It’s howling winds and just pissing down with rain as I write. From this evidence I must gather Winter is really here. Because I’m feeling rather cold, I thought it was time to share my last plein air excursion of the summer with you. I have to say that’s it for me painting outside
So, I was thinking about poppies (Remembrance Day, my last blog) and I remembered we have a beautiful poster of poppies by Georgia O’Keeffe in our living room. Then somehow I found out that her birthday is 15 November (that’s tomorrow!) and she would have been 125 years old. Cool huh? So naturally, that
Nothing ventured nothing gained. It’s the 11th of November in a couple of days time and in thinking about Remembrance Day, poppies and their redness came to mind, and I thought about Rothko and his red paintings as written about in my blog a couple of weeks ago and since I haven’t been
William Kurelek – the name has always conjured up illustrative images of joyous and innocent childhood in the prairies of the 1930s as in the books, A Prairie Boy’s Summer and A Prairie Boy’s Winter (published in 1975 and 1973). I’d always admired the colour and detail, the descriptive power, of this work even if
I can hardly believe it’s November already. The days are getting darker and the grey and wet can get me down but remembering wonderful days painting en plein air this summer warms my soul. There’s something about painting outside – you bring the experience and witnessing of nature and the environment inside with you.
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