HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Coming in a bit late here with my wishes for a splendid year but still, we are only in the second week of January 🙂 In December, I took on another 30-day challenge (click here to see the first one). This time it was drawing hands. Hands. Are. Difficult. No
Well, you might have wondered where I’d gotten to (or not). Here’s the scoop. After much deliberation, I decided to purchase an iMac to supplement my laptop which is bursting at its seams. Sooooo excited. I thought, I’ll be able to edit my next video on it – large screen and much memory will
Before Mum and Dad left Salt Spring on their journey home to Cayman (via my sister’s in Ontario), I managed to do a couple of pastels for my gallery there. This pastel was inspired by a photo I took while in Grand Cayman about 20 years ago. It’s one I’ve wanted to paint for
At the end of September, inspired by artist Bill Creevy who was doing his own 30-day challenges, I challenged myself to do 30 self-portrait sketches in 30 days. And amazingly (to myself anyway), I did it! Some days were easy and some days not so easy. Some days I made the time to do
In the warmer days of summer, I had the pleasure of going out on a couple of plein air painting excursions with my Mum and Dad on Salt Spring Island. One of those days we drove up Duke’s Road, a place we’d never explored before. (To read all about another excursion click here.) When
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