Rita Viscount - Atir Studio - What'sNew

September 2009

Have started working on the set of 42nd Street with Walt Farr for the Imperial Theatre and
started the sketches for a second Children's book I have been hired to Illustrate.

August 2009

The final paintings are finished, the book just has to be set up and set to press.
"Sneak Peek"

I have been hired to Illustrate a children's book. The sketches are finished and the paintings are in the works.
More to follow after the illustrations are finished.

Snowfest 2009 was held during a blast from old man winter. We carved Wall-E despite the blistering cold.
Children were coming for hugs from a eight foot tall Wall-E.
Plus I made an appearance on C.T.V. with my team mate Tom.
Referencing Michelangelo I spoke about finding the angels in the snow an setting them free.

The Shadow Land Theatre troupe from Toronto was here to build a replica of the Lawrence House Centre for the Arts out of
recycled plastic water bottles. My family and I helped a bit and the results were amazing, it looked like a
crystal ice sculptor of the Lawrence House during the parade.

Finished painting the set for Man of La Mancha and the Play opened to great reviews, Follow the Link.

Received the "Artist Choice Award" from Snowfest, and
certificates of appreciation from the Lawrence House for the team and myself.

Been playing around with js trying to get a mouseover thumbnail viewer to work on the Snowfest page,
Also getting ready for The Look Show 2008, Paint Ont 2008,
and the 6 +1 Show at Grace Brothers Gallery.

Painted the background for the Snowfest page, added the Oil Gallery and Snowfest page
Now to add in the individual art pages.

I have been busy updating Atirstudio. Added the acrylic gallery last week, plus
updated the Watercolor gallery, Artist Bio, Splash page. I hope you like the way the"Store Front"
looks like. Look for the SnowFest & Events page also the Oil Gallery should be uploaded this week.
I totally wiped out the newest version of the Watercolor gallery while experimenting with background looks,
so I had to start from the beginning.

You know how life just happens, Well its been a happening time for me
Celebrate the life you live!
I hope you enjoy my newest paintings.

It still has a lot of bugs, and I wiped out one of my new pages,
I now have a template page built for my general gallery and it should make the rest of the
assembly of this web site fly a little faster.
Thou for some reason, I find that I still am building and editing most of my site in code.

This web site has been totally revamped in the last few weeks, It still has a lot of bugs,and is a work in progress.
It has been a learning experience, and a lot of fun learning to build this site with Dreamweaver, instead of just writing html.
I hope this brighter version is easier to navigate.

This site has not been properly updated since 2003, But I feel I am up to the task
and need to bring in my new work to be shown.
( Actually painting is Play, when a painting is going well I feel my heart sing).