Eat, Drink and be Merry

I finished a painting a few days back.

Wax Worm At A Restaurant
acrylic on canvas
9 x 12 x 1.5 inches
$400

A wax worm in a restaurant eating plastic garbage. Wax worms digest plastic (naturally off honey combs), could this be the answer to the world's plastic problem? Available in my shop: www.lisangart.com

and on my saatchi site:
https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Wax-Worm-In-A-Restaurant/672002/3782432/view

I'm hoping to start updating this blog more often, I had planned to share some process shots on here (I swear) but as per usual I got too excited and before I knew it I was signing the edge of the painting:

Otherwise I'm hard at paint on a diptych (I'll show pictures later). I also sold a few more Flamingos In The Bathroom rugs, hand towels and prints off my Society6 page this month, what a treat! I only get a few bucks depending on the item but compared to nothing, I can't complain. The art world treats me me OK, it rips me off most days but the people are nice : )

RECENT PAINTINGS

NAPPING DOLPHIN acrylic on canvas 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches 2017 $450

NARWHAL acrylic on canvas 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches 2017 $450

HORNED LIZARD acrylic on canvas 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches 2017 $500

THANKS

Thanks everybody who came to the art show.

Been painting everyday since, working on a horned lizard covered in sun shapey pattern.

You can see my progress on my instagram: @lisangart
and or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lisa.ng.372019.

It's almost done, but not quite.

I also started adding more close ups of available paintings on my saatchiart.com site:
https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Shark-Whale-In-Fish-Bowl/672002/1861758/view

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

LISA NG ART SHOW THE 9TH Delusional Awakening

Featuring some recent hopes and fears in the world of painting, this will be the artist's 9th undertaking. Kindle the imagination, fire it up with a good shot of espresso and awaken the delusion. Hope you can make it!

June 24 to June 30
Red Line Coffee and Espresso Bar (www.redlinecoffee.ca)
Artist in attendance: June 24, 1 to 4pm!
354 Queen St. E (& Parliament)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5A 1T2

Regular Hours:
Monday: 730am to 5pm
Tuesday: 730am to 5pm
Wednesday:730am to 5pm
Thursday: 730 am to 5pm
Friday: 730 am to 5pm
Saturday: 8am to 4pm
Sunday: 8am to 4pm

www.lisangart.com

AH SO BUSY!

Lots of good stuff happening, I started 2 smaller paintings and finished up 2 other paintings. Here's a close up of one of them. I updated them onto my website at www.lisangart.com In the meantime I added another art show to this summer's roster, see below.

Rosedale Art Fair 2017
Saturday June 10: 11am to 6pm
Sunday June 11: noon to 5pm
At the Green Space across from the LCBO @ 10 Scrivener Square, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Just outside the Summerhill Subway Station

Lisa Ng Art Show the 9th: Delusional Awakening
June 24 to June 30
Red Line Coffee and Espresso Bar (www.redlinecoffee.ca)
Artist in attendance:  June 24, 1 to 4pm!
354 Queen St. E (& Parliament) Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5A 1T2
Regular Hours:
Monday: 730am to 5pm
Tuesday: 730am to 5pm
Wednesday:730am to 5pm
Thursday: 730 am to 5pm
Friday: 730 am to 5pm
Saturday: 8am to 4pm
Sunday: 8am to 4pm

Email lisangart@hotmail.com with subject line “MAILING LIST” to join the monthly mailing list for news & events!

Lisa Ng Art & Stuff May

UPCOMING ART SHOWS!
Rosedale Art Fair 2017
Saturday June 10: 11am to 6pm
Sunday June 11: noon to 5pm
At the Green Space across from the LCBO @ 10 Scrivener Square, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Just outside the Summerhill Subway Station

Kensington Market Art Fair 2017
Sunday October 29: noon to 7pm
Kensington Market, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

WORD ON THE STREET
I was recently contacted and informed a drawing I did 15 years ago at the start of my career is up for charity auction (Anti-vivsection Society of BC) for their 90th anniversary! This is 1 of about 30 from my first series depicting hand trees. I ended up giving most of them away to friends and family but this particular one was bought promptly after conception. It also represents my 1st sale, a friend from high school bought it for $30 when we were both 18 and then she spent $100 framing it under glass, that was 14 years ago in 2003. It is probably the most well preserved one as the others were not framed. It is also from the same series of my first ever art show in Hamilton, Ontario at the Staircase Theatre in 2003. You can now see more as I added them to my website (www.lisangart.com) under "PAINTINGS." Scroll all the way down and there they are and you will have also scrolled through the 200 paintings I've painted since then. I was thrilled at the time but now I can't believe how far I've come, more details to follow.

Handtree ink on mango leaf paper 48 x 36 inches 2003

GOSSIP
I was recently contacted by a gallery from Santa Monica, California, I have never been. Nothing exclusive or anything like that but it is a new relationship I am pursuing. There's been talk about a group show but it won't happen for a year so I have plenty of time to prepare. It's very new and I am excited and happy and nervous!

NEW PAINTING

Family Portrait 48 x 36 x 1.5 inches acrylic on canvas 2017

My brother commissioned me to do a family portrait so I did us in Chinese zodiac animals. I'll have to take a better close up later. It's a surprise for my parents so please, keep it a secret!

GLAMOUR SHOT

Been out of the limelight a little bit -I got married!
Here's me pigging out on my wedding day back from September.

5 Pt. Essay On Keeping It Real

SCALEY VASE acrylic on canvas 16 x 20 x 1.5 inches 2016 $600

JK Rowling's Harry Potter was rejected by 12 publishers with reasons being it was slow to start, the characters at the beginning were hard to identify with and that there's no money in children's books. 

James Cameron (who was living in his car at the time) fired his agent because he hated the idea for The Terminator. He later sold the script for just $1 with the stipulation that he direct (despite having only directed 1 other movie at the time) and Arnold Schwarzenegger referred to it as "some shit movie" at the time of making. 

George Lucas was rejected by 3 production companies (1 which later bought Lucasfilm) while looking for someone to finance Star Wars. Reasons included it being, "a little strange" and that it was not like "what was popular last year."

Johannes Vermeer left his family in debt before the 200 years it took for his work to be recognized. 

Nobody gave a damn about Vincent Van Gogh when he was painting. 

So what I'm trying to say is, the important thing is to keep on offering the world something beautiful nobody else can (and eventually the tide will turn)