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From Verdun #3, 7x10, watercolour, toscana paper

okay, one more after this. Making a concerted effort to be more "focused" + doing a (small) batch rather than flitting from one one off to another.

From Verdun #2, 7x10, watercolour, toscana paper

alas, stupidly took pic at night again. These "From Verduns" are very delicate, very slight variations of Paynes Grey + Aliz. Crimson to convey the veil of a snowstorm....

Burning books is serious business

"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." (German: "Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.")—Heinrich Heine, from his play Almansor (1821) see for yourself. Except here in Quebec, where disgruntled writers, okay, one more than disgruntled separatist writer, a bit of a drama queen, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, who happens to have a new book out, publicity stunt, what? decides to burn his own book -- one now, the many others later, maybe, because well, the leader of the opposition, Pauline Marois suggested that it wouldn't be the worst thing for Quebecers to be bilingual. Sheesh. see for yourself

From Verdun, 7x10, watercolour, toscana paper

Vernissage #3,7x10, watercolour on toscana acquerello, 2008

this is not Angus

I'm too nervous to tie him up on the street (having had a dog stolen years ago), but I think it's a sweet, poignant picture.

Vernissage #2,7x10, watercolour on toscana acquerello, 2008

okay, this one is a little more on track.

snow, snow everywhere

+ more on the way.

no movie for middle aged women

won as best movie of the year yesterday. Boy, can I call it. Pretty depressing that a hugely depressing, distressing movie like that could + did win best movie. Perhaps it's indicative of the depressive fallout of the Bush years.

Vernissage #1,7x10, watercolour on toscana acquerello, 2008

doin' it well, #2

L'eau Show at Pat Pink's extended until March 2

Canadian art royalty....

betty goodwin caught the last day of the show at Rene Blouin's Gallery yesterday. Some kind of rare treat to be in a room full of art so cohesive, strong, confident. Ms Goodwin lives within a stones throw (if I had a big slingshot + no buildings in the way) of me, but alas, I lack the courage to bang, or rather, knock politely on her door.

Heartland, cbc, Sunday night at 7, last new episode this season

2 black dogs#3, 7x10, watercolour, toscana paper, 2008

framing watercolours

I'm always pleasantly surprised when I see my stuff framed. Voila, suddenly it looks like art with a capital A.

3 black dogs, 7x10, watercolour on toscana paper, 2008

Reconstitutions Renactments

went to a chi-chi opening last night in Old Montreal at DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art Show -- mostly videos -- includes Nancy Davenport, Harun Farocki, Paul Pfeiffer, Stan Douglas, Ann Lislegaard + Kerry Tribe.

2 black dogs #2, 7x10, watercolour on toscana paper, 2008

2 black dogs, 7x10, watercolour on toscana paper, 2008

bad photograph, alas. Must get organized enuf to finish work in day as night photography of art work really tends to suck.

4 amazing things about this picture

1) Angy's ears are upright. 2) this spot is minutes from downtown Montreal (by car.) 3) People actually go to school to learn how to build these incredibly ugly buildings. 4) No one seems to care that ugly buildings like these spring up like mushrooms + we have to look at them. Don't mean this as a personal attack on anyone who lives in these buildings (on Nun's Island), I'm sure the view is lovely it's just that a beautiful historical city like Montreal oughta have some ministry of aesthetics to disallow structures like these.

One Little Tulip,7x10, watercolour, 2008

Desperately Seeking Carding, 7x10, watercolour, 2008

black angus

anyone who can still eat beef after seeing the bit at the slaughter house on the news tonight either has no heart or brain, in my humble opinion.

ollie, watercolour 7x10, toscana acquerlllo paper, 2008

two super buds, if you asked me

driving yesterday along Lakeview drive, a super beautiful voyage to anyone who ever comes to Montreal from the airport, don't take the highway, take the lake view drive, it's a bit longer, but so amazing.

