tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31193928454413523142024-03-14T01:30:29.412-07:00Versikaitis-Blog With My Fellow ArtistThis Blog is to showcase some of my fellow artist artworks and to tell their stories on how they create Art. But you need to add a comment to the existing blog before I will add your artwork. Your comments are much appreciated! Enjoy your stay and forward a link to your fellow artists.Alberta Sport Artist Joe Versikaitishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13339941693337888473noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119392845441352314.post-23602172638415130902013-08-31T18:05:00.002-07:002013-08-31T18:19:43.917-07:00Playing It Forward - Point By Point By Alberta Artist Sandra Ward<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> Sandra had the original framed so that the form core was exposed in order for the entire Oiler team to sign it for Dwayne. The Oilers had not renewed his contract the previous summer, and he was signed by the Islanders. Sandra was able to get in touch with him and sent the original to him as a gift. The team signature made it a gift from his mates as well. He was thrilled beyond belief with the gesture and the finished product. Sandra is</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> sure that one day, he will pass it down to one of his sons.</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Sandra</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> asked Dwayne if he would be willing to sign the 20 prints for her and he had no issues at all. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The prints were fed-ex'd to his home in New York and he signed all of them with a full signature, not just his 'hockey shorthand'.</span></h3>
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Being that </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Sandra's </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">art is for charity, she kept #20/20, and have kept the last number in all of her series.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Sandra </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">took the remaining 19 prints and donated them to various fundraisers across Alberta and into Ontario.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">The series is sold out and raised over $6,000 for a bunch of different charities.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">The piece took over 120 hours to complete.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Framing for this style is really crucial, and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Sandra </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">has an excellent framer in Sherwood Park who has been very supportive of this charity endeavour of her.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Sandra presented the club with an idea for fundraising for their Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation and they agreed.<br /><br />"Had A Dream..." is the result. They were able to find Sandra a photo of Ales as a little boy and that is the faint little guy in the background. Mom and Dad's love the concept of the piece. The Foundation had 20 prints made, again, Sandra kept #20/20.<br />Sandra was able to present Ales with the original as a gift from herself to him at Rexall Place on Dec 9, 2010. Ales also signed the prints with Sandra on that day.<br />To date his prints have raised over $6,500 for various charities that the EOCF supports.<br /><br />The piece took approx 170 hours to complete. </span></span></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">"Gordie" </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Ink on paper drawing of Gordie Howe </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> Detroit Red Wings - 2012, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> 100 Limited edition prints.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Sandra's father who lives with my Mom in Ontario suffers from Alzheimers.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Sandra</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> had contacted Baycrest and their Scotiabank ProAm person in January of 2011 to see if they would be interested in a Roloson print as a prize for most money raised.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The conversation began and they commissioned me to complete the attached portrait. The original was donated to Baycrest from Sandra. Sandra received a tax receipt which is all she wanted.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">They had 100 prints made and these are being used as gifts to the teams that participate in the tournaments that raise the most money.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">It has been one of the hi-lites of Sandra's life so far!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Sandra and her husband went down to the Sutton Place hotel in March of 2012 in Edmonton and meet with Mark and Gordie Howe. Gordie spent 2 hours signing each and every print.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The whole journey involved the Hockey Hall of Fame ( HHOF) trips to Vancouver.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> A presentation ceremony at the HHOF in Toronto in April of 2012 was the scene </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">of the induction of print #72/100 into the HHOF. This as you can imagine which was an amazing experience for Sandra. The ceremony can be seen here <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNWlWfWlUFA&feature=youtube_gdata_player">Hockey Hall of Fame print</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">You can also read all about the special presentation at </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4d4d4d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<a href="http://www.baycrest.org/smart-aging/gordie-will-be-displayed-at-baycrest/">Gordie” will be displayed at Baycrest</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Sandra also presented print #9/100 to the Howe Family and the original to Baycrest.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Almost a year to the day of the interview, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Sandra's Dad was moved into long term care this past March.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Sandra's dad had no memory of the evening the next day. Very sad. He sure knew who Gordie was when Sandra introduced him to Gordie on the stage of the ceremony. These memories will be treasured for years.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">People often ask Sandra why she doesn't charge for her work. They wonder what she get's out of it. Well, truth be told Sandra cannot buy any of the wonderful, unbelievable things that have happened to her because of it. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Some folks get it, others just cannot wrap their heads around it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The " Gordie " piece took over 200 hours to complete.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i>Blog Alberta Sport Artist Joe Versikaitis at: <a href="http://versikaitis-theartofsport.blogspot.com/">http://versikaitis-theartofsport.blogspot.com</a></i></div>
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<i>View my painting of </i><a href="http://www.pbase.com/versikaitis/_a_painting_of_jarome_iginla___jarome__by__joe_versikaitis"><i>Jarome Iginla</i></a></div>
