I happened upon Barkley Hendricks in the www one day. This is me trying to copy him in my sketchbook. Fun!

http://gothamist.com/2009/01/20/barkley_l_hendricks_birth_of_the_co.php#photo-1

I wish I could do these apple trees justice with paint and canvas. I wonder why apple trees are so horribly twisted? Must google that! Click on the photo to have a closer look.

My Supplies and my feet. The Staedler Fine Line Pens are at least 4 years old and still not a bit dry.

The Nottawasaga River at Wasaga Beach

A very quick sketch - that is the Canadian Flag.

A lovely afternoon for my wee dog and me. People were swimming in the Bay!

I finally managed to get back to Go Figure for drawing. Felt I did decently for having been away from it for so long. The top drawing was a 5 minute pose - the 2nd 10 minutes and the third was 20 minutes. A destroyed the 1 minute poses which I failed completely! I have been making a website for my painting group - you can see it at marshstreetpainters.com

http://www.asllinea.org/slides/dialogues-knox-martin-up-close-and-personal/

This is a video of my teacher at the Art Student's League in New York. What a wonderful kind person he is. We all loved him.

           My great granddaughter's painting!

                        Isn't it wonderful!!!

I stepped out on my patio - this Pug growled at me - can't say I blame him - it IS the 24th of April isn't it?

Can you see that snow on my car? We have had April showers now we have April Snow!! I am about to light my fireplace. Come on Spring - be nice!

Yes, yes, yes!

A winter wonderland this morning - click on it for a better look.

Oh Happy Day! Both my paintings were chosen to hang in the BMFA Juried Art Show for the month of April 2013!

Bev

Our Family 

Crocus finally peeking out of the cold cold earth. April 8/13. It is still cold in Collingwood but at least the Apple Tree Blossoms won't be freezing like they did last year. Come on Spring - we want you, we really want you!

Spring IS trying to come in - can you see those geese in the field behind my house?! If not just click on the photo to enlarge it. That is Blue Mountain and the ski runs in the background. Happy Easter to all.
PS - they are trying to say yesterday was my 79th birthday - I say ITS A LIE - NOTHING BUT A DAMN LIE!

From the New Yorker [where else?!] - the caption is "your honour may I present this bullet with his name on it?"

http://www.torontoart.ca/


I have put some of my work in this online art gallery. Take care, Betty 

I am being a good girl - now could I PLEASE have some water! love Josie xxxxxx

For several years I have been tracing my father's family.For a long I thought my great grandfather John Gillies immigrated here from Kilmartin, Scotland. In 2011 my daughter and I went to the graveyard at The Old Boston Church in Halton Hills and I realized John had come here with his parents! We found the the gravestone of those parents - Neil Gillies and Margaret Campbell arrived here well before 1820. 183 years ago.
I made some reference to this in my blog with a photo and a painting I did of it of "Our Unknown Ancestors".
Recently A woman in Scotland was looking for a cousin of hers [another John Gillies] who happens to be in the photo of those ancestors. She contacted the Old Boston Church who contacted long lost cousins of mine who googled her cousin's name. They landed in my blog looking at the same photo the woman in Scotland had sent them!
It turns out her cousin John came to Canada in 1920 to join his cousin Neil who has a son John who was my great grandfather. Is that clear?
It is very exciting but I do wish the Scots had given their kids middle names!

My friend Bev painted my portrait in watercolour. Don't I look pleasant! Thanks Bev!

Nancy - unfinished

Josie seems to be in a funk this morning!

I wish I could paint like this - it is Amanda Hill of Toronto. amandahill.ca

Oh oh - my paper wasn't long enough!

 

self portrait in pencil - I love working with pencil and paper!

Mary Lou finished? Lots wrong [like that crooked top she wears!] but I am satisfied enough. On to the next one. Did I tell you I want to do 20 of these - all older women in my art group.

Working on Mary Lou - Oil on 16 x 12 Board

Cleaning up odds and ends ....

These booties have been wanting attention for months. In the end I decided just to sign them and call it a day. I found these in a Goodwill store. I knit the same pattern for my first daughter over 60 years ago.

Copying Mattisse with ink on Newsprint ....

 

Anne take wonderful photographs and writes a wonderful blog. This is a painting of her photo of Poppies. I haven't done the photo justice. You will find Anne's blog at http://20thcenturywoman.com

This painting is in The Member's Exhibition at the Blue Mountain Fine Arts [BMFA] in Collingwood. Yesterday I was a volunteer at an afternoon reception for the public. I was working in the kitchen at the back of the gallery when a volunteer working the front of the gallery came looking for Betty Bishop - she just wanted to tell me "everyone is raving about your painting with the black background!". So nice of her to let me know and such thrilling news!

Josie's trail in the snow - she goes to the end of the trail to do her business and check out strange animal smells. We see few rabbits this year?

On her way home and expecting a treat. She loves this romp in the snow if its not too cold in which case she turns around in half a minute. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did this one on cardboard several years ago. With sponges if I remember correctly. A month or so I found this excellent frame [a pair of them actually] at a Reuse shop for $5.00 [each!] and now I can hang them somewhere but god knows where - I am running out of wall!