It's about the wind, 24 x24 x1.5, oil on wood, carved, 2007

One of two, but worthy, one day of an extensive series. Personally, I think these wind powered babies are beautiful.

the Dude at the Ranch, 32x24x1.5", acrylic on wood, 2008

whoa, finally, a new non wintertree or watercolour painting, a big "serious" painting, following others in the "good times" series (Golliwog Girl, Das Boat is Full, Candy Mountain etc.) .

front + back of a flower store today

homemade love by ejrp

Strictly Accoustic...Valentine's Day version

tonight at O Patro Vys 356 Mont-Royal Est (near St-Denis) 8pm (doors)$7 THE DARLING DEMAES, LITTLE BIRDIE, MATTHEW TOMLINSO + J-F MORIN. Strictly Acoustic is a new and exciting monthly acoustic night featuring music of all genres from both established and emerging artists. Held on every second Thursday at O Patro Vys, one of Montreal's best live venues....organized by another ever so talented friend, Tess.

Family Motel, a film by Helene Klodawsky

a friend, + talented, innovative Montreal filmmaker Saturday, Feb 16, 3pm at Cinema du Parc, 3575 Park + Prince Authur...an "alternative drama"..."Family Motel is part of a worldwide revival of alternative drama. From Belgium to Iran, directors are looking to a genre pioneered twenty years ago at the National Film Board of Canada with a view to adapting it to current realities.

valentine, 8x8, watercolour, toscana acquerello paper, 2008

summer days, 12x14, pastel + watercolour, 1988

a sunny walk down memory lane + respite from this endless cold + white + root canal...

the fun continues

great minds at work

I refuse to get riled up about this act of small mindedness suffice to say the call of the west grows stronger

water study, 8x8, acrylic on board, 2008

lousy photograph, alas. Taking pics at night just doesn't cut it.

O Canada O Angus, a Montreal morning

the quintessential Canadian image...(actually it's kind of hard to see but behind Angus le dog, are hockey players, in the middle of the city, quite early in the morning on a very, very cold day.)

happy year of the rat,too 8x8, watercolour, toscana aquerello, 2008

new episode of Heartland, CBC at 7

pink carnations, 7x10, watercolour on toscana acquerello, 2008

snow snow snow everywhere + next door my friend had some lovely pink carnations I borrowed just to paint, reminding me, one day the flowers will return.

Jawlensky, 7x10, black oil pastel + watercolour, toscana acquerello, 2008

This is relatively new + strange for me, copying someone else's work..but def a really good way to get "into" a painting.

18.6 million....

... for Jawlensky’s “Schokko With Wide-Brimmed Hat,” a colorful 1910 portrait of a young German village girl. The price was more than double the previous auction record for the artist, set at Sotheby’s in New York in 2003.

barbie, 8x8, watercolour, toscana acquerello, 2008

circa 1963, before she went "nice".

happy year of the rat, 8x8, watercolour, toscana aquerello, 2008

verdun winter trees, 12x12x1.5, oil on wood, carved, 2008

Spiral Jetty in danger

The Spiral Jetty, considered to be the central work of American sculptor Robert Smithson, is an earthwork sculpture constructed in 1970.
Built of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, earth, and water on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah, it forms a 1500-foot long and 15-foot wide counterclockwise coil jutting from the shore of the lake.
At the time of its construction, the water level of the lake was unusually low because of a drought. Within a few years, the water level returned to normal and submerged the jetty for the next three decades. Due to a recent drought, the jetty re-emerged in 1999 and is now completely exposed. The lake level rose again during the spring of 2005 due to a near record-setting snowpack in the mountains and partially submerged the Jetty again.
Originally black rock against ruddy water, it is now largely white against pink due to salt encrustation and lower water levels.from Wikipedia Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson's widow, recently sent an email out detailing specific threats to Smithson's masterpiece, Spiral Jetty. If you want to send a letter of protest to save the beautiful, natural Utah environment around the Spiral Jetty from oil drilling, the emails or calls of protest go to Jonathan Jemming 801-537-9023 [email protected] Please refer to Application # 8853. Every letter makes a big difference, they do take a lot of notice and know that publicity may follow. Since the Spiral Jetty has global significance, emails from foreign countries would be of special value.

E dreaming about her first beer, 7x10, watercolour toscana acquerello

xxxooo

Kiera's Green Dress, 7x10", watercolour on Toscana acquerello, 2008

so naturally I had to paint it.

if you want Kiera's green dress....

bid here, it's for a good cause. Found out about this over at clever United Theory of Nothing Much blog.