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<i><a href="http://www.pbase.com/mcimages/_a_painting_of_jarome_iginla___jarome__by__joe_versikaitis"></a>View my painting of </i><i><a href="http://www.pbase.com/versikaitis/a_painting_of_henry_burris__by_joe_versikaitis"><i>Henry Burris</i></a> ....Creativity in progress!</i></div>
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Nate is a Buffalo area artist with a huge heart for hockey. Being a Buffalo Sabres Fan, Nate is the kind of artist that is keen on demonstrating his love for the sport of hockey as well his love of art.</div>
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Nate latest work include Mini Goalie masks. These are hand painted. He has all NHL teams painted..<br />
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<i>" The first time I seen these unique pieces of artwork I thought what a hell of an idea buddy! "</i></div>
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<em>" I remember collecting those mini goalie mask key chains but didn't care for just the team logo printed on the top so I got inspired to paint a design based on the team logo on each mask. no these are from years ago (early 2000's I think) so some logos will be outdated but i think some of them are pretty cool. Here's number 21, The Edmonton Oilers mini goalie mask." Nate Gandt</em></div>
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If you would like to view more Nates work and Blog please visit <a href="http://hockey-art.blogspot.com/">Hockey in Art</a></div>
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Alberta Sport Artist Joe Versikaitishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13339941693337888473noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119392845441352314.post-81003859693628535532010-10-30T13:30:00.001-07:002011-10-03T12:43:06.225-07:00What is a " BLOG"?<div style="margin: 0px;">
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My daughter asked me what is a " Blog?"</div>
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This question came to be when I told her and her boyfriend that I created a blog page and that I was going to write in it. You see I started my own blog, Blog with Alberta Sport Artist Joe Versikaitis about two weeks ago. Here I will talk about Sport art, marketing, photography and yes a little bit of hockey.Yeah I know the name is a little long but what ever. I like it.</div>
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I thought a Blog would be kinda fun to create. It was so much fun that after I created my first blog page I created another blog page. This one I called Blog with my fellow Artist. In this blog page I want to encourage local artist to send me their works so that I can post it on my blog. My madness behind this concept is that if I show case other artist work then hopefully they will return the favor by show casing my work on their blog. I'm just trying to create a artsy fartsy community. We'll see how it goes.</div>
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After all the reading and scrutinising of other blogs. I have come to the conclusion that this blogging business is really a place to write my diary about my life. I talk about my art work and how that particular piece was created. I also bring in guest writers with marketing ideas and I try to promote a marketing guru by the name of Alyson Stanfield. Alyson has a great book called " I'd rather be in the studio ". For any of you artist out there that are interested in stepping into a career path as an artist then this book is a must.</div>
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My stories about meeting hockey super stars like Teemu Selanne, Trevor Kidd and soon to come Theo Fleury and Sandy McCarthy is really the part of my art that keeps me going. If it wasn't for my dream to be an N.H.L. artist the reason for marketing and blogging would be none existence.</div>
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So in saying all this, it seems that when people ask what is a blog. My response has to be this....</div>
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It's about writing what ever you want to write about, discussing a favorite topic with a person that you've never met before or in my case show casing mine other artist works. In all fairness Blogging to me is creating a community on a single web page where artist can come to visit...Simple!</div>
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Alberta Sport Artist Joe Versikaitishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13339941693337888473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119392845441352314.post-80243484532826138962010-10-30T13:29:00.001-07:002010-10-30T13:29:32.639-07:00Gena Lacoste is at it again<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gena LaCoste has three new pieces of beautiful art to display for Blog with my Fellow Artist. We'll sure be looking for her up and coming show in December through to February at the Esplanade Art Gallery in Medicine Hat. I will keep you posted.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__G1dgwmmyFU/TLAKOP000TI/AAAAAAAAAEA/hJ44xqpIGNI/s1600/M.H,.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__G1dgwmmyFU/TLAKOP000TI/AAAAAAAAAEA/hJ44xqpIGNI/s640/M.H,.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="408" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Meandering Home" and that's my beautiful old mare "Polly" in the middle</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div>Alberta Sport Artist Joe Versikaitishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13339941693337888473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119392845441352314.post-26761340189520400122010-10-30T13:26:00.000-07:002010-10-30T13:27:45.142-07:00Medicine Hat, Alberta Western Watercolor Artist Gena LaCoste paints what she loves.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__G1dgwmmyFU/TKl1HKCOzqI/AAAAAAAAADY/8xPjSoYUEVo/s1600/medicine_hat_stampede08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__G1dgwmmyFU/TKl1HKCOzqI/AAAAAAAAADY/8xPjSoYUEVo/s400/medicine_hat_stampede08.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #5b3d23; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Gena LaCoste paints what she loves. Gena has loved the grasslands from her first breath. She learned about the land and its unique ecosystems from her family, and this love has equipped her to paint the authentic lifestyles of prairie families. Now, Gena paints what she loves. "I was painting and drawing by the time I was three years of age," Gena recalls. "My early memories include the river at the cow camps, and the sounds of water sliding past. Dust, heat rising, the arid smells of sage brush, and the tones of light begged to be painted." Riding on her own horse to the cow camp with her father, for instance, etched images in her heart that she tries to record through colours and water. "I remember trying to find a way to draw a horse so that it looked like the ones in front of me."</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #5b3d23; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For the rest of Gena's story and artwork go to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.genalacoste.com/biography.htm">Gena LaCoste</a></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #5b3d23; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br />
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