studio time

Oh I’ve had the best week. My wonderful friend Anne Spudvilas has let me borrow her studio for a few weeks. As many of you would know I’ve been slowly accumulating work for my first solo exhibition, mainly painting at the markets and whenever I can grab a spare hour. Which isn’t very often. Some of you may also know that my studio ceiling isn’t very high and I’d love to do some BIG work for the show. Hence, borrowing the studio which is in a divided-up warehouse with generous windows and even more generous ceilings.

So, on Thursday I had two massive canvasses delivered to Anne’s studio and on Friday I tinted them ready for some major painting. They are so big! It’s a very very exciting prospect to imagine painting these soon. For now I’m doing designs and sketching out various ideas.

And today? Today was the Maker’s Market at the Abbotsford Convent where I worked on (and almost finished) the tiger painting I began at the CBC Book Week event. It was really fun painting today – I worked out the best background colour to push out the tiger’s oranges and yellows. It’s fantastic when the right cool colour sits behind the right warm colour and suddenly, Pop! Things just leap out of the canvas.