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A reminder that my show, 'Moments of Awakening' opens tomorrow, Thursday, October 4, in Toronto at Gallery 888, located at 888 Queen St. East (between Broadview and Carlaw). Opening happens between 6 and 9 p.m. Would love to see some of you folks there!

The Dalai Lama Shoots Adolph Hitler, oil on canvas, 40" x 54"

Glad to have been invited to this site by Allan!

I have rarely had time to get involved much within my own community's art goings on. Always too much work and running I guess.

I have entered the PineRidge juried exhibitions, the Oshawa one a couple of times as well as an older one in Pickering that was held at the library and civic building there back in 97. I had one Best of Show for a black and white airbrush portrait of my sister, Kyla. I think that show may be defunct or met…

Printmaking is the most exciting aspects of Photography. Black and White Print making lends itself towards a leisurely creation. You can fine tune the image-by enlarging it and altering the tones of White through Black. You can also reduce or increase the contrast between them. Cropping the edges readys the Print for final viewing.
Photo Printing Paper is coated with a light-sensitive emulsion containing crystals of silver atoms combined with bromine or chlorine atoms or both. Light is p…

The zone scale at right has ten steps and is based on Ansel Adams's description of zones in his book The negative. Zone 0(zero) relates to the deepest black print value that photographic printing paper can produce. Zone V corresponds to a middle gray, the tone of a standard-gray test card of 18 percent reflectance. Zone IX relates to the lightest possible print value-pure white of the paper base.
The Zone System allows you to previsualize how the tones in any scene will look in a print a…

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For those of you who are interested in Canadian aviation heritage or have family or friends with this interest I recommend you visit this musem located on the former Downsview Airport property in Toronto. The focus of this relatively new museum is to display aircraft with a Canadian connection. Amongst many aircraft is the only full scale metal replica of the Avro Arrow,in existence. This is the product of a multi year project of volunteers and supporters and which was completed and unv

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"In [the] mystical state of love there is no object of love generating the love. It´s only our own subjective state that causes us to feel love. This is a very unusual state of consciousness, being in love without an object. To give understanding to it, mystics talked about love for God or…

A little plug for myself: my job of twenty years as a promotions manager in Bank of Montreal Corporate Marketing was recently eliminated and I am in the process of setting up a psychotherapy practice out of my home in Ajax (I trained at the Transpersonal Therapy Centre in Toronto, graduating in 2004), as well as putting much more time into my painting career. Check the link to see my therapy practices offerings on a page of my web site. And have a look at the attached PDF file flyer I've prep…

Click on "COMMENT" and add an interesting book to the list. It doesn't have to be art related, just a darn good read.I just finished The Davinci Code, by Dan Brown. Rated it about three stars.

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Lotus of Awakening, oil on canvas, 24" x 36"

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