For Scratch Art for Scratch

2 July/August 2007 Serving the Canadian art industry • www.brushstrokemagazine.com ARTIST HAS ITCH FOR SCRATCH ART Jason de Graaf ‘Metropolis’ Internet helps shy artist market his work internationally Larry Rich ‘The Divide’ Get your work seen and network Lorna Hannett ‘Joseph’ Gabriel Krekk FREE - TWO COMPETITIONS! ‘Wait and Sea’ SUBSCRIBE Details inside TODAY! Recording work saves frustration contents Publisher’s Corner 4 Scratching a creative niche Scalpel in hand, Lorna Hannett I can’t believe this is already our second issue. For the last year or more I was creates wondrous formulating the plan for this magazine and time flew by so fast. works In the last several months I have been privileged to meet a large number of Canadian artists, and as time progresses I will meet many more of you. From each artist I gain great insight, and I’m able to share that with you through Canadian Brushstroke Magazine. Sculptor loves Artists are more than just painters, sculptors, sketchers, etc. Most of them have 9 many more incredible talents. For instance, in addition to being accomplished daily grind painters, at least two of our artists in this issue are also talented musicians. Larry Cathryn Jenkins has Rich is in a jazz band, and Marc Little is a guitarist and by the time you read this lived, breathed, and he will have released a music video with his group: The Watermen. Perhaps dreamed of grizzly other artists in this magazine are also musicians or have other creative talents bears for 30 years they never even thought to mention. I was incredibly inspired this issue by the works of Cathryn Jenkins, a BC sculptor who makes serpentine sculptures of grizzly bears in gargantuan proportions, 15 Artist has weighing from 500 to more than 8,000 lbs. no limits And, I am ecstatic to have the opportunity to show off Lorna Hannett’s scratch art works and Jason de Graaf’s ‘hyper-realistic’ paintings. No matter what medi- Larry Rich is open um or style a person works in, these two artists will leave you asking, “How did to painting almost they do that?” anything so he can Gabriel Krekk is a wonderful artist, a cheerful and outgoing individual, and he’s paint full-time got superb marketing savvy. Last issue’s artists left us in awe of their talents, and I know you’ll love our featured artists this issue just as much. I can vouch for all of them that they are not 20 Shy artist only terrific artists, but incredibly interesting, knowledgeable and friendly people. I uses internet am pleased to be able to now count them among my friends. After the last issue went out, we answered literally thousands of emails. So, if successfully you email after this issue, please be patient. We are normally very quick with our Jason de Graaf has responses, but with the landslide of responses all at the same time, it’s impossi- marketed his way ble to answer immediately. to London, Eng. I certainly want you to email us, however, so please don’t let what I said dis- courage you from doing that. Your feedback is important and reading your responses is addictive - I can’t wait to check emails every morning. I look forward 23 Documenting to hearing from you. artwork saves We are released every two months, so you can expect our next issue at the end of the first week in September. Until then, keep creating. You are a valuable asset frustration to our great country. Gabriel Krekk learned this lesson - now he’s working hard to find past works Artist paints for 28 money PUBLISHED BY JENSU DESIGN All letters or contributions to Brushstroke He loves painting, Magazine are subject to editing with no but Marc Little is PUBLISHER: Susan Blackman limits or liability. honest about the All material printed in this magazine, writ- JENSU DESIGN fact that he paints ten or depicted, is protected by copyright of Box 5483, Leduc, Alberta, Canada T9E 6L7 to bring extra income into his household. this magazine and/or the artist, and cannot Phone: 780-986-0789 • Fax: 780-986-8393 be reproduced in any form without express E-mail: [email protected] 33 Industry News and written permission from the publisher. Information All views expressed are those of the CANADIAN BRUSHSTROKE MAGAZINE Who’s showing where? author and not necessarily those of Box 3449, Leduc, Alberta, Canada T9E 6M2 What competitions can you Brushstroke Magazine. Brushstroke Phone: 780-986-0789 • Fax: 780-986-8393 ? makes no recommendations as to the pur- E-mail: [email protected] enter? Who won awards? chase or sale of any product or service. www.brushstrokemagazine.com Here’s where you look to find the answers. 