BARRINGTON THE HORSE I was recently in Ontario visiting my sister Andrea. My first day there, we had to take Barrington, a BIG beautiful horse, to the vet to have his leg checked out. It was fascinating to see the vets and assistant look him over, examining him by ultra sound and 3-D
As you know, with my passion for figures I am delving into some exploratory figurative work, both in pastels and acrylics. One of my inspirations is Jylian Gustlin who I mentioned in an earlier blog. Reading a bit about her, I discovered that she in turn was inspired by the Bay Area Figurative Artists.
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
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
FIRST OF ALL – OOPS!! A Japanese quote: 猿も木から落ちる。 (Saru mo ki kara ochiru) Literally: Even monkeys fall from trees. This means: Everyone makes mistakes. / Nobody’s perfect. Hmmm…I guess that’s me. You’ll have received a blog from me yesterday but an older blog (actually two older blogs). I’m not sure how it
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