Girls raised by wolves eh?

Today’s art attack was inspired by reading the beginning chapter of St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell – author of Swamplandia.

Here is an excerpt:
“…with mosquito-blackened sills; a tin roof that hums with the memory of rain. I love it here. Whenever the wind gusts in off the river, the sky rains leaves and feathers. During mating season, the bedroom window rattles with the ardor of birds.
Now the thunder makes the window glass ripple like wax paper. Summer rain is still the most comforting sound that I know… In the distance, an alligator bellows…”

In the studio

Deep in the Forest, mixed media, 10 x 11"

Wouldn’t you like to be Elsewhere?

Here is a postcard I made recently to accompany a residency application to Elsewhere in Greensboro, NC. Check it out, it looks like a fabulous place. Oh, and wish me luck!

Here is the front of my postcard:

Elsewhere, mixed media on paper, 5 x 6"

And here is the back:

Back of postcard, mixed media on paper, 5 x 6"

Sketchbook Sunday

Okay, so I know it’s Monday but I still want to show you what I was up to all day Sunday! My husband and I decided to do a spring cleaning (in the fall) and cleared out all the boxes and such from our laundry room. This revealed quite a functional desk that was hiding underneath. I decided this would make the perfect sewing/craft room and could house my new garage-sale-find singer sewing machine. After converting it, I sketched it:

Sewing room through screen door aka. my cottage. Ink on paper, sketchbook

Then I colored my drawing… and now all I have to do is learn how to thread the machine and re-learn how to sew!

sewing room in color, sketchbook

Sketchbook Sunday

I’m obsessed with interiors right now. I don’t know where this subject is going but continue to follow my impulses and make sketches of any space that strikes my fancy. Quite – QUITE – often I invent a portion of the space, or the entire thing.

… and yes, that is a puzzle I am working on in the upper right corner of the photograph

Interior, ink in sketchbook

Summer dinner

To commemorate the very last day of summer I thought I’d post a summer-dinner painting.

Here is a table spread our friends laid for us one summer evening in their Toronto backyard… fond memories of the evening still linger.

Stay tuned for another summer meal post tomorrow!

Summer Dinner, watercolour on paper, 4 x 6"

Because it’s funny

Another drawing for my colouring book:

Sheep Skein, ink on paper, 6 x 6"