April 3, 2010
Our April weather has been glorious. We actually sat out on the deck and enjoyed a cuppa earlier this afternoon. I must admit that I love the balmy spring weather that we have been having most of this winter.
There’s a lichen growing on some of the old trees and today I took the camera and tried to capture the light and shadows. I envision a painting similar to the yellow rock weed with the lichen twisting and turning.
Earlier this week, I was on
the road at 4:30 a.m. heading to Halifax and the CBC. Although I used to be an early riser, I haven’t been up that
early for years. The CBC radio
show, Information Morning is celebrating forty years on air and they are
planning to do a calendar, with twelve artists doing twelve different paintings
all out their studio window.
Of course this is a for free endeavour and all the
profits will go to feed Nova Scotia.
But who can saw no to the CBC.
Not me. As a result, I
spent Monday in Halifax taking photos and doing watercolour studies and then I
spent the rest of the week painting an acrylic painting entitled “March
Morning”.
The other project this week
has been dying wool for the new Starry Night mat that I intend to hook as we
travel across Canada. I love
making bits of fabric different colours.
I piled up the wool I dyed and every time I walk by it, I drool at the
lush shades of reds, blues, yellows and greens. I really am a colour fanatic. Jim brought in a multi-coloured plastic table cloth from his
trailer and said that we could use it when we are camping.
Never” I said “I couldn’t eat with those colours
around me.”
Obviously some colours,
melt my heart and others make me cringe.
I do wonder if all artists have this sensitivity. Luckily for me, Jim is a patient and
understanding fellow and he takes it all in stride.