tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64482144629942253022024-02-09T16:58:59.252-05:00The Ramblings of Joy LakingNova Scotia Artist, Joy Laking, posts ramblings while she's travelling and painting in South America.Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.comBlogger221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-59618467843692002842023-04-12T06:56:00.000-04:002023-04-12T06:56:05.757-04:00April 12, 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACV1_klEIEdYFh36V261-wWA20PYSia3sLm5odbZ0ksPFrvT5wb7Teqo5SAF0Q5ettLub3RTCZ1essEl0QYiY2u3sJB8UKYsWO6SbicV358T2AEenksjKhRRZgbgTjPOAD1-l4KVQoG6jiZ8KUoR-Rjp6YKcNMiedYeTAk7_FqYC6OhHtpHMPx9pESw/s3495/em&ivy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3495" data-original-width="2547" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACV1_klEIEdYFh36V261-wWA20PYSia3sLm5odbZ0ksPFrvT5wb7Teqo5SAF0Q5ettLub3RTCZ1essEl0QYiY2u3sJB8UKYsWO6SbicV358T2AEenksjKhRRZgbgTjPOAD1-l4KVQoG6jiZ8KUoR-Rjp6YKcNMiedYeTAk7_FqYC6OhHtpHMPx9pESw/s320/em&ivy.jpg" width="233" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">Twice before, I have witnessed the ultimate of luxury shopping;</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">the first time on Rodeo Drive in Los Angelos and the second time at the Queen Victoria Building, in Sydney Australia. Now we are in the old town of Prague.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">In the 1950’s the Jewish Ghetto was leveled<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtqzoUNOb8xzU6W9GzOTR10IDSuVG0Xnixk2ulzjjTqwXhkbRciUJgeAIT9xTKWTuMLJep9niKC5IVYvHpMOJ7wXDRy5NikWywPOEaqs6_hkW4UYx7iYZEZrpnunJr47EvRkA3Ww0EQBRAm-_JclLNTRnFEhrqXBRYH0X2BwmKgE_1B8Mr2pNwyAn_ww/s3536/waves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3536" data-original-width="2582" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtqzoUNOb8xzU6W9GzOTR10IDSuVG0Xnixk2ulzjjTqwXhkbRciUJgeAIT9xTKWTuMLJep9niKC5IVYvHpMOJ7wXDRy5NikWywPOEaqs6_hkW4UYx7iYZEZrpnunJr47EvRkA3Ww0EQBRAm-_JclLNTRnFEhrqXBRYH0X2BwmKgE_1B8Mr2pNwyAn_ww/s320/waves.jpg" width="234" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4KctfVRdIxzNtxUYENG2plMyzQD7-bZpUN-sUeVdmWrgEGa4hAsYfRPFsZ8hgS5mwAcZRQnpvOhjICD2YLFIDKRsldZFNyvdrb9G_gl1H9I_XfRYMlVYVal1qV4XVRcp0QDDNNTPxA0qngdhmgz6uONfMOwQnOn_1KPq6t4ccC7b8P1cHd8p0aXOrw/s3598/prague.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3598" data-original-width="2702" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4KctfVRdIxzNtxUYENG2plMyzQD7-bZpUN-sUeVdmWrgEGa4hAsYfRPFsZ8hgS5mwAcZRQnpvOhjICD2YLFIDKRsldZFNyvdrb9G_gl1H9I_XfRYMlVYVal1qV4XVRcp0QDDNNTPxA0qngdhmgz6uONfMOwQnOn_1KPq6t4ccC7b8P1cHd8p0aXOrw/s320/prague.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /> and now ultimate high-end shopping has taken its place..</span><p></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Inside each shop door, a handsome, thirties-something man dressed in an impeccable black suit with a pristine white shirt stands, ready to open that door, ready to smile and welcome you to tranquil perfection. The sales clerks, at the back of the store are gorgeous young women perfectly coiffed and dressed in fitted black jackets and short skirts. Their long beautiful legs stand comfortably in black stilettos. Their jewelry is understated, gold or pearls. All the attention is on the “product” by Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Tiffany, Prada, or Gucci. Handbags might be sparkly clutches that shimmer and shine or large, subdued carry-alls. All zipper pulls or fastenings have the understated but recognizable logo. Something for every occasion as long as you are rich.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNmLhFUWEZ_qE6MvCKPcoGCyOq9Ws7kEaR--icrawA3yHQ8j5GdtTPwYQybMZms8n4g_pjQ5Ny_Ibe4VpQPFbVApD-o2bLi-ydZQ87AtKJjw5F007efO_1_VWFp2Q1FX1e6v7tp-5TzAnIuf04DTnLZs-KmDfXhrS8aA8EiAkrWnPCt6ci35EkBWvI-A/s3309/woman%20at%20bakery%20truck.jpg%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3309" data-original-width="2503" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNmLhFUWEZ_qE6MvCKPcoGCyOq9Ws7kEaR--icrawA3yHQ8j5GdtTPwYQybMZms8n4g_pjQ5Ny_Ibe4VpQPFbVApD-o2bLi-ydZQ87AtKJjw5F007efO_1_VWFp2Q1FX1e6v7tp-5TzAnIuf04DTnLZs-KmDfXhrS8aA8EiAkrWnPCt6ci35EkBWvI-A/s320/woman%20at%20bakery%20truck.jpg%20.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-55869293491925890032023-04-05T03:30:00.001-04:002023-04-05T03:30:46.707-04:00April 5, 2023<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The good news is that the other day, when it seemed like we walked for many miles because we were lost, we came across an art supply store and I am now the proud owner of a pencil, an eraser and three brushes!!!! This is our last full day in Prague and I have decided to post the latest sketches and the unfinished quarter sheet started yesterday because once back in Germany we won’t have Facebook again. It is still really too cold to paint outside. I lasted only an hour, and because of the cold everything stays wet a long time. The unfinished Charles Bridge sketch was done waiting to go into a concert and yesterday I did the one with the river while waiting to go on a boat trip!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnWfz4Aq1jvzU8rkA1f6DNfpZ0sctH5a3H9cROzlb1BCSAErLfuEUZJk0EkYfhGREuoLGewU_-YFx745O64C6dWBmOHux-xgk7Q671THKdxvC-bmsyb1s7HbS6JN1bZ7hVHILVkhldD7Qg0CuV66fDBKvM8RXunbBTQpvScyTd1_p3SJyCyVePNx9J-w/s4032/IMG_0898.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnWfz4Aq1jvzU8rkA1f6DNfpZ0sctH5a3H9cROzlb1BCSAErLfuEUZJk0EkYfhGREuoLGewU_-YFx745O64C6dWBmOHux-xgk7Q671THKdxvC-bmsyb1s7HbS6JN1bZ7hVHILVkhldD7Qg0CuV66fDBKvM8RXunbBTQpvScyTd1_p3SJyCyVePNx9J-w/s320/IMG_0898.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuYYb1CEiKgE4Wc1QTQmwvdT7eypJzJ8dnjLmBcRIBqq24puQ1KORQt0YORwh4YeooDkMYZ_FOAbzWs1QT8dTRumDCctV3sxk5ixIfRnPeGeLnidLV5EQ0jh6MvHP7lXL9mtVmaUFHyYTMxKbritLbStyUkzwmpBm__zFUyZ-4uM1S-rEriwRNPP-fVg/s4032/IMG_0897.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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It is so beautiful and the preEaster time is a great time to visit. Yesterday we saw exhibitions of Mucha, Dali and Warhol. Although interesting, there was nothing inspiring to me. Last night we attended a great concert by part of the Royal Czech Orchestra in St. Salvator church. I had time to do two sketches once we found the venue before the concert. Unfortunately, I realized that I lost my pencil case with all of my brushes, and pencil. This sketch was painted today with a brush made out of a toilet paper roll, my hair and tape. Not the best brush. It does have two ends, one fine and one chunky. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN2mQmJNWjQ_lYvsOWYL8hgrO6XNwlGwnQE7JcH6UapX9HpXenoLmNvI09GLlrZxJ9klSwMqCqDf2ZvrexhYvfBSubnh5AaGdbKC9Rk5TGhpfv3OqjxxX79Y85nBOzkJ13RfAydgHj23PTxeupyfKAXVQ9JNAkimu23GCo7g_j5zgWWsuHR6m1mZSqDw/s3725/praguesketchStSalvator.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2781" data-original-width="3725" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN2mQmJNWjQ_lYvsOWYL8hgrO6XNwlGwnQE7JcH6UapX9HpXenoLmNvI09GLlrZxJ9klSwMqCqDf2ZvrexhYvfBSubnh5AaGdbKC9Rk5TGhpfv3OqjxxX79Y85nBOzkJ13RfAydgHj23PTxeupyfKAXVQ9JNAkimu23GCo7g_j5zgWWsuHR6m1mZSqDw/s320/praguesketchStSalvator.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Old Town Prague</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihHbB_IAvQ0ncd7hq-BI8hXaPBicwZVx2LhcoXLWyYxy7MZYcwT6fHFlw04CzWhBO3YVUrw24DWUJWriYuxlw8PNGi_QBucxIvixrykIkk77QThWiId0fO45QnqdeKCQlzy-vmwFCoWKIT2VONmr95tn-Ij4bv43FZlscYW9GdUEWNG_uB-SnWSS_WGQ/s3630/sketch1,Prague.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3630" data-original-width="2716" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihHbB_IAvQ0ncd7hq-BI8hXaPBicwZVx2LhcoXLWyYxy7MZYcwT6fHFlw04CzWhBO3YVUrw24DWUJWriYuxlw8PNGi_QBucxIvixrykIkk77QThWiId0fO45QnqdeKCQlzy-vmwFCoWKIT2VONmr95tn-Ij4bv43FZlscYW9GdUEWNG_uB-SnWSS_WGQ/s320/sketch1,Prague.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Winding streets twist and turn,</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And often narrow to alleys.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Cars and clusters of Ubber electric scooters </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Line the cobbled streets and sidewalks.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The glorious facades of the five-story buildings are</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A rainbow of pastel colours.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The exteriors of these upstairs apartments are </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Covered with embellishment, reminding me of wedding cakes.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Domes, towers, balconies and roofs are decorated with </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Stone sculptures, often of nearly naked men or women. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVH8RQsiMjcYG7MfKSDYK0xtT6M_nZ2BqlqwerZD3_5TL4aSHb0MHkn5nUmI_1P_3Pc8SMUTTfRXDTV73JiZVNheeRhWyttcMSs8TDnJpJN0oR1-2AnfvLOR66RpVr2HT4bp_oERYo6vE_rtg_0EZJaAn41ceN9xxXBHk2I6fhBObSfBtXHgM1uUw78g/s3735/sketch2,Prague.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3735" data-original-width="2817" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVH8RQsiMjcYG7MfKSDYK0xtT6M_nZ2BqlqwerZD3_5TL4aSHb0MHkn5nUmI_1P_3Pc8SMUTTfRXDTV73JiZVNheeRhWyttcMSs8TDnJpJN0oR1-2AnfvLOR66RpVr2HT4bp_oERYo6vE_rtg_0EZJaAn41ceN9xxXBHk2I6fhBObSfBtXHgM1uUw78g/s320/sketch2,Prague.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">At street level are cafes, pubs, hotels, bakeries, ATM’s,</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Sprinkled in with brand name shops such as Hermes, Victorinox, Hugo Bosh.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In one shop window, a man in a dazzling, white shirt and immaculate black suit,</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Uses a tiny brush to whisk away the dust in a jewelry display.