Also, my elder daughter sat for a portrait painting demo that Karen Bailey was doing for the Blink Gallery a couple summers ago (that was so fascinating to watch!) and one of the things that Karen said was that she would always put down a layer of colour on her canvases so that she wasn’t starting with a ‘blank’ canvas…a virgin-white canvas can be a bit intimidating…so she did this to take that ‘blank canvas’ scare away…Karen also did a portrait of my elder daughter when she was doing a series up at Elmwood School…I love it…my daughter is the funkiest of all the people there!
I love the sound that my big paintbrush makes on a stretched canvas…it is like a drum…and I am finding that the bigger the canvas…the better the drum sound! I usually only hear this as I am slapping on the base coats...another reason to keep doing that!
Basecoat is on...
As well as playing the canvas drum, I have been working on my postcard and trading card projects…I had to take a break from them to get ready for the show…but I want to finish them up! Here are two that I just finished…
On Valentines Day, Cariño and I took the dogs for a walk around Dow’s Lake…hoping to see some snow sculptures…but the rain and mild temperatures in the week before had reduced them to little snow mounds…we did find these snowshoe tracks though…they are so beautiful…I find snowshoe tracks in the fresh snow pretty...these were interesting in a different, but equally beautiful way because of the effect of the melt and rain, which had left them looking like raised snow sculptures…
Here is Cariño with the two ‘puppies’…they had a lot of fun with all the new smells but they didn't understand out fascination with the snowshoe tracks!
6 comments:
The two postcard and trading card projects you did are beautiful.
Thank you!
I have a lot of fun doing them...and it makes me learn things!
That second one is new ... I like it ... and all the happy trees ... maybe it isn't just Mandara who has a wonder tree ... maybe we can all go out to the woods and discover our own.
I am sure we will see the snowshoe tracks transformed one of these days into a colourful version of themselves.
You are tempting me away from wool with your talk of drumming on canvas.
The postcard art and ATCs are just beautiful. I love the bursting color and unique artistic expression. And, the photos of the snowshoes are very interesting!
I like the trading cards - especially the second one. Interesting sun-like image.
beautiful color in your paintings!
and i agree, the shapes that your showshoes made are too cool. :-)
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