A few days ago, while my Dad recuperated in hospital, my Mum and I went to the University of Victoria’s Cinema to see the film, Renoir. We knew little about it, only that it was about the artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and one of his models. And although neither of us are that fond of
For the past few days, I’ve had trouble getting down to creating. Why? I could say I haven’t a clue but really I do know at least part of the reason. What I’m talking about is distractions. Like email. Like eating. Like grocery shopping. Like laundry. Like email. Like googling some news I heard
It was Whistler last time and now it’s Plaskett inspiring me to try leaving part of the paper untouched by pastel (see my last blog on Joseph Plaskett’s pastels by clicking here). I’m also influenced by Plaskett to try more colourful paper than I used in Sheep’s Folly (see my Whistler inspired pastel here).
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
Portraits. Does that word conjure up for you a certain look, a certain feeling? It does for me. And even though I know it can mean more, especially in this day and age, I imagine all those fabulous paintings seen in the great museums of the world, paintings that speak of technique, of understanding,
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