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Outside in the 10th-century main square,</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Located between Wenceslas Square and Charles Bridge, </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Giant rabbits and eggs are decorations for Easter.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Vendors cook hams, goulash and chimney cakes</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On outdoor fires.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Some vendors sell baked goods, cheeses, and souvenirs.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">An accordion and a bass player fill the square with music and dance.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">While the spires of churches, palaces and government buildings</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Catch the last of the day’s sun.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31Svx5XXDWnLBR9A-k1H7w2V71TJj829Vl08hiUdXUBhspwODFSkSkQLknzYyTTWufdq5obyo6KaFSe7aPJeofH7kjxNi-LGPUyo6PELrT91quTFAuI9kOuVlFJCuna6zlTAU6IHPR-V_nfwYPaQtu-1HgtXQtK5_hy5-OPOvb3A6YrC38_9jLGyvjQ/s2818/sketch3,Prague.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2112" data-original-width="2818" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31Svx5XXDWnLBR9A-k1H7w2V71TJj829Vl08hiUdXUBhspwODFSkSkQLknzYyTTWufdq5obyo6KaFSe7aPJeofH7kjxNi-LGPUyo6PELrT91quTFAuI9kOuVlFJCuna6zlTAU6IHPR-V_nfwYPaQtu-1HgtXQtK5_hy5-OPOvb3A6YrC38_9jLGyvjQ/s320/sketch3,Prague.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-89194791145257548702023-03-28T06:40:00.001-04:002023-03-28T06:40:09.424-04:00March 29, 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span> <span> </span> <span> <span> <span> On</span></span></span></span> the way to the airport, back in February, I noticed the winter colour of the blueberry </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span>fields<span> </span>with some white pines behind. I did a little sketch to remind me of this image</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span> and this week, while playing around with skies, I decided to try it. There was <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> a second </span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>sky experiment on the bottom of the sheet and I decided that instead of the <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span>blueberry field coming right into the foreground, I would change it into an inlet with reflections. It felt</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">good to paint Nova Scotia again even though we are in Germany.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hH3Q11bqLCsMGs9eih0uiyLUBPfZ_biw0Ge6KhRrvufQCC_5QY0a3nVf8jqCXpwpf4SV4GtzhUgOB-EvXz32n3pwDsiBOft0y5tTtmZWcmoUOOKeEoQkGy5WfsGfyz9gcDt8E8YVxx-hdZlyGfHHrOoK60oK7QIvz3CjtaaEZjGFGd-eAkATEi2geQ/s3086/blueberryfield&whitepines.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3086" data-original-width="2218" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hH3Q11bqLCsMGs9eih0uiyLUBPfZ_biw0Ge6KhRrvufQCC_5QY0a3nVf8jqCXpwpf4SV4GtzhUgOB-EvXz32n3pwDsiBOft0y5tTtmZWcmoUOOKeEoQkGy5WfsGfyz9gcDt8E8YVxx-hdZlyGfHHrOoK60oK7QIvz3CjtaaEZjGFGd-eAkATEi2geQ/s320/blueberryfield&whitepines.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrHKFDK26kxX9IDrHIB5RSPaFi82mh1Uxb2gA32W3XGMo4GUT7gxYqs1du4GUOnEDedPAUhkMZ8wy8uKjbSCa0yKMxU8cd9dH8TtfLGzchM2XDqe9jU1ZWVYiGFeguPj2MAc_InKaMhLbQ5PXatuH0GEMK24oClKlDnrDfW8c7awQhE8xAu-Zw6Siltw/s3658/marketvegetables.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2591" data-original-width="3658" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrHKFDK26kxX9IDrHIB5RSPaFi82mh1Uxb2gA32W3XGMo4GUT7gxYqs1du4GUOnEDedPAUhkMZ8wy8uKjbSCa0yKMxU8cd9dH8TtfLGzchM2XDqe9jU1ZWVYiGFeguPj2MAc_InKaMhLbQ5PXatuH0GEMK24oClKlDnrDfW8c7awQhE8xAu-Zw6Siltw/s320/marketvegetables.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another quartersheet watercolour inspire by the Uelzen Market. This time the vegetable stall.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOdoK972MoGP8zRtJCNxMyP0iBYYg92VjEhG6iS3RTth0peU13mrPTun2r4REX_wIysSwj4_ChK4WVzBhsb5LJ60AdeBZC8EpMi0zXSnrSUHoJ6p5pEylbImCXQGnJvgFdAr_Em3U0zLjmPzVQx4u9sUK92KJ1-NFbuOgoe1JtpKUPsT7Eej5KTG-tQ/s3598/roses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3598" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOdoK972MoGP8zRtJCNxMyP0iBYYg92VjEhG6iS3RTth0peU13mrPTun2r4REX_wIysSwj4_ChK4WVzBhsb5LJ60AdeBZC8EpMi0zXSnrSUHoJ6p5pEylbImCXQGnJvgFdAr_Em3U0zLjmPzVQx4u9sUK92KJ1-NFbuOgoe1JtpKUPsT7Eej5KTG-tQ/s320/roses.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The roses aren't quite finished but they are getting there.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwE6UXUCsajFXXPesO-7V7UVJtzSchsOKoiQdrXtD02HdgJPSUdVuxWVz-HSubUCdLHCbdhXq2anrMkjNCufXKE_dElqDuffv4SqDcdIj_oZ43ojX4fDhbqUXB6U9u3e09_vxHlr3SvPEq5kxl6Q4ayc3MZ_mpE-qCzobrU6Lrqv1mIT9GP0E5BHU48Q/s3588/blueberrysketch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3588" data-original-width="2242" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwE6UXUCsajFXXPesO-7V7UVJtzSchsOKoiQdrXtD02HdgJPSUdVuxWVz-HSubUCdLHCbdhXq2anrMkjNCufXKE_dElqDuffv4SqDcdIj_oZ43ojX4fDhbqUXB6U9u3e09_vxHlr3SvPEq5kxl6Q4ayc3MZ_mpE-qCzobrU6Lrqv1mIT9GP0E5BHU48Q/s320/blueberrysketch.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">this is the sketch, that I did in the car on the way to the airport.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tomorrow, we are off to Prague for a week.</div><br /></div><br /><br /> <p></p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-87812977572607769182023-03-23T14:37:00.002-04:002023-03-23T14:37:36.292-04:00March 23. 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I thought this one was finished before we went to Holland but thinking about it while we were away, I decided it needed another layer on the sky and that I needed to subdue the buildings just a little bit. So here is is, the first one that I thought was done and then with another layer on the sky and some darkening of shadows on the buildings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9nAfFxuLdrtRo0fkmFumQxbrKDTdM8mA__Zlk68kqHSmyEQXdJhKOLvnNefo2xd7IeMlokSCQREwJrMVz8keBVDWR8QLUHc0E6Zmcm7_r9kkRHb7CGyVS3WcRKmqvNScutRl_pf-YkXhXvPowJWMVuXGALPfa52CzNEy7t6Cox_46Bo4X5wvOXJwKrw/s3654/uelzeneveningfirst.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2792" data-original-width="3654" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9nAfFxuLdrtRo0fkmFumQxbrKDTdM8mA__Zlk68kqHSmyEQXdJhKOLvnNefo2xd7IeMlokSCQREwJrMVz8keBVDWR8QLUHc0E6Zmcm7_r9kkRHb7CGyVS3WcRKmqvNScutRl_pf-YkXhXvPowJWMVuXGALPfa52CzNEy7t6Cox_46Bo4X5wvOXJwKrw/s320/uelzeneveningfirst.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8DpFpmuuRcMefiipjfrmEQ5kuWUs2bNp2m0C4PBe5g_4AMT_ok5ZIdk3CF1pkVmRBBs_s1vQigO5g1c5_D7GR0utDcJvOGEhLL9lH5XnLZuin7tHL1OsGGnbFvxZAiRa6rHf1-NAnnQ6p8yVca8N7WAwerP_LhQQmvlT69KOHkOjkYJusqMQHzjpxbA/s3759/eveningskyuelzenrevised.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2616" data-original-width="3759" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8DpFpmuuRcMefiipjfrmEQ5kuWUs2bNp2m0C4PBe5g_4AMT_ok5ZIdk3CF1pkVmRBBs_s1vQigO5g1c5_D7GR0utDcJvOGEhLL9lH5XnLZuin7tHL1OsGGnbFvxZAiRa6rHf1-NAnnQ6p8yVca8N7WAwerP_LhQQmvlT69KOHkOjkYJusqMQHzjpxbA/s320/eveningskyuelzenrevised.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-60920121039672425822023-03-22T10:55:00.015-04:002023-03-22T15:07:34.135-04:00March 22,2023<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG54-NsWI1_HCfnvhY0eS-dZTXAS0GeE99rGcCi4OMKyTyZLkSz318vYox-9DSwv9Ws3bVDVcYYPkk6QdagFQ4ES2x_AFnZ2ZKYBVLz9NMEdPPzhFwLc0aGYHSNjqdH5g2TGugn9CT1isSsyJMa6aNAvBKC0zd_ZnRzZ0DlrQR3nkwo5FEUaWVpoh1FQ/s1827/blossoms.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1288" data-original-width="1827" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG54-NsWI1_HCfnvhY0eS-dZTXAS0GeE99rGcCi4OMKyTyZLkSz318vYox-9DSwv9Ws3bVDVcYYPkk6QdagFQ4ES2x_AFnZ2ZKYBVLz9NMEdPPzhFwLc0aGYHSNjqdH5g2TGugn9CT1isSsyJMa6aNAvBKC0zd_ZnRzZ0DlrQR3nkwo5FEUaWVpoh1FQ/s320/blossoms.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cherry blossoms in Amsterdam</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdw7ITXyCf9ThvwMk281rddW7-nUikDk1XMAf9VpB60o6WMUgAsy6P5EliwZoqOrdS3Dn35oaxxDtGWmilRwU6QXPNiqb8UuDalfqHjVlvL4CZX1LF3U3MwXxvp46hYEsgLcYCoeIwA6ECdUzKNMUjSKUdDUrabkbKkeJUSGqUPtFXVBXQ9TQd2NJUuQ/s2239/bike.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1596" data-original-width="2239" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdw7ITXyCf9ThvwMk281rddW7-nUikDk1XMAf9VpB60o6WMUgAsy6P5EliwZoqOrdS3Dn35oaxxDtGWmilRwU6QXPNiqb8UuDalfqHjVlvL4CZX1LF3U3MwXxvp46hYEsgLcYCoeIwA6ECdUzKNMUjSKUdDUrabkbKkeJUSGqUPtFXVBXQ9TQd2NJUuQ/s320/bike.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Canal in Amsterdam</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfmVRiLf5Cy9Fp_6b4XsuR0pEcd_WsNVXjtnJknaUQlE8n1LPmZ8AU6zPeIpa0BesMIAGYe8_eNzb_cu5dB6W4cE6UxcOXajs4I0HbV13gGZWt3abb5XIlxhfvsVNiVqpk9UOf1MMe1puYJD7YYNCRlsMTCbNrhXD-mE3e7pQ2nggpERMwkWqHvUcmw/s3067/pump.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3067" data-original-width="2398" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfmVRiLf5Cy9Fp_6b4XsuR0pEcd_WsNVXjtnJknaUQlE8n1LPmZ8AU6zPeIpa0BesMIAGYe8_eNzb_cu5dB6W4cE6UxcOXajs4I0HbV13gGZWt3abb5XIlxhfvsVNiVqpk9UOf1MMe1puYJD7YYNCRlsMTCbNrhXD-mE3e7pQ2nggpERMwkWqHvUcmw/s320/pump.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rembrant's kitchen (Amsterdam)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgpivvyyGuVTVLANCPKkH1Du4GDAM6WOSC5gsQYgHQy_OMelsSFdfCKQprrjQgZbU3TcR9t5vddrtLleEoTo0JMSqz4mHeZMZGyeczTqYsGVDpeqaKTt11LbWaw4lNRk5LTMzGEPrOlWOJugVF8LAJ0o0aYBFXizJt1hJoTgES6u2COK6K3GZqDFBZPA/s3197/girlscell.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2356" data-original-width="3197" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgpivvyyGuVTVLANCPKkH1Du4GDAM6WOSC5gsQYgHQy_OMelsSFdfCKQprrjQgZbU3TcR9t5vddrtLleEoTo0JMSqz4mHeZMZGyeczTqYsGVDpeqaKTt11LbWaw4lNRk5LTMzGEPrOlWOJugVF8LAJ0o0aYBFXizJt1hJoTgES6u2COK6K3GZqDFBZPA/s320/girlscell.