a summery self-portrait (from summer, it might go without saying)

and a little painting from the Tulip Festival in May

hair dye

An encounter in LA. It didn't work out for him.

Spring has sprung!

And, a shout-out if you're in Toronto this Friday, my film Great Tante Aaf is screening at the Royal Cinema via the Toronto Animated Image Society's 'Local Exposure' screening.

More info on facebook, here!: https://www.facebook.com/events/116041982274643/.

I can't remember where I heard this,

but I believe it to be true.

winters be cold here!

a drive along the Ottawa River,

through fields of melting snow

a worthy opponent

Some nature-painting/ watercolour samples from an art camp I ran last summer. It does make one a little nostalgic for sunny greenery when it's -20 out and feels like -26 with the wind chill. Spring is coming, someday soon!

 

Sketching excerpts a la Toronto.

Reverend Klomps

Reverend Klomps recounting a comment after a sermon on John Calvin: " 'Oh Pastor, you've got it all wrong. John Calvin wasn't French, he was Dutch!' (And if she could have, she probably would have added '-and he came from Friesland!')"

snowy nights

fa-la-la-la-la!