2012, bring it!
Last year, I made a simple New Year’s resolution to start painting again. After procrastinating for more than eight months, I finally got down to it. It felt good. Like, [Read more]
Artwork
Alice’s Teapots
My latest painting comes from a photograph I took at the Portobello Road Market last year in London. The market is so vibrant and has lots of teapots and pictures of chickens, [Read more]
Blasts from the past
This week I started digging through some old artwork and brought out my portfolio. I'm not gonna lie, it creaked like an old man's knees; it's been so long since I opened the [Read more]
Paper Umbrellas
At home in my sun room there is a piece I completed years ago that is an overhead view of people carrying large yellow umbrellas. (Or "oh, those are pretty flowers, Kirsten" [Read more]
Haida Totems
While visiting Vancouver this year, we took a trek out to UBC so I could see my old school. We walked around campus, checked out the old dormitory, and ended up at the Museum [Read more]
Bring poppies for a weary mind
Over the years, I have tried numerous times to grow bunches of poppies in the garden and they either die out or don't even come up in the first place. Except this one, a light [Read more]
Autumn, when every leaf is a flower
Don't you just love the colours of fall? For me, the beauty of this season makes the short transition from Manitoba's beautiful summers to harsh winters bearable. I'm [Read more]
Stan
So last January I made a simple resolution to start painting again. After 9 months of saying it, I have actually got off my butt and started doing it. Ah, procrastination, how [Read more]
Stanley Park Totems
This is a watercolour of the Stanley Park totem poles that I painted for a good friend way back in the day. She had just moved back from B.C. and I wanted her to have a little [Read more]
Extreme doodling
Gorgeous pen and ink illustrations by Tokyo artist Sagaki Keita. Found here. You have to check out the rest of these images. Ah-mazing!
55 Thunderbird
55 Thunderbird, watercolour, 2008
Beautiful directions
By artist Matthew Cusick from here and here.
Vincent
Just received an email from my friend Brenda who is currently visiting Paris. She was telling me about all the art she is seeing and how fantastic everything is. She also [Read more]
Smells like spring
Which means it smells like dog poop in Winnipeg! Spring is absolutely the ugliest season in this city. The snow is in a mass melt that makes everything wet, dirty and stinky; [Read more]
Tis the season?
What beautiful weather we have been having in Winnipeg this fall. It's been so mild that I cannot believe tomorrow is the first of December! Crazy Ah December, always a [Read more]
