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“Le Bassin aux Nymphéas” big monet, 80.4 million

Happy St. Jean Baptiste y'all, even Montreal

looks like art: Whitebags, Montreal, May 2008

excuse me while I kiss the sky: # 7. Beauty

if it's Sunday, it must be Heartland, CBC, 7

begonia, 8x8, watercolour on toscana paper, 2008

looks like art: Redarrow, Ottawa, May 2008

excuse me while I kiss the sky: # 6. Beauty

hotel de ville chair, montreal, june 18, 2008

stop work feed us, now

safety dance #6, 7x10, watercolour, toscana paper, 2008

safety dance #5, 7x10, watercolour, toscana paper, 2008

J's peonies, 12x18", watercolour toscana paper, 2008

excuse me while I kiss the sky: # 5. Beauty

happy birthday to art+art+life+more art, 3 years old today, June 16 2008

Heartland back as y'all know

as the CBC has been so promoting it.  Episode 2 of last year's season, tomorrow at 7 CBC.

safety dance #4, 7x10, watercolour, toscana paper, 2008

excuse me while I kiss the sky: # 3. Opposite of Beauty

excuse me while I kiss the sky: # 4. Beauty

looks like art: Stairway to Heaven, Montreal, June 2008

public art: White Lady, Montreal, June 2008

safety dance #3, 7x10, watercolour, toscana paper, 2008

excuse me while I kiss the sky: #2. Opposite of Beauty

public art: Lions, Montreal, June 2008

I spy...Portugal

safety dance #2, 7x10, watercolour, toscana paper, 2008

buses in montreal

today, being a green citizen decided to take the BUS downtown.  Not to mention the now huge parking fees to dissuade people like myself.    There is a metro but I am not a mole, so decided to bus it.  Now, it's only 20 minutes or so on foot but my feet were already tired.  I did an hour + a half walk this morning with Handsome + time is money etc, so public transport so encouraged by all seemed the way to go. HA. Not.  Must have spent 1/2  hr on St. Denis waiting for the fabled bus.  Once I got on it, oh my, what an East Berlin special.  What a hunk of caa-caa.  Ugly, uncomfortable, holding so few people...   Transferred, at the new Library, which, for some reason has construction issues.   Waited, waited, waited, waited.  Looked at some schedule posted on a pole, totally confusing , so took moleroute.  Surfaced.  The whole thing took at least an hour, compared to by car, oh...say 5 minutes? Meanwhile, city officials, not content to screw up buses, metros, now moving on to TRAMS.  Could they not make one thing work in this city?  In any case, not having a love on with Montreal these days....if it's not the weather it's the politics.  The never ending separatist crap really gets to me sometimes.   The west beckons....

excuse me while I kiss the sky: #3. Beauty

looks like art: Feathertrunk, April, Montreal 2008

excuse me while I kiss the sky: #1. Opposite of Beauty, #2 Beauty

safety dance #1, 7x10, watercolour, toscana paper

Say we can dance, we can dance
Everything's out of control
We can dance, we can dance
They're doing it from pole to pole
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody taken the chance

The safety dance
The safety dance
The safety dance (Men Without Hats, 1982)

Looks like art: Pink Gate, Ottawa, May 2008

Nikon D60, 18-200mm, 10x12, watercolour, Toscana paper,

Public art: Longest Living British Reigning Monarch, Ottawa, May 2008

Excuse me while I kiss the sky: #1. Beauty.

I often wonder if architects get an "excuse me while I kiss the sky day" at architecture school.  These days, I think not.  It's astounding looking at the tips of tall buildings how some have "sky presence", graceful, elegant, poetic, lyrical + how some, ew-ee uglee.  Like the laundry room or basement sump pump meets the sky.  This one, one of my faves.  Reminds me of the Vancouver City Hall building...city of my youth. 

Stop, gouache on toscana paper, 8x8, 2008

Very struck by Louise Bourgeois' recent  uni-coloured gouaches in the May issue of Modern Painters .   Content wise -- babies in womb, breast feeding mothers, etc - similiar to work of mine after birth of first born -- not as powerful + stark, alas as these amazing works.   So got me thinking to try gouache, one colour + this is the first.  After a show there's always a bit of what to do next.  Cohesive body building to next show or just to stop...let the Muse muse for a spell.  Oh + LB is 96.  Art is one bastion, thankfully, where youth doesn't rule.

Looks like art: Chairs + plenty of them, Montreal, June 2008

Public art: 2nd Longest Living British Reigning Monarch, Ottawa, May 2008

apparently, the grand prix is in town, vrmmmm

I spy...purple

alligator alert

public art: 14th Canadian Prime Minister, Ottawa, May 2008

Quite possibly the ugliest building ever built?

Blue screen, June 1/08

looks like art: Green Grate, Ottawa, May 2008

Public art: Westin Soldier, Ottawa, May 2008

Breaking news, June 3, 2008

snow Angels, 10.5 x13.5, watercolour, toscana paper, 2008