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  Watercolour paper, ink, 6" x 9" Mom has been doing her exercises in bed this morning for the first time in a long time. She is full of energy. I went into her room to update her on plans this next week for family visits. "Mom, I'm sorry I have been so cranky. Today will be a better day. It will be nice to have family visiting next week." Mom replied, "You're not cranky. You're an angel!"

  Water colour paper, acrylic ink, pen and ink, 7 1/2" x 11" Added another layer of blue / red mixes. Next will be a green series to apply local colour to the foliage of the trees - warm green in the front, cool green on the spruce tree. Leave the house, fence and railing warm. Leave the sky blue/grey.

  I have a comic book project on my mind. The story of life in a small stream ravine behind a suburban neighbourhood. There is wildlife - there are bears, coyotes, skunks, raccoons, rats, mice, eagles, songbirds, crows, ravines. The stream is part of the giant watershed that drains into the Fraser River. Like Charlotte's Web but with rain forest habitat instead of a barn. Like Pogo but in a Western Canadian regional park on the edge of a housing development instead of Okefenokee Swamp.

  Watercolour paper, acrylic ink

 

  Watercolour paper, graphite, pencil crayon, acrylic paint, pen and ink - 9" x 11" I have mixed feelings about this piece. I forgot to take a progress photo after I added the ground colour and before I added the warm reds to the subject and then continued to elaborate with white and black ink. I was really happy with the original idea, of a bonded pair sitting perched on a wire, each looking in different directions but sitting in close proximity to each other. That feeling of, "Give me space but don't go too far away." The delicate balance amongst autonomy, solitude and loneliness.  It is thinking about relationships, position, connection, confidence, empowerment, belonging, and self worth that is inspiring this exploration. It is also awareness of the feeling of foreboding that permeates each day. This feeling of precarious balance amongst stability, inspiration and dread.  The stability of having a home address, of having a daily routine, of somehow maintaini...