Thursday 28 June 2018

Dog Park Painting

Today's brief plein aire adventure took me to the dog park.  I wanted some shade and some open space so this was a good compromise.  I set up under a tree and painted the path.  It was fairly quiet but the dogs that went by seemed pretty freaked out by the whole set up.  Met an interesting woman who was busy sanding down a small block of wood as she was walking by.  She stopped for a chat and showed me her collection of rings that she was making from found pieces of wood.  They were super cool!  



Tuesday 19 June 2018

HOT painting

I tried another day outdoors, painting the same bridge again.  I found a painting buddy, Alina, to come with me and it was nice to have company.  The mosquitoes were particularly fiesty but as it got hotter out they were smart and found the shade.  We did not and sweated away - not used to the heat.  BUT i am not complaining, our summers are short.    I cranked out one little study and then started doing some rock portraits - close ups of what was right in front of me.  I even tried the beer can left in the river.  I did pick it up when I left to throw out and wondered what someone coming down the trail might think of me with my backpack and beer can...but luckily passed no one on my way out.



Tuesday 5 June 2018

Delicious Mural

This past weekend was spent working on a mural on the back of the Edmonton Food Bank.   Izabella Orzelski of Artiza art school had organized the event.  Izabella was one of my great instructors at the University Of Alberta extension program.  She recruited several of her students to assist in creating a delicious mural, based on the work of Susan Diebel, an Edmonton area artist.