what’s the matter I 5.12.16
what’s the matter II 5.12.16
Making full use of the 11″ x 15″ cut out centres of my 20″ x 24″ mats,
with the snow silently falling outside the studio.
when it’s snowing outside
pen and ink drawing
from ink to colour
28.11.16
From Yardwork to Artwork: The Hydrangea Story Part Two
The evolution of today’s image in Part Two of The Hydrangea Story began with the rescue of the remaining hydrangea flowerhead seen in Friday’s yard work gallery featured in Part One.
Happy Birthday to Joni Mitchell
From Yardwork to Artwork: The Hydrangea Story Part One
Friday’s yardwork, which I hinted at in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Chaos, resulted in another artwork afternoon in the studio this weekend. Last May I was trimming a rather unruly photinia which featured in the post From Yardwork to Artwork: The Photinia Story. This time clearing our patio garden involved cutting back a hydrangea that was beginning to take over rather like The Day of Triffids, as described in the 1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham, a story that may be familiar to some of you.
As you can see Sunday joined me and enjoyed the catnip
The trimmed stalk made for a useful drawing tool.
Part Two to follow…
desktop bouquet
3.11.2016 watercolour, pen and ink 11′ x 15″
when it’s raining outside
bouquet of the imagination 27.10.16
the secret path
Today’s painting was inspired by last night’s broadcast on CBC television of Gord Downie’s film, The Secret Path. The film acknowledges a dark part of Canada’s history – the long-suppressed mistreatment of indigenous children and families by the residential school system and tells the story of twelve year old Chanie Wenjack who died alone beside the train tracks fifty years ago on October 22, 1966 whilst trying to walk home to his family from whom he was taken over 400 miles away
If you can find an hour take the time and see the film, and be as moved as I was. Learn Chanie Wenjack’s heartbreaking story, listen to Gord Downie’s unforgettable songs and music and be inspired by award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire’s illustrations. You can find the film here on the CBC website: The Secret Path.
Dedicated to the memory of Chanie Wenjack
a monochrome monday
bouquet of the imagination 17.10.16
yellow in between
3.10.16
Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgia
You may remember my painting Dad’s Tools for Day 330 of my Studio 365 last November. I thought for this week’s Photo Challenge: Nostalgia, in which Jeff Golinski asks, “What kinds of experiences stir emotions for the past within you?” this photograph of the tools, some of which are over seventy years old and which I still use lovingly today, would be the perfect answer to his question.
Dad’s Tools I 26.11.15
Dad’s Tools II 27.11.15
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