While everyone is busy getting ready for Christmas, I’m also busy getting ready for Banff! It’s not long now until I start my residency, and as there are no art supply stores in Banff, I have to ship everything over. So I’ve been busy in the studio preparing canvases and other painting surfaces to bring over. Preparing blank canvases is a really slow and laborious process. Each canvas takes a few hours to prepare, with layers of gesso, sanding each layer after it’s dried, and my fingers often get raw from stretching the rough canvas over the boards…it’s the slow and boring (and painful!) part of the painting process! But it’s exciting too…a blank canvas means lots of possibilities. I look forward to showing you all the work that I will be doing while in Banff.
As I didn’t really have enough time to start a new painting this month, I decided to do some sketches and ink drawings. Here is a photo of my latest pencil and pencil crayon sketch.
Continuing with my myth series, which I plan on continuing and developing while on my residency, this sketch is based on the story of Apollo and Daphne. I will post the full image of the sketch on my website soon. Here is a little peek of the sketch and also the preliminary outline of the figures on a canvas that I will be working on in Banff!
