Bruce Peninsula

 This past weekend we went to the Bruce Peninsula with all our buddies for some car camping. It was so cold, but all 8 of us bundled up in one tent and we managed to survive. We did a nice long hike, and spent a lot of time around the fire. Here's some pictures!

Painting on a Hubcap

I'm working on a collaboration project for my Alternative Media course. I got paired with Leslie Hockley who happens to be from Collingwood/Wasaga and her dad also works at Honda (my dad finally quit this week!!).

So we bought two Civic hubcaps and made watercolour paintings on them. You can buy watercolour primer so we put that down first.

The one on the left is all farmland, with the Nottawasaga winding around the outer edge, and the Honda plant in the centre, with their train tracks. The one on the right is of where the 400 and the 401 intersect, and we made up the suburbs around it.

It's kind of a present to future thing, but also how the city is expanding pretty rapidly up towards Alliston and Alliston is "Rurban," and turning into suburbia.

So yeah! I'm hoping these will be at my show in September at the Well. You can click the image for a bigger picture.

xoxo
H

Final Projects

Hey! As promised, here are some photos of my most recent (and final) projects for second year. It's almost over. I have one critique and two exams left, but I'm ignoring those for now.

As I mentioned before, Andrew and I were working on a collaborative piece in our 6 hour painting studio course. So we made a painting about Alliston (kind of), and grade 12 (kind of). It was just a nostalgic lil thang about our hometown. It was the first time we worked together and it went really well. We actually worked on each canvas simultaneously, alongside one another. It was a lot of fun and we're planning on doing it again.

Part of the assignment was to build canvases that were different shapes. We drew shapes for about two hours before we picked this combination, and we're not really sure why we liked it so much. But we did. So yeah!

We also limited our paints to three colours and mixed all of our colours from that: Andrew used Alizarin Crimson, Lemon Yellow, Pthalo Blue & Zinc/Titanium Whites. I shared his but also used a little bit of Napthol Red, Hansa Yellow, and Ultramarine Blue. So we each had our 3 primaries & white and made all of our own colours (nice!).

One of our classmates, Jill, sent me this so I thought I'd include it for size and cause I think we're kind of cute (thanks Jill!).

 

Those are all closeups of that piece.

I also had two encaustic pieces due this past week:

It's kind of hard to tell what this is (I ran out of time), but it's taken from an image of me from our canoe trip in August (the beaver fever trip). It's me sitting in the tent in the semi-dark, overcast, rainy weather, snacking on some trail mix or something. Or biting my nails, cause I do that.

 And this is Tom Chill. I had a pile of pictures of my friends' faces, and asked a friend who didn't know them which one I should do. He picked this one cause "he has a good nose." So I did a wax portrait of him. 

If you want to buy it, or the one of me in the tent (they smell good!!) you can!

xoxo

It's almost over. 

Cross your fingers for the Woods job for us.

HP

Update

It's been a while. As usual nowadays. Not really sure why my motivation with this has dropped off so much! I was doing so well. But hopefully it gets a renewed commitment from me for the summer. I have lots of plans and ideas for what I'm going to do this summer.
My number one goal is to get hired by Woods for the dream job thing (you may have seen it already in the papers!), which would let me travel across the country with Aj and get paid to do it while camping and making paintings and whatnot (and also blogging, don't worry). So you can cross your fingers for us cause we're going to apply!

Otherwise, I'll find other student type jobs in the city. I'm still at Supperworks, and I have applied to a Floral Designer's shop, and another pub. So we'll wait and see what happens!

I'm also planning on making a lot of paintings for my upcoming show at the Well. So stay tuned for those. 

I have a few pictures for you now:

Our neighbour's apartment had a fire last weekend. It was crazy, tons of firemen, and we finally met all of our neighbours in a really strange circumstance. He let us see the apartment afterwards, and there were all these old posters behind the walls. Creepy & really cool.

For Easter we spent some time with Aj's family and mine. Here's me and my sisters jammed in the back seat with grandma.

Egg decorating! Nice. Haven't done that in a while.

We have a lava lamp now. It's kind of old, so it's a bit gross sometimes. 

Most recent tat progress - all the green! 

Most recent tiny painting. It had to be made up of only layers of the primaries (yellow, blue, red, and white). So that's what it is. I didn't mix any of the colours, and you can kind of tell so when my critique is over, I'll be painting over it with mixed colours. And that's for sure.

Otherwise, I'm going to be studying my butt off this week, and finishing up all my final projects. Year two is pretty much over and I'm glad. I really liked it a lot more than last year, but that's a post for another day.

Love you guys, and miss keeping in touch on here. Pinky swear I'll do it again soon with an update on final projects.

xoxo

HP