Winterlude 2010

It was so wonderful to join the public challenge ice-carving competition again this year. I joined with my sister Val this year and we won first prize!!! Yeah! We were excited to be asked to join the Ice Sculpting Society of Canada. It is pretty amazing to see what you can do with a couple of chisels! It was a perfect day to sculpt.

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Kissing by the River

We're right into the heat of editing wedding photos for our clients and we're quite happy with the results. Patty-Lou and I thought it would be fun to add some of this summer's images to our flash site www.photographybyramin.com. The image below is one of our favourites of the summer. "Kissing by the River"

Patty-Lou is teaching at the School of Art for the fall, right nowhe teaching Sundays Drawing for Beginners I from Sept 13 - Oct 25- and will be teaching Drawing for Beginner's II from Nov 1 - Dec 6.

August

August is a busy month for both of us. We have a wedding every week-end of this month! Check out our wedding website: http://www.photographybyramin.com/. Also, Patricia is teaching a pastel class at the Ottawa School of Art with a full class!!! You can check out the Instructor's Art Exhibit in the gallery of the Ottawa School of Art until the end of August.

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Ottawa Oil Painter & Ottawa Wedding Photographer

2 Busy Artists

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As far as Ottawa Wedding Photography goes, so far it's been a busy summer. Our season started with a blast of engagement shoots and an easy string of weddings to photograph. We've been having a wonderful time with our wedding couples. You can check out our blog at http://www.photographybyramin.com/ . On the painting side of things, Patty-Lou will be showing one of her works for the Summer 2009 Teachers Exhibition at the Ottawa School of Art. The exhibition opening night is Thursday July 30th at 7pm, and it should prove to be a good time. Somewhere in all of our business we managed to find a little bit of spare time to go on a four day visit to Sudbury and beautiful Kilarney.

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.Oil on canvas (72" x 22")

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The First Week of the Tulip Festival

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It was the first week-end at the Ottawa Tulip Festival, and as an official artists of the festival, I was asked to paint a few sessions throughout the week. Although it was a bit windy I managed to paint for a full session at Major Hill Park. It was quite the experience painting outdoors with plenty of visitors to chat to. I am looking forward to painting next Sunday, May 10th at Dow's Lake from 2pm - 6 pm.

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Ottawa Tulip Festival 2009

We have both submitted works to the Art Tent at the Ottawa Tulip Festival this year. I have painted in acrylics this time (they are quick drying and I had a dead-line). Also, I am one of the festival Official Artists and will be painting on both Sundays that the festival will be running. Ramin enlarged one of his favourite tulip photos taken in 2006, he's especially excited about this one because he caught the tulips around 5:30 am before the sun could dry up the morning frost. Hope to see you at the tulip festival.

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Teaching in Ottawa East

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The Ottawa School of Art has extended itself to the new Shenkmen Arts Centre in Orleans. Patty-Lou will be teaching a class in drawing portraits as well as a class in painting portraits, both classes will be ten sessions.

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OR014A Intro to Painting Portraits introductory ORLEANS

Instructor: Patricia (Patty-Lou) Laalo

Fee: $285

Monday 18 h 30 - 21 h 30

Apr 20 - Jun 29

10 sessions / 30 hours

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This class is designed for those who are already comfortable drawing portraits. We will start with the basics of oils, learning about the materials and how to mix them. You will also learn about colours, skin tone, layers, and some tricks of the trade.

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OR004A Drawing Portraits for the Beginner introductory ORLEANS

Instructor: Patricia (Patty-Lou) Laalo

Fee: $235

Wednesday, 19 h 30 – 21 h 30

Apr 22 – Jun 24

10 sessions / 20 hours

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This class teaches basic techniques for drawing portraits. We will begin the course working with pencils, develop skills with conté, and work our way up to coloured paper and pastels. It is not only the new techniques that will be learned and applied, yet how we learn how to see light and shadow that will help us draw wonderful portraits.

Patty-Lou will be teaching another course at the Ottawa School of Art.

.SC01 The Fundamentals of Drawing

Sundays, 1pm - 4pm

May 16th - June 21st

(6 sessions)

Instructor: Patricia Laalo

Fee: $150

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You have always wanted to draw, but never gained the courage to take a course…well now is your chance! This six week course is designed to teach you the very basics of drawing. We will look at line, light and shadow, shading techniques and applying learned skills to simple still-life arrangements. You will have fun and be able to show off your great new skill!

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“A good drawing starts with the fundamentals”

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

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Wishing everyone a safe and Happy Holiday.

Ottawa School of Art

Holiday Sale

We have both submitted works to the Ottawa School of Art holiday sale which opens on November 27th, 2008 in the school art gallery. Ramin submitted this wonderful image of Long Beach, B.C., titled "Pacific Lovers". Patricia has submitted a group of little works of collage. You can see their works from November 27th - December 20th, 2008.

Val & Chris

We had quite a fun portrait session with Val & Chris in the cold November weather. I was excited to still find some colour, even though all of the leaves had fallen.

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It's been a very busy season!!!

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It has been a couple of months since we've updated this blog. We've done a couple of weddings, a few engagements and busy taking photos of nature... Here are a few samples of what we've been up to. To see more wedding photos you can visit our other sight ...

CLICK HERE FOR MORE WEDDING PHOTOS

Wow!!!
Regional Contact (CTV) is doing a show about us!!!

They filmed us all day Tuesday March 18th. We started at the Arboretum with snowshoeing and by noon they came to visit our gallery and studio at home. Both Joel (the host of Regional Contact) and Randy (the cameraman) were very delightful to work with. They made the day enjoyable and we can't wait to see the show, which will air on April 5th! CLICK HERE about the show!

Patty-Lou will be teaching a course at the Ottawa School of Art, February - April

Tuesdays 5-Feb to 1-Apr
13:00 – 16:00

Learn the fundaments of drawing with a cozy cup of tea at your side. With winter approaching this class offers a warm atmosphere to learn basic techniques and perspectives of drawing. We will begin with basic shapes using pencil, working our way to drawing still-life with conte. For our final project we will create a wonderful still-life with pastels! Each week we will highlight a different tea during our break.

We saw this beautiful deer on one of our snowshoeing expeditions. He was so calm. It was nice to be able to get as close as we did to him. It was so lucky that Ramin had a 70-200 2.8 L IS canon lens with him. I think I might even do a big oil painting of this beauty (if Ramin doesn't mind me using this great image).

We've been keeping pretty busy with our new website. With winter here we both can take a breath and prepare for another busy wedding season! It's looking good this year with plenty of couples ready to tie the knot and we're pretty excited to be part of it all! Check out our wedding photography website! www.photographybyramin.com

Parisa & Ramtin

It was an exciting engagement party, and unexpectedly a lot of
guests! It felt exactly like a wedding shoot (minus the wedding
gown). All the best to Parisa & Ramtin on their
Engagemnt.

Photography by Ramin

Congratulations Lisa & Richard!

It was a wonderful wedding for a perfect couple. Although it was a very hot day, they managed to handle the photo session very well. I am thrilled with the results and happy to tease the newlyweds with these three photos. I can't wait to give them the whole package.... soon.