This is Alphonse… Passion: radioactive chocolate.
Voici Alphonse… Passion : chocolat radioactif.
Like an old 1950′s portrait
À la façon d’un portrait des années 50
Cats have a slinky in place of a spine!
Les chats ont un slinky à la place d’une colonne vertébrale!
I love these remakes / j’adore ces interprétations :
The girl with a pearl earring, Weeping Woman and The two Fridas and much more!
Cauliflowers are getting bigger and “pinker”.
Frogs are taking refuge under the lettuces and zucchini plants.
Cosmos at high noon
Roupie is working his magic on a bamboo shoot.
Kale right off the garden: in the tabbouleh with nasturtium flowers
I am trying something new: no, not gonna eat the CelluClay with the rapini! This was bought during one of my lasts trips to Montreal; it is a mix of cellulose and clay. I tried mixing it with more or less water to see how it turns out once dry, which should take about 24 hours. I heard that it can be sanded and painted, can’t wait to play with it!
The inspiration behind the title of this post: the album Adventures in your own backyard (Patrick Watson). It has been playing a lot around here these past few weeks!
And to finish off this post: I was spending some “quality time” (read go to bed too late) on internet last night, trying to find out more information about Patrick Watson when I stumbled upon this video. It is set up in Abitibi, Destor and Rouyn-Noranda to be more precise. It does not depict the town on its best side but it is really touching, maybe because Rouyn is where I spent most of my childhood? The stories of mister Morasse* are delightful and so is the relationship between him and P. Watson. To all of you who saw that impromptu show near the train tracks: I am so jealous!
*Morasse poutine (fast food) is kind of an institution in Rouyn-Noranda.
Celebrating Saint-Jean (Quebec’s national holiday) with friends
These two have to sniff everything new.
Ink, ecoline, watercolour and micron pen
It is now a diptych! But not done yet. *** Un diptyque en cours de route.
Noémie picking daisies *** Noémie cueillant des marguerites
Digitalis (Foxglove) *** Digitale
The summer studio/office — furry accessory not included — where all the work is done these days.
Have a good weekend and bonne Saint-Jean* les Québécois!
* For Quebecers, St-Jean is equivalent to the Fourth of July…
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L’atelier/bureau d’été — accessoire poilu non inclus — où tout le travail se fait ces jours-ci.
Bonne fin de semaine et bonne Saint-Jean!
We are almost done installing our outside dining & living room/work space/summer studio. I will show you more pictures later. As long as the temperature allows it, I will work outside, well protected under the screen house tent! The cats/foremen seem to approve of the new space; Roupie has already used it many times as a napping ground.
I am becoming an iPhone addict…
Six years ago, I bought a refurbished Blackberry Dinosaurus. It must have been the dullest phone you have ever seen and it was used mainly as an answering machine. About a month ago, I felt it was time to switch for an iPhone. After all, a website programmer has to test on the real thing! I barely had time to play with it until last week but I think I am already hooked! All those camera apps (among other things) are really addictive.
The composition above is my end result for the Brown Paper Bag’s Collage Scrap Exchange. It had been a while since I made a collage and had forgotten how hard it can be! So many choices… I tried a lot of combinations but ended up with a simple montage on black paper.
What I received by mail
Roupie was trying to ignore the honkers’ (Canada geese) party going on in his back. There were four families of these birds on the little lake this morning!
Going to the village
Have a good weekend!
The past weeks have been a bit intense with work, the moving to prepare and some personnal matters. The moving part is almost over (a last step today), so that’s one down! I can’t wait for a week of vacation that could give me the look of Roupie in the grass. As you can see in the pictures, our two rascals have past through these weeks as usual…
The next few days are dedicated to unpacking and work but I will take the time to work on my collage and to nap in the hammock!
This is something that should help someone relax.
Have a good weekend!
Ecoline, ink and graphite on paper, work in progress…
Some of the kale seeds survived winter
Sweet peas are emerging and Roupie the Mittens is making his rounds.
A lot of things that were dormant are starting to awaken.
Summers are short around here so nature is in a hurry!
It won’t be long before colour pops everywhere.
The rainettes (tree frogs) have been singing every night for the past weeks. You can’t imagine a more beautiful concert. I have just recorded their song, you can hear it over here…
And this is the song of the grenouille taureau (bullfrog). Some of them hang out in a pond not too far from our house; I think I prefer the sweet voices of the rainettes!
What is your favourite concert?
