School started this week.I know. I feel the same.Just before that I took some time to paint on the long weekend. This big painting had been sitting since June but I added the coral inside bits of the fish and a bit more. Done!And just...
So yesterday I gave my hair a deep treatment. (Don't stop reading!! It's not really about my hair!!!)First I washed it and got it all smelling fresh and grapefruity.Then I gifted myself a long tough workout and got my hair so sweated up there was...
Missing this water. I'll stick in the photo of the real thing at the end so you can see I'm not making that colour up.This isn't finished (as is my norm) but I made a few hours on the weekend and I'm hungry to get...
As if it isn't enough to be sitting on an amazing beach, that speck on the horizon is a humpback whale pulling itself out of the sea. Huge splash coming.We've pulled up stakes and headed to Maui to let it all go for a bit....
Oh I know, I know! Awful picture!!! Do you want to know why? I was trying to take a picture of it up here in dark winter Canada and the polar bear I was steadying my camera on was shivering! True story!!!If you sort of squint a...
Imagine how thrilled I am that this commissioned painting will put a face to the "heart of the home" in a neighbour's house. I feel very blessed to see it hanging there, representing such an important thing....
Behold, my studio as she is right now. A little corner of the kitchen. My kids get so fed up with me leaving my painting stuff out. They don't say much but it's sort of like the looks the cats give when their food bowl...
So the last couple of weeks have been sort of wonderful in the painting arena. I've had friends buy a number of paintings from me, and I've had the opportunity to have my paintings in a local fabulous store, Lalli Loves It! And last week two of them sold!...
Ugh. Patience needed. Patience lacking.First I painted out this big canvas, used lots of paint gooped on to give it a cool texture.Lots of paint gooped on takes a long time to dry.Dry.Dry dry dry dry dry dry.Got impatient and scratched in the heart I...
My boots left my easel and went directly to Lalli Loves It, a wonderful store in Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver. I feel so lucky to see some of my paintings in such a wonderful setting. And guess what? That's their first time away from home! Laura has the...