For the most part I still use
http://michaelorwick.blogspot.com/
for my blogging. I have found it easier to use and I can put more images and links into it.
Please pop over there sign up and it should be a better more convient way to stay informed.
I will continue to update this blog from time to time.

Thank you,
and all the best.

Michael Orwick
www.michaelorwick.com
http://michaelorwick.blogspot.com/

Thank you so much for the wonderful support I have gotten from everyone all year long. I look forward to continuing to share my artistic endeavors, continued education and painter’s journey with you. Michael Orwick www.MichaelOrwick.­com http://­michaelorwick.­blogspot.com/

An exquisite presentation

of

delightfully collectible works!

November 15, 2008 – December 12, 2008

www.ColeGallery.net

107 5TH AVE SOUTH • EDMONDS, WASHINGTON 98020 •

425.697.2787 Open Tues ~ Sunday


“A Gift of Art” with a drawing for an original painting as well as two $200 gift certificates! You must be present to win at 7:20pm on Thursday, November 20th.


Over 16 outstanding painters bring their favorite offerings featuring exquisite works at very affordable prices. A variety of subjects, styles and mediums will be represented by top Impressionists and Realists in Cole Gallery's annual show. Perfectly priced for gifts or to add to your own collection, enjoy this show on-line or make a visit to the beautiful waterfront ferry town of Edmonds.


Some of Michael Orwick's paintings that well be available.
http://www.colegallery.net/searchresults.php?exhibitionId=49&start=


Painting and Gift Certificate Give Away!


Once again, CIM Financial Group will be sponsoring“A Gift of Art” with a drawing for an original paintingas well as two $200 gift certificates!You must be present to win at7:20pm on Thursday, November 20th!

Click here to see our complete schedule of upcomingexhibitions, as well as art classes.
Click here to view the Small Works Show

All the Best,


Michael Orwick


http://www.michaelorwick.com/

http://www.coastweekend.com/main.asp?

Painter Michael Orwick and his daughter, Elena Grace, enjoy a stormy moment at Haystack Rock. Orwick is the featured artist at DragonFire Studio & Gallery during Cannon Beach's Stormy Weather Arts Festival this weekend. Photo by Gabriela Orwick.


Stormy Weather shines again

The annual festival of the arts makes Cannon Beach the bright spot on the Oregon Coast Nov. 7-9.
BY KERRI BUCKLEY

To see the full article please click

http://www.coastweekend.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&ArticleID=41761&TM=46697.88
The 21st annual Stormy Weather Arts Festival coaxes artists, families and art lovers to Cannon Beach to discuss art and to delight the senses during the weekend of Nov. 7 through 9. Calendars and businesses are brimming with exhibits, lectures, readings, food and music at area shops, restaurants and galleries.Weekend festivities kick off Friday with the annual Quick Draw event. Artists use raw materials, creating masterpieces in one hour starting at 7 p.m. at the Tolovana Inn, 3400 S. Hemlock St. After works are completed, they'll be auctioned. Tickets to this event are limited; food will be available.
One artist profiled in the Quick Draw is Michael Orwick. His impressionistic paintings are both shocking and thrilling through his use of light, color and movement. His works are exhibited at DragonFire Studio & Gallery; his love of the Oregon Coast is evident. In an interview, he said he "hoped to portray the fog and haze with the light and beauty that contrasts those elements on the coast of Oregon." Read his blog about light, sound and color at michaelorwick.blogspot.com/2008/09/oregon-coast-gallery-gets-stormy-in.html.

'New Splendour,' oil painting by Michael Orwick. Orwick will be taking part in the Quick Draw event, which he calls 'one of my most favorite art events of the year.'














'Cannon Beach Oregon,' oil painting by Michael Orwick.





'Part of the Mighty,' oil painting by Michael Orwick, featured artist at DragonFire Studio & Gallery.





All the best,

Michael Orwick
Orwick Arts

http://michaelorwick.blogspot.com/

http://www.MichaelOrwick.

Eyes over the border


November 7, 2008



Now that it's finally over we can talk about it. Believe me, Canadians were paying attention, and now that it's a done deal there's a bit of street dancing up here. But, goodness knows, Barack Obama's got a lot on his plate.

Of interest is Obama's cultural program. He's apparently been working on it for a couple of years, since long before his nomination. For a guy who writes poetry and consults with Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z, it probably came naturally to form that panel of active professional artists to advise him.

Obama wants to increase funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and change the Federal Tax Code for artists. He has ideas like sending out "Artists Corps" to underprivileged schools and communities, expansion of public-private partnerships to increase cultural education programs, cultural diplomacy and the inclusion of foreign talent, less inward-looking xenophobia all 'round, as well as health care for artists.

Obama also backs Senator Patrick Leahy's "Artist-Museum Partnership Act," allowing artists to deduct the fair market value of work given to charitable institutions. We might hope that this enlightenment may shine on fundraisers too.

Here in Canada, if you want to donate your painting to raise cash for a favorite charity, you can get a "tax receipt" all right, but the government wants you to pretend you sold the work, take the amount into income, and then deduct it. The result is a wash--extra paper-shuffling for accountants, misery and dismay for both artists and charities. We don't get no respect, eh?

Positive change in this last area would do wonders for charities. Fundraisers would attract better and more valuable art, raise standards, and would give relief to perpetually beleaguered artists. Think of the value to educational institutions alone.

Canada--that great nation somewhere north of Detroit known for its regular, south-sweeping cold fronts, is watching carefully. So are our American cousins. "It is unprecedented," says Robert L. Lynch, CEO of "Americans for the Arts," a Washington-based arts advocacy group. "No presidential candidate in recent times has addressed cultural issues in such detail."

Best regards,

Robert

PS: "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." (Barack Obama)

Esoterica: Government involvement in the arts is like the porridge in the Goldilocks-Three Bears story. It has to be "just right." Obama is brainy enough to get the support going toward education so that young people begin to know and appreciate the arts once more. Then, perhaps sometime later, free enterprise can truly kick in--yep, it works in the arts too. Lest we forget. Oh, and by the way--Congratulations, Barack Obama.



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