When we paint we love to ignore that unwritten rule (which everyone seems to adhere to) that says not to dip your brush in more than one colour of paint. Since everything we do is hand blended with a brush it's not just fun to double (or triple) dip but required. Today as we painted the rocks we had no fewer than six colours handy.
COLOR!
Today it was back to Squamish to paint all of the sculpted concrete work we did last week. The weather was perfect, nice and sunny but not too warm. We brought lots and lots of paint with us but soon discovered we needed a whole lot more. I bought out the local paint store and have more on order for tomorrow. The crew kept busy, coat after coat of color...
Before quitting time we managed to get three coats of paint on two sides of the building, two on another and one base coat of paint on the fourth side. We begin the glazing tomorrow morning. It's going well!
Early theme work
I was looking through some old family pictures today and came across one of one of our very early theme efforts. The pictures were taken of a parade float we built to promote an art gallery we owned at the time, circa 1984. The kids were about six and seven and eager to help. They were delighted to ride in the float in front of the whole town. Materials were basic in those days, wood, paper, bailing wire and some old golf cart wheels. The plane was perched on a homemade kayak trailer.
