Obras Favoritas/Favorite Works

Obras Favoritas/Favorite Works
inauguration Feb. 11 from 7-10

Monday, August 10, 2009

sketches from my brother's garden



My brother's garden, Keats Island in the Gulf Coast, B.C.   A few sketches of fireweed, sunflower and sweet peas, all in reverse as they are photographed with a computer camera, ink line drawing not photographing too well.  a great time sketching and painting on the island for a week, the most beautiful weather in BCs history, the ocean good for swimming, no deer sighted.  and a portrait done of my brother Fred which I will include when I return to Mexico at the end of the week.  Connecting and communing here with family, walking in cool weather now, a pleasure after Vallarta's scalp sweating heat and humidity.  The fireweed a special treat, a memory of youth in Northern Manitoba. where it was scrubbier and covered hills a rocks with purple pink and lavender, the first growth after the trees were cut, cut, as I recall, to make a fire break in the bush.