Laundromat Again

I lead such an exciting life I forgot to post this yesterday! The attendant stopped to tell me she thought my art was wonderful. That was so sweet of her! 

Yup, still no rain so I'm back at the laundromat using the water in town. Everything is an ugly brown, leaves are falling off our apple trees and the fire ban is on! 

Yellow Bird

I love how one thing leads to the next.... I was tearing up a pamphlet I got in the mail. So I made this piece from a throw-away. I like it very much since I didn't feel that it was such a "precious" piece of expensive paper. I accented the word chicks on the page and put it aside. A few days later I saw a photo of a yellow bird on a calendar I had, so I drew it. Then, yesterday I was eating a banana and stuck the scan code food sticker on the page (I cut off the scan thingamajig) and put it aside once again.  This morning, the lyrics to Yellow Bird occurred to me.  I loved the version sung by Harry  Belafonte! Happy with the end result of a piece of paper I was about to recycle and in essence I did - I made junk into art or rather "nothing into something"!!

Penetanguishene Ontario

My hubby has to get his muffler fixed so we drove to a town where he worked for a zillion  years. Nice little town on Georgian Bay Ontario🇨🇦. He treated me to lunch...love it when that happens! 

I'm not a gal that likes to draw salad so I fudged it. It was the cool wooden table centre that was neat- all set in and under glass.

We were in a bit of a rush so this is as good as it gets! 

This is a Francophone community and afterwards we bought a fresh "tourtière" - sh, memories of Québécois meat pie! Soon, it will be "in my belly"!!! 

Vintage finds in Coldwater

I decided to sketch and paint the vintage Mercury truck I saw in Coldwater yesterday.  I used my photo as s guide; yes, it really was that rusty!!! I picked up a real treasure....another view master reel. The glue has let go so I'm hoping I can glue it back together to see the images in my View-master!  The reason it seemed destined to come home with me is that I had actually looked at the photo of my Mom and Dad and I having our picture taken in the gondola when we arrived at the finish! I still remember that moment! 

I think the Sucrets container might end up as a travelling palette for some gouache paint.

I drove up to the town of Coldwater Ontario 🇨🇦 today.  They are preparing for the Steampunk Festival this weekend so I took a back street and drew the lovely old mill! It was open to the public and I got to tour inside for the guest time!  It was way too hot to do anything else but sketch - 31C or 88F and with humidity feels like 95F. For me, it was too hot to add colour;  I packed up and stopped into the local coffee shop!  I love this town!!  If you are in the area, the Steampunk festival is on this Saturday!! 

My little pieces of art displayed together

This is what I have been doing for the last two months. It is small pieces of art on cheap index cards. I didn't get the 61 done (that was the challenge - June 1st to July 31st) but I am happy that I did complete 47 cards! There really is something satisfying seeing them all laid out like this!

I posted this drawing to Sktchy today 

Kempenfest treasures!

Today, I went to a local art festival in town! It is a huge favourite for me! Kempenfest is the largest "open air" festival in Ontario🇨🇦 This is my page in my Moleskine documenting my treasures!