Event Announcement: Mini Artist Talk/Tours

Events & Announcements, The Story Behind the Painting
[caption id="attachment_224" align="aligncenter" width="242"] The New Homeland16 x 20 O/C[/caption] This is a quick announcement to let you know that March 10th and 11th 2018 between 11 am and 2 pm I will be at Heritage Park's Gasoline Alley giving mini artist talk/tours about my Canada West paintings and how they relate to their exhibition, Journey of a Lifetime. The talks are not posted to the website yet, but will be free with admission to the exhibition. Find out more about the exhibition here.
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Dime Novel 1907: Revisited

The Story Behind the Painting, What's the Big Idea?
[caption id="attachment_289" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Belle of the Brawl(formerly Dime Novel 1907)12 x 16 O/CDebbie.lee Miszaniec[/caption] Last week I talked about my reasons for revisiting a painting, so I won't go into that much here. What I will talk about, are the changes I made to this one, and why. Amoung the many funny things I could be entertained by in this antique image of the west, one of the things that kept happening as I looked at it, was my increasing identification with the contested object of the narrative. The bull is trussed up and appears to be at risk of being re-branded by cattle rustlers. Our hero and heroine have happened upon this scene and have rushed in to defend the bull from the cattle rustlers. But they are…
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Dime Novel 1903: Revisited

The Story Behind the Painting, What's the Big Idea?
[caption id="attachment_286" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Oh Zee, What Did You See?(formerly Dime Novel 1903)16 x 20 O/CDebbie.lee Miszaniec[/caption] This painting might look familiar. It was Dime Novel 1903. The funny thing is, I often paint something because it is a longer form of thinking about the thing. There is something there that I need to get to the heart of, so I need to chase that thought down through the act of painting it. Sometimes the thought keeps circling after the painting is 'finished,' and I need to revisit it. That is the case with both of the Dime Novel Paintings. I will talk a little about Dime Novel 1907 next week. So what was it about 1903 that brought me back? I was fascinated then as now by the conflicting…
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