Rain

Sep 5, 2011 | Photo

It’s been pouring all night, it’s still raining… The frogs started singing again. The next photos were taken seven years ago, during fall. It had been a very rainy and windy one. We had a guest from Marseille who visited Quebec for the first time....

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...

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...

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...

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...