hanging team)

The red/pink group

 Look at these amazing curving walls:

  Blue and yellow:

My (personal) best wall - the turquoise & purple 

Upstairs - Look at these awesome raw concrete walls 

My Grade 10 art students' oil paintings  were given a spot - to advertise e1c@school

    Sorting out labels

Womens Day Exhibition

We went to the DAG gallery opening of the Womens Day Exhibition on Friday Night. To our delight we found that they had exhibited Maggie & my artworks together. These two pieces will go everyONEcounts to raise fund for Shepherds' Keep. Maggie & I are standing next to our artworks below.     

Lara also exhibited two of her newer artworks - see below. Lara and Maggie are standing next to Lara's two paintings. To see more of her work click here. 

On the way into the gallery we were followed by a troop of little dancers from Umlazi school.  Below is the photograph of them running up the stairs into the gallery. 

I took some more pics after they had finished dancing. They got so excited they started pushing each other to get into the photographs - so unfortunately I had to stop "clicking". 

Upgrade of everyONEcounts web site

Check out the new & improved everyONEcounts web site. It still needs some "tweaking" in places but it is up and running & most importantly we can edit it ourselves!

I have posted some lesson ideas related to the everyONEcounts theme on the web site I have also included a free Grade 10 "Inspiration for oil painting PowerPoint slide show" Both documents can be downloaded from the web site for free. Click here to go to the web site & then go to the projects page for the free lessons. To all teachers out there ..may the force be with you for the new term... 

My three sparrow paintings

I went and had a look at all of my three paintings again & am amazed how different they are to one another. The first one sold to a friend (here in Durban), the second is going to America & I think the third might have sold today (Lara still has to confirm)    

7 June 2010

This latest mixed media artwork titled 7 June 2010 for everyONEcounts is another sparrow. (I was told by the E1C committee that I have to do more sparrows.)

This particular sparrow was done in response to the baby that was found abandoned in the rubbish at Gateway (see previous post below). I melted a Durban municipal rubbish bin on to the surface of this work. I initially did a drawing (in quite a lot of detail) using permanent markers & drawing inks. When I stuck the plastic down & melted it with the heat gun – to my horror the drawing melted as well.

The melted plastic looks a bit like wing forms – so maybe losing my initial drawing was a happy accident.

The burnt plastic has made very interesting textures on this piece.

I have stamped 7 June 2010 – to commemorate the day the baby was found on various parts of the artwork (see detail below).