Canvas #292: a dentist's office, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Ginny is a hilarious, incredibly warm woman who is currently battling cancer. Ginny writes, I am so sorry that it has taken me months - not 1 month like it should have - to finally finish my canvas and take it somewhere to give it away. I just had the worst time liking what I'd begun and so then I'd scrape it all off and begin again- I did that process 3 times!!!! I'm hoping that maybe you'll accept my excuse: I was awfully sick with my Chemo treatments. I spent days at a time, during each 3 week treatment cycle, lying in bed sleeping and watching TV. I was extremely exhausted like nothing I've ever felt before - for 3, 4 or sometimes days 5 in those weeks, to get up out of bed and down the stairs from my bedroom to the main floor and then back up to bed was more that I could do in a day. 

So my canvas lingered, along with other major parts of my life. I don't remember much of the last half of winter and most of spring. I was worried that you wouldn't accept the canvas if it was this late BUT I went ahead and finished it and put it out into the World anyways. [Editor's Note: We wouldn't DREAM of refusing a canvas past the deadline! Creativity is creativity is creativity. If any of you who are reading have a canvas past the deadline and are wondering if it will still be accepted, the answer is YES! Send it in!!!] I hope that it's was okay to do so. I left it at my Dentist's office, took some pics and "kissed it good-bye"! I am glad that I did this though and appreciate the work that you have put into the project.

p.s. I have surgery tomorrow to get the tumours OUT!!! Wish me luck!

Let's all send Ginny some positive vibes, shall we? Huge amounts of luck to her!!!! Ginny needs to be cancer free NOW! Fingers crossed!!!

Canvas #143: a bench in Confederation Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Here's the third in the series of canvases painted as a team-building activity at work. This one was painted by Jen.

Jen's painting includes a red heart over green swirls and abstract patterns. Isn't it awesome!?

 Jen said, Since it is snowy and cold in Calgary right now we hope that someone will need a rest and see this canvas.    

And here are the four canvases all together for the last time:

Canvas # 124: A flower shop, Blackfalds, Alberta, Canada

Tasha says, I made this while coloring with my kids. I put it up at a little flower shop called Affairs of the Heart in Blackfalds, Alberta. My girlfriend works there and was super supportive of spreading the love.

 

It looks like a stained glass window. Beautiful!

Canvases #128, 129, and 130, a freight elevator, a hockey rink, and TBA, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Jason and his two kids, Josh, and Jacob, all decided to participate in the Blank Canvas Project. I love Jason's reason for participating:

I decided to participate to help teach my children about positivity and inspiring others.  The idea behind my canvas was simple in order to illustrate to my children that something does not need to be artistically technical in order to inspire.  I was impressed how my kids embraced the idea after initially being hesitant about giving away their art work.

I left my canvas in the freight elevator at work.  I chose this because this is the space where the cleaning staff would most likely to find it.

The boys with their dad's painting.

Josh created this project on his own at the kitchen table and was inspired by his Dad's canvas.  While carrying it across the house in order to show his Mom, he dropped it and it fell face down on the ground.  After picking it up and examining his work, he was pleasantly surprised to see how the fall had positively transformed his piece of art. "Mom, look! Now it looks like there are leaves on it!"

Josh decided to leave his canvas at the hockey rink.

Jacob did his art as a finger painting, which is unlike his brother or father who used brushes.  Jacob is a thinker and is still trying to decide where he should leave his art.  We will update you once his canvas has found a home :)

Here's all three canvases, hanging out together:

I love how all three are similar but clearly different. Here's to dads teaching their kids that creativity is important!

Canvases #7, 8, and 9: Various locations, Leduc, Alberta, Canada

Anne and her granddaughters painted some canvases together.  I love this activity as a way of connecting together!

The blue/green picture is a 6 year old letting her inner artist out.  She has a natural love of flowers, but sadly she shares her father's allergies to flowers. Her picture has been placed on a light base in  the parking lot of Leduc Recreation Centre.

The picture of a girl and horse is a self portrait of the 11 year old, who fell in love with the mighty horse at the age of 3, replacing the cow of her younger days.  Her picture is in a planter in the Telford House parking lot, also in Leduc.

Anne placed hers beside a bush beside the path way from parking to Sturgeon Hospital in St. Albert.

Leduc is one lucky city to have all those canvases bringing it love!