10 Friday Feb 2012
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Day four of the Creativity Matters 21 day journal project. I’m really enjoying this. My goal in taking up this challenge, was to get into the habit of working every day. Mind you I have a table set up in the living room with all my painting stuff on it, and hubby is NOT impressed. I need a lottery win so I can build a studio!
09 Thursday Feb 2012
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I’ve been working on a 21 day watercolour journal project, with the gentle prodding of a lovely lady named Donna. She runs a site named “Creativity Matters.” This image is the project for the third day in the series. We were to choose a word, or a quote that inspired us, and cut it out of a magazine. Well magazines are in short supply in my house, but I did find an image that inspired me.
Imagination, what would we do if we could not imagine? Dreaming of good things to come, forgetting bad things. Reshaping our world in our dreams is in my mind is the pursuit of happiness. Things can not make you happy. No one can make you happy, It is a choice. I choose to be happy. I choose to imagine fantastic worlds where the word impossible does not exist. Fantasy and faeries have always been dear to my heart. This is my little fire fae, dreaming away in the light of the moon. I hope you like her.
Via Flickr:
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03 Friday Feb 2012
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Still Life with Fruit, originally uploaded by photographerpainterprintmaker.
Over at my friends Studio today, February 3rd, 2012. She set up a bowl of fruit for a still life. We had a great time chatting and painting together.
27 Friday Jan 2012
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Our Love, originally uploaded by photographerpainterprintmaker.
I didn’t get out to my friend’s studio on January 27th. Hubby was practicing the song “Our Love is Here to Stay.” He usually drives me nuts when he practices because he repeats and repeats the song till it’s all I can hear in my head. So, I doodled it in a valentine so I would not grow to hate the song. He really is a great singer though. Have a listen here! He has over 1000 songs recorded on this site.
21 Saturday Jan 2012
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34th World Wide Sketch Crawl., originally uploaded by photographerpainterprintmaker.Well, winter put a bit of a damper on my painting until today, that is. I signed up our Plein Air group to participate in the 34th World Wide Sketch Crawl. I’ve been wanting to get out and do some snow scenes. Finally the weather co-operated! I was the only one of the Windsor & Essex County Plein Air Society to make it out to sketch today. We were all to meet at the Tim Horton’s on Walker Road, by the Chrysler plant. But, it seems life threw the rest a curve ball. No worries, I’m sure they will make it out to the next event. If they don’t well I will definitely be sketching, even if I have to do it from the shelter of my van.
You would think living in Canada would guarantee snow. Well, trust me it doesn’t, especially when you live in the most southern point in the country. But today it was cold as heck. However, I did have my van to keep me warm while I painted the coach house at Willestead Manor, in Windsor, On. Canada. The thermometer in the van read 17°F or -8.33333333°C (to infinity and beyond). I do so like Fahrenheit so much better then Celsius. 17°F sounds so much warmer then -8.3333 °C (to infinity and beyond) ever will. I digress…
Even the van could not totally keep the cold away from my toes forever. So, I warmed up with a Tim Horton’s black coffee, and also celebrated what would have been my Dad’s 100th birthday. He was here in spirit. How do I know? He saved the last Oooey gooey good Boston Creme Doughnut for me, that’s why! You see, Boston Cream was his favorite. Sorry, the doughnut didn’t make it into the photo.
Now for a wee bit of a clarification on the image above. No, the roof is not falling off the Northern addition to the coach house. I think by the time I got to that side of the painting my brain was frozen. Also, (lame excuse for bad drawing number two) sitting in a van is not conducive to backing away from your work to check your progress. I usually stand when I paint, so this really sucketh rotten eggs. But, I show my mistakes as well as my successes, because I’m masochistic that way. Now, now please don’t tell me how wonderful this is. I know, when it sucks, K! Why is it you never notice these goof ups until AFTER you take the photo? Blarg! Oh.. I still had fun, and I will go out and do better next time!
20 Friday Jan 2012
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Tea with Teddy, originally uploaded by photographerpainterprintmaker.
Every week three of us get together for a visit at my friends studio. This was my sketch from January 20, 2011. Margret’s dog decided my lap was where she belonged. You can see Angel’s and my reflection in the middle of the teapot.
10 Saturday Dec 2011
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Artspeak Holiday Show & Sale 2011, a set on Flickr.
Our local arts council opened their doors to their annual member’s Christmas Show and Sale. Each artist was allowed to hang 5 pieces that had not been shown in previous members show. Seeing that I’ve been a very busy beaver this summer it was no problem at all to find 5 pieces. These works were all created at special events from the summer. The trip we made up north to Wilberforce, Ontario. Our group was invited to two events at the John R. Park Homestead, and two of these pieces are from that event.
Read more about this event here.
07 Wednesday Dec 2011
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Back in the summer you may remember that four of us went up north to a small town named Wilberforce, Ontario to attend a Plein Air event called Brush with the Highlands. We stayed a quaint old motel called the Bostonian. It was perfect for our needs. The proprietor, Roberta, is loved by many, and we soon found out why. While we were there a family needed a place for an out of town relative who was there for a funeral. Roberta opened her arms and gave a room to these people gratis. She received this lovely bouquet of roses as a thank you. The story does not end there. Last year Roberta had a fire. The townspeople of Wilberforce got together and helped her rebuild her motel. So not only is Roberta a gem, but the towns folk are as well.
Margaret and I spent a few hours painting this beautiful vase of flowers en Plein Air. We set up the scene on the picnic table in front of the motel, and enjoyed the northern afternoon sun.
27 Thursday Oct 2011
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Art, cityscape, Landscape, Plein Air, Watercolor, Watercolour
What an incredible summer, and fall looks like it’s going to be great as well. I’ve been painting every week, and I tell you it feels very good. Invitations to demonstrate Plein Air Painting have come to us all summer. We were invited to participate in Explore the Shore, The Lost Arts, and the Migration Festival. We were rained out for Canada Culture Days which was a disappointment. Hopefully next year the weather will co-operate. Next week our city is having an all day cultural think tank for the arts. I’m going to post a few of my works from the summer, so you can catch up with my whirlwind life.
Elizabeth Gaye MacDonald, Plein Air Artist 