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| February 5th, 2018 |
When we moved back to Canmore, in August 2017, we secured a sweet townhouse in the complex of my dreams, but here I don't have a proper studio. Although I've painted at our kitchen table, I was pleased when Patti Dyment responded favourably to my request for a painting date at her place. Three days a week her large, well lit, open concept kitchen, dining, living room becomes her studio. We had such a good time we've turned these dates into regular events.
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| Working on The Towers at Mount Asiniboine, January 22nd |
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| Patti at work on her Towers, January 22nd |
Mostly it's pretty serious business, but there is always time for laughter ...
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| January 22nd |
Sometimes we work on the same subject. Such was the case on this day when we both painted Anastasia, from an image off an online paint-the-model photo website ...
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| February 12th |
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| February 12th |
That day I came home and worked on her too-small head, and more, for a further four hours.
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| She still isn't finished! |
With the cradled panels we'd covered, using pretty scrapbooking papers, we launched into the following ...
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| February 26th, Patti at work on a portrait |
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| Patti's gorgeous portrait |
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| My iris |
Patti had the brilliant idea to cover panels with old typographical maps. She brought some from home and since then Bill has coughed up several duplicate maps and donated them to our cause.
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| March 4th in our Dungeon - the perfect place for this kind of panel preparation |
The very next day we were on a roll, both of us finished one painting, so we started another, on the papered panels ...
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| Patti's magnificent raven, March 5th |
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| My bobcat, March 5th |
Next, we both painted a bighorn ram portrait. Neither of us finished the second painting.
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| March 5th |
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| March 5th |
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| My bighorn |
When Bill and I returned, from our month in the Philippines, Patti and I resumed our painting dates. Here we both worked on Bow Lake ...
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| April 22nd |
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| April 22nd |
Although the first paintings weren't finished, we moved on to begin another and worked on different images. By this time of day the sun had moved around to where it was pouring its brilliance in through the skylight. Here we are shifting around the room to escape being directly in the spotlight ...
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| Patti working on Ha Ling |
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| I opted to paint Quarry Lake |
Now our task is to finish all these starts!
