My little sketch doodles on the hallway wall. I thought I would take a pic before they vanished under a fresh coat of paint.

And still the weather holds. Everything the colour of bleached gold in the meadow.

Another painting I had underway, but since I have succumbed to an overload of paint/paint medium fumes I will be taking a hiatus from oil painting. I guess small increments add up over time. I think I would have not used the medium quite as much, if at all, had there been a warning label on the bottle of Liquin. But there was nothing. It took many months of erratic symptoms for me to check out the safety sheet with the listed chemicals. (Remember kids, just because everyone else is using it...) Gulp. I might as well have been huffing Pam cooking spray all this time.

So it shall sit waiting its turn to be completed, if ever. In the meantime, I can get on with other projects I have in mind, so it isn't necessarily a bad thing... except for the brain-damage. I kid.  (Do I?) After a period of time of detoxing my body, I'll try using walnut oil for a medium (linseed just seems way too flammable to me) and hope I can go back to oil painting and so this little gem can get finished.

 

 

 

I've been a little lax with the posts lately but it is true that summer has come to town. There is much outdoorsy things happening such as lying in the meadows and gazing at the sky, lying on the grass in my yard and watching the bees and my all time favourite- lying under a shady cedar branch at the seashore. So you can see how truly busy I am.

Of course I am planning many things while I am prostrate. Oh yes, ideas and new website plans and prints and all manner of things. Right now it is all hush-hush in my head but I will let you know bits and pieces as I go along.