It’s been a while since I worked in watercolours, but I decided to revisit them and see how my handling of composition and the flow of the medium has changed since working with fabric paints and surface design techniques. A trip to the art store (M. Francis Kelly on Golf Ave.) yielded some new brushes…
Category: kids
All thumbs
Some kids need video games or elaborate toys to keep them happy. Not so with our child. Katherine is one of those kids who takes joy in the simple things. For instance, she was over the moon when I came back from the store on Monday with two new pairs of mittens and a pair…
Katherine tries out realism as an artform
Most of Katherine’s art is very impressionistic. Her crabs, for instance, reflect rather her feelings about crabs than any real crabitude. They’re red and huge and have very pointy claws, but the shape is somewhat amorphous. I’ve been trying recently to show her how to see shapes in things and to draw with some attention…
Unusual ambitions
We had a little interview with a local television news station at the gallery today. Katherine coloured away happily throughout and was mostly quiet, except when spoken to…… Toni-Marie Wiseman (interviewer): So, do you want to be an artist when you grow up? Katherine: No. I want to be a man named John. Me: (muttering)…
Score one for the girls
I posted recently about some cosmetics cases for kids that were embellished with the slogans “too pretty to do math” or “too cute to do math” sold at Loblaws stores here in Newfoundland (and presumably elsewhere, as well). I wrote to the chain and was assured, in much the same wording as was Natasha, that…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 