Paint out in Gatineau park

This past weekend was a blessing for me . I was invited to

go out and paint the Gatineau Park . It was for me the first

time I painted there and I fell in love with this beautiful

nature reserve. Although it was quite beautiful , we had

horrific weather , it was windy like I rarely saw before .

My friend Sylvio Gagnon and I painted at the Champlain

lookout , a breathtaking picturesque panoramic view .

We managed to paint all weekend although it was snow-

ing on sunday morning . I thank my friend Sylvio for

beeing my guide during the weekend . I also was a guest

and stayed at his house for the weekend .I really

appreciate and would like to thank him and his wife

Monique , merci .

What's new !

Well , I haven't been writing for several months now . The reason is ,

first of all , my sister passed away in May . She had been fighting cancer

for over a year but finally lost her battle with cancer . Secondly , I've

re evaluated my position as an artist . Where do I stand ? How can I

survive in this life while doing what I like . I've often said to myself

¨ if I can't live doing what I want , which is painting , then , I don't want

to paint at all ¨ . I still think the same way today and I talked to one of

my friend who is having the same dilema as me , he is living on wefare

because he is experimenting pain in his legs which cripples him and

limits him in his work .But we managed to talk and we are planning

to rent a space , in the near future , where we can give painting lessons .

Anyway , it's only a thought for now but , who knows?

Sweet and sour still life

Lemon tea break

For me , I need to have my coffee early in the morning , but afterwords
all I will have is tea . I usually drink my tea with no cream or sugar but
last time I did my grocery they gave me free lemons.I rarely cook with
lemons but it was free so I put a bit of lemon in my tea and it was quite
good .

still life trio

When I get the winter blues , I tend to be depressed and thats when I
put my energy in creating small still lives .I like the term ¨still life ¨.
Contrary to the word ¨nature morte ¨in french , which means dead life,
in english , life is still , there for us to see . I gathered what was left in
the fridge . I will be posting a few of these still lives I did earlier .

I thought of sharings these pics,
seeing that spring is in the air .