5"X6" Pencil on paper
...of the season. I have enjoyed this season of low pressure house-league games, I think the boys have too. As much as they love baseball, I think that they were happy to put up with the slightly lower standard of play in exchange for the chance to play every position on the field. The coaches were relaxed and were more interested in making sure that every player had fun than winning every game at all costs.
5″X7″ Oil on panel
The Welland Canal is endlessly fascinating. The current canal is the fourth and was completed in 1932. The first canal, completed in 1829, was much longer and more meandering, it joined Twelve Mile Creek and the Welland River with a flight of 40 locks which were all constructed from wood. The climb from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie is about 100 metres.
I have painted this same view before here and here.
7″X5.5″ Pencil on paper
Well I am almost finished with my English sketches. On the day after the Tates I went to the British Museum but I don’t seem to have done any sketches that day, although I took a fair number of photos. The next day I went to Kew on the “Overground”. I kept on waiting for nice weather but eventually gave up, it wasn’t to be. We had virtually no rain while I was there but it was uniformly overcast almost every day.
I couldn’t quite tell whether this lady was asleep. She had something in her hand that she appeared to be reading but she kept nodding off.
5″X7″ Acrylic on paper
Actually it has been more like torrential rain followed by howling gale. The photograph I used today was actually taken exactly a year ago, so I guess the weather is pretty seasonal.
I thought I should have another crack at the acrylics despite the fact that they really aren’t my favourite medium. I am not sure why, I know plenty of people who much prefer them to oils or watercolours but I can never seem to get them to do what I want.
5″X7″ Pencil on paper
Laura played at St Barnabas last night in the Guitar Niagara series. The program was beautiful and her playing astonishing. The only thing more remarkable than her playing is her hair of which there is a prodigious amount. This time the lights in the church stayed up a little higher which made it a bit easier to draw, but she is an animated player, never still for a moment. There was a temptation to produce a picassoesque composition, with different parts drawn from different angles. There is definitely something strange about her left arm.
Laura is a Toronto born musician who currently lives in Barcelona and teaches at Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya.