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moodyman, 9.25x12", watercolours on arches paper

wet on wet, combat painting...you never know how it'll turn out, using this technique

"These shoes were made for..." watercolours on fabriano paper, 10.5x13.5

oh yes. Ripped from today's New York Times...

Long + thin, Mount Royal Forest, watercolours on St. Ambroise paper, 2007

hopefully the last snow painting I will have done until next, oh, say, December?

Confirmation Study, 10.5x13, watercolour on Arches paper, 2007

A study for a larger work...wimped out a bit on the blue.  Might add some more in the morn.

Stowe Late Aft, oil on wood

not a great photo, alas.  My trusty Canon died recently + now I'm using a really old one.  Again, no dimensions, alas another carless day, wherein Angus + I were housebound.

Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry? watercolour on Arches paper

Oh, the fun continues.  As on an after dinner dusk walk, slip in alley, walking too fast (brisk, brisk, it's not exercise unless you're brisk, brisk) slipping on a piece of unseen with my new "progressive" glasses, random garbage piece of plastic, flailing, falling, ripping jeans, bloody knees + bruised wrist, fingers...Angy confused.  Unusual position + moaning, cursing, what gives?  Ugh + carless as car still at garage getting fixed.  So at home doing watercolours.  Not this particular one, but others for new upcoming show at Pat Pink's, due soon.  Size of  "Here's your Hat", not sure.  Half of a full arches sheet, I think...

NY, oil on wood, carved, 16x16", 2007

some days are just too crappy

Car accidents, friends with major operations, sweet pets not feeling well, other friends stabbing in back,  kids+ parks violence, eye problems + oh yes, today did suck, big time.  Big time. (+ apologies to all black cats)

Canal Reflections, 16x16x1.5, oil on wood, carved

Mount Royal Forests, watercolour on fabriano paper, 10.5x13.5"

amazingly warm day today,  people in shorts, tees, but nothing green, no leaves, city very barren looking.

Mount Royal Park, oil on fabriano paper,10.5x13.5 "

no grass yet, just brown muck but that should change in next few days, as spring has sprung, finally in Montreal.

BB+ the Lamp, 8x10, oil on canvas

I painted 3 variations of these, Bad Betty smarming around the lamp in our bedroom.

Ollie, 16x16, oil on canvas...

The extraordinary Ollie who marches around the house like one tough dame.  I think she'd be great on a package of something.  Probably smokes from the 50's.  Or a can of tobacco.

I asked for it...

an online critique at one of my fave internet art sites, under the auspices of the painter Marion Boddy-Evans...

"From the Painting Guide: Texture is hard to photograph, so I can't comment on that, but in terms of abstracted trees...." to read more go to...the "About" Painting Guide site.   

hyacinth, watercolour on fabriano paper, 8x8'

a lovely present given to me at Easter. Now the hyacinth has faded.  Something about life is short + art is long? 

Mount Royal Forest III, oil on fabriano paper, 8x8"?, 2007

Think those are the right dimensions.

art work by Eliot Dittmer 11 years old

dogs protest puppy mills

the end of the anti-puppy mills demonstration that took place yesterday, from parc lafontaine to jeanne-mance parc -- surprisingly well attended, Angy's first.

Redpath, by the Canal, oil on wood, 12x12", 2007

the greens are wishful thinking.  After so many months of white, we, (Montrealers) crave green. 

promising arts + crafts

Got an e-mail today, all the way from China. handmade oil paintings + frames "send me your photo, we deliver you dream!" check it out, the future is here

Lower Lachine Canal, 10.5x13.5, oil on fabriano paper

another oil on paper, but this one of the canal...quite west.  Great dog walking territory in the frigid winter.  Not so good when it warms up.  Joggers +people on bikes -- johnny come latelys -- suddenly act all territorial + huffy when they see a leashless  happy dog. 

e, oil on canvas, 24x24"

I am still infatuated with these two colours, yellow ochre + light red.  They're so south of france in this endless winter.

little nude, too 10.5x13.5, watercolour on fabriano paper, 2007

a companion for yesterday's little nude.

a little nude,10.5x13.5, watercolour on fabriano paper

recently painted at the artist's co'op.  Will be doing more as the weather improves.  It's hard tromping out at night in 50 million below.  Not easy, either, doing watercolours with some of the faster poses.  Spilling water, drips, etc. but challenging. And that's not a black border, that's just my dining room table.

blue bird of happiness, acrylic , encaustic on arches paper

and to initiate my renewed vegetarianism....

tonight, belatedly, I made Easter dinner for many people. Turkey.  It was really, really good.  Crisp on the outside, moist in the inside.  I stuffed it with chestnuts.  Dates.  It was so delicious everyone at the table said.  But I think I'm going to follow fellow Canuck Pamela here and never eat meat or fish again. Even salami.  Will this affect my art?  Will I start dressing like Pamela?

