It is hard to believe that another
month has passed. I would like to take this opportunity to share my
creative projects of the month with you. Finding time to be creative
was challenging as my parents visited us for a couple of weeks, and I
had another cold that slowed me down. At least, it did not prevent me
from continuing the back of my knitted cape, which is my own design.
I will post a photo when it is finished.
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| Bouquet of Joy, acrylic, 20" x 16" unfinished |
During the month, I started three new
paintings, two are of flowers. The long winter makes me long for the
bright colours of spring flowers and the green of the grass. The
first bouquet of orange-red tulips inspired me to capture the beauty
of the flowers in a 20” x 16” acrylic painting.
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| "Almost Nighttime", acrylic, 16" x 20", unfinished |
For the painting demonstration at
DeSerres at the St. Laurent Centre, I prepared the composition and
rough block-in of colours for two paintings as I did not know what I
would feel like painting: one image captures the last minutes before
darkness fell over the St. Lawrence River in Kamouraska, the other
the first daffodil of the year. In the end, I decided to paint the
evening scene during the demonstration but continued the daffodil
painting the following weekend. At the moment, I have six paintings
that are waiting to be finished. My mood will guide me in picking the
one that I want to work on during my time in the studio. Right now, I
have a big longing for flowers and spring.
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| "The First Daffodil", acrylic, 12" x 12" |
I took out my sketchbook on a couple of occasions. I created the sketch of the totem pole and of a man reading while waiting for
a client. The sketches from “The King & I” are from memory as
it was too dark during the event. I drew them during the
intermission. "Marvin’s Room" at the Ottawa Little
Theatre gave me lots of opportunities to sketch but in the second
part, the actions on the scene got so intense that I forgot all about
sketching.
For my several Cartooning and Comics classes, I created
drawings of Dog Man and Harry Potter as well as for the first two
scenes of the comics that were the final project of my two groups of
students. The one group picked Dog Man and the second Captain
Underpants and Garfield as their main characters. The students had to
create their own setting and finish the story with a third image.
I also picked up my felted version of
our dog Alex again. I had to stop felting my dog last year when I ran
out of fur. Our cat Miko loved snuggling with this smaller version of
our big dog and started kneading the fur while ripping apart the body
in the process. As cute as he looked sleeping with my felted dog, I
have to admit that I was a little frustrated when I had to figure out
where to start again. Two days ago, Miko almost succeeded again in taking my felted dog apart. I have to make sure that I keep my work locked away from him.
Talking about felting, I added another
felted Easter egg workshop that is running on April 15, 2019, at 2pm.
In this workshop, you can learn the relaxing and enjoyable process of
needle felting. If you would like some more information and to
register, please go to my website www.KerstinPeters.ca.
Have you started any new projects or
would like to share a finished craft or artwork with me? I would love
to see what you are creating. Please do not hesitate to contact me if
I can help you in any way. You can either leave a comment or contact
me directly at info@KerstinPeters.ca.
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