Saturday, February 20, 2010

Winterlude 2010
It was so wonderful to join the public challenge ice-carving competition again this year. I joined with my sister Val this year and we won first prize!!! Yeah! We were excited to be asked to join the Ice Sculpting Society of Canada. It is pretty amazing to see what you can do with a couple of chisels! It was a perfect day to sculpt.
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Kissing by the River
We're right into the heat of editing wedding photos for our clients and we're quite happy with the results. Patty-Lou and I thought it would be fun to add some of this summer's images to our flash site www.photographybyramin.com. The image below is one of our favourites of the summer. "Kissing by the River"

Patty-Lou is teaching at the School of Art for the fall, right nowhe teaching Sundays Drawing for Beginners I from Sept 13 - Oct 25- and will be teaching Drawing for Beginner's II from Nov 1 - Dec 6.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

August
August is a busy month for both of us. We have a wedding every week-end of this month! Check out our wedding website: http://www.photographybyramin.com/. Also, Patricia is teaching a pastel class at the Ottawa School of Art with a full class!!! You can check out the Instructor's Art Exhibit in the gallery of the Ottawa School of Art until the end of August.
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Ottawa Oil Painter & Ottawa Wedding Photographer
2 Busy Artists
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As far as Ottawa Wedding Photography goes, so far it's been a busy summer. Our season started with a blast of engagement shoots and an easy string of weddings to photograph. We've been having a wonderful time with our wedding couples. You can check out our blog at http://www.photographybyramin.com/ . On the painting side of things, Patty-Lou will be showing one of her works for the Summer 2009 Teachers Exhibition at the Ottawa School of Art. The exhibition opening night is Thursday July 30th at 7pm, and it should prove to be a good time. Somewhere in all of our business we managed to find a little bit of spare time to go on a four day visit to Sudbury and beautiful Kilarney.
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Monday, May 4, 2009

The First Week of the Tulip Festival
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It was the first week-end at the Ottawa Tulip Festival, and as an official artists of the festival, I was asked to paint a few sessions throughout the week. Although it was a bit windy I managed to paint for a full session at Major Hill Park. It was quite the experience painting outdoors with plenty of visitors to chat to. I am looking forward to painting next Sunday, May 10th at Dow's Lake from 2pm - 6 pm.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Ottawa Tulip Festival 2009

We have both submitted works to the Art Tent at the Ottawa Tulip Festival this year. I have painted in acrylics this time (they are quick drying and I had a dead-line). Also, I am one of the festival Official Artists and will be painting on both Sundays that the festival will be running. Ramin enlarged one of his favourite tulip photos taken in 2006, he's especially excited about this one because he caught the tulips around 5:30 am before the sun could dry up the morning frost. Hope to see you at the tulip festival.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Teaching in Ottawa East

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The Ottawa School of Art has extended itself to the new Shenkmen Arts Centre in Orleans. Patty-Lou will be teaching a class in drawing portraits as well as a class in painting portraits, both classes will be ten sessions.
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Instructor: Patricia (Patty-Lou) Laalo
Fee: $285
Monday 18 h 30 - 21 h 30
Apr 20 - Jun 29
10 sessions / 30 hours
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This class is designed for those who are already comfortable drawing portraits. We will start with the basics of oils, learning about the materials and how to mix them. You will also learn about colours, skin tone, layers, and some tricks of the trade.
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Instructor: Patricia (Patty-Lou) Laalo
Fee: $235
Wednesday, 19 h 30 – 21 h 30
Apr 22 – Jun 24
10 sessions / 20 hours
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This class teaches basic techniques for drawing portraits. We will begin the course working with pencils, develop skills with conté, and work our way up to coloured paper and pastels. It is not only the new techniques that will be learned and applied, yet how we learn how to see light and shadow that will help us draw wonderful portraits.