Sometimes I feel like I just need a personal organizer or assistant. How do I have so much to do and yet I feel like I’m getting nothing done. I have the biggest mess in my studio right now that has expanded outward to the entire top floor. My office, my sewing room, the bathroom… […]
So much time, so little to do…. strike that reverse it. Read More »
So the past few days I have been avoiding cleaning my studio by drawing in Photoshop and Painter. I’ve done a couple of paintings that I like. I started the sketches in Painter, but most of the painting was done in Photoshop.Any thoughts, constructive criticism, welcome. What do you think?
copper wire hexagon Been working on the painting for the upcoming epigenetics conference in London. My thoughts so far have been to work with the idea of discovery. What I’d like to end up with is a piece where parts of the painting move but always hide or obscure some part of the work at
Well it’s finally there! What an ordeal getting the work to BC. It left Ontario on the 30th of March and landed in Victoria by the 6th of April. One would think whoo hoo… we’re on track, it just has to go north to the gallery. But oh no……………. there it stayed according to the
Campbell River Gallery – exibition up Read More »
Been trying to build crates and/or decide if that is even the way to go to get my work out west for this coming April. I need to get the most cost effective, yet “safe” way to get my work out there. I spoke with Jennie at Gibson’s Gallery; she was extremely helpful. She gave
Getting ready for Campbell River Read More »
I just bought some pan pastels to try. I’ve been working on a painting in which I’ve been mixing painting, and coloured pencil. I’ve also been experimenting with painting some hard edges, which is rather off the beaten track for me. While working, I began to gravitate toward my pastels and started playing. Then the
We spent Thanksgiving in Niagara Falls this past weekend. Just John and I. It was really a nice getaway.What really struck me on the drive home though was the difference in the colours in just a couple of days. It was like the trees had transformed in just two days. I don’t remember the colours
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Just experimented with styrofoam and acetone. Just a teeny tiny bit of acetone in the bottom of a glass jar, and some old styrofoam packaging. I ended up using about a 12 inch long piece about 2 inches thick. First of all it’s just cool to see the acetone eat up the styrofoam. It’s crazy.
Thanks to the big rain the other day, I have been spending my time cleaning out and sorting old drawings. Rain flooded in the room, made an awful mess! Boxed up drawings from long ago, soaked. So now I’ve been drying out what I can, and throwing out what can’t be saved. I spent yesterday
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This is totally off-topic, but I just can’t help myself, it tickled my funnybone so much. Today’s Free Press, had an absolutely fabulous front page for the Today section. An entire front spread dedicated to enlightening women about the fashions this fall that you simply cannot be without. Every self-respecting woman will be wearing boots
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