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span><span><span><span> <span><span><span> Girls waiting for a train in Amsterdam</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">People sit at train stations</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Clutching cellphones.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They stomp along in crowds</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Conversing alone.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They are a river of bicyclists</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Racing along narrow bike-lanes,</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Wedges between car traffic and pedestrians.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Earbuds firmly in,</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They take calls, list to music,</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Check train schedules.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Signs on shops say</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">"NO CASH; cards only".</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Credit cards are on phones,</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As well as tickets to art museums,</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Directions, emails, banking,</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Menus at restaurants.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Check-in codes for hotels,</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Fares for tram cars.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">No longer do people handle money.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Contactless transactions are the new norm.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p></div>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-38660573052193725702023-03-19T04:18:00.002-04:002023-03-22T10:48:53.629-04:00march19 Amsterdam<p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">Bikers, helmet-less</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">Often in pristine dresses, skirts or business suits,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">Sit upright and pedal hard and fast.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They are a cycling river.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The bike lanes are narrow</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Weaving between the cars and us, the pedestrians,</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Twisting around light poles and</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Electric car charging stations.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Many of the bikes have large front carts,</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Containing one or two children,</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Sometimes an adult,</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Often a dog.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It is exhilarating to see this river</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Of human energy.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I would never ride in Amsterdam.</p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-22296314400230840052023-03-14T09:53:00.001-04:002023-03-14T09:53:13.893-04:00March14, 2023<p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">Four more paintings worked on. I did another small painting of the tulips. This time they were a little bit opened.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">By the time we return from Amsterdam in another week, they will all be open or dead.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The tiny still life was so appealing that I did half sheet, still life of the little plant and the salt shaker, and the large leafed parsley in the lovely shaped green wine bottle. Finally we could eat the pear, the garlic, and the orange! And I am planning to bring the wine bottle home for future still lifes.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I’ve almost finished the half sheet, night painting. For some reason, I decided to try it on hot pressed paper instead of my usual cold pressed paper. I feel like I have been fighting the paper all the way through. It is like painting on glass and the paint doesn’t stay put.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjvngjFGft0iVagRMMSJb5Rfo7PiOI7oeq3ck3-98HaOAQSKyt0TLy-YinVVgWQunrI8kT-gYM1AJtCfrfG1Cu7uQEP9VKrh11VHtyqd1cWPSYcq21-QFtP4spYJPlT3sTp-t38G5dSO3LxTQ4XZYjVPH0R5hHiX_IuWkSn1dKjW8NzElo38gPDe6AQQ/s3159/nightbig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2415" data-original-width="3159" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjvngjFGft0iVagRMMSJb5Rfo7PiOI7oeq3ck3-98HaOAQSKyt0TLy-YinVVgWQunrI8kT-gYM1AJtCfrfG1Cu7uQEP9VKrh11VHtyqd1cWPSYcq21-QFtP4spYJPlT3sTp-t38G5dSO3LxTQ4XZYjVPH0R5hHiX_IuWkSn1dKjW8NzElo38gPDe6AQQ/s320/nightbig.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Yesterday at suppertime, we had a beautiful sky. Back to rain today. This morning I decided to try to capture the gorgeous sky from last evening with the rooflines and tops of the town of Uelzen that we see out our window. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tomorrow, we are off by train to Holland to look at the art among other things. My new small pack is too small for a quarter sheet of paper so I will just take along a bunch of tiny watercolour pieces for sketches and tiny paintings. Hopefully we will have Facebook at our hotel Amsterdam and I will transcribe some of these blog postings into Facebook postings.</p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-80868796735912045172023-03-10T09:02:00.001-05:002023-03-10T09:02:27.341-05:00March 10, 2023<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This morning, I awoke to another snowy day in Uelzen, Germany. Kids are throwing snow balls, people are scrapping sidewalks. It is quite slippery for the folks still riding their bicycles.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzywsRpk-pkF6_yakBSvxls-905yCWc82zkTBuorvXC8ons9MsQIRUwRAIUydzqYQSI8rwbthAhUeMLaO98I05s6rbQ982y31QexBGltlDFYA5kWoK6knFHTGWqu9xsmGyoVMfevYP8J-Tzn14ykN25MDH-8nyCTjs_7dpEPpazNwldPrNVFT83r9Yg/s4032/mar101.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2956" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzywsRpk-pkF6_yakBSvxls-905yCWc82zkTBuorvXC8ons9MsQIRUwRAIUydzqYQSI8rwbthAhUeMLaO98I05s6rbQ982y31QexBGltlDFYA5kWoK6knFHTGWqu9xsmGyoVMfevYP8J-Tzn14ykN25MDH-8nyCTjs_7dpEPpazNwldPrNVFT83r9Yg/s320/mar101.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkebvnrctKBhBM_gwPEG6o2LDYFnELv7YjUKrlbbaaQblZ7gN6woPinWmKHrH-nO7xlNX1jh-hJctIl4h0DSkTmCLx6hyXKPjrxiwbYCe2pEBXgt4Hu8DR4g45shl7j8sLK5yfxqK9pOrYNzgYUycW9TfI0h7oBzClO_x9nSHueXzr6We5nLBcaiKf9w/s4032/mar102.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkebvnrctKBhBM_gwPEG6o2LDYFnELv7YjUKrlbbaaQblZ7gN6woPinWmKHrH-nO7xlNX1jh-hJctIl4h0DSkTmCLx6hyXKPjrxiwbYCe2pEBXgt4Hu8DR4g45shl7j8sLK5yfxqK9pOrYNzgYUycW9TfI0h7oBzClO_x9nSHueXzr6We5nLBcaiKf9w/s320/mar102.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> With the snow on the roofs, my night time view from my window, looks much different with snowy roofs and so I continued working for a couple of hours on the large still life, I started yesterday.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh16wl9mMIp-mRl2TKuZ4V-tfQ26PjIevlwFBkzxHlnuodavVlEEg4n3yO80N4bipVJsmtDOwD5ko7gJoDyEjAp2afQTxDKEk20dFrxlDCrR261jJmJ1xANsBf6szZJcaeNKHcSw0gcg3y3cN34oVJKrdP8QWjfC9lNlfktzLd_aAqY2tuRTrUh_OV4CQ/s3164/mar10ptg2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3164" data-original-width="2857" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh16wl9mMIp-mRl2TKuZ4V-tfQ26PjIevlwFBkzxHlnuodavVlEEg4n3yO80N4bipVJsmtDOwD5ko7gJoDyEjAp2afQTxDKEk20dFrxlDCrR261jJmJ1xANsBf6szZJcaeNKHcSw0gcg3y3cN34oVJKrdP8QWjfC9lNlfktzLd_aAqY2tuRTrUh_OV4CQ/s320/mar10ptg2.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">When I got tired of working on it, I looked closely at the tulips that I bought yesterday. When they open, (if they open before we head off to Holland next Wednesday) I am hoping to do a large very loose tulips painting. In the meantime, I did a tiny sketch of the tulips that I bought yesterday. </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7vb7YnqwA7wt6tPi9rU-KqU_k0h4VKHDo00oBR26pafHgzgE-Abh7cxTQkSRo1IyGfBlke57g-SLVfOz4ZNcLghsoqkjqa-ROMvXl9VFfYBLAQ9c9q1JUlMkKlZeGCi4ocQe1iMkSKbliYEag7CmMTcU8B65rEyCMroxTxGTngIr3N36-eAtiSRcNYw/s3585/Mar10ptg3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2720" data-original-width="3585" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7vb7YnqwA7wt6tPi9rU-KqU_k0h4VKHDo00oBR26pafHgzgE-Abh7cxTQkSRo1IyGfBlke57g-SLVfOz4ZNcLghsoqkjqa-ROMvXl9VFfYBLAQ9c9q1JUlMkKlZeGCi4ocQe1iMkSKbliYEag7CmMTcU8B65rEyCMroxTxGTngIr3N36-eAtiSRcNYw/s320/Mar10ptg3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I am reading a most fascinating book in my time off, Glenn Gould, Music and Mind, by Geoffrey Payment. It is a bit of a tough read but I am enjoying reading about the idiosyncrasies of a creative person. Lots of them I identify with. I pulled this book off Emily’s book shelf in our apartment not knowing that it was a recent gift to Emily from her father, Phil, just prior to his death. Emily is doing a big music adjudication this June in preparation for studying for a degree in Music Education. I can see why her Dad gave her this book. The start of the book upto about page twenty-five is really about the importance of playing with the heart, in addition to playing with the music. When I was forty, I took fiddle classes every Friday night with an excellent music teacher Peter Dunn. For many of the folks who played by ear in the class, Peter would tell them “Pay attention to the music”. For me, who easily could read music, Peter would always remind me to play with heart and stop focusing on the music! </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Since we arrived in Uelzen, I have had a relationship with a pigeon, sitting on the top of a roof in my view out the window. “Aren’t you cold, aren’t you lonely?” I would ask him.