I’m starting a little job this evening, but found I was out of sketchbooks. Sifting through an old one in hopes of finding some clean paper, I found an entry from 2008 that caught my eye:
“Ahh. A space of my own. My hands are covered in indigo and prussian blue. My jeans are covered in [...]
Tag Archives: painting
A Painter’s Studio - Unedited.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Dear Newfoundland, Is It A Sign?
Saturday, February 27, 2010
It hasn’t stopped snowing for 3 days now, so it’s a little strange that I would be googling “Newfoundland Retreats”.
Discovering Helen Gregory (last post) reminded me of how much I wanted to go to Newfoundland and paint. I first got the idea in 2007, when one of my thesis teachers, Catherine Beaudette, talked about staying [...]
A Ride To St. John’s, Please?
Sunday, February 21, 2010
I discovered Helen Gregory in the National Post on Thursday and I haven’t stopped thinking of her since. She has a show in Newfoundland (where she’s from) at the Rooms called Unrequited Death: Helen Gregory and it is curated by award-winning novelist Lisa Moore.
Helen has a fascination with collecting things (be still my heart). What [...]
Lately
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Still a long way to go before this rights itself…
What I’m listening to….
What I’m looking at… I have absolutely no idea what “Evo Devo” is. Evolution Devolution? But apparently, it’s the ‘New Science’…
Bought this Terry Winters catalogue of printed works published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Back to painting - which seems a bit of [...]
You’d Think This Was A Blog About Books
Monday, September 28, 2009
Yesterday morning I woke up early in preparation. To plan my day for The Word on the Street Festival, I pour over the schedule on their website. Steph calls me at 10:00AM to advise on what not to miss etc. Margaret Atwood at 3:00. Nino Ricci at 1:30, Anthony De Sa, and so on. ) [...]
Mr. P. Physh is Pretty in Pink
Thursday, July 23, 2009
For a few weeks now, I’ve been working on a painting of my puffer fish that I sketched awhile ago. Since I started my new job at the gallery, I’ve been toiling away at it on my weekends, however, it’s been giving me an enormous amount of difficulty and has been no fun at all.
Today, [...]
TOAE
Sunday, July 12, 2009
I just came back from the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. First impression - not a lot of painting, or else paintings I didn’t think all that impressive except for a select few. I found this wierd, since I know there are quite a few really good painters in Toronto! I wonder what happened.
Here are a [...]
Border Crossings
Monday, June 22, 2009
Since 2005 I’ve been buying Border Crossings Magazine without fail. Four times a year I wait in anticipation for my next issue and all year round I pour over them, smelling the pages, running my hands over them, devouring articles and feasting my eyes on the imagery. I once heard John Brown call himself an [...]
Lucien Freud
Saturday, March 28, 2009
I’ve been working on a portrait this afternoon, and when the light began to grow dim, I felt I had to stop, although I wasn’t quite ready to, and still wanted to keep working. I decided I would at least look at some paintings to wind me down, and googled Lucien Freud, my absolute favourite [...]
AGO
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Yesterday afternoon Andrew and I finally went to visit the transformed ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO . Since we got there an hour before closing, we only made it round the first floor, a luxury we can take now that we have our memberships! The new Walker Court is definitely a place I see myself just [...]
