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Drawbridge is an illustrated journal of my life as an artist and nature lover. I use coloured pencil, collage, or whatever it takes to say what I mean.
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  • Walking At Night

    Posted on Thursday December 31st, 2009 at 13:46 in mixed media, aceo, water colour, hollidge tract, inktense watercolour pencil, 365 art card project

    This is a thing I was taught to do long ago by mother. Without fail, after supper, summer, spring, fall and winter, out she would go for a walk when we were at the cottage. Now that I make that statement, it sounds like I was raised in privilege...

  • A Man and His Dog

    Posted on Sunday July 26th, 2009 at 09:38 in dog, cranberry bog, dynamo, water colour, killarney provincial park

    Another image of Cranberry Bog Trail, Killarney Provincial Park, with liberal interpretive changes.  I’m not much into copying photographs, even my own, but they come in handy for reference.  In this case, however, the photo had pretty...

  • Nuts, Bolts and Solidarity Forever

    Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 07:52 in male nude, life drawing, linocut, water colour

    Yes, I’m still doing the life drawing. How not to be fascinated by the human body, the vessel with which we experience the universe. I’m booked to start up again next week, but here’s some pics from the last session I attended. On break...

  • Skating Party--All Done Now

    Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 at 07:45 in skating, coloured pencil, water colour, magnetawan river

    The lone skater in the watercolour version is my husband. I didn't know this when I began it, but the fact emerged. He is not the most co-ordinated man on the planet; he is prone to stumbles, and a little awkward in gate. He falls a lot when skiin...

  • Holiday Series 2008

    Posted on Saturday September 20th, 2008 at 15:16 in ink, aceo, water colour, lake superior provincial park, rhyolite cove, gargantua harbour

    1. Hwy 17, it's a long long ride (from 8:30am to 5:30pm) to Lake Superior from my home, much time spent gazing out the window as the changing landscape slides on by. You never know what you'll see on Hwy 17, as the landscape changes from rocky pine ...

  • Queen of the Night

    Posted on Wednesday August 6th, 2008 at 18:36 in coloured pencil, water colour, wax crayon

    I spent a weekend with very good friends. They live in the woods on the North Magnetawan River in a cabin without running water, telephone or road access. During winter visits, we ski across lakes, rivers and islands to arrive at their home. In su...

  • Grumpy

    Posted on Sunday June 15th, 2008 at 11:40 in coloured pencil, water colour

    And now the truth; all is not sweetness and light. This is me being grumpy. I was doing up my lily picture when my husband joined me to watch a Saturday sunset. And I got grumpy. Really grumpy. He was trying his best to be unobtrusive, peering at ...

  • Before the storm

    Posted on Wednesday March 26th, 2008 at 19:20 in water colour, lake superior provincial park

    We camp on the beach at Lake Superior Provincial Park every summer for as long as we are able. Last September, we were lucky enough to score a prime campsite on the sand beach. Large storms rolling from the west often produce long glassy rollers th...

  • Scout Tract

    Posted on Saturday March 1st, 2008 at 05:55 in water colour, york regional forest, scout tract

    The Scout Tract is just a tiny segment of York Regional Forests, but one of its highlights is the walk along a causeway between two ponds. If I was the type to settle down in one spot for awhile, it would be a great place for birdwatching, but ...