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIY2QCu_YYYLllPj87-60-319oz5opPUZHBDN3zlgptfzf3KyVNx3NX-wsZAAxCSAYFr0M6bzF0bGWktWorqjkl-LKjrTPmB-REVEIl0fNN9toXksyQDp__kZ6MlIRRG6t28X4uzO3dKC47uTqqX2FtYAT8Ha3CdrM0-79qztNs4kIb0E-u2Xl8u8J-w/s3873/mar10ptg1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2860" data-original-width="3873" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIY2QCu_YYYLllPj87-60-319oz5opPUZHBDN3zlgptfzf3KyVNx3NX-wsZAAxCSAYFr0M6bzF0bGWktWorqjkl-LKjrTPmB-REVEIl0fNN9toXksyQDp__kZ6MlIRRG6t28X4uzO3dKC47uTqqX2FtYAT8Ha3CdrM0-79qztNs4kIb0E-u2Xl8u8J-w/s320/mar10ptg1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then yesterday, Jim noticed two smaller pigeons on the roof and I realized that my pigeon friend is not a pigeon at all but the top of a chimney that appears over the ridge-line of the house. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Lots of people think that watercolours allow no room for changing your mind. Everything has to be done right the first time. I used to think that, but gradually after playing around with oils and acrylics, I realize that it is possible to do watercolours without preplanning and to keep the creative challenges all the way through a painting. Here’s an example, I worked on today:the bakery truck, at the market in uelzen, Germany. In the first go round, I had a jumble of bread on the shelf in front of the sales person. I decided that I needed to all a second baguette to sort of solidify the clutter. I had left some white areas on the lower shelves to try to get a feeling that they were covered in plastic. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1hmACXCidm6YLgciBG_3SLWEjjyD6AOG9aD3dmW7RTVMgFzcn3xFwAu7XR-hhVxJMB7-OObwqeBKhViSyekyPvT-kDTtSuDNp3A7PBkIF-6oF8DGGVLIr11RxA3Uwj7jS5oe3RzKvmiKkb_cqfc_pcA5oYWeGCCcj22g-nj1y_2cNO5ho9i9n-mC-w/s3472/bread%20one.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3472" data-original-width="2486" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1hmACXCidm6YLgciBG_3SLWEjjyD6AOG9aD3dmW7RTVMgFzcn3xFwAu7XR-hhVxJMB7-OObwqeBKhViSyekyPvT-kDTtSuDNp3A7PBkIF-6oF8DGGVLIr11RxA3Uwj7jS5oe3RzKvmiKkb_cqfc_pcA5oYWeGCCcj22g-nj1y_2cNO5ho9i9n-mC-w/s320/bread%20one.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So I set to work with my tiny fitch scrubber and lots of clean water and scrubbed out another baguette on the upper shelf. I also scrubbed the hard white splotches on the lower bread. </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikktta5nIAO8Rlu7mVkCOXy0XkIvPKlU6o6cd0UznJJGCPsc3CCHJvamsM2X5rsleavZMxDSn4U-KdreJYJzjJGnE9Pm9sEmn_dKBtz2d7nJSmVP0hAklyN7v4V1SW6aUnWqMQSPSO3DwprO_JbICWy1Omd4a17lx5x5CAnYPusZh_Y9DYdh0Xt3jK0A/s4032/bread%20scrubbed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikktta5nIAO8Rlu7mVkCOXy0XkIvPKlU6o6cd0UznJJGCPsc3CCHJvamsM2X5rsleavZMxDSn4U-KdreJYJzjJGnE9Pm9sEmn_dKBtz2d7nJSmVP0hAklyN7v4V1SW6aUnWqMQSPSO3DwprO_JbICWy1Omd4a17lx5x5CAnYPusZh_Y9DYdh0Xt3jK0A/s320/bread%20scrubbed.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then we went to the market and bought a baguette and I decided on only one lower support because I felt the full one was too much in the centre and might really divide the image.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Yesterday, I woke up at six-thirty this morning and all of the roofs and trees were laden with snow. I immediately did a little sketch of it out the kitchen window. It was beautiful but I am certain that Jim didn’t think so when he got up. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We also found the way to the craft show. It reminded me of why I don’t like craft shows. All these poor people just hoping that you will buy something. The only way I enjoyed the Portaupique market and the Great Village market was that I bought something from everyone. At the craft market that wasn’t possible. And there was very little that was actually a true arty craft. There were some wooden stumps with melted glass bowls on them that were great.Of course, it was the huge ones with more than one bowl on them that I liked. There were some metal ducks that I particularly liked but they were all the same in different sizes and I wondered if they had copied the duck from something since the other animals and ants were pretty basic. They were colourful and if I had been sure the maker was an artist I would have bought one for Danica. There were three purse makers and all the purses were quite lovely and well-made. Of course, the one I liked best was made of salmon leather and cost almost four-hundred euros, too much for me. And then I have the entire issue that since I am a vegetarian do I want to have animal products in my attire. I do love my red leather shoes and they have held up for years and so I am iffy on this. I decided I can either find a recycled purse at Louis’s, our second-hand shop and then embellish or dye it to suit me or I can use my little back pack that has no leather in it and came for free with Susie, my walker. Anyway, there was nothing as wonderful at Danica’s jewelry at the craft market except the stump with two large molten glass bowls and so I didn’t buy anything. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We were a little low on basics, wine, bread, butter, milk and cheese and so off we walked to the grocery store. The butter here is fabulous as it is required to have more fat in it. It is softer and more delicious than our butter. I did find out that I have to weigh the orange, the apple and the pear that I bought in the vegetable section not at the checkout! Before we came back home we had wonderful coffee and sweets at the grocery store, bakery, and restaurant. Everything looked and smelt fantastic and there were lots of people waiting for their turn to get coffee or baked goods. I wish we had someplace that served such incredible bread back home.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Today I got up at six and spent an hour or two working on a larger painting of night out the window. When I got tired of working on that one, I decided to try a tiny sketch of stuff that was on the table in front of me. Of course, I got hooked and spent the rest of the morning painting this tiny one. This afternoon I finished up the Hunderwasser Train Station, which I started outside a few days ago and the Flower Sellers.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Yesterday, I decided to go outside painting. I only lasted an hour. It was just freezing. I did get a drawing of Hunderwasser’s train station done. Every time a train raced by, I just held on to my stuff! I felt a bit nervous, going off painting by myself which annoyed me but at least I gave it a shot. I took my “Oma” my light weight walker/ painting chair. It definitely should have been tried before we came as I can’t easily reach the ground and all supplies have to be held as well as the painting between my knees. </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOg4wKRfILZV8gHT_4Wro1Nufvyr3AjWDq5t846P-4PFa9RkiETs7yUnRKJ1STagnrRwNIeppFe44z7tpGZWxDqxWfBGa6Qj0Gs1ytyAHB1rSqUBo_SiObu-quc68Zxy66SsO6EtJKYVlPu7Xv2bleKomwHAgOZe2hur05Mb7ABr1T9STEE7Nrah5zhA/s3466/1%20(6).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2568" data-original-width="3466" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOg4wKRfILZV8gHT_4Wro1Nufvyr3AjWDq5t846P-4PFa9RkiETs7yUnRKJ1STagnrRwNIeppFe44z7tpGZWxDqxWfBGa6Qj0Gs1ytyAHB1rSqUBo_SiObu-quc68Zxy66SsO6EtJKYVlPu7Xv2bleKomwHAgOZe2hur05Mb7ABr1T9STEE7Nrah5zhA/s320/1%20(6).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Today we walked to the market and I got vegetables, cheese, and more bread. (One of my high school friends suggested I make bread pudding out of all the stale bread, that I have accumulated as I paint it and it was a great idea and used up allot of it). I also got some fresh rhubarb at the market. Jim had some bratwurst on a bun and was so happy. It is hard for him to be married to a vegetarian but I keep telling him that if learned to cook, he could make whatever he liked. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As soon as we got back home, I stewed the rhubarb with some honey and made a vegetable stew for supper. Then I did a hand wash. And then after a couple of hours of painting, Jim and I set off to a craft market that is happening today and tomorrow. Unfortunately we never found the craft market, and I was getting exhausted and eventually we gave up. We will try to find it tomorrow before, I use up all my energy of other things.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I also finished up the tiny painting I did of the night view out our living room window. I might try a bigger one, which would give me the chance to actually draw the cars. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVjBYz3b0xZCRrf-eFlwvoDOuSg3A8btGUwru4aLig3j7e0c1FQQ2uGZy4tye54yTAYVLfymscFyVrarYFsfmRc2qh1GLUph4wT3WZC-81QivVKeBCXNMNWeVB_hIDd7N0tn1BpOc4p_CSfzzpUvIuscfqzucFdd6sEEfQSfZYr3eXPtPSF88TPR1jw/s3568/1%20(7).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2860" data-original-width="3568" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVjBYz3b0xZCRrf-eFlwvoDOuSg3A8btGUwru4aLig3j7e0c1FQQ2uGZy4tye54yTAYVLfymscFyVrarYFsfmRc2qh1GLUph4wT3WZC-81QivVKeBCXNMNWeVB_hIDd7N0tn1BpOc4p_CSfzzpUvIuscfqzucFdd6sEEfQSfZYr3eXPtPSF88TPR1jw/s320/1%20(7).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Recently, Jim and I did a day trip by train into Luneburg. It was a bit unnerving even though Emily had arranged our tickets and given us directions. The trains move so fast and I am slower to get to my feet. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Our initial train was canceled and so we had to wait an hour at the train station. I sat and did a little sketch of the wonderful Uelzen Train Station with its five coloured columns topped with golden balls. Image my delight yesterday, when I discovered that the station was designed by one of my favourite artists, Hunderwasser in 1999. Hunderwasser died in 2000 and so I am assuming that this was one of his last projects.