Visual
Arts Brampton
Folk festival partnership, Update
Drawing practice sessions led to thoroughly unexpected sales for our artists, by editor Nicholas Moreau.
Saturday,
May 24th, 2003, VAB Expressions (now Creative Urges)
As you may have read in a previous column, Visual Arts Brampton teamed up with the Brampton Folk Club in March. The still life, Crea8tif, open studio and youth sessions all had the opportunity to draw and paint from wind and string folk music instruments.
Also, artists had the opportunity later on to draw from the musicians themselves, in the evening Crea8tif sessions. The musicians went so far as to entertain us playing some of their song while they posed.
Both of these sessions were ment solely to let our area artists challenge themselves on new subject matter; this challenge was well appreciated by both parties.
After some of the portraits were displayed at Artway Exhibit Space, in Bramalea City Centre, some of the musicians fell in love with the pictures, purchasing them. Leo Salvador and Mary Noble both made a sale a piece to different musicians, and Eileen Sweeney sold two of her portraits. -NM