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Fence Post Friday

Happy Fence Post Friday everyone!!  It should be another hot one here in central Ontario!  I grabbed this shot earlier this week while we were in Lakefield.  Looks to me like it is a “tres chic” women’s wear shop! Their motto must be it is cool to be hip!  Enjoy the weekend, we should have wonderful weather! 

For those who aren’t Canadian, this shops name caught my eye because of the name!  The “Tragically Hip” was a well know rock band in Canada! I too loved “The Hip”!! 

Anyway, I just love a white picket fence! 

Tag your it

Waiting in the line for the cashier.  That is what we seem to do the most of these days, waiting in lines and keeping socially distant.  What to do, what to do?!?!! so in the end I didn’t do anything!  I was really interested in seeing the price of the shirt but I kept my nose out.  Before COVID,  I would have approached her and spoken quietly to give her the heads up.  Now…. nary a word.  What would you have done?

Mixtures and Spot Varnish

From a class with Carla Sonheim.  Mixtures and Spot Varnish

I used Quink black ink, red Ecoline liquid watercolour and white acrylic ink and one I used blue acrylic ink and a purple highlighter. The smiley face top right is just the way it happen; one of those happy accidents!!  Same with the Jimmy Durante smiley face on the next row!! The only thing I added was the left eye.  I loved the eyebrow and his schnauze nose! I made the eyes for the clown fish and the smoking eye by drawing on the sticky side of the packing tape and cutting it out.  You can’t see it here but the eyes are shiny in real life!  I did loads more but these were my favourites!  Very fun!

Anne -Part Two

This is a Part 2 from yesterday….  I was going to gesso over this page because I just hated the drawing I did on site.  I couldn’t painted it there as it was later in the afternoon and I had just over a hour drive to get home. 

Anyway, I decided to “get over myself” and added the paint this morning. I had to look up MANSE in the dictionary and turns out it means a Presbyterian minister’s house.   How fitting! The house was built in 1886, I laughed when the tour guide said that she wasn’t going to take us in the basement because it was creepy!!!  Our house was built in 1892 and our basement is indeed “creepy” too!!  

I don’t know who design the floor plan but it is a horrible layout where there was four doors and the back staircase leading to a super small dining room.  

In the end, I’m glad I stuck to it and finished the page. 

Anne of Green Gables Author

Yesterday I went for a drive and had a tour of where L. M. Montgomery wrote 11 of her 22 books.  She wrote the hugely popular Anne of Green Gables series.  I love seeing where she wrote them in “long hand”!!  The home is only a few doors down from the Presbyterian church where her husband was the pastor. This is only a representative illustration but I wanted to document my visit. 

Inspired by…

Here is my go for today.  I enjoyed my attempt at making some art inspired by Patricia Govezensky.  I love her rich colours!! 

I used different types of markers that I had in my case and pencil crayons for the skin tone.