The Collective

Update from Jeri Lynn Ing

2010-01-19T11:58:00.003-07:00

Hello All
Time to update you on what I am doing these days. I have finished a year of One a Day paintings- they turned out to be a success in many ways. First it was a great lesson in discipline with artwork being the focus. Second it taught me to look for interesting things in the ordinary. I would walk a similar route each day through my neighborhood and paint what caught my attention that day. With the changes in seasons you would think this would be easy but it turned out to be a test. With several grey days, or days with little to no light, rainy days, windy days, snow days, blizzard days and the like it was not always easy to find beauty. Some times I had to get creative- like the end of April 2009 when I just could not paint one more snow scene-so I turned to the returning birds of spring and attempted to seek out a new one each day and paint his or her portrait.
Thirdly I found the size of the "dailies" to be a challenge, at first the small 4 x 6 size was a little like a puzzle, it was complex and interesting, but it soon became too small. I switched in August to a larger format of 8 x 10 and the world opened up once again.

What I didn't expect from my One a Day experience was the amount of growth I achieved.
Not just in experience with the brush but in the maturity of my eye for color and light, contour , texture and perspective. WOW. What a great adventure.
I would encourage everyone to take on a challenge each year- daily painting or any other creative outlet. You will end up in places you never dreamed you would go.

For 2010 I am taking some of my favorite One a Day paintings and working from them as a thumbnail for much larger pieces of art. The size will be 36 x 48, 36 x 60, and 36 x 40 inches, and they are going to be more expressive and abstract. I have challenged myself to do 2 paintings per week until April when I will be hanging them in a show in Manulife Place, Edmonton. Stay tuned for details and updates.
Until then
Happy Painting- Jeri Lynn Ing

2009-11-05T21:02:00.002-07:00

WOW, Time flys,
There is so much happening at the gallery. First friday is tomorrow and we are pretty excited to have Norma Barsness show decorate our walls. 6-8pm

Nov 14th we will be at Parkaland Nurseries for their Annual Sale, 9am - 4pm

Dec 4th First Friday Our Annual Xmas Miniature Show!!! Yipee!!! 6-8pm

Dec 5th We are having a Xmas Home Sale, at 28 Nordegg Cres. 10-6pm
Invite all your friends!!!

2009-10-14T12:41:00.001-06:00

SO I finally remembered the password. I think its a sign that I not yet a blogger. What to blog about.......

ART
SNOW
STICK MEN
WOOD

Hmmmm.

The Start of a New Week

2009-09-28T10:08:00.002-06:00

Well the start of a new work brings new ideas, a clean slate. New ideas and New pieces of artwork. Put last weeks frustration and anxiety behind you and begin again. We will all be in the gallery this week working on our artwork and giving each other new ideas. I am excited to get going, to create.

This week at the gallery we will have new artist showing her work. This Friday is the first friday from 6-9. So come on down and lets talk art.

Saturday we did somehting NEW

2009-09-26T13:47:00.002-06:00

Erika and I got up at 6am, I know Gross and dragged oursleves down to the Farmers Market. Not to sell art exactly. But to put art on bodies. Yes we did Henna Tattoos. Very slow until about 11am. We did 6 altogether which wasnt bad for being fall and not a lot of skin showing.

We made a plan to do it next year for consecutive Saturdays. But after the 6am wake up call we might back out. We will see.

Had a blast chatting it up all morning, ERika.

First Blog

2009-09-25T13:21:00.004-06:00

Sept 25th 2009

Lauren Cowles

The Arts Collective is made up of a number of artists involved in the Gallery IS. We have our studios in the gallery everyday. We work on our art while the gallery is open. The artists are Lauren Cowles, Erika Schulz, Jeri Lyn Ing, Beth Ferchuk, Ricki Renard. We feed off each other, get ideas from each other and support each others art careers.

As a collective I feel my art has change since being a part of the collective. HAving other artists critic my work brings me back to art school. Having them open my eyes to something I might not have seen working on my own. They have pushed me to try new and old mediums. Like painting. I used to paint before I began my collage work and have never looked back. Since we have started some collaborations and themes my painting has come back. Now I am not afraid to put painting back on my works of art.

We have an opening event the first friday of every month. Its a celebration and a reason to get together and discuss art. We encourage any and everybody to come down explore the night of art.