thoughts on the 4th of July

July 4, 2018Art, Uncategorized4th of July, Arizona, Art, Glen Canyon, humanity, watercolor, zero toleranceAndrew Seal View all 3 comments

With the red, white and blue in my painting of Glen Canyon, Arizona, I send best wishes for a Happy 4th of July to my family, friends and followers in the States, although I feel sure like me your thoughts today as you celebrate are for those over two thousand babies and children separated from their mothers and fathers and for whom there is little to celebrate.

Oh Canada

July 1, 2018photography, UncategorizedCanada Day, iphoneography, Olympic Cauldron, photography, Vancouver, Victoria BCAndrew Seal View all 7 comments

I hope your Canada Day was as special as ours.

How lucky we are to be living in the greatest country on earth.

Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦

heron today, maybe loon tomorrow

June 24, 2018photography, UncategorizedexploreBC, herons, iphoneography, photography, Stanley Park, VancouverAndrew Seal View all 8 comments

Oh, the joy of a Sunday afternoon walk in glorious Stanley Park, Vancouver.

plus ça change…

June 21, 2018Art, Uncategorizedfreso, giotto, humanity, Scrovegni Chapel, zero toleranceAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

The unbearable agony of a mother about to have her baby torn from her arms in this detail from the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. The image has haunted me ever since I saw it on our visit to the chapel nearly twenty years ago. It was painted by Giotto di Bondone and is as relevant today as when he painted it over seven hundred years ago.

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” -Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1849

mountain magic

June 11, 2018photographyBeautiful British Columbia, exploreBC, iphoneography, photography, Whistler MountainAndrew Seal View all 10 comments

Whistler weekend.

hsch

June 7, 2018Art, Painting, Uncategorizedabstraction, acrylic painting, Art, hospital art, logo, Vancouver Coastal HealthAndrew Seal View all 11 comments

Visited an old painting of mine today, my interpretation of the original logo of the UBC Health Sciences Centre Hospital in Vancouver and painted in my basement in 1987. The Hospital is now part of Vancouver Coastal Health but happy to see the painting looks as fresh today as the day it was finished.

all time favorites

June 5, 2018photography, Uncategorized, Weekly Photo ChallengeArt studio, children's painting, family, love, photography, The Daily Post, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 11 comments

This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is sadly the last from The Daily Post and we have been asked to choose our all time favourites, an almost impossible task after five years of posting regularly to the challenges each week.

Those of you who follow thechangingpalette however shouldn’t be surprised that I would choose these photos from last August’s Photo Challenge: Corner of my beautiful granddaughter painting with me in my studio, on that day perhaps the happiest corner in all the world.