Little Black and Whites of Saskatchewan

These little paintings were more experiments with charcoal and oil, and with being a bit more abstract. I may work some of them into much larger paintings with more detail, but for here's a little bit of prairie for you:

Back to Work

My wonderful weekend over I had to come back home and get back to my real life. To give you a quick picture of life in Saskatchewan, here's another video. This is the first scene of one of my favourite shows, Corner Gas, set in a little town in Sask.

I'm sure you get the idea.

I've been busy the last few days, but not with much that's at all creative, and mostly just starting a couple things, including a fancy guestbook I'll have some photos of up in a couple. But for now I'll show you what I brought with me to Winnipeg. It was my mom's birthday gift, and the first time I'd embroidered (other than the leather book cover, which was very different) in years.

She loves blue delft and has a new townhouse to furnish, so this will go nicely, I hope! It's all silk: noil for the front, dupioni on the back, and two tones of silk embroidery thread so that it sort of looks likes it's shimmering. I even attempted to clean up the inside edges. I know you're wondering, so here's the back:

Nice and neat, eh?