A weekend to discover an array of handmade wonders:

Women’s clothing, jewelry and accessories: including one of a kind hats + handbags, semi precious stones, sterling silver and framed textile jewelry. Also belts, buckles, clutches and recycled sweater mittens. Items for your home including: printed ceramic dishes, paintings, photography, journals, printed pillows, cookies and other yummy goodies.

Designers include: Bronsino & Patina Designs, Corissa Spring O’Donnell, edit mittens, Flight Path Designs, Horn of Plenty, jennchic cooks, kari woo, Lines Designs, Maria Pace-Wynters, Shi Studio, Soma Designs, Sugar Soul Studio and Sabrina Butterfly Designs.

Friday, October 15th: 4-9 pm (opening night: wine & cheese, no minors pls)
Saturday, October 16th: 9-4 pm (everyone welcome)
Sunday, October 17th: 11-3 pm (everyone welcome)

Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard (between the Strathcona Farmer’s Market & New York Bagel Cafe)
(EDMONTON)

FREE ADMISSION!!!!

This is a 9″x12″ mixed media painting on wood.
This is in progress and the working title is ‘faith’ but I am not sure if that is a keeper.
The idea of Faith and the actual word ‘faith’ has been creeping up in my life a lot lately.
Something that you know in your heart even if it doesn’t make sense in your head. This is what faith is. I believe in my heart that my husband has not been given the ability to write beautiful music so that he can work in an office.
This I believe for myself as well. Surely if you are given talent, inspiration and drive you should continue on. Not blindly, no, not blind faith but calculated faith? Perhaps?
The faith to be an artist and know that somehow you are going to be able to pay the bills next month.
The faith that your cat will return after a week.
The faith that you will have enough paintings for your upcoming show.
The faith that those paintings won’t be complete stinkers.
The faith that people won’t see through your confident facade.
The faith that you can keep having the faith.

…as October’s MONTHLY give away! It won by a whopping 52%! The other two were divided pretty equally, although I noticed that the ‘Dreaming Inspiration’ people were less vocal than the ‘I Talked To A Crow’ people. No matter, the winner has been chosen.

SO here is the deal, you write a comment on this blog entry and then, at the end of October, I will have a draw and the winner will be mailed a 6″x8″ OOAK fine art reproduction of ‘The Cardinal’s Song’. Cool huh? And so easy! So do it now!

This is a 6″x8″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are red.
This painting is $80 + shipping and is available HERE.

This is a 6″x8″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted tangerine.
SOLD
Presently I have so much to do that I can’t possibly look forward in fear of not having enough time, or even worse, back, at time wasted.
My only answer is to look up..

This is a 18″x18″ and a 18″x36″ mixed media painting on canvas. I am still mulling this one over. Almost done, if not done. The colour in this diptych painting actually DOES match. Not sure what is up with that. I guess I will need to re-do the photo of the bottom one as the colour seems faded while the top one is true. Just thought you might be interested in what I am up to. I think that I like the diptych idea, although I really feel like I have NO perspective of what I am doing right now. A little a bit of not being able to see the forest because of the tree, I think. Well, we all know cutting down the trees isn’t going help so instead I am just trusting that the forest is there and that it will become clearer with a little distance.
(The white band is not part of the painting).

UPDATE:

SOLD

Here are the three images I am thinking about form the next give away but I would love your opinion! Go ahead and cast your vote!

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ARIE!!!!!!

The draw is complete! The girls were excited to to participate but I think a little stunned that it was over so quick. Anyway, congrats to Arie, you are the winner!

I am sorry to all that didn’t win, you are all so deserving! Next month there will be another chance to win, so don’t forget to stop by and leave a comment on the chosen reproduction! I have decided to have a little poll to pick the October reproduction give away. I will post three images to choose from in the next day, so please come back and vote!

(If your heart is broken and you feel that you just can’t LIVE without this OOAK fine art reproduction, it is available on ETSY in various sizes starting at $20 and going up to $60.)

Love to you all, and thanks for participating in my first monthly draw!

This is a 18″x14″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted tangerine.
This painting is $400 and is available directly from the artist maria@mariapacewynters.com
Inspired by a Dior hat.

This is a 4″x5″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are .5″ deep and are painted red. This painting is $57 and is available HERE.

Having some Harlequin fun in the studio today.