Chanticleer’s Artistry: more than just another garden
Revisiting Chanticleer for Throwback Thursday. This hot, dry summer, you might be looking for a shady spot in your little piece of heaven called a garden. Perhaps you have a hammock under an old tree and this is your … Read More
Glorious sunshine filled days are finally here!
Glorious sunshine, glorious summer days! For Throwback Thursday, I am thinking that anything with sunshine will tell the story of the first days of July 2018. Canadians have one thing that unites them: the weather. We love to complain when … Read More
The best laid plans…often go awry!
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. This quotation accurately describes the problems I have had creating a free vintage ebook that I promised all subscribers to my newsletter. Everything blog related (or should I say … Read More
Free ebook of vintage portraits
A series of free vintage portraits. A Voyage in Time is a free ebook available exclusively for all subscribers to my newsletter. Since January, I have been painting one vintage portrait a week…well, to be honest, I did miss a … Read More
My garden is poetry to me
My garden is poetry… For Throwback Thursday, I am publishing this post from June 2016. “A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me … Read More
Five ways to show up for art on a regular basis
How to be disciplined as an artist. There is a generalization out there about artists that goes something like this: artists are very right-brained, disorganized, and flighty. In the last years, I have learned that nothing could be further from … Read More
Are you an art supply junkie?
The perils of being an art supply junkie. Has this happened to you? You open your kitchen cupboard searching for a specific item and discover that several of the canned or dry goods that you purchased some time ago … Read More
Enchanting Longwood Gardens (Pennsylvania)
This post was previously published in August 2015 when I first started blogging. With a bitterly cold Arctic wind and a temperature of -20C, spring flowers are still the stuff of memory. Today, I am dreaming of the time I spent … Read More
Why Cuba’s old cars remain classy if not classic
Cuba’s cars are still classy. Final post in a three-part series. This post was previously published in 2016. I had fun researching popular songs from the fifties that tell of a North American obsession with cars. Other posts about Havana … Read More
How I became a newbie blogger or…. wing it until it’s perfect
“You start as a phony and become real.” – Glenn O’Brien, American writer and critic also known as the “Style Guy”. (glennobrien.com) This post was first published in 2016, a few months after I had been blogging. Since then, … Read More
Make mistakes in 2018
This year… I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing … Read More