It seems to me that everywhere I look everything is coming up turquoise. Turquoise is the new chartreuse right now. This is the Christmas?!? window at the local gift shop. Call me old fashioned but I'm not buying it. Also, everywhere I
Today I finished the kingfisher map. I'm really pleased with the way this turned out, but I used chalk pastels to deepen the blues, (because the watercolours are just so insipid sometimes!), and now have to find my Krylon spray
It's lovely for me when I get to spend the afternoon with both of us doing some art and work and talking out some issues in our lives. This time the afternoon turned into evening, (days are so short right
This is for the challenge "Habit". My daily habit is to draw something on some piece of ephemera. I keep my pencil box and a book of note paper on the kitchen table so I can pick them up every
On top of my kitchen cupboards are two old baskets at either end of my duck decoy collection. These ducks count the amount of times I've been in Quebec, because I buy one each time I visit, and the baskets
Tales from The Museum of Mind Manipulation The first time we heard of Sulphur Rumenum it was only a whisper, an evil, little malicious rumour, which suggested that the Museum of Mind Manipulation had been discovered after all. We began our
It was a Murphy morning round here! C wrote a 1500 word philosophical argument claiming that global skepticism could not be rejected using the arguments of Kant and Berkeley as they relate to the movie The Truman Show. I know, I
This morning I woke to the sound of fog horns out in the harbour and sun peeking into my bedroom from around the blinds. The little collage I made in San Francisco was still propped up on my bedside table
Today is my friend's birthday. It's an ordinary, rainy October day here in Vancouver and, at first sight, there's nothing remarkable about it. Except that it's Norman's birthday. Being Her Majesty's subjects here in Canada, his family has applied to the Queen's
There's chaos in the studio. I've started work again on a painting which I neglected for about a year now. (I know, what am I like?) It's just that sometimes it's so difficult to paint and I have to keep reminding