letting go Tag

Had a chance to get away a few weeks ago to Savary Island up the coast.  The perfect break from it all.Two ferry rides and a last quick boat ride across to the island and we felt appropriately removed from all of that regular life...

So I did manage to do some painting over the holidays, but it's mostly been a time of trying new things and hoping that although it might be not quite right right now -- chuckle -- it might lead to good things in the future! Right?And of course, being...

This is a little different for me.  I was reading a book about autism, Love Anthony by Lisa Genova, and was taken by how a character in the story writes from a non-verbal boy's perspective.  He describes how thoughts he has and actions he takes are organized into rooms...

Do these look very different to you? Yeah, me neither.  Man this painting business is haaaaard!I was thrilled to carve out a few hours for painting and decided to go back to this old one from the spring.  I had known it wasn't finished then...

This is one I was working on maybe a  month or so ago.  I liked bits but it wasn't coming together like I hoped.  On the actual beach on Thormanby Island there was so much detail in the water trails and seaweed and sand but overall there...