Louise Smith

Not about to quit with the puns.

You may have seen me working on this during the Minnekhada Art in the Park Festival.  After a vacation (yay) and a bout of flu (not yay) it’s finished!

Yay!

Do you think maybe I’m quite happy I’m done with the flu?

Anyways.  Back to the illustrious history of this piece depicting a view of Burrard Inlet from Rocky Point Park.  Boathouse diners a year or so ago may have been amused to see a perspiring me running to catch this sunset on camera before it was too late.  I continued the theme of indignity by hunkering down on the muddy ground to make sure I got some foreground grasses in the shot.

This one was quite painting-heavy as you can see.  There’s a little bit of machine sewing and then I did mostly hand-sewing of the grasses.  I also sewed some grasses behind the silk that are meant to show through the silk, mostly to mess with the logic I usually follow, of keeping close-up details physically closer to your eye.

Next piece is quite different from this one in all sorts of ways, so I’m looking forward to getting into that.

I just got back from visiting family in the UK.  I took many photos including this one of pink daisies in my Mam and Dad’s back garden. (Being from the northeast of England I have a Mam rather than a Mum or Mom, and a back garden not a backyard : ))

I’ve been experimenting with layering painted silk scraps on a painted silk background. More on that in a no doubt much later post.  It seems like a better way to capture petals or leaves that are either large-scale or, like these ones, translucent.

This one could be quite fiddly.   I love the sense of movement though (the flowers were blowing in the wind a lot and it was difficult to get an unblurred shot).  I may attempt a very simplified version…some day.  I have a couple of other projects to finish first and am plenty busy in my non-art life at the moment!