Archive for October, 2009

The Wonderful Mrs. McGarrigle

October 7, 2009

This is the first of two entries that will talk up two destinations in the village of Merrickville. About a month before the Studio Tour, Mrs. McGarrigle’s Fine Mustard…. Find Food offered their window to Holly and myself, your humble scribe, to display selections of our wares during the tour. Holly did her usual magic [...]

25th Tour a Wrap!

October 7, 2009

Holly and I had a great tour this year. I can’t say we were entirely ready — we would have liked to have done more of our own publicity and a mail-out, but the tour fell in the middle of production madness, so the two weekends felt kind of like a holiday.
Shown is the demo [...]

Merrickville Studio Tour

October 1, 2009

Studio Tour, final weekend, October 3 & 4, 10 am – 6 pm.
For two weekends in the fall, many of the artists who have made Merrickville their home open their studios to the public. It was a mad scramble for Holly and I to convert our studio from cottage industry to art gallery, but it [...]

CBBAG Swap

October 1, 2009

I said in the last post that the Merrickville Artist Guild invitation would not be my swan-song for this year, and I meant it. Three days before the fall studio tour and in the midst of production on a massive order, I inked up the press to print a lino cut and a poem that [...]