3rd Annual Festival of Art - July 31
to August 7 at Utata Art Centre in
Windsor.
Recent
Events:
Douglas Township 225th
Anniversary Festival
June 27 & 28, Highway
354, Kennetcook, Nova Scotia
Sandra ran a table in the Heritage
& Culture Tent, open Saturday and Sunday during the
Douglas Township Festival. She also participated in
the silent Auction Saturday and Sunday for
The
Place Near & Far Gallery and Workshop, and had work by her
students on display in the upper Gallery.
The silent Art Auction with work by Sandra and others offered a wide range of styles
and
subjects, attracting
steady interest from browsers over the weekend...
May 2009 - East Hants Fine Arts
Association President exhibited at the Association's Annual Show &
Sale at the Milford Recreation Centre on May 2 and 3, entering
several pieces and taking 2nd Prize in the Adult Landscape category
for Ocean Lullaby...
Milford Rec Centre
Ocean Lullaby - 2nd, Adult
Landscape
Forgotten Places
Harvest
In the Spring
Winter Whimsy
April 2009 - Thanks to friends old and new
who visited the Country Studio for our Annual
Spring
Open House, Saturday, April 25. Visitors enjoyed
light refreshments and mingled with like-minded art fans, and reviewed
Sandra's latest works for her upcoming classes...
February 2009 - Sandra attended 'Tourism Tomorrow' in
February as a
member of the Working Group for The Place Near and Far Gallery &
Workshop in Kennetcook and as current President of both the Hants
County Arts Council and the East Hants Fine Arts Association.
A busy day of networking and brainstorming focused on the strengths and
challenges East Hants has in building a vibrant tourism industry. Many
ideas and proposals were examined and emphasis was placed on planning for
cooperation across the affected communities and businesses.
Representatives from many
tourism businesses & organizations break into working
groups.
Event organizers from the
East Hants Office of Economic & Business Development
oversee the workshop.
Sandra acted as facilitator
for her working group & presented their brainstorming
results to the crowd.
Sandra also donated a
painting of a typical Nova Scotia seaside scene as one
of the door prizes for the event.
Winter Open House -
Thanks to friends old and new who joined us for The
Country Studio's Annual Winter Open House on January 24! Fellow art fans
mixed and mingled, enjoyed light refreshments and reviewed Sandra's
latest work for her upcoming classes.
Sandra MacDonald lives
in Rhines Creek, just outside Shubenacadie in Nova Scotia,
Canada. Her fine art background began with college courses,
but her style developed through years of personal study, research
and teaching.
Sandra teaches at her
home studio "The Country Studio" and also travel
teaches. She has taught at major painting conventions in the US and
Canada and has published many painting pattern packets. "I've definitely
been spending more time over the past few years developing my fine
art skills", says Sandra, "but I continue to design and
produce new packets because people keep asking for them. Almost
anyone can paint them and it's a pleasure for me to see my
designs being painted and enjoyed." Currently she maintains a
regular schedule of classes in Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick.
She is an "Ann
Kingslan Accredited" oil and genesis teacher, but also
designs and teaches in acrylic medium. Sandra also works for
the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in their "Art
Smarts" program which brings art and music into schools across
the province. She has also found time to raise a family and
even plays piano regularly with famed Nova Scotia musician Chalmers Doane.
Her own favourite
subjects to paint are landscape and animal, but she also teaches
portrait, still and florals. As well, she enjoys working with
acrylic and oil mediums. While raising her three boys, Sandra
never lost her desire to paint full time. The overwhelming
response to her work has encouraged Sandra to paint and teach on a
full time basis and she has never looked back. Sandra
encourages her students to develop their own style of painting by
teaching techniques and letting them find the creative side
that
lies within.
For information
regarding upcoming classes, booking, travel teaching or conventions,
please feel free to call or email Sandra MacDonald at your
convenience.
Sandra has created a cozy atmosphere in a fully equipped artist's
studio far removed from noisy city life. Nestled in the
evergreen forests of central Nova Scotia, Canada, her home studio is
well lit with natural light and provides a peaceful environment to foster
creativity in all ages. Having her own home studio allows her
to teach year-round in addition to her travel
teaching.
"Teaching is really my first love", says Sandra "and
because I teach all ages and all skill levels, it's always exciting. Instructing has just as many rewards for the teacher as
for the student!"
Visitors to
The
Place Near and Far Gallery & Workshop in Kennetcook between June
25th and June 29th were treated to a sampling of work by Sandra's
many students, both children and adults. This is the second
year work from her classes has been exhibited in the Upper Gallery;
showcasing the wide variety of styles and techniques represented.
Six weeks starting February 2009
Ocean Lullaby - oil
Wednesdays
- Musquodoboit High School,
Musquodoboit
The Country Studio, Shubenacadie -
Winter/Spring 2009
Winter Whimsy oil or acrylic
Tues. Mar 31/Apr 7/Apr 14
Forgotten Places - oil
Thursdays Mar 19/Mar 26/Apr 2
In the Spring - oil
Thursdays Feb 5/Feb 19/Feb 26
For
years Sandra has successfully marketed
her attractive designs as Pattern Packets, a compact kit that
almost anyone can reproduce and enjoy her selection of landscape, still
life, seasonal designs and birds & animals. The decorative
painting packet
designs are colourful and lively, and will add a touch of country
charm to any home. Sandra markets her packets both from the
Country Studio and at shows, and finds response continues to be
excellent. "It's actually pretty easy to project what I should
design," notes Sandra. "The customers/students provide
perfect feedback on what they are looking for by what they buy, so
I've been able to adjust and update the collection over time to find
the proven performers." The Country Studio even offers a
packet Web special a FREE pattern for internet visitors only! (See the easel
below.)
Each
painting packet contains all you need to reproduce and enjoy our Country
Studio designs:
Palette
colour list
Line
drawing of item
Step-by-step
instructions
Full
colour reference photograph(s)
Ordering is easy via our Pay
Pal Shopping Cart. Or just print
our handy order form, fill it
out & send with your payment - we'll ship your order
direct to your home address.
"Not
only are our Country Studio painting packets easy to follow", says
Sandra, but the subjects and techniques easily lend
themselves to a variety of surfaces. You might choose
a simple art board for framing, a wooden decorative item,
plate or chest, whatever strikes your fancy!"
Click
on any item in the group shot below to see individual close
ups...
Free
Pattern Packet!
~
Summer 2009 ~
Click
for our FREE printable
pattern1 and
pattern2. Click on "Beehive" photo at right
for a printable full colour image of the finished piece, and
instructions.
Spring
Open House, Saturday, April 25. Visitors enjoyed
light refreshments and mingled with like-minded art fans, and reviewed
Sandra's latest works for her upcoming classes...
Sandra has created a cozy atmosphere in a fully equipped artist's
studio far removed from noisy city life. Nestled in the
evergreen forests of central Nova Scotia, Canada, her home studio is
well lit with natural light and provides a peaceful environment to foster
creativity in all ages. Having her own home studio allows her
to teach year-round in addition to her travel
teaching.
"Teaching is really my first love", says Sandra "and
because I teach all ages and all skill levels, it's always exciting. Instructing has just as many rewards for the teacher as
for the student!" 
