Sun Bathing
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.