Mount Royal april .09, 10.5.13.6", oil on arches paper

Another oil on paper.  Not sure how it's going to dry.  Will it bleach out...?

Mount Royal, Ap 8/07, oil on paper,10.5x13.5

a very cool experiment -- for me --.  I was experimenting with different surfaces.  Wood, raw. Wood, primed with acrylic.  Watercolours + oil on paper.  Have only tried oil on paper once or twice before years ago, + boy is it great.  Very fluid, loose.  The oil soaks into the paper immediately.  Quite liked the results, as I painted all day Easter Sunday, quite the perfect Quebec day for a lapsed Catholic. Speaking, of.  Gee, Quebec made the Sopranos, with lapsed prescriptions. How apt.  Still meditating on Tony's sister's country place.  Sure looked liked Lake Memphremagog, from the US side...Newport.  Altho, I suppose it could be Lake Champlain.

 

Hare#5, 7.5x7.5", watercolour on Arches paper, 2007

positively the last one. Happy Easter y'all.

Hare #4, (arctic), watercolour on St. Ambroise paper, 2007

Enough with the European hares, this one's an arctic hare.  It's not a "good" watercolour, in the trad sense.  I've used Chinese white instead of leaving the paper bare where I want white.  This is because I painted on a sheet I had previously painted a ground on.  In any case, it may not be a great example of watercolouring, but I think it's a sweet little painting. Something poignant about it.  Not sure about the dimensions. Left it at the studio, but think it's probably 7x10?

Hare #3, 7.45x7.45", watercolour on Arches paper, 2007

the b.g. is actually pink...

Hare#2, 8x8", watercolour on Arches paper, 2007

oh joy, it's snowing. But who cares, saw a Marlene Dumas at the coolest marvelous Projex-Mtl gallery , a rare treat in Montreal.

Hare #1, watercolour+ink on Arches paper, 8"x8", 2007

"Tis the season. (the bg isn't pink, it's just normal watercolour creme, took pic at night instead of natural light.)

speaking of hares...

bunnies + all that Easter stuff, etc. I've forgotten about Joseph Beuys + his attitude towards hares, vs humans + his art + art + revolution in general. Re: the transformative nature of art " At the Galerie Schmela in Dusseldort, on 26 November 1965, Beuys, his head covered in honey and gold leaf, took a dead hare in his arms and quietly carried it round the exhibition of his drawings and paintings, 'letting it touch the pictures with its paws'. Then he sat on a stool in a dimly lit corner and proceeded to explain the meaning of the works to the dead animal, 'because I do not really like explaining them to people', and since 'even in death a hare has more sensitivity and instinctive understanding than some men with their stubborn rationality'. I didn't get Joseph Beuys when I was a callow young art student. I thought he was uber cool but I didn't get him.

Love #2, watercolour on Fabriano paper, 7x5", 2007

Okay, here's another Love + Marriage watercolour. Kind of dorky looking, but hey, no drawing involved, straight to watercolour. Might be a mistake. And apropos of nothing. Well, not quite. It was suggested to me that artists should keep up a professional front + not whine or bitch or question, etc. publicly, but let the art speak for itself, Okay-dokay. So I'm building a website just of art work...it's now at...this placeMeanwhile, today, had an extremely productive day, for once, listening 100% to my muse. Examples may follow if the batteries in my camera allow it...

Love+Marriage #1, watercolour Fabriano paper 7x5", 2007

From the New York Times...going back to a series I began last year, couples from the Wedding Announcement section. See where these go. This size might be too small + writing with a brush of squirrel hairs is too difficult. Might try a quill. I like the idea of keeping the faces kinda generic (so I don't get sued) but keeping the professions. It's so interesting...well to me anyways...who marries whom. Don't see too many waitresses marrying investment bankers, etc.

"Family Foto Show"

at Pat Pink's has been extended until April 8, due to resounding popular clamour. My posted image today, a painting from a family foto, is of me when I was chubby little girl, not having left Switzerland, which I painted especially for this show along with 3 others. Pat Pink's gallery is on 1399 St. Jacques, Montreal, not far from Guy St.