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one beached birch, August 14.09

 

teeth, Verdun, March 30, 2009

winter lombardies, March 2008

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

3 winter lombardy trees, 14x14", oil on wood (carved)

finished this painting + worked on a variety of very large oils...ugh. fumes gave me a head ache.
after I use up this batch of paint, it's back to acrylic.

Mount Royal Trees, 20 x41, oil on wood 2007,

not a new painting...painted this last year, but was at friend's house + it was on the wall + I saw it with stone cold eyes...it's not in my memory bank at all...so saw it fresh...very interesting experience...alas, it's much longer than the pic shows.

winter trees #38, 7x10, watercolour, 2008

4 winter trees, 8x8x1.5, oil on wood, carved, 2008

+ the pendulum swings back to abstraction...while on tv, the first Iowa caucus results. Thur 8:40, Edwards leads for Democratics, Huckabee for GOP...

lachine canal tree, watercolour, toscani paper, 9x12

still wet

Verdun sumacs #2, 9x11, arches paper, watercolour, 2007

Verdun sumacs, 9x11, arches paper, watercolour, 2007

yesterday's mystery fruit solved by an astute passerby, Kim. It's a dragon fruit. And no, can't bear to cut into it yet. Today's mystery, why the compulsion to make art. It's late, I'm wiped after a full day plastering, moving stuff, overseeing tiling, etc, gussying up my studio, as I'm going to give it up after 5 years. Not art making. I'm happily esconsced in my new home studio - an ex-office, a small room compared to the Jointe, but a room with a view, lots of light + ever so convenient. But back to mystery. Spent the first part of day taking Angus, the water loving dog on a beautiful walk along a little off shoot of the mighty St. Lawrence river. Took some beautiful photograhs, did some quick sketches...had a full, rich tiring day + instead of zombie-ing out in front of the tv, or reading the new New Yorker that came yesterday, feel compelled to, in reproduce my take on what I saw today. Why? I don't know. I took fab pictures + it seems kind of dumb competing with Mother Nature + it's complex, delicate, trying work...I suppose one great aspect..about art making, one doesn't..well, I don't obsess about world's problems or fume about local separatist politicians "fixing" what ain't broke, etc. or Gille Duceppe's retirement plan...oh, oh. I feel a rant coming on...

October 28.07, watercolour, arches paper, 9x11

sumac#2 9x12", crayon + watercolours on portofino acquerello, 2007

sumac, 9x12", crayon + watercolours on portofino acquerello, 2007

oh yes, autumn is here in all her glory.

#2 A Tree Grows in Montreal

Second of the daily tree paintings. This tree I saw on Wellington St. in front of some municpal building. Same size, 8"x8", oil on canvas. Wonder what it'll look like without it's leaves. Something to look forward to.

jumpin' on the bandwagon...

with all the daily painting painters currently in cyberspace. Let's see if I can keep this going...day #1 of A-Tree-A-Day or A Tree Grows in Montreal. This nifty little number grows on the lovely, south west Club Price lot. The painting is 8x8", oil on canvas + called... (drum roll)... "Oct.24/06."