Saturday 11. 04. 15 These are the flowers that greeted me when I came home this afternoon. Put there by Laurene and George. Had a good flight back home and was greeted with a warm, sunny Spring landscape with Broom blooming everywhere.
Stuck!
Wednesday 08. 04. 15 Went to the airport yesterday to fly home and discovered that there was a flight controllers strike and that all flights to Montpellier were cancelled! Vive la France! Rebooked for friday in the hope that all will be back to normal by then. So today went to an interesting show of videos at the Power Plant. The videos on Stuart Hall and Patrice Lumumba were particularly good.
Ryan icon
Monday 06. 04. 15 I saw Geoff and Sandy last week and Geoff showed me this painting that he had done for his parents. It is in the style of Andrei Rublev a Russian iconographer. The main three figures are his grandfather, Geoff and his Dad with Geoff’s son in the top left hand corner playing soccer. It is hard to see from the photo but there are loads of icons buried within the painting and there are also pieces of text. It is brilliant!!
More big drawings
Tuesday 24. 03. 15 Another blown up drawing from mylar this time coloured in with coloured pencils.
More demolition
Monday 23. 03. 15 I did this small painting of the demolition site at Yonge and College this morning.
Mocca
Thursday 19. 03. 15 This afternoon went with Jon to see the Douglas Coupland expo at Mocca. Some interesting stuff like the re-interpretation of Group of 7 paintings and his Lego constructions but other pieces seemed just to be somewhat random collections of Canadiana. Worth seeing though.
Oil pastel
Monday 16. 03. 15 I coloured the big drawing using oil pastels instead of oil paints as originally planned.
The Cloud of Unknowing
Thursday 12. 03. 15 I have been thinking a lot about this unsettling video installation which I saw at Trinity Video earlier this week. It is based on a medieval manuscript on meditation. I spoke to a lady at my meditation class and she has read it several times and thinks it is terrific. I have ordered the book so that I can compare the text and the video.
Big drawings
Thursday 12. 03. 15 Did a small drawing on mylar of a demolition at College and Yonge and then enlarged and output it on engineering paper. I have coated it with linseed oil and will paint it in the next couple of days. I think this way of working may suit urban scenes better than vases of flowers.
Big Tulips
Tuesday 10. 03. 15 This is a painting on the the engineering print – it is 24″ x 26″ blown up 300% from the original drawing on mylar. I applied the paint quite thinly so some of the original drawing showed through.