I did promise to show some in-progress photos, but got so into the painting that I didn’t want to stop to fiddle with the camera. Here’s the only snap I took.

My studio, like most places in Victoria this summer, is scorching hot, so I moved outside to paint yesterday. Beacon Hill Park provided plenty of shade and beautiful things to paint. I wanted to do a full painting in one go but was thwarted by my loss of light. Instead, I managed to block in the large areas of colour, and a tentative composition, and if the weather stays fine (ha!) I’ll go back and finish it today. I will post some photos of its progression to completion next week.

Later folks!

Erica

My paintings are being shown at a local Italian restaurant called La Piola.

They use food from local farms, one of which is in trouble. The Land Conservancy of BC is trying to purchase Madrona Farms so that it will be used to produce local organic food in perpetuity.

I approached the manager and the chef of La Piola about doing a fundraising event using my art (and possibly their food, but I don’t know that yet) and giving a portion of all the proceeds to the Land Conservancy in order to save Madrona Farms.

They are pretty pumped about the idea. It seems like a 4 way win situation:

The Land Conservancy gets a donation.

La Piola gets some PR

I get some PR and some money

Some lucky person gets a painting and the knowledge that they helped sustainability along, just a little!

What do you think?