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Almost fifty years ago, I saw an amazing exhibition by Frederik Hunderwasser at the Saint Mary’s Art Gallery It was part of a world tour and my German artist friend, Brigitte Petersmann, had recommended that I see it. I was hooked and have been a fan ever since. It was only recently talking to a Parrsboro artist friend, Anna Hergert that I found out that Hunderwasser also started designing buildings in the middle of his career. Within the Uelzen Train Station, there is a small Hunderwasser art exhibition, which Jim and I visited this morning at ten am when the museum opened. Definitely this is one of the highlights of my trip. I identify with Hunderwasser’s love of water and of windows and I love his quirky, colourful architectural style that considers art and form before structure when designing new buildings.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We enjoyed seeing Luneburg which has been a town for over 1000 years. It originally had a wall around it and was an independent wealthy town based on its profitable history of salt production. I had a tour in the afternoon of the Rathaus, the government building. Unfortunately, the tour was in German but there was a pamphlet on the building in English. I managed a lot of steps and walking and was totally exhausted afterward. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Market days in Uelzen are Saturday and Wednesday from 7 until 2. Big market trucks pull into the main street which is blocked off and the market happens rain or snow, summer and winter. Several trucks sell meat, bread, cheese and there is a large vegetable vendor. All of the vegetables are marked where they are grown so you can buy locally if you want to. Yesterday we didn’t buy anything as our fridge is stocked but by next Wednesday we will get our food from the market. I have started a painting of the flower truck and a close-up of the bakery truck. This morning I bought some flowers and sweets for the paintings.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">After going to the market in the morning, we hiked to the river and the park at the very far end of our street. I was so tired by the time we got there that I didn’t cross the highway and go on the hiking trails.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Yesterday we went for a walk with Ivy, Kai, Michael and Emily and we found access to the river that is very handy. Kai wanted to take Janice, my walker. We decided to rename the walker, Oma, since Janice is Kai and Ivy’s Grandmother. Ivy is just three and she rode her two wheeler bike and Kai was the old lady, pushing “Oma”.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkjwIQpmusOSFaGWVS5UntwC_7Pmfm-pAYP2wgW3mGne3XYxv06bq0sUYlKy5xNFCTFpmRraiV--Nbce-6kVD37-h0YQwqecniFifkrYOAfmrLTKZD-XghRtwZ98NGpuGnGQ7nsQOxXz0lKd78L9i_yrzfn2o2URFkUxh8Turxrm8MZjIfIMyIuA5V_Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2706" data-original-width="3867" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkjwIQpmusOSFaGWVS5UntwC_7Pmfm-pAYP2wgW3mGne3XYxv06bq0sUYlKy5xNFCTFpmRraiV--Nbce-6kVD37-h0YQwqecniFifkrYOAfmrLTKZD-XghRtwZ98NGpuGnGQ7nsQOxXz0lKd78L9i_yrzfn2o2URFkUxh8Turxrm8MZjIfIMyIuA5V_Q" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmx9km0MACmhhlvWiw7PQI4g2ZVFcchgUU9D7eAKqE9Zsv0mrXzV72Zrn-gbba2mfHeAmWlVD1xPYZ_etl1k-YCOx_rol_jA2AASBgjsRqNJJRFIiYMfYeCEuI5Fxo6fF_mfdAin5Qt7Pj9Gx8SZgefOnx2IIxDPK_W1Aln5Zh4bJvmcL8-wdw3HL0RQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3481" data-original-width="2513" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmx9km0MACmhhlvWiw7PQI4g2ZVFcchgUU9D7eAKqE9Zsv0mrXzV72Zrn-gbba2mfHeAmWlVD1xPYZ_etl1k-YCOx_rol_jA2AASBgjsRqNJJRFIiYMfYeCEuI5Fxo6fF_mfdAin5Qt7Pj9Gx8SZgefOnx2IIxDPK_W1Aln5Zh4bJvmcL8-wdw3HL0RQ" width="173" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLZEqMqP9o8sM2UO8L7VIAN3Ikq3AFuze1A8Z_aTIWvpRlH2wpcrmo06YzkvKdvJg6goDtwK4wuDCflzFSIyBvzZueL6ryZ2UNvwpK1XvRyCp6Cezc2DGmlpkcCpp0opHs_YCGB1r6tcmBpMBD_E_0Cs1yrLLjtJ-I09szflGSQDVgeG_T0Ec6ZFf2AA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLZEqMqP9o8sM2UO8L7VIAN3Ikq3AFuze1A8Z_aTIWvpRlH2wpcrmo06YzkvKdvJg6goDtwK4wuDCflzFSIyBvzZueL6ryZ2UNvwpK1XvRyCp6Cezc2DGmlpkcCpp0opHs_YCGB1r6tcmBpMBD_E_0Cs1yrLLjtJ-I09szflGSQDVgeG_T0Ec6ZFf2AA" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiM5QvTbHZDlnY7eaPbamSXTWrXhOPRqX3zAhXCikktZgbAKQsEoG2U9ZPyWoLm9FL3Fdh12nZSsE2V4KH0-cdDMuluKf0Dgv27vT9oGLMHcqiEi_EYhxr69Pc-NzfoB3RN66Nbn7mRofvE5FJ5H3nx6EGHrsxSj4YGF7hmeNn6_v_gTQ3hYhwko-bY7g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiM5QvTbHZDlnY7eaPbamSXTWrXhOPRqX3zAhXCikktZgbAKQsEoG2U9ZPyWoLm9FL3Fdh12nZSsE2V4KH0-cdDMuluKf0Dgv27vT9oGLMHcqiEi_EYhxr69Pc-NzfoB3RN66Nbn7mRofvE5FJ5H3nx6EGHrsxSj4YGF7hmeNn6_v_gTQ3hYhwko-bY7g" width="180" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-17029033471612702232023-02-24T14:05:00.000-05:002023-02-24T14:05:13.066-05:00February 24, 2023<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Friday February 24th 2023</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We set off on Tuesday morning for Germany. All in all, the travel, although tiring was without mishap except if you count getting stuck on a too-low toilet in Toronto. It did make me realize that I really am disabled. The highlight of the flight was watching the Leonard Cohen Movie. It was fabulous and so much of it was about the creative process and living a creative life, all of which I could relate to.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We caught a train into Frankfurt and then settled in for a long train ride north. I loved seeing the tiny narrow, paved roads that ran through vast fields. Stucco and tile towns filled with brick or timber-framed houses all seem to be surrounded by wild areas of trees (all of which are familiar) or fields that are green and just starting to grow. There are strict regulations that restrict urban sprawl, so the feeling is either country or town. Even farmers often live in the towns because there are abundant affordable rental accommodations. Bicycle paths follow tiny rivers. Occasionally there are large wind turbines or solar farms.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">The bakeries are phenomenal:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">Bread that is beautiful, fresh and delicious, dark loaves dusted with seeds, long white French loaves, and everything in between.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">The butter here is much softer than ours and the cheeses all seem to be specialty cheeses, with distinct, tangy flavours. There is a wide range of wines but even the Merlot, on sale for 1euro/59 is excellent.</span> </p><p><br /></p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-70703677194040879512023-02-20T14:48:00.000-05:002023-02-20T14:48:28.494-05:00February 20, 2023<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">I grew up in Owen Sound on Georgian Bay, part of Lake Huron.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">The landscape of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven was my childhood landscape and I even had an imaginary room upstairs from my bedroom with a glorious imaginary water view.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">I loved rocky outcrops, white pines and cedar swamps.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">Lake Huron is very large and you can’t see across it except in the inlets so it did have that in common with the Atlantic Ocean.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">When I first moved to Nova Scotia, I loved living on Kearney Lake, a real water view.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">As well, Chebucto Head was my favourite place to sit on the rock and watch the ocean waves.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">When I moved to Portaupique, the scenery was extremely different.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">It is flat and pastoral and there are vast areas of mud flats that are exposed and covered and exposed with each tide cycle. The tide is constantly coming and going.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">It took many years before I could truly say that I loved this scenery.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">One time we had a visitor to the gallery who had grown up here and now lives in Ottawa.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">“How I miss this beautiful scenery” she exclaimed .</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">I immediately wondered if everyone internalizes their first scenery when young and then we spend the rest of our lives searching for reminders of it. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My love of the scenery of Portaupique did gradually inch its way into my heart over a period of twenty years, bit by bit, tide-cycle by tide-cycle. When I started painting in this area, I usually avoided painting the Bay of Fundy landscape and I was attracted to the clusters of houses, the porches, the windows. For the past thirty years, I have felt an affinity with the the coming and going of water and the expanses of mud and marsh. When actually trying to capture it in a painting, I quickly realized that the tide affected the character of the painting. Thinking about what tide I want to portray is a crucial part of the early painting planning. If the tide I want in the painting is the tide I am looking at when I start, then I start the painting with the tide. If the tide is not yet the way I want it, I start with the sky and foreground and leave the water until later in the painting. