Good morning friends,  and people who find us accidentally, take a peek and leave cuz you were googling ‘how to pick up girls’ but got us instead (I’m sure that topic will come up at some time if you’re patient)

It is an ab-so-lutely beautiful morning in my fair neck of the world.  It has been all week, I’m delighted to report.  I have this disease to please ~ I know I’ve mentioned that before in earlier sessions posts~ so this is the way my head works;  my sister is now living in Australia and has her house rented out to two Aussie professionals here for a few years.  It’s been 11 months and even though I don’t really see them much, I feel guilty if the weather’s lousy for too long because I think they must be comparing it to Sydney and missing the sun and hating the Vancouver gloom!  And somehow that’s …my…fault.  Ewww!  Writing it out sounds like I think everything’s about me!  Gross!  that’s not what I  meant!  But that is what it sounds like, Jake. Perfect!  Now I’m talking to myself.

Give me about 20 minutes to drive Samantha to school and I’ll be back……….Man, is she irritated!  Got her driver’s license a couple of weeks ago so I’ve let her take the car to school but I’ve needed it for the past several days and she is pouting!  Suddenly she is WAY too above taking the bus!  Ahhhh, I’m going to miss her when I look back on these good times (give it about 15 years)

Hey, I want to tell you about a favourite artist guy I know from around here.  His name is Brian Scott and he paints in the Expressionist style which is probably the style closest to my own  ~ but he’s just REALLY good at it!  Expressionism is all about showing the emotion of a subject and not worrying so much about letting reality get in the way of the creation.

This one is one of my all time favourites  and is called Poppies Spring Glacier.

I just feel happy and alive when I look at his work.  He paints big canvases so you can really sink into his palette and lose yourself in it.  I can’t help but feel more alive and energized when I stroll through his website or go to a gallery show.   I hope you like his stuff and get a charge out of it, too.

Granville Island Perspective

This one was painted en Plein Air (outside, not in a studio.  It’s his preferred method, if I may be so bold and speak for him) slap dab in the middle of Vancouver.  I love his take on the city.  The guy’s not afraid to use colour.  Did I mention I loooovvvvee colour?

There’s an amazingly unique area in Richmond, a low lying suburb of Vancouver, called Finn’s Slough.  It’s like stepping back in time where the inhabitants live on boats or in these little shacks on the edge of the tide flats and little canals.  Kinda like a Louisiana bayou, not that I’ve ever been there but I just imagine it’s like that.  Anyway, artists love to paint the houses and old boats.  That’s what he’s done here.  Now, I have a phobia of old creaky boats but for some reason I’m drawn to boat art!  I can’t explain it.  Maybe it’s like facing your fears will make them go away?

Thanks for letting me share.  You’ve been a perfect audience.  And for my next trick I’m going to make a rabbit… I am in such a strange mood!  I know, I need protein!  Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, you know.

Love to you all!  Live your life with colour!