Splashing Through Life - Art by Patricia Henderson

The lady who bought my "Spring Chicken" collage piece asked me if I could do a companion for her. She raises chickens, so I asked her if she had a favourite rooster, and she sent me some great photos of this fellow. He is a "Lakenvelder" rooster, very handsome, and although the hens adored his fancy feathers and ruby comb and wattle, he wasn't up to snuff in the baby chick producing department!  He has gone to live at Circle R Ranch near London, Ontario where he will,  as my client says, " live a happy long life" Happy Retirement Mr. Rooster!

This weekend I donated a older painting for a raffle being held at the Wallaceburg Antique Motor and Boat Outing ( WAMBO ). The money raised is for the local Junior C Hockey Team, the Wallaceburg Lakers.   I did this painting a few years ago as part of a "Local Landmark Challenge" at Wetcanvas . It was the first time I had painted a car, and I found it quite the challenge indeed. I took the reference photo at WAMBO a few years ago.  Congratulations to the lady that won the draw!

The two paintings in my last post have been sold!  I guess they were pretty popular, quite a few people showed a lot of interest in them. Not so interesting to the judges I guess, since they didn't win any prizes, but who cares!

Two of my collage pieces have been accepted into the  Desmond Juried Art Exhibition and Sale July 17-July 28th at the Ridgetown Campus, University of Guelph, 120 Main St. E Ridgetown, Ontario. I'm pretty excited since these are the first collage paintings that I have entered into a show! The two accepted are: Bright and Early   and Spring Chicken   I hope you can stop by and take a look if you are in the area.

Yesterday morning, before it got too hot and muggy, I took my watercolours out to the garden and sketched a few tiny paintings. An hour or so and a few mosquito bites later, here's what I came up with: These little paintings are in ACEO format, which means they are the size of a trading card. (3.5" X 2.5") They are available in my ETSY store right now! Click Here to view store. 

Some years, in the field behind our house, the farmer plants wheat. We love to watch the wind blowing across the field creating rolling waves. If you get up close you can see the individual wheat heads dancing in the wind. This piece is 16" X 12" mixed media/collage on canvas. If you look closely, you will see that each little grain of wheat is a tiny hand painted piece of paper from pages of an old cookbook. I chose the section on bread making!

I was excited a few weeks ago to receive an email from a lady who had found my art on Fine Art America . She was interested in having me paint a full sheet (22" X 30") watercolour similar to my painting "Fiesta!" Well, it has been a while since I did that painting, so I got to work composing and practising. After two failed paintings, (lets call them practice pieces!) I finally got to one I liked. The client likes it too, so it will soon be heading off to Pickering! Here it is, Fiesta 3: