Express your Creativity

My Daily Inspiration is a way for members of the community to share their creative projects conceived during this unprecedented time.
 
You can submit something that you wrote ( a short paragraph, a poem), something you created or you enjoy doing such as photographs, gardening projects, crafts, woodwork, pottery, art pieces, knitting, crocheting, a short video and more. Submit any form of expression in any medium! 

Make Your Submission

Please include your work and everything that you want to be seen with your creative work, such as the name, inspiration, title, write up and be aware that whatever is posted is widely accessible. The AGA is not responsible for the copyright and has no control of what people will do with the posts. 

Please send you submission to: galleryinfo@artgalleryofalgoma.com

Submit Your Work

INSPIRED SUBMISSIONS

​​Grandee misses her Calgary Girls

Having fun sewing outfits for their dolls!  As I child I wasn’t interested in dolls.  As a grandmother, I am having a late-onset obsession with delighting Lucie, Claire and Sybil with dolly fashions and look forward to doll play with them when I finally get to Calgary (if their new puppy hasn’t chewed through my creations)! Yes, I definitely believe in a 2nd childhood!
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Handprinted Monotype

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Mackenzie Fuller 

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Sophie Nash

Watercolour Painting

Watercolour Painting

Lone sunflower.
Acrylic Painting

Sunset at Pointe Louise in winter.
Acrylic Painting

Still Winter's Night.
Digital Illustration

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Rutger Becker

The Bluejay.
8" x 10”, Acrylic on Canvas.

Inspired by:

The Goldfinch (Dutch: Het puttertje) is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age artist Carel Fabritius of a life-size chained goldfinch. Signed and dated 1654, it is now in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands.

Fabritius was a leading member of the Delft School, and his influence, particularly in terms of experimentation with perspective and complex spatial effects, as well as the use of soft, atmospheric lighting and daylight effects, can be seen in the works of his esteemed Delft school colleagues, Johannes Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch.
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Given the tragic circumstances surrounding his death, art historian David R. Bakker has summed up Fabritius's legacy in terms of his potential - of what could, or should, have been. He wrote: "Famous paintings like The Goldfinch and The Sentry bespeak such originality and artistic quality that we can only regret all the works he never painted. Unfortunately, his untimely death has made it virtually impossible to determine whether his talent would have eventually been great enough to equal, if not surpass, that of his teacher, Rembrandt Van Rijn". Indeed, the promise shown in his small body of work has prompted other historians to predict that he might have supplanted Rembrandt as the grand master of the Dutch Golden Age.

What is beyond question however is his exploration on the "domestic interior" narrative that became a staple of the Delft School. His influence can be traced through the work of his contemporaries Vermeer (on whom his use of shadows and background light had a particularly marked effect), de Hooch and, indeed, other Dutch artists including Nicolaes Maes.
More recently, Fabritius's public profile gained fresh impetus following the release of Donna Tart's novel The Goldfinch, for which she received the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Goldfinch, in which Fabritius's "priceless" painting survives a devasting gallery explosion, was turned into a Hollywood movie starring Ansel Elgort in 2019 The protagonist and secret custodian of the painting, Theo, says this of the artwork: "it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch. For if disaster and oblivion have followed this painting down through time - so too has love. Insofar as it is immortal (and it is) I have a small, bright, immutable part in that immortality".

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Tom Kimsal

Oil on Canvas

Oil on Canvas

Oil on Canvas

Oil on Canvas

Oil on Canvas

Oil on Canvas

Oil on Canvas

Harvesters - Van Gogh 003
Oil on Canvas

Oil on Canvas

Oil on Canvas

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Sarah Alton

Beaded Medallion

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Liam Alton

Mandela
Plasticine

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Johnathon Alton

Mandela
Plasticine

Sad Crocodile
Plasticine

Sad Crocodile
Plasticine

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 Althea Morriseau

​Beaded lanyards

Pine needle basket​

Birch bark earrings with leather backing​

An Ugly Doll​

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Cynthia Morriseau

Boozhoo, aanii, waaciye,

I have been enjoying doing crafts during the pandemic, including virtual paint nights. Most often than not, I’m unable to actually join & participate because I have two young binoojiiNs (kids). So I take a picture of the finished painting & I do them on my own. This one is my favourite because of the vibrant colours. It makes me happy just to look at it. Most of the paintings that I have previously done have been with darker colours. 

Chi-Miigwetch,
Cynthia McCutcheon (nee Morriseau)

Boozhoo, aanii, waaciye,

I have been participating in a lot of online workshops, especially for culturally related crafts. I learned about no face dolls from Rose Moses. No face dolls were to encourage the imagination of children. I made a doll for my mom, to remember her mother that passed. I made a doll for my brother, to always have our mother with him, because he lives out of town. And I made a doll for both of my children, to always have their nanny with them. Covid has made things accessible. I hope that these workshops will continue to be made accessible once covid has passed. I have been able to connect & meet so many new people. 

Chi-Miigwetch,
Cynthia McCutcheon (nee Morriseau)

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Jasmine Syrette

A Native Wooden Peg Doll Family By Jasmine Syrette of Yin's Legacies