Between Worlds

This year I decided to do Warrior Painters' Plein Airpril again, but from photos, since Toronto's April weather is rarely good, and I have been so busy photographing things this past year that I'm drowning in my own reference!

And I did it! I did 30 paintings this April, on wood panels ranging from slightly smaller than 5" square up to 7.5 x 9"!

The paintings:

I wrote a bunch more about the experience on my blog here but I also heard a few folks asking to take these paintings home in some way, so I set up a collection on INPRNT as well so you can grab a fine art print from wherever you are in the world!

Thanks so much for coming along on this ride with me, tumblr!

i kept all my panels hanging on my wall all month so i could watch them fill up:

how it started:

how it went:

where we got to:

Katsushika Hokusai（葛飾北斎 Japanese, 1760-1849）

looooook at my orange juice vase!

Got me thinking about how EVERY time physical discipline of a child (spanking, whipping, beating) comes up somebody jumps in and says “well I was just a horrible child, I needed to be whipped, I was bad, I had to be punished.”

That text may be nonsense but anyway—

Gorgeously legged lampposts having a little sit in Upplands Väsby, Sweden

Just out of left frame there's also a bench with another blue lamp post standing next to it, only that this post grew arms and is holding a large umbrella! It gets windy here so it's not super useful, but it's cute and probably helps a little during summer showers. I decided not to photograph it since there was a parent and child sitting there. Here's a photo from a news article: