Still this year

 I haven't managed to browse through last year's photos from the end of August yet, so here are some from this morning's walk to the lake - and back.

Which reminds me of this bronze I made in 1992 called 'ashtray heart'.

A Bit of a Change-up

 I was planning to continue with a blog post every week while I was on vacation, but I realised just before I left Toronto that I didn't have any photos for the two weeks I would be away as I was away the same two weeks last year.

So today I am posting photos I took on my walk top the lake this morning. I arrived back in Toronto just last night. 

I hope you like mushrooms.

 This time last year I was camping with my daughter and her friend at Awenda Provincial Park on Georgian Bay, just north of Penetanguishene.  We have been camping there the first week of August since we moved to Canada in late 2008.  This year we won't be camping until next week.

So these are not photos from a walk to the lake this post - they are photos from a walk around the campsite taken on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2021.

But before I inundate you with fungi I would like to share a few images from an old sketchbook I dug out this morning, from my first two years of studying visual art at university.

These first two drawings are sketches for paintings that I made in my first ever painting class with Lynn Donoghue in the fall of 1990.

This next series of drawings are sketches I made for sculptures I would be exhibiting at the IDA gallery in the Fine Arts building at York University in Toronto, Ontario. It was a two-person show with Bud Fujikawa, who exhibited his large abstract paintings.  The second drawing is of the completed portion of the first sketch.  The smaller painting to the right can be seen in a previous blog post here.

The previous two design drawings are for a kinetic sculpture that was connected to the dancer Christine de Leon for a performance during the exhibition, and at a previous dance performance evening in a private studio.  I also had some knot sculptures based on this following page of drawings.  Two of the lino-cuts are in a previous blog post as well, but the bronzes were made later that fall while I was on exchange at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, England.

Here is a photo of the dancer Christine taken by a friend of hers.

And now, the fungi and a selfie.

That reminds me - I forgot a sketch from 1992.