Creative Ideas for the Holidays – with a little help!
Last week, for my monthly spot on Daytime Ottawa, I came up with some ideas for art and also decorating with colour for the holidays. Although the best idea of all came live – kids got involved!!
You can watch the segment on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eO0nFSUdwZs
Creative Surge: Three Winters with Tom Thomson – what better gift for art lovers!
The launch of Creative Surge has been a great success. Feedback from buyers and retailers on the content – and quality of the book – have been uniformly excellent and we are already experiencing a number of repeat purchases ahead of the holiday season. A book on Tom Thomson! – at the time of year when he was back in his studio creating the masterpieces we know and love.
Where to get the book:
National Gallery of Canada Boutique, 380 Sussex Dr,: https://www.gallery.ca/visit/location-and-parking
Ottawa Art Gallery Shop, 50 Mackenzie King Bridge (1st floor): https://oaggao.ca/shop-dine/shop/
Ottawa School of Art Boutique, 35 George St.: https://www.artottawa.ca/
Ottawa School of Art Orleans Campus, Shenkman Arts Centre, 245 Centrum blvd.: https://www.artottawa.ca/
Local Bookstores. Should your favorite book store not have Creative Surge in stock, ask them to contact us david@davidkearn.com and we will deliver to them within 48 hours.
Courses and Workshops Winter Term Registration
We’re looking forward to a full program of courses and workshops with the Ottawa School of Art: downtown, in Orleans and on-line!
Details, along with direct links to OSA registration pages are on our website: https://www.davidkearn.com/workshops/
And in the wider world of art:
Emily Carr painting sold for $50 US fetches $290,000 at Toronto auction: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/emily-carr-painting-barn-sale-toronto-auction-1.7389125?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
Crypto entrepreneur eats banana artwork bought for $6.2m: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj051glrr9o
AI robot’s portrait of Alan Turing sets record, selling for $1.08 million: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/style/ai-da-portrait-alan-turing-record-sale-intl-scli
René Magritte’s record $121m sale of his most famous painting: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/23/trick-of-the-light-the-enduring-appeal-of-rene-magrittes-big-tease?
‘He painted with a fury for life’ – how Frank Auerbach put lust and sorrow into every brushstroke: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/12/frank-auerbach-painter-fury-holocaust?
As we head into the colourful festive season…a couple of favorite quotes:
“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this?”―Pablo Picasso
“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.” ―Marc Chagall
Very Best of the Season from us both!
David & France
