Monica and dad painting at Fort Anne Saturday afternoon.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Paint The Town ARCAC benefit weekend becomes a family affair
Friday, August 20, 2010
Max's love of bird watching inspires his art making for Paint the Town art exhibit in Annapolis Royal
Max loves birds. Watching them, writing about them and drawing them. His obsession with bird watching has inspired all aspects of his life, including his art making here at Beach Rose Cottage.This is Max's Common Loon drawing made using watercolor pencils we brought from NYC. And this is the piece that Max has chosen to exhibit with his mom in the "Paint The Town" artists exhibition this weekend in Annapolis Royal. The plastic Common Loon that Max picked up at a yard sale in Granville Ferry last week for $5...(there was an astonishing amount of garden ornaments for sale). Whatever inspires a piece of art, is worth the price! I guess especially if your parents (Kerry here) are paying. :)
Below: Max's "Common Loon" (top right) and his "Mallard" watercolour pencil drawing submissions for the Paint The Town exhibition in Annapolis Royal on August 21st and 22nd, 2010.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Natalie Forrestall Memorial Children Art Prize at The EX
Every year I organize a prize in our mother's name: The Natalie Forrestall Memorial Children's Art Prize. We sponsor this prize at The Annapolis County Exhibition's art competition. The Ex, as all the locals call it, is the BIG county fair and something my mother and grandmother loved going to, and taking us all to every August. Going to the Ex was (and is) one of the highlights of fun for kids summers in Western Nova Scotia.
Our dad sponsors two of the prizes as memorial prizes for our grandmother Esther Forrestall and mom, Natalie Forrestall; the best watercolour and the best watercolor in show. And as a group, my brother Frank, my sister, Renee and I get together and buy some good quality art supplies to give as a prize for the best piece of children's art in the under age 8 category. This year the prize (which will be judged and decided on today) will include canvases, acrylic paint, craypas, watercolor pad, sketch books, watercolor pencils, brushes etc...In this area of the province, it's very difficult to find good quality art supplies, so this is our way of putting a nice and varied supply into the hands of a child who loves to make art.
It is also a small way of ours of acknowledging our wonderful mother, who was an art teacher for many years in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and helped support the family as my father painted. Our mother was a very talented painter and the woman who encouraged all of us to paint, draw and celebrate life by looking at and making art every day. To you mom!
---Monica Forrestall
Our dad sponsors two of the prizes as memorial prizes for our grandmother Esther Forrestall and mom, Natalie Forrestall; the best watercolour and the best watercolor in show. And as a group, my brother Frank, my sister, Renee and I get together and buy some good quality art supplies to give as a prize for the best piece of children's art in the under age 8 category. This year the prize (which will be judged and decided on today) will include canvases, acrylic paint, craypas, watercolor pad, sketch books, watercolor pencils, brushes etc...In this area of the province, it's very difficult to find good quality art supplies, so this is our way of putting a nice and varied supply into the hands of a child who loves to make art.It is also a small way of ours of acknowledging our wonderful mother, who was an art teacher for many years in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and helped support the family as my father painted. Our mother was a very talented painter and the woman who encouraged all of us to paint, draw and celebrate life by looking at and making art every day. To you mom!
A couple of entries in the drawing category August 2009.
And the 2010 winner of the Natalie Forrestall Memorial Art Basket is Jacob
with his winning drawing of a birdhouse (below).
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Artful walks and dinnertime talks: Happy (Summer) days are here again!
Dad came down for a nice long visit for the past week. We enjoyed wonderful visits and meals with Kerry, Max and I at our home and spent time all over Annapolis Royal for Natal day activities like the Farmer's Market.
Dad got to the Bay of Fundy and was inspired by one scene to make many sketches for a possible big painting this winter. The Annapolis Valley area is really the place that holds his heart.
Kerry helped make dinners of Jonathan's lobsters and Bay of Fundy scallops that I picked up from the fishmonger at the market. Max and dad hunted for crabs under the seaweed on our rocky beach. Max found a new use for my kitchen tongs---big crab grabbers for transporting to the "crab house".
Conversation flowed about family updates, future plans for fun, Keilor Bentley and the books Kerry has brought to read, one being the life of Picasso. My brother, Frank Forrestall made it down for a couple of days with his daughters Jessica and Gwen and Max is crazy about his cousins. Winkie and Miles came over one night and our table expanded to nine, although someone had to sit on a rocking chair. Miles' stories were hilarious, he is the absolute best story teller. His stories of "Little Joe" have to be written down. They are a short story or a book, to say the least.
--Monica Forrestall
Tom Forrestall, Susan Tileston, ARCAC (Annapolis Royal Community Arts Council)
volunteer table at The Farmer's Market.
Tom Forrestall and our neighbour Lorraine Beswick's Floral Arrangements
booth at The Anapolis Royal Farmer's Market.
Dinner at Cindy and Tom's (Farfetched owners) new Annapolis Royal cottage dinner Friday night was a delicious and amazing culinary and design journey to Thailand. Cindy is the most amazing cook, who has perfected Thai cooking with Annapolis Royal sourced ingredients.
Dad got to the Bay of Fundy and was inspired by one scene to make many sketches for a possible big painting this winter. The Annapolis Valley area is really the place that holds his heart.
Kerry helped make dinners of Jonathan's lobsters and Bay of Fundy scallops that I picked up from the fishmonger at the market. Max and dad hunted for crabs under the seaweed on our rocky beach. Max found a new use for my kitchen tongs---big crab grabbers for transporting to the "crab house".
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| Dad and Max on a rocky beach in off the Bay of Fundy. |
Conversation flowed about family updates, future plans for fun, Keilor Bentley and the books Kerry has brought to read, one being the life of Picasso. My brother, Frank Forrestall made it down for a couple of days with his daughters Jessica and Gwen and Max is crazy about his cousins. Winkie and Miles came over one night and our table expanded to nine, although someone had to sit on a rocking chair. Miles' stories were hilarious, he is the absolute best story teller. His stories of "Little Joe" have to be written down. They are a short story or a book, to say the least.
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