Happy New Year and New Project Finished

Happy New Year! Here’s wishing everyone the best year ever!

Still Cold in Canada! We cannot remember this many bitter cold days in a row and it’s not going to end for about another week yet! It’s -13C (-8.6F) right now but feels like -22C (-7F). The lower studio (aka the basement) has been too cold for me to sit there for long but I did manage to paint another skating snowperson welcome sign….but short sittings at one time so it took several days to actually finish it….and this is not how I like to work but at least I got it finished. Now this is pretty basic tole painting – not fine art! A friend gave me some of her snowpeople patterns but no instructions or coloured copies so I pretty much just made it up as I went along. Here it is:

This is an old piece of slate. It’s very hard to drill the holes through it and I had to buy a special bit for my drill but I do manage to get through them. If you are working on slate I strongly suggest you drill the holes before painting in case they shatter or chunks peel off…yes, it happens.

I do more refined art pieces on occasion. Here is an old milk can I painted for someone.

He wanted the Blue Water Bridge between Sarnia, ON and Port Huron, MI. the way it looked back in the 60’s when he was a kid there. I found an old postcard, sketched it out and painted it for him. I have two milk cans of my own that my daughter gave me that are waiting to be painted but for some odd reason, I have not finished them. Maybe this year….maybe.

I painted this mirror for the downstairs bathroom. Yup, that's me in the reflection taking a picture of it! 

That’s all for a cold and boring New Year’s Day…..neither one of us likes football so the television has not been on at all today. I’ll be back on Wednesday with a card.

Cheers

Violet