2 • Canadian Brushstroke Magazine • July/Aug. 2007 letters... Upon release of the first issue of Canadian Brushstroke Magazine we received thousands of emails. We couldn’t print them all, but here are some that indicate what most of the emails contained... I just read through the whole magazine and I am very impressed. I love that it is totally Canadian and being a Maritimer I hope that there will be lots of articles in the future from the East Coast. An article I would like to see would be on how artists get to be known and why, what makes some art work more attractive to the buyer than others, what tips could be given to up and coming artists on the type of work that sells or is of interest. Thank you and I look forward to the next issue. Fantastic job. Suzanne Goyetche Saint John, NB Thank you very much for "Canadian Brushstroke Magazine." I am very pleased to receive this useful and Congratulations! What a terrific first issue of a maga- informative magazine for free. zine that is long overdue! We're letting you know that If you don't mind some feedback, it would be most we support you 100 percent in this endeavor; it looks inspiring to see a great range of styles from the tradi- like it will be a wonderful resource for anyone interested tional to very contemporary. in art in Canada. Our membership has already forward- As a wilderness artist, I find it quite refreshing to see a ed the first issue far beyond Canadian borders so we magazine that features more conservative art styles, think you'd better hold on to your berets! This magazine compared to the sometimes alienating focus on "con- is going places! ceptual" art in many publications. However it would be Alberta Oil Painters terrific to see a bit more risk taking as well. I also hope to see First Nations and Northern artists Congratulations on a fine & necessary publication for featured! & about Canadian artists. Keep up the good work. Mary Dolman Michael Swanson Dawson City, YK Kendall, ON Congratulations on your chutzpah and integrity: a fine Thank you for sending me Brushstroke; I enjoyed it first effort that held my attention though I was a dyed-in- thoroughly & look forward to more. Of course, being the-wool print version reader. from the east I would love to see more articles on the I’m looking forward to future issues and watching your Maritimes and I am sure that will happen. Keep up the evolution. hard work. Yvonne Callaway Smith Glenn Wallace Montreal, QC Saint John, NB Congratulations on a great first issue from an artist Thank you for including us in sending your fine online who is a former editor-designer. magazine. Canada needs more publications to reach I look forward to the next issue. I am also sending out to art communities. Keep up the good work. We'll be your email on to all of my fellow artists in Victoria. looking for the next issues with interest. Paul Bennett James Pay Victoria, BC Stoney Creek, ON Canadian Brushstroke Magazine • July/Aug. 2007 • 3 WEST (Yukon, Alberta, B.C.) Artist scratches her creative niche JOSEPH • Scratch art, 8 x 10” ‘Late bloomer’ educates herself and wins awards with her own unique and exciting version of scratch art he term 'scratched her way to the top' is very fitting down at a desk, and for the large pieces she has a draft- for Burns Lake, BC artist Lorna Hannett.She was ing table. "I have a computer in there because I do a lot of Tinvolved in many creative things, but didn’t start cropping and playing around with photos, and I have a tel- painting until her children had all left home. evision to keep me company." In the course of educating herself in the arts, she found In addition to the scratch art, she also works in acrylics, a website - wetcanvas.com - that featured an artist who watercolors, pastels and graphite. did scratch art. Hannett "wrote him about it because I was For her scratch art, Hannett starts with a photo. She fascinated." She began experimenting, first with an scans it into the computer to check for the best composi- eagle's head, and a few animals. "The rest is history." tion. When she's satisfied, she draws it out and then uses "I kind of taught myself. Nobody around me had ever Chacopaper (a white transfer paper) to transfer the draw- even heard of scratch art." ing onto scratchboard - Ampersand Claybord Black - Hannett works out of her home studio which is 17 x 24, which she describes as a masonite board covered with with windows on two sides. She usually works sitting white Kaolin clay and then sprayed with India Ink.

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