Listerine Alley
I wish I’d taken a picture of the running shoes I saw this morning when I first poked my head through the laneway door of my studio. They were women’s, black and grey with neon pink detail and sat side by side, tucked in towards the studio’s back wall. A few inches away, somewhat hidden […]
An Art Teacher
Lake Forever It’s a sunny afternoon and I’m standing at the edge of a lake that seems to go on forever. Around me are thirty young students; they’re waiting for me to teach the first class of a drawing course. I’m not the least bit prepared. They’ve strung themselves out along an impossible length of […]
Strange still lifes, interesting people, drawing outdoors
The photo shows two of many stairs in a spectacular mountain brow garden – Sam Lawrence Park – in Hamilton, Ontario. I had gone into it to do some outdoor drawing. Many of the adjacent stairs, I noticed, had a similar line-up of odd little actors, bits of stone and bark and twigs and related […]