Live Painting by Sharon Hodgson

LIVE PAINTER SHARON HODGSON

THIS JUST IN: I will be the feature artist for Gio Restaurant inside the Prince George Hotel for Nocturne Halifax 2010. More details on that will be posted soon!!!!

The completed painting (at the top of this page) is what I painted during Nocturne last year at Gio! Hope to see you this year when I paint there again if you're in Halifax!

Prince George Hotel

Gio

 

Note: Other upcoming events will be posted very soon.
Below are some past events from Summer 2010!


I just got back from Chance Harbour, NB, where I painted at the Sunseekers Ball Music and Art Festival 2010.

It was an amazing experience!!!

If you have not been there before, pencil this festival in for next summer because the promoters plan to extend the show from 4 days to five for next year!

More music, more fun in the sun!

Some of the original progenitors of funk music are members of The Meters, and they came all the way from New Orleans to play that festival. It was a great honour to share a stage with them, given that some of them have been working their magic since the 50s and 60s! I hope to paint them again in future!

Their set was about 2 hours, and thus that's how much time went into the work.

It was a 2x3' canvas.

I also got to paint Joel Plaskett on stage while they were playing.

The canvas was 2.5x3' in an hour and fifteen minutes.

There were about a thousand people in the crowd.

Here's hoping it's even bigger and more intense next year.


The week before that, I painted a few acts at the Halifax Buskers Festival. The Metro News speculated that this might be the last Halifax International Busker Festival even though it has been 24 years running.

At least I got a couple paintings in while I was there to catalog this festival, which has been a part of Halifax culture for so long! (How do we prevent the end of this festival...?)


The week before that, I painted on a Whale Watching tour by Murphys on the Water

(Yes. On a boat. Found it to be a lot more “rocky” than painting on a tall ship!).

We did not see whales on this particular trip, but it was still a hoot trying to paint with all those big waves.

That painting was a 2x3' canvas in 2 hours.

 


...Which I also did before, a week before that.

(Paint on a boat, that is.)

It was a wedding on the Tall Ship Silva in Halifax Harbor!

I was positioned next to the ship's captain looking down on where the bride and groom said their vows.

Two hours for a 2x3' canvas.


Painting at the Halifax Jazz Festival was awesome!! I produced four live paintings under the big festival tent throughout the week.

There's a mention of me in a Coast review blog entry here!

 

I did these as a fundraiser for Jazz East. 80% of the proceeds went to Jazz East.

The final one (on the right) is the only one still available, and it's being held for an auction at their naually gala event on Dec 9th 2010.


It was a great honour to live paint at the Atlantica Hotel when they announced they will be sponsoring the 2011 Canada Games. I painted my conception of the speed skating rink to go on the Halifax Commons this winter!! The above is a 18x48" canvas completed in 3 hrs.

Visit my LivePainting.ca site to see a gallery of paintings I have created live thus far. I will keep adding to it.

Also, you can visit my blog for more details on the events I've been painting, as well as studio works.

Thank you for visiting sharonhodgson.com !

Contact me if you want to see me paint at your event!

About Me:

I'm a contemporary Canadian artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I travel for gigs as needed.

I have been drawing and painting all my life - since I was one year old and big enough to grab onto a pencil or paint brush.

I have been actively painting events live since April 2007. (Click here for a show history, updated around once a month.)

I’m working on a new TV series with a film crew to produce a show on various things going on in Halifax with a good film crew. I’ll tell you more about that soon. I just had to mention it!

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