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tomorrow, Jim and I are off to Germany for seven weeks. I will be posting sketches and word pictures on Facebook and on my blog (<a href="http://www.joylakinggallery.com">www.joylakinggallery.com</a>) if you don’t do facebook. If you are interested, I loved to have you along “vicariously”. My high school art teacher, Bill Parrott, used to write me wonderful letters and he always said how much he enjoyed living vicariously through the eyes of his students. </p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-1489930636432174592023-02-19T14:39:00.001-05:002023-02-19T14:39:21.525-05:00February 19, 2023<p> I will be posting sketches and word pictures from Germany on facebook (Joy Laking or Joy Laking Gallery) and on the blog on my website www.joylakinggallery..com. If you are interested, we’d love for you to come along with us vicariously. Xoxoxo</p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-78201096873488535852022-07-07T23:53:00.002-04:002022-07-07T23:53:28.003-04:00Painting on Denman Island July 6, 2022<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yesterday, it was pouring rain, so I decided it was the day to do a closeup of foxgloves. I have no idea where this painting is going or if it will resolve. This maybe isn’t ideal for watercolours since going backwards and redoing something is not usually possible, however it keeps my interest high as I ammaking constantly making creative decisions. We were going to go to Chickadee Lake in the interior of Denman Island at four but it was still raining. At 5, it stropped raining and off we went. I had exactly one hour to paint. I followed my own good advice (that I often don’t take) and started with a vertical ink planning sketch of some big trees covered with mossy mounds of green. I realized that this wasn’t going to allow me to have any fun painting the lake and I did a second planning sketch (the horizontal). After that I was off. Sitting in Susie, this is what I captured in one hour. I know that I can finish it when I have time. </span></p><div class="" dir="auto" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: inherit;"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_ah" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On the way back, Rosie stopped at a free shop to drop off some stuff. We should have one of these in Portaupique. Open twenty-four hours a day with no staff, you can drop off or take anything. We dropped off some stuff and left with an almost new stay and play, a couple of pink and green glass plates and I got two books to read on the way home, Ursula Hegi’s Stone from the River and Linden MacIntyre’s The Bishop’s Man!</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Then we returned to Yolande and Rosie’s where they treated “us” (Robynne Murray a forever friend of Yolande’s and her partner, Jan, are with us from Colorado) to a wonderful supper of Yolande’s arugula rice balls and this gorgeous and delicious vegetarian sushi that is make on Denman. 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Lots of ideas cooking. AND I had a chance to try out my new painting chair, Susie. One of her namesakes, Susan Paterson was with me and figured out a way to lower the front of the seat of the chair!</p><p><img src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/ddebfa9f-2edc-4570-a097-d3b11c527e31" /><img src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/1b3641a1-d3dd-462f-9b9e-6cf2d4eff391" /><img src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/cbd9f2ec-16f2-4586-a5be-2b384b9bb304" /><img src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/72a9cd47-fa6c-46c9-a9b6-9af92f1298a9" /><img src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/2342bb8c-e96f-40fa-84ae-45dba843fd65" /><img src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/488a3b7d-9d7a-4652-9585-d4911e181918" /><img src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/f0b729f7-2196-4f73-bf4c-ca2aa8cb5799" /><img src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/0c15e95a-c16f-4603-9425-4ad6670e3bb1" />Okay </p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-40126170461786760402022-02-03T07:27:00.002-05:002022-02-03T07:27:42.119-05:00February 3, 2022, Where do painting ideas come from?<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQCywZvRjac5KA_IyiuLyx4JC-jo3xatcpxT1yAlP-35dhoqnUXzYsHQm047BZGGmIDjcCRslXTbmk2bViWnKqJgZOWSru2WQ0wpiJI9-C9CJkqf_mcKCGA2NU3kOt93yDx7hy84CL30cjXaQLRKgbZVMJ3IKFRKIGHzAMtRN2tCeajt8zgsL5IP0P-g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2165" data-original-width="2813" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQCywZvRjac5KA_IyiuLyx4JC-jo3xatcpxT1yAlP-35dhoqnUXzYsHQm047BZGGmIDjcCRslXTbmk2bViWnKqJgZOWSru2WQ0wpiJI9-C9CJkqf_mcKCGA2NU3kOt93yDx7hy84CL30cjXaQLRKgbZVMJ3IKFRKIGHzAMtRN2tCeajt8zgsL5IP0P-g" width="312" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><br />Where do painting ideas come from?<p></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Finding a painting idea is certainly a big part of the entire creative process. In the summer, when I go out on location, I get to the end of our lane and then I decide, do I feel like turning right or left? I drive along, looking, waiting, thinking about. Eventually, something tweaks my interest. By the time, I realize, that the subject is worth investigating, I usually have to turn the car around. I take some pictures of what appealed to me and if it still seems to have potential to excite me, I do a 5” x 7” sketch, in ink and watercolour. This could take five or fifteen minutes. Every time, I try to jump right into a painting and skip the preliminary sketch, I regret not having the lighting and the composition figured out.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In the winter, between paintings, the process is the same but different. I just finished three large oils last week and at the time I thought, I never wanted to do oils again; too much time and mess. I looked through several smaller unfinished paintings from the past year but none of them excited me and so I put them aside until they do. For the past couple of days, I sat and looked through photos, again waiting for something to call out to me. A very few of them, I cropped and thought about. Two appealed to me for completely different reasons. For both of these, I started a 7 x 9 inch watercolour. Because I used the backs of some old reject serigraphs, which is great cotton watercolour paper and free, I could use several sheets per idea, as I first of all play with the composition doing multiple quick ink sketches. Once the composition was decided upon, I started on fresh paper in pencil. For the rest of the day, I played with these two ideas. Eventually, the one of pink flamingos decided that it wanted to be an airy precise watercolour on smooth watercolour paper. The other, some of the five islands in autumn, decided itself that it wants to be another large oil!</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwu2dJAMTcEtYY-EseC8Vnh0E0LkLt97IFIBMuwkM36dzc1Ckg9NvwKHLx0LaFBqO2Hv8oQoqXh_ITz4_9XUYIY7fVO9daAR-FLxrHR9zwGh_3dPGdRBs1YmK4pRRvUeqb0W-yEG0gtfKCHhjqywIcA2i_sIwnh2Vs5hBaULlaj0GglHJYsaXPNg4qEA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2177" data-original-width="2801" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwu2dJAMTcEtYY-EseC8Vnh0E0LkLt97IFIBMuwkM36dzc1Ckg9NvwKHLx0LaFBqO2Hv8oQoqXh_ITz4_9XUYIY7fVO9daAR-FLxrHR9zwGh_3dPGdRBs1YmK4pRRvUeqb0W-yEG0gtfKCHhjqywIcA2i_sIwnh2Vs5hBaULlaj0GglHJYsaXPNg4qEA" width="309" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-4960161425105123462022-01-31T19:48:00.000-05:002022-01-31T19:48:11.180-05:00Indian Harbour Jan 30, 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgPMPUDcnzI55DNsQDzY1Mbv63W_TOpUAGU0cfF2N-TexafrnQlz9yAGXEHTfAMmJXfNdIp_o9VMLf_KG7ULm-FJIHPbcVyFNc4g7JWDUxav1SXR0L9o8BFbrorqcPZDWvlX2fpa5TAxyQ318goW7YR91J-KeWZnHD-El-g8E7W88fZkWp1DRD7I6MDpA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="994" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgPMPUDcnzI55DNsQDzY1Mbv63W_TOpUAGU0cfF2N-TexafrnQlz9yAGXEHTfAMmJXfNdIp_o9VMLf_KG7ULm-FJIHPbcVyFNc4g7JWDUxav1SXR0L9o8BFbrorqcPZDWvlX2fpa5TAxyQ318goW7YR91J-KeWZnHD-El-g8E7W88fZkWp1DRD7I6MDpA" width="290" /></a></div><br /> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">Every time, I drive from Peggy’s Cove up towards Head of Saint Margaret’s, I am gob smacked by this view of Indian Harbour. There is something that astonishes me about the balance of</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">rough foreground, leading down into the village and with the glorious sky and water and islands behind.</span><p></p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I thought that this painting was finished yesterday. This morning when I looked at it, I decided that the closed in window and the yellow door on the right need to be a regular window and darkened door and some of that yellow foliage needs to extend up to the deck. The chimney off the red building looks too much like a window on the garage and I will make it taller or shorter of move it. The windows on the sunny side of all the buildings need to sparkle more and be more defined to distinguish them from the dull windows on the shadow sides of buildings. As well, I have made a conscience decision to stop polishing the foreground foliage, and leave it just with the rough flat colour and texture.