Irene

Aug 31, 2011 | Photo

Irene left her mark in our area this weekend. It was really not as bad as elsewhere since the storm had lost a lot of strength before getting here but still: trees were uprooted, there was a bit of a flood and we had no electricity for almost three days. Because of...

Pebbles

Aug 29, 2011 | Arts & Crafts with kids, Pebbles

Every summer in July, my boyfriend’s family gets together in the Eastern Townships. It’s a week of swimming, frog hunting (poor creatures), berry fruits picking, wild mushrooms picking and of course, eating. There are five nephews and nieces to entertain and all of...

Nightmare before Christmas

Aug 26, 2011 | Drawing & Painting, Inspiration, Photo

I’ve been listening to The Nightmare before Christmas for over five years, regularly. This is one of my favourite music to work on. Tim Burton’s world is spooky, crazy, funny and tender at the same time… While trying to find out links related to this, I stumbled...

Birds of a feather

Aug 24, 2011 | Drawing & Painting, Photo

I rarely know what’s going to happen when I start drawing, forms just happen. But it seems that round and fluffy feathered creatures have made their way through my work recently. Ink on paper Ink and acrylic on paper                                                    ...

August

Aug 22, 2011 | Photo

I think August is one of my favourite months.  I feel sad and happy at the same time since it means the end of summer, but it’s also its apotheosis: cicadas and crickets are singing, the air smells like hay and ripe raspberries, the colors seem a bit warmer. I enjoy...

My big scared monster and how inkblots saved his life

Aug 19, 2011 | Drawing & Painting

Ink on paper The kind of monster that hides under the bed. It looks like me when I started drawing again: paralyzed, hit by the white page syndrome. My hands – and mostly my head – did not remember how to proceed. I was wondering how to get out of that...

Squirrels and aliens

Aug 17, 2011 | Photo

Here are some images taken at night, mostly in our backyard in Montreal… A prune tree stands in the middle of the garden and the squirrels seem to enjoy it very much. These little hooligans have the habit of taking just a tiny bite of every fruit and they then drop it...

My Moo cards have arrived

Aug 15, 2011 | Drawing & Painting

La Datcha minicards Datcha Web business cards La Datcha greeting cards I just received my Moo cards (business cards, greeting cards, minicards and stickers)… I’m happy with the results even though some of the models came out a bit too dark, but that’s probably...

Octopus

Aug 12, 2011 | Drawing & Painting

These creatures have been inspiring me lately. The transparencies, the colors and the shapes are incredible. I can see where Sci-Fi creators get their ideas! I have been working black on white for a while, trying to render the layers and textures and never got the...

Postcards for the DIY swap

Aug 10, 2011 | DIY postcards swap, Drawing & Painting

Watercolor, acrylic, japanese paper and metallic pen on paper These are some of the postcards created for the 2011 DIY Postcard Swap, organized by iHanna. This art exchange was a first experience and it really motivated me to experiment and to create a lot during a...

An introduction

Aug 8, 2011 | Drawing & Painting, Photo

As a first post, here is a little bit about me and this blog… The “young” years My name is Julie. I was born in Montreal (Canada) but I grew up in Abitibi, Douala (Africa) and the Laurentians, just to name a few! As you can guess, my parents liked to...