Voila! Violins on Auction

Update on the Painted Violin Project for the Youth Orchestras of Fresno:  The violins are now being shown at various venues in Fresno:

ARTE AMERICAS, 1630 Van Ness, Fresno, from April 12 till May 2

STUDIO 74, 1274 North Van Ness, Fresno, from May 2 till May 21

 FRESNO ARTS COUNCIL, 1245 Van Ness, Fresno, from May 21 till May 27

AND the bidding has begun!    

Strings Abloom  Encaustic on Violin
Kathryn Gordon
(photos courtesy of Youth Orchestras of Fresno)

All the painted violins will be auctioned off at their Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration Concert on Sunday May 29, 7pm, at the William Saroyan Theatre where the three current orchestras will perform the Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique.  If you'd like to attend, ticket sales begin three weeks prior.

 

Here's Ellen Lennon  and Nancy Marquez with the violins.

(photos courtesy of Youth Orchestras of Fresno)

Online bids will be accepted until the day before the auction (until midnight on Saturday May 28) and will be used as starting bids in the silent auction on concert day, Sunday May 29.

....see you there! 

Almost there...

Well, just a couple weeks left before I must send my violin on it's way.  And yes, it is finished.  Here's some photos before I reassemble it with the tailpiece and strings:

FRONT:



BACK:

And a closeup of my favourite flower - a parrot tulip:

Well, now off to buffing and assembly.....

The Painted Violin

Youth Orchestra of Fresno was wonderful enough to have selected me to paint one of their ten violins for the 2011 auction in May.  Right before Christmas the 'no longer usable' violin arrived on my doorstep.

So of course I HAD to open it immediately.

And then I had to sand and gesso it.

And gesso it some more - here with the verona green that will be the base colour

Now that I've done all the easy steps - on to the wax......