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Paintings always progress in a series. One painting leads to the next. In this case, I started last spring with a watercolour of Prospect, dealing with the sky, the village, the rough autumn foreground. The next painting was a larger oil of this same view. Then, I did a vertical watercolour of Indian Harbour dealing with the same three areas at the same time of year. While working on this watercolour, I decided to do a larger horizontal oil painting of Indian Harbour so that the three areas; background, mid ground and foreground are all the same physical size. </p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The bend in the road on the left is absolutely crucial as it curves up from foreground into the village. The village is distinctively human made; rectangular buildings and lines and shapes all of which I love. The foreground is a foil to this precise regularity with its twisted branches and dark strong irregular areas of colour. The foreground island and the lighthouse are the transition from village to the god green and blue mounds of ocean and sky. </p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As an artist, it is crucial to look with your heart. It is more than just noticing, it is more a basking in the glory that is our world. </p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTxHo_S5aZbRS757SnSlLa5uuQ9D74v0bocpjH5I5BByLsGVwndYJpseQMz9fQMhK0GQ0Xet3zSvCTYPavQAkqAeh27EvxRYoB3CuNxYINPU-AuOji8rDU1iW6s4bahBND1muobywUk8qSwGxEIClVwjNMWOZdPZThqqd0_Em1btQJSYtPvPjdHJ6GxA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="745" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTxHo_S5aZbRS757SnSlLa5uuQ9D74v0bocpjH5I5BByLsGVwndYJpseQMz9fQMhK0GQ0Xet3zSvCTYPavQAkqAeh27EvxRYoB3CuNxYINPU-AuOji8rDU1iW6s4bahBND1muobywUk8qSwGxEIClVwjNMWOZdPZThqqd0_Em1btQJSYtPvPjdHJ6GxA" width="309" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMiMo0wLImT0ESd-KAwHaP_wIJYUh-eJiDfaJKuB3CNU4lo8QLxMaQYc9ZbnoTx3MUoRWaWAD8_irwxjchmMolO7SsidgrxSIB__ZJaC6o0rf1hmHp-LntL6SCwmLtElkfEZGU69vMgO6YfvX0N8nBdGy8MUSv4i5NMVPygiqaowmipv8giPiAQK7h9A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMiMo0wLImT0ESd-KAwHaP_wIJYUh-eJiDfaJKuB3CNU4lo8QLxMaQYc9ZbnoTx3MUoRWaWAD8_irwxjchmMolO7SsidgrxSIB__ZJaC6o0rf1hmHp-LntL6SCwmLtElkfEZGU69vMgO6YfvX0N8nBdGy8MUSv4i5NMVPygiqaowmipv8giPiAQK7h9A" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoHC0F6vQs8OGmpVELH3a33ef1OioHnuaTbvnBcYN75nViRAiOAbi3PhxuYsgSJKQJbgIadfx--n5-W8LrXWs_XrQz8ZTisUk5fUtg-B9D6YLfAVB5n7XMF9ee4Dn0N81IYusyFGEVtyqrKdEimTFQQdu3lEKfL1utbaOTZsekQnQ1ipnHId6e1xODrQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoHC0F6vQs8OGmpVELH3a33ef1OioHnuaTbvnBcYN75nViRAiOAbi3PhxuYsgSJKQJbgIadfx--n5-W8LrXWs_XrQz8ZTisUk5fUtg-B9D6YLfAVB5n7XMF9ee4Dn0N81IYusyFGEVtyqrKdEimTFQQdu3lEKfL1utbaOTZsekQnQ1ipnHId6e1xODrQ" width="311" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4yEkp_kfaWsaWaCDDs_5nHNab0X7Kr91SkuCtyJdnkN3G5sabbzKAlEgxy--vSM5-E6TA21-Oc5bWrJiCZL79V7I3zYuPKeXL1HEsqRCRyZoAM-rRJvyxOi5ynbW4FiYk8wJ0jn_9du5GwcOP0kmjVTlCI_p7DXUCNb4kipvqATJgtE4Dn_4QRdoH_Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4yEkp_kfaWsaWaCDDs_5nHNab0X7Kr91SkuCtyJdnkN3G5sabbzKAlEgxy--vSM5-E6TA21-Oc5bWrJiCZL79V7I3zYuPKeXL1HEsqRCRyZoAM-rRJvyxOi5ynbW4FiYk8wJ0jn_9du5GwcOP0kmjVTlCI_p7DXUCNb4kipvqATJgtE4Dn_4QRdoH_Q" width="306" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><p></p><div><br /></div>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-65257621644679293362022-01-31T11:00:00.003-05:002022-01-31T11:00:54.736-05:00January 31, 2022, Alexander Fawcett<p> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px;">It is with a tinge of sadness that I announce the official retirement of my beloved Alexander Fawcett.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px;"> </span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">Alex was first spotted at a sale of belongings at Melissa Beatty<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">’</span>s house on Economy Point. I remember waiting on Melissa<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">’</span>s lawn in the autumn chill with a horde of would-be shoppers. The salt marsh, across from the house was golden. At 10 am, the doors to the ornate, old house opened and everyone rushed in. I headed directly to the kitchen, hoping that Melissa<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">’</span>s wood range would be for sale.</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">Our house, in Portaupique, was frigid in the winter. When we first lived here, we got a beautiful green airtight Yotel stove to supplement the kitchen oil range. That necessitated a new brick chimney. We were still cold all winter. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">The next August, as we were driving to Jim and Elizabeth Campbell wedding in Baddeck, we came across a stove shop. We came home with a beautiful black Morso stove for the dining room. It had embossed squirrels and acorns and an elaborate black iron arch above the main stove that was supposed to provide even more heat. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">The following winter, we huddled next to Yotel or Morso. Both airtight stoves looked beautiful, and easily held a fire over night but neither ever warmed the place up.</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">It was love at first sight when I saw Alexander Fawcett in Melissa Beatty’s kitchen. His pale yellow and green enamel glowed against the ornate metal trim. Two cast iron lid-lifters rose at angles from his shiny blackened cook top. A water reservoir was on the right side next to the oven. His name, Alexander Fawcett was above the oven. <span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">“</span>Not for sale” was scrawled in crayon on his large warming oven up top. Having the only thing I came for,<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> “</span>not for sale”, left me free to peruse all of the furniture in all of the rooms. Around me was a frenzy of buying. Several times, while I was contemplating the purchase of an upstairs<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">’ </span>hall table, an antique bed, an oak sideboard, these treasures were purchased out from under me. Then I found myself back in the kitchen in front of a decrepit pine kitchen cupboard that was missing its top doors and had been painted in copious layers of paint. One hundred and fifty dollars was marked on its price tag. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">“</span>If you don<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">’</span>t want it, I will buy it,” said a voice over my shoulder. I immediately said <span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">“</span>I want it” and removed the price tag. I joined the long line up to give Don Fisher my $150. When paying for this dilapidated treasure, I told him that I had really come to buy the stove. <span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">“</span>Well, I decided to keep it.” Don told me. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">Later that day, I went back to the sale with a truck to collect the pine cupboard. My then husband was not impressed. “You spent $150 on that,” he scowled. To be truthful, I wasn<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">’</span>t sure why I had bought the old cupboard other than I had money in my pocket and I was caught up in the excitement. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">Layer by layer, I stripped the paint off the cupboard. The smell of the stripping chemicals meant that all of this had to done outside. When winter set in, the doorless, stripped cupboard was relegated to the shop until it was again warm enough to work on finishing it. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">Several weeks after the auction, the phone rang and it was Don Fisher. <span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">“</span>Do you still want to buy that old cook stove?” “Yes, I do” and some how I came up with another $150.</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">Alexander Fawcett arrived in pieces and immediately replaced the oil cook stove in our kitchen. He did a yeoman<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">’</span>s job of warming the house, heating the hot water and cooking the food. I do admit that when making strawberry jam on a hot June day, none of this heat was appreciated. However, for most of the year, I lived in a very close radius to Alexander. Because Alexander threw copious amount of heat, he needed to be almost continually fed small chunks of wood. I would sit with my feet on a towel in the oven and baby Kelsey on my lap and I would keep the fire box stoked. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">Cooking on a wood stove is an adventure.The temperature fluctuates with the size, dryness and amount of wood. Every day felt like a dance, between my friend, Alexander, and me. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">Still wanting a warmer winter environment, our next purchase was a new basement for the house. Down came that new brick chimney so that we could have a wood furnace. (Maybe we should have considered, insulation and double paned windows?) </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">Eventually, Danica was born. With her came 220 wiring, (instead of the 15 amp service). Now, we could also have an electric stove, a washer, a dryer, a hot water heater and in door plumbing! Kelsey was thrilled when Gordon Lewis arrived with his backhoe to dig the “testic". </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">If Danica had been born a boy, we were going to call her Tobin Alexander after our stove. I still cooked on Alexander when the weather was cool. I emptied his ashes, polished his shiny metal trim, washed his green enamel oven door and warming oven and blackened his big black iron top. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">Thirty years ago, right after my Dad died, I was not in the mood to think about Christmas. When reading the flyers, I had the idea of buying electronics as Christmas presents for all three kids. My husband thought that was awful and said that we should give Kelsey, Danica and Yolande materials to build a cabin. This sounded wonderful and the time had come for Alexander to have new abode. We spent one thousand dollars for the building materials, and one thousand for Alexander<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">’</span>s new insulated chimney on the cabin.