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Lickety Clean Jointe

Post Bethune shoot. Have a divider, which the art dept. installed. So there's 2 rooms, ostensibly a drawing room/office and the painting studio. Bought a spiffy new easle at the Art Co-op yesterday, and primed about 6 larger panels so everything's spiffy and organized and ready to go. Think I'll embark on the "cottage envy" series. A series of landscapes, portraits, cottage images from the present -- gull lake, canning lake, etc. and the past, from D's Pasley Island cottage in the West Coast, and the Cedarville, Township cottages. The timelessness of fishing, canoing, dogs jumping off wharfs, sunbathing, G+T's. The status + snobbery of the perfect cottage vs the hoi poloi's campsites/trailerparks. Summer bling fling.

on the road again

to Gull lake, Ontario, may the muse be with me.

LoftSale

645 Wellington Studio 290 Saturday July 16 10-4, a good friend, painter, leaving/selling all sorts of cool things. stainless steel restaurant counts, futon, track lights, painting stretchers, tv, dvd, tables, desks, lamps, antique barber's chair, Ikea galore dishes, etc. Loft 2 short blocks west of McGill in Old Montreal/techno park on Wellington.

thank you the C sisters for a lovely few days of r+r+painting on the beach

plein air and plenty of it

hurrah, hurrah, tomorrow and for a few days, finally, painting, swimming + chilling at J's cottage in Ontario. Bringing tons of small group of 7 type masonites and paint. Meanwhile the Bethune shoot started today at Jointe, have pix, too fatiqued to post. this little painting from last year at Gull Lake at L + N's. Bought a few new colours, Cobalt true blue, Cerulean true blue + Jenkin's green, supposedly good outdoor colours, anxious to try out.

and yes, life sucks without a dog

they are the ciphers, the barometers, the sponges of pure love. no matter how much shit life throws at you, the shield of a dog's love will protect you and without that...oh my.

testing testing

our reaction. E sticks out her tongue continuously calculating our response re: tongue piercing

Dr. Bethune's Jointe

progresses rapidly ext + int, soon fake wood trim, inside a wall with frosted windows.

so it's a yes

no sooner did I sign on the dotted line...trucks, burly men in pony tails, art directors, paint samples and lots and lots of bubble wrap. 3-4 hours later, a beautiful empty place full of potential beautiful paintings. So it'll be about a week. They'll paint the exterior a Detroit 1915 grey. The inside, two toned institutional greeny whites, but we've agreed if it's too creepy to paint in, they'll paint it back to stark white. Can't wait to meet the director.

Dr. Bethune's Jointe?

Waiting to find out if the Jointe will be used as Bethune's first medical clinic in a made-for-China mini-series. If so, it is to be painted grey, as ext and int will be used.