Snow Management

I feel as though I need to justify my lack of posting and painting. Or painting and posting.

And here it is - snow management. Takes up alot of time pushing, flinging and trying to figure out just where on earth am I going to put the stuff?? We've received 373 centimeters of snow in the last 2 months...which is a bit over 12 feet, and even though it tends to melt back from time to time it's still 3 feet deep on the ground -and the piles are amazing!

So maybe we'll get a little break; maybe my tendonitis will clear up....ahhhh....just looked out the window; maybe pigs will fly.

Wet Paint!

A 1' x 2' canvas with big fat sides. My biggest fan commissioned this over a year ago. She didn't want me to stress out over it or 'not enjoy it' so she insisted on not pressuring me.

Bad plan - so I told her daughter that I would have it ready by Christmas in case anyone in the family wanted to surprise her.

Always need a deadline.

Addicted to Painting Large Stuff

I'm rather bummed out to not be living at the theatre now... : ( Even though I'm supposed to be involved in a brand new *paid* mural!!
I'm a team gal

Close up of stump in foreground Detail of castle on a mountain.

The Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe

Striking the set.

Almost made my blood run cold from time to time but I'm optimistic that many pieces will live again!

Been immersed in set painting off and on since the end of August and this is one of the results. Thankfully, TwinB was available to assist on this backdrop (16' x 40) and I was completely unaware of the ammount of sets that needed some rather extensive work. I'd really like to just live there and keep working instead of hopping in and out of the situation...would cut down on prep and clean up time by at least 25 %. I can see my future - or hope I can - as a little Paint Gremlin - developing and realizing the dreams of others.

Finally: fruition

Approximately 18 months from concept to completion - here is Kildala Mural As A Done Deal

It looks kind of piddley here. But it's not.

One step remaining and that's to apply the nasty resin clear coat on just the right day and finally the unveiling *with dancing*. I tossed around the idea of choreographing a generic folk dance for the school, to a medley of traditional music. But that's a little ambitious...the Tetley Tea Dance perhaps?

Many Eyes & Fish That Fly

This here's the study for Many Eyes & Fish...

Had to consider it done enough because we're hanging the exhibit tomorrow; that would be 'Here Fishy, Fishy'. This second annual event celebrates all things fish and fishing related and is held in conjunction with the Kitimat Fishing Derby (other wise known as Rape the River in some circles)

don't want to sound whiny but I can't seem to photograph my stuff - esp. on watercolour paper - in a way that's at all flattering.