Rachael, Accidentally Twice
Holga | Agfa Optima 400
It was World Toy Camera Day on October 20th. I’ve got some Holga photos to prove it.
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Author: kirsti
Common ~ 1.5 Finished Painting
Feral Pigeons (1)
pencil and acrylic on wood panel, 8″x10″
View the painting stages in a slideshow here.
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Common ~ 1.4
pencil and acrylic on wood panel, 8″x10″
work in progress
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Common ~ 1.3
pencil and acrylic on wood panel, 8″x10″
work in progress
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Common ~ 1.2
pencil and acrylic on wood panel, 8″x10″
work in progress
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Common ~ 1.1
pencil and acrylic on wood panel, 8″x10″
Painting – first wash.
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Common ~ 2
pencil on wood panel, 8″x10″
Another pre-paint drawing.
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Common ~ 1
Pencil on wood 8″ x 10″
This is the first stages of a painting of some sort. Not entirely sure where I’m going with this. It’s an experiment and hopefully it’ll help me get back into this painting thing that I’ve been too busy to do/avoiding.
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Looking for Loons Review in the Georgia Straight
To read the reviews, pick up this week’s Georgia Straight (October 11 – 18, 2007) or read them online.
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Rachael’s Show
A friend of mine, Rachael Ashe, has a photography show up right now. I took a few photos at the opening but they don’t do the pieces justice.
The artwork consists of her photos of trees printed on metal plates using a heat press method. The medium has added another dimension to the colours of the Holga prints by allowing specks of metal to shine through here and there. The already ethereal feeling of the images – bare branched trees with a pair of snagged balloons, an orchard at night in winter, red leaves shining against a blue sky – has been heightened through the softening of edges and the textured ink surface of this unique medium.
The show continues until the end of October at Radha Yoga & Eatery in Vancouver.
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Drawing Snug Cove, Bowen Island
Snug Cove, Bowen Island
Pencil
5 1/2″ x 7″
Sketched while waiting for ferry crew’s 7pm dinner break to end – good thing I rushed down there to catch the 7pm sailing back to the mainland. darnit! I never remember about that hour long break in the evening… Or the dangerous cargo sailing on Wednesdays.
When one has got nothing to do but wait, one may as well relax, sit by the water, listen to the sailboat rigging clink and rattle while the boats rock back and forth, and watch the sunset stain the mountainside on the other side of the sound.
There are red, undulating jellyfish in the inky water under the dock and as the cormorants fly in to roost in the cedars across the cove the island begins to settle into evening. The hour passes quickly and the trip back to a city busy with Saturday night begins.
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Book Sneak Peek ~ Unveiling
I saw the published/finished/completed/totally done/hardcover form of Looking For Loons at Vancouver Kidsbooks today. (thanks for letting me know Kari!). Here’s a photo of the cover:
Details:
Jennifer Lloyd; Kirsti Anne Wakelin, illus.;
$19.95 cloth
ISBN:978-1894965-54-5
32 pp., 8-1/2 x 11
Simply Read Books, Aug.
(ages 4-7)
um. yay!
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Kirsti Wakelin 