Wish it were

Mine! But someone else snapped it up. Saw an awesome demo by a very authentic and lovely artist, Suzanne Northcott, at the Harmony Arts Festival in West Van. Can't believe people can crank out decent paintings while talking about the process and answering questions at the same time! She certainly knows her stuff.

The ducks are not aligning for me to get into the studio, at least for painting. My little duckling is still not sleeping which leaves very little time or energy for much beyond survival. But this too shall pass, and I have some new ideas and techniques to try out.... Eventually!

Warming up

Exploring my travel set of watercolours. Figure I will have a wonderful chance to do some sketching in a beautiful garden next weekend!

Trapped

The advantage of being trapped on the bed with a sick baby during the day:

Museum of Anthropology

Quick sketch while small children destroyed my water brushes... Sigh...

Should call it "Pain Air" painting

This is all I could manage before the sun pelting my forehead got to be too much. Lovely bright sunshiny day in the mountains. Whistler Lost Lake yesterday.

Beaty Museum - I'm back... Almost

Almost back from "mat leave"... Still digging out the studio but at least I found my sketchbook!

Poof

it disappeared!

Didn't take many picture in progress, since it was so large (40 x 30") it was difficult to see the changes. The studio is empty, I'm worn out, and the work is up at Place des Arts in Coquitlam through Feb 5th. The opening was very well attended and the other artists were super nice and have very strong shows. Pretty good press, didn't get to plug the blog and misspelled my last name in one article, but I got a new pic in this weeks paper so that was cool! We did an artist talk for Family Day on Sunday which was fun and that was a good crowd as well, the photo is of the big beast with some kids in front doing the Venetian mask craft. Really happy with how everything came out, totally worth all of the work!