Dec
21
2008
Wine challenge
Dominique's kitchen
An acrylic painting of my oldest friend’s kitchen.
Posts by Mary
About Mary
Mary likes to drawing and painting as regularly as possible. She studies interesting cities and wilderness. As an environmentalist she seeks to understand how people come together in cities and how they relate to their environment. Her favourite thing about art is that there are no rules and no judges except the ones you make for yourself.
Dec
2
2008
He quietly howls
This is a willow charcoal drawing for my husband. It was a bit tricky because I only had small bits of charcoal left to use.
Allen Ginsberg
Jun
24
2008
A moment of reflection
Last evening I joined Dad for a walk around the circle with Winston, the dog. As we rounded a bend in the road we heard a car approaching. It quickly spun around the corner moving to the middle of the road to give us space. As the car moved a chipmunk dashed into the road and got caught under the back tire of the car that was in such a hurry. The car continued with no knowledge of the life it had cost. I looked at the eyes of the animal not yet dead. My eyes and then my hand found a melon sized rock at the side of the road. Dad, reading my actions, moved for the rock. It was all we could do. Now the animal’s eyes were blank and the body was still. Dad moved him into the woods and off the road. We tried to give dignity and respect to the small creature that will never understand cars and roads, but mostly it gave dignity and respect for ourselves as part of this world.
Jun
24
2008
Crayon tree
This is a tree in a meadow created by melting crayons in the oven in a shallow baking dish. The crayons came from my few days working as a hostess in a restaurant. One of my duties was to go through the crayons and discard all the small broken bits. I couldn’t bare to throw them all away, so I saved them and they became my art.
May
27
2008
Gary Snyder’s Message
This is an acrylic painting using Gary Snyder’s words – “stay together/learn the flowers/go light”