</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">During the year of home schooling, we had many terrific school days in the cabin. When I woke up at five am, I would go down the path in the dark to light Alexander. Then cabin would be warm and cosy when we started school. Some of the happiest times in my life were mini holidays when I joined my three kids for a night in the cabin. We played cards by lantern light, we cooked our supper on Alexander and then we climbed up into the loft and into our sleeping bags. </p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">For years now, I have tried to keep Alexander safe for having fires. Eventually, his oven collapsed and although he has decorated the cabin and held candles and shells, he is now officially being retired to fireless status on the kitchen porch. Here he will hold rocks and driftwood, bouquets of wild flowers, and glasses of wine. Alexander Fawcett will be polished, admired and his portrait will be painted. Yotel is also excited. He will escape his relegation to the shop and have a new life in the cabin. </p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-90544645463713487242022-01-08T10:12:00.000-05:002022-01-08T10:12:00.641-05:00<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">January 6, 2022</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This painting is still not finished. Every day, I think it will be basically complete and then I can start the fun part, the picky details, such as putting the far shore a little more in the background, giving high lights to the glass bottles, putting shine on the little white pitcher. However, after each day of painting, it still needs just one more day. This will be the first painting finished in 2022 and I will post it one more time when it actually is finished. It has really been fun to do. I started this painting in late autumn, after several killing frosts when I found a few cosmos still surviving in the garden at the end of our lane.. I just started playing. First of all, I started by painting the cosmos in oil on a red background. Then I spied a few nasturtiums that were still in bloom at Kelsey’s and I brought them home and added them. The next day, Jim picked me this last white rose on the bush outside our dining room window and I added it. Usually I have an idea of what a painting will be about. This painting is completely different from the way I usually work.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Early in 2021, I finished two watercolours of our kitchen window and the view. I had the idea in 2020 and I drew the first watercolour on paper and painted only the nasturtiums and sweet peas while I actually had the flowers. I could hardly wait for winter to come to be back in the studio to finish it. (Lots of times, I dread, moving back into the studio after a summer of trying to capture the beauty outside.) The first watercolour, worked out just the way, I intended. This doesn’t often happen. I enjoyed doing it so much, that I was sad that it was finished so I immediately started a second version, this time a vertical. Both of these paintings, also featured the small polymer clay angel that Danica made for me. Since I enjoyed doing these two paintings so much, I eventually decided that this new oil painting would also be about my kitchen windowsill with Danica’s angel and with a really high tide and in autumn. </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I just kept gradually started adding stuff. We still had tomatoes ripening on the counter so they were the next thing in. Then the small Bolgatanga basket, a birthday present from a friend, Serena and used daily all summer to collect garden produce was painted. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3sw09zg-CTFApG2WemozrZO6vuBjtPVaKI_olIFJNzTOerAPKFdu7puO9ybQ1oerqjZe9MWToud2AqE77EmPJVpqNUjU8zXcLvU2RAAhw21b09ZWFRjvB32PyxNA7Wkv4Pafv03JihO46_vALW__kA2qjiK08W2lWqGCRiLNttfk9dPUyPqPq-BBSTg=s2835" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2226" data-original-width="2835" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3sw09zg-CTFApG2WemozrZO6vuBjtPVaKI_olIFJNzTOerAPKFdu7puO9ybQ1oerqjZe9MWToud2AqE77EmPJVpqNUjU8zXcLvU2RAAhw21b09ZWFRjvB32PyxNA7Wkv4Pafv03JihO46_vALW__kA2qjiK08W2lWqGCRiLNttfk9dPUyPqPq-BBSTg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Bolgatanga, Ghana, was a place Jim and I visited several years ago. One of the highlights of this trip was watching and sketching the villagers as they created baskets. Everyone loved getting a sketch of themselves. The land was a dusty barren, parched by the intense heat. Men, cross-legged on the ground, wove the bases of the baskets. Young women, several nursing babies, wove the sides. Old women and some of the children chewed strips of reed for loops and handles. Everywhere, children raced and played. At one point, in front of the entire village, a woman presented me with a bowl of water. Thinking that they were going to offer me food and that I should wash my hands, I put my hands in the water. Everyone roared with laughter. They had offered me special welcome water, and instead of drinking it, I had sullied it with my hands. I was actually very happy that I made this faux pas, because if I had known, I would have taken a drink of the water to be polite and who knows how sick it would have made me. </p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Next to the basket in the painting, I needed something that was vertical and shiny. Many years ago, a close friend, Susan, was visiting from Toronto with her three sons. Findlay, the middle child, presented us with this amazing plastic CN tower that he had chosen for us. I have treasured this little tower and the memory of its presentation. Findlay, a wonderful boy born with many health problems, died while he was still a college student. My world is a better place because of knowing Findlay. He embraced each day no matter what the challenges. This is the first time, I have found a painting in which to feature our golden CN tower.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My Dad always loved blue glass. And I do too. Perhaps this runs in families? When Kelsey was seven, all he wanted for Christmas was a blue glass Milk of Magnesia bottle that we had seen at our local antique shop in Glenholme for fifteen dollars. I thought, I love that bottle too, I will just go to a pharmacy and buy one. Of course, Milk of Magnesia was no longer sold in blue glass bottles and so I went back to the antique store and bought it for Kelsey. Several years later, my friend, Laurie, will remember the day I dashed in front of a bulldozer in Bermuda to collect a Milk of Magnesia bottle that was poking out of the excavation.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As those of you who follow me along know, I had a wonderful loving Grandmother. The little white pitcher is something that an old lady gave Grandma when she was child. The tiny jet and ivory cameo above the angel was carved by my gandmother’s</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">grandfather who were jet carvers in Whitby, England. Grandma’s family was booked to move to Canada in the spring of 1912. Just prior to leaving, the Titanic sunk. Even though her family had sold off all of their belongings, they thought that if the unsinkable boat could sink, their ship might also suffer the same fate and they stayed in England for another year. When they did finally emigrate, a year later, my grandma was thirteen and she wore this cameo. The ship didn’t sink. It became her lucky piece. I wore it for all of my high school and university exams and the luck continued. When my youngest daughter, Yolande, graduated from NASCAD, I thought that this little piece of art carved by her ancestors was the perfect graduation present for her. Yolande sent me a photo of it, so I could include it in this painting.</p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448214462994225302.post-26432551572034053132021-06-05T16:09:00.003-04:002021-06-05T16:09:39.851-04:00Word Picture June 4, 2021<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">Word Picture June 4 2021<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">The air is still and moist.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">Etched into a lush green carpet of lawn,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">The pond is a dark sombre mirror <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">Polka dotted with lily leaves.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">It is the magnolia that is magnificent<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">With its deep magenta buds,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">That fade into enormous pale pink blossoms<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"> as they open for business.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">Viridian green, olive green, sap green<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">Satiate the meadow.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">To the west, the hawthorn,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">Redeems itself in its one week of glory.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">Even the cedar and apple trees<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">Are now in their summer foliage.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">A glowing yellow patch of wild mustard<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"> stands in for the forsythia and maples <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">that have also rejoined the status quo.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">Framed by dark green silhouettes of spruce<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">The distant salt marsh is <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">Delineated only by the island grave of beloved pets<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">And the soft hummock of Acadian Dyke.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">Beyond, a light ashen veil obliterates<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">The bay, the far shore and the sky.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">This sets direction for our day.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">We push aside the future of<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">Old age, pandemics, global warming,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;">And savour the tones and textures of today.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Joy Lakinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05486115683122827880noreply@blogger.com0