Journalhttp://www.kmacleanstudio.com/journal/en-US2012-02-13T09:08:07ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition this weekendhttp://www.kmacleanstudio.com/journal/2011/7/6/toronto-outdoor-art-exhibition-this-weekend.htmlk maclean2011-07-06T20:37:15Z50 years running! This weekend check out Nathan Philips Square and the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.

I will be in booth 192 exhibiting a few different things some tall some small. Curious?

K MacLean Booth 192

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]]>the Reclaimershttp://www.kmacleanstudio.com/journal/2011/4/21/the-reclaimers.htmlk maclean2011-04-21T18:00:46ZTwo years always seem like enough time when a gallery exhibition is first confirmed but procrastination and other projects always seem to make the time come up fast! All of a sudden fevered last minute leaping takes hold but happily no snags were encountered and the group exhibition I'm involved in entitled "the Reclaimers" is up and opening tonight at the Mary E Black Gallery in Halifax. Drop in and see the amazing work of several junk artists.

]]>Grand opening... the Tremont Arts centrehttp://www.kmacleanstudio.com/journal/2010/10/12/grand-opening-the-tremont-arts-centre.htmlk maclean2010-10-12T17:42:57ZAfter a year of tearing out and fixing up, the Tremont in Collingwood opened it's doors to the general public!.

I booked into Studio 4 when there were no but studs to imagine a room out of but the building reno taken on by Rick and Anke Lex surpassed everyones expectations 10 fold. An old hotel that had fallen on hard times and was threatened with demolition is now a thriving arts centre that houses a dozen artist studios, the Bay School of Art, and the Tremont cafe and bookstore. Drop in ! The Tremont

]]>released into the wildhttp://www.kmacleanstudio.com/journal/2010/10/12/released-into-the-wild.htmlk maclean2010-10-12T17:38:42ZOut of Humber and certified in the ways of Adobe CS4 CS5 and able to design cards, posters, packaging, technical drawings, websites, and, flash banners. So now what? that is the question of late...

]]>carcass revengehttp://www.kmacleanstudio.com/journal/2010/7/11/carcass-revenge.htmlk maclean2010-07-11T13:55:28ZThe drive today was made all the more exciting by swerving into oncoming traffic to avoid a car stopped in the middle of the highway who was avoiding a chicken who crossed the road. Thus answering the eternal chicken/ road question. Why did the chicken cross the road... to take out a few drivers? And why did my wife get hit by a bear while driving on Highway 26 near Elmvale ??!! A large dent in the side of the car indicates it was a large bear too. No bears or chickens were killed but makes one wonder if there is a plot to take back the roads...

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]]>turtle in the middlehttp://www.kmacleanstudio.com/journal/2010/6/26/turtle-in-the-middle.htmlk maclean2010-06-26T15:46:55ZTo just drive by when one sees a turtle sitting on the yellow line in the middle of a two lane highway would be normal I assume. However, my road kill tallying of the past few months has me thinking abnormally. So today I stopped, turned around, drove back, got out of the car, picked up the turtle and carried it to the grass on the shoulder... hopefully it was the side of the road the turtle was intending on reaching. One less carcass.

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]]>HARK! rejection!http://www.kmacleanstudio.com/journal/2010/6/18/hark-rejection.htmlk maclean2010-06-18T19:54:05ZWell for those of ye who wander about Nathan Philips Square this year at the TOAE looking for familiar artists, I sadly did not make the grade. Perhaps I strayed too far into mixed media with my Reno Poetic pieces or my scattered artistic career of late has taken it's toll, whatever may be at work I will miss exhibiting there as it's a really fun weekend. A wake up call that my garden needs tending.

]]>car.nagehttp://www.kmacleanstudio.com/journal/2010/6/3/carnage.htmlk maclean2010-06-03T10:44:50ZMy trips to Humber every week for class puts me on the long and winding Airport and Gore Roads, the most direct route to school from my home base. It's a beautiful drive with always a breathtaking view somewhere along the way but I've been troubled lately by the roadkill tally. Turtle, raccoons, red squirrels, skunks, porcupines, cats, dogs, birds, frogs, and the most disturbing last week, just the head of a fawn lying in the middle of the road. Such a toll these roads take and yet we scream in protest at the mention of a toll to use them.

My body count as of July 30th :

One road, One region, one summer

]]>old dog new trickshttp://www.kmacleanstudio.com/journal/2010/4/18/old-dog-new-tricks.htmlk maclean2010-04-18T11:13:22ZMy it's been a while since I sat and blathered . Time spent changing and challenging throwing off the shackles of the same old routines and yet another pair of earrings (as much as I enjoy making them one does need a break sometimes). The Mad & Noisy Gallery in Creemore hosted a collection of my recent work in March and it was a refreshing blast of creativity perhaps misguided as unfortunately a goldfish involved in the exhibition perished ... who knew they are such fragile creatures!

The show entitled "Man vs Nature" was all about how we as a species may be missing the point of our actions with our present fascination with shiny digital objects.

Immediately after setting up my exhibition I shuffled off to the entirely new experience of returning to school !!!...Humber to be exact to take a 6 month intensive Graphic Design course. Ironically following my father's first career path of ad design. So since I grew up with Letraset and rubber cement around the house, the subject is not too unfamiliar but lordy sitting in front of a computer screen all day trying to wrap my crusty brain around vectoring and rasterizing is a bit much! I am already missing the act of creating things more tactile, however I am seeing the world of advertising that surrounds us in a whole new light.

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