SHOW AND TELL - Yearly Painting Exposition

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Last weekend my painting group had its yearly exposition. The flower arrangements I made for that I showed already here last week.




A picture of the group which was published in the "Waterloo News"



The "comment" book where people were invited to leave their comments




At the entrance were these masks one of my group had made for Halloween. It gave a special joyful touch to the exposition.





and that's how the room looked like before people were arriving !



my teacher puts some pralines on the plate



and then they came ....



posing for somebody together with my teacher



Here is my oldest class mate. She is 94 (!), together with her daughter, granddaughter and grandgrand daughters.



The big Mannitou of the city was in a very good mood (left)



Holding a speach



my friend Ilona (the proof that even with 65 you still can look good, without artificial means ! )





My men and I

We had a lot of visitors and also a lot of fun. It is not so important for us to sell a painting, but more to show what we have done during the year and also the fun we had by doing it.

EXPOSITION PREPARATIONS

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Each year in October my painting group has it's annual exposition here in Waterloo. The local politicians and VIPs are showing up of course pretending that they are very interested in art and of course all paintings are wonderful even if they are really not. Sometimes one asks to "buy" one in the hope that he would get it for free and is then very surprised that it is not even not for him. (Politicians a specialists for getting everything for free).

The preparation started Thursday with hanging up the paintings.

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These are mines

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This sitting lady is 84 !!

Usually it means that one is on the ladder and hangs them up while all the others (me included) are standing around and give their unwanted advices. This is of course a reason for continuous laughter. We also had a very extended coffee break, where everybody updated everybody on the latest news and the big question for all ladies "what do you wear ?"

Yesterday then, when all paintings were hanging on the wall, we had to prepare the tables with the other paintings and decorate them.

I was asked to do the flower arrangements, that's what I did during at least 2 hours, for about 10 flower arrangements and then my legs came out of my shoulders, my back hurt from the long standing. This means getting old at least the body becomes rusty !



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These are two samples of what finally came out. The cats on the table are pebbles which I had transformed into cats (of course). People usually like them very much as paper weights or other decoration purposes.

And today is the big day with the vernissage. I will be there the whole day to receive and explain to the visitors.