First Snow

Wishing You a Wonderful 

Winter Solstice!

More Bots on Bowen!

The Little Alphabots will now be on the shelves at Phoenix on Bowen.
A great shop filled with toys, books, games and cards!  http://phoenixonbowen.com/

The Bots will be very happy here!

JMR Gallery In Bayfield Ontario

The Little Alphabots are also available at JMR Gallery in Bayfield Ontario.
Drop in sometime in December and say hello to Judy and view some fantastic art!
www.jmrgallery.com

Bots invade Bowen

The Little Alphabot Book has now landed on Bowen Island and is available at the Bowen Island Library. The ABC book can also be purchased at Bell'Occhio in the Artisan Square with some of the proceeds going towards The Bowen Children's Centre.

Pisces

mermaid- 2007 acrylic on board

star riding

Sacred Fire

Hillebrand Artist Series 2005, Niagara on the Lake, Ontario

Three Alligators riding their Tandem Bicycle blowing bubbles with corn cob pipes while holding a Red Scarf somewhere out on the Indian Ocean

Octopus playing hide and go seek in the Forest

Having some fun with Photoshop :)

Welcome Tristan! Our latest Little Alphaboter enjoying the letter T :)

I am excited that The Little Alphabot Book will be donated to the children of the families coming to Canada in a couple of months through Project Tibet. I have been fortunate with my book and it feels great to be able to help when i can! www.projecttibetsociety.ca

Phoenix

I created this papier mache piece a few months back. The piece entitled Phoenix,
is 32" long by 12"in heighth.
It is done in a Mexican folkart style... it was a lot of fun to make and might do
some more this summer.

Website Closing

Just closed my website DarrenThompson.ca.
Time to move on.
The website served me well and I enjoyed sharing my
artwork and events with friends and clients.
I can still be reached through this blogsite as well
as https://www.facebook.com/darrenthompsonartist?ref=hl
talk soon

Darren

Robot/Donut Day!

It was Robot/Donut Day at the St. Thomas-Elgin Public Art Centre in Southern Ontario, Canada.
Looks like the kids were having fun painting and eating donuts!

Please Help Some Children in Peru

I am posting this on behalf of my friends who live in Peru, who had sent out this email to anyone who might be able to make a donation. Please read the post below

Thank you , Darren.

 Dear Friends
A catastrophe has struck a small pueblo not far from me. Several weeks of heavy rain resulted in a glacial river bursting its banks, sending rushing water churning down the mountain, pushing rocks, boulders, and trees along the way. The village of Tanccac lay in its path and, as a r...esult, paid the biggest price: agricultural fields buried in mud, wiping out a year’s plantings; carpenter shops flattened, not a nail in sight; farm animals drowned; and 48 adobe houses collapsed. In all, over 100 families have lost some or all of their housing, clothing, work, furniture – all the things that they need to survive. Many were injured. None died. (Photos attached.)
I am writing on behalf of forty-six children, who will be starting school in two weeks. While the government has provided tents and the small municipality has provided foodstuffs, supplemented by donations, the children are in need of backpacks, notebooks and pencils. It will take close to $15 to outfit one child with these supplies.
Please consider making a donation either via your Paypal account (instructions below) or a personal check to me at: Rosemary Poland, 209 Darrel Road, LaGrange, NC 28551, which she will deposit into my bank
Imagine forty-six smiling faces and pat yourself on the back.

Thanks so much.
Linda

Instructions for Paypal: log into your account. Select “send money.” Then enter: incanbaglady@yahoo.com, the amount, and select USD. Select the Personal Tab, and choose either “gift” or “other” (there is no space to specify donation). The payment is deducted from your Paypal balance.
 Personal checks – that sound, uncomplicated old-fashioned method – are happily accepted.
 http://www.lindanordquist.com/
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my website

I will be closing my website  www.darrenthompson.ca in march
but will continue with my blog. Moving on to a new direction in my life
but will continue to create art as well.
thanks for visiting and keeping in touch!
Darren

Project Tibet Society

I am presently trying to contact The Tibetancultural Societyofbritishcolumbia to arrange for my alphabet books to be donated and distributed to some of the Tibetan Children that are being re-settled into Canada, partially for their education, through Project Tibet Society. www.projecttibetsociety.ca.
 I am hopeful that this will happen xxx

Project Tibet Society —

www.projecttibetsociety.ca

In 2007, His Holiness the Dalai Lama met Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Prime Minister Harper is the second Canadian Prime Minister to have met His Holiness while in office. During the 2007 meeting His Holiness requested that Canada consider offering displaced Tibetans living in India the opportunity for 1000 Tibetans to resettle in Canada over a period of 5 years..