PARCOURS DES ARTISTES - ARTIST PATHS

Our city was covered with exhibitions of paintings, drawings and sculptures. The event is called "Parcours des Artistes" (Artist Paths).

This means that in the whole city people can expose their artwork.

It starts in the "Espace Bernier" the cultural center of Waterloo.





Here we got a map with the addresses of the different exhibitions and artists who exposed their work alone.

It started with a vernissage, where we could see the paintings of the Bernier painting group and different artists. My painting had been chosen to represent our group "Gibloux Couleurs"






My painting technique is called "purring"





There were a lot of artists with family and friends, important people from the community, the alderman etc.



This wild boar sculpted in wood stood at the entrance


Champagne and orange juice for the thirsty visitors



and an orchestra with a female singer.

We chatted a while with everybody and then went home.

more participants here

AWWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND OCTOBER 5

A very creative snail, realized by a 80 year old resident of the Waterloo Retirement home



a crocodile by a 82 year old resident



and this turtle by a 81 year old lady !



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WEEKEND

This weekend was very tiring as we had our Painting exhibition.  Each two years our city organizes a "parcours des artistes" (artist path) through the whole city for their artists, in private houses, in ateliers or in rented rooms. After a Vernissage in the cultural center, we started on Saturday. 

Myriam and I had prepared everything for our visitors in the morning and opened the room at 11 am. As soon as the door was open people arrived !



Myriam and I the new responsible  of our painting group. The photo was taken by the alderman of art and culture.



Nicole loves to play bar maid and did her job with enthusiasm, sometimes I had to tell her not to give to much of champagne to some very old people !



There were little snacks, Champagne, Champagne without alcohol, orange juice and Coca Cola. The new signature book got a lot of very friendly comments and a lot of compliments !



According to all our visitors our room looked very pretty.





Here I am with all my paintings, the cats, the penguin cat and the pouring (not purring)



Visitors the whole two days ! Some paintings were sold



and then we  had to take down the paintings and dismantle the panels and grids.

I must admit that when I came home I was half dead ! Fortunately Mr. G had prepared supper (by pushing on the button of the microwave) and I recovered quickly, because I really was happy that everything went so smooth. And we also had a lot of fun.