Canadian Stone Carving Festival
On July 21-23, thirty-five stone carvers gathered on Ottawa’s historic Sparks Street for the Canadian Stone Carving Festival. Each was...
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- Mar 15, 2017
The Portrait of the Artist
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the...
- Oct 31, 2016
Dear Artist:
You and I don’t know each other – but I felt a connection with you.
- May 14, 2015
Practicing t-shirt art
The kids are gearing up for a big art project in May using t-shirts. We got a bunch of ‘practice’ t-shirts in from Value Village for them...
- May 7, 2015
Small Things With Great Love
Mother Theresa is quoted as having once said, “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” This is...
- Oct 24, 2013
heARTfelt Thursdays: Male Figure in Blue
Claudia grew up in a home with drugs and conflict, prompting her to leave at the age of 17. Claudia ended-up on the streets and using...
- Oct 10, 2013
heARTfelt Thursdays: Nothing to See Here
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” ― John Steinbeck The wonderful thing about art...
- Sep 26, 2013
heARTfelt Thursdays: Nursery Drawings
“Every artist was first an amateur.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Laura is a very quiet and intensely shy person. She has recently started to...
- Sep 19, 2013
heARTfelt Thursdays: Overlap and Blur
“And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister’s...
- Sep 12, 2013
heARTfelt Thursday: All in the Detail
This piece is called “Topsy-Turvy”, and has a very unique quality to it. Try imagine that you are looking at it upside down, or even try...
- Aug 29, 2013
heARTfelt Thursdays: I Just Need Somebody to Lean On
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We...
- Aug 22, 2013
heARTfelt Thursdays: Mufasa
“Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.” -Goethe Below is a piece entitled “Mufasa” by a member of...
- Aug 15, 2013
heARTfelt Thursdays: remembering Kaylin
On December 21, 2012, Kaylin, a long time member of the art group, passed away suddenly. The art group was devastated to lose a member of...
- Aug 8, 2013
heARTfelt Thursdays: Sci-Fi Dragon Fly
“Dragon Fly” or “Homesick”, Mixed Mediums: acrylic and ink on canvas. “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because...
- Aug 1, 2013
heARTfelt Thursdays: relearning creativity
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” –Muhammed Ali Below is a ink on paper art piece done by one of our Passion 4 Youth art...
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