Tiny House Ontario
Tiny House Modification
When I built the Tiny House last summer with my friend Leo’s help, I was in a terrible hurry to get the stairs up. The have been causing me some grief. They work just fine. They are sturdy and as functional as a steep stair ladder can be; however, the fact that they were open and above the kitchen cupboards. YUCK! Dust and debris always falls through on the counters. Not any more! YEAH!
Finally I got some material and with the help of my husband I closed them in and also made the kitchen a little bit more permanent. It was NOT a huge job but it looks so much more nicely finished now. Too bad the counter top is still a couple of inches too short. But with a kitchen made up of Habitat for Humanities repurposed stuff, I think it looks fine and it feels good to have money go towards such a good cause as well!
I am thinking I will paint the cupboards this year. Plain white or art?
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One For the Show
Well… it has been a long time. Those of you who know me will know that I spent my early life painting and selling these works in shopping malls across Ontario. I was just a teen and out of my teens then and for some strange reason that I cannot remember, I used to sign my paintings with the name Lana, or Jamey. I suppose I thought it sounded cooler than Laura or using my last name, as I do today. Anyway… the news is, that I just started selling paintings again. It is exciting to go full circle.
I now have 12 pieces on display at Hatter’s Bay. I hope you will stop by at this wonderful small business! You can’t buy a lemon tart today though because I bought them all! Sorry (not really). Last night we had a wonderful butternut and sweet potato soup from there with an artisan bread loaf from Fred’s that she carries there. YUM!
If you are interested in my work you will want to know that am asking $190/painting inclusive for each one. The frames are (of course) Canadian made.
If you are making a day trip of it, just around the corner on Mowat, there is a new little shop with beautiful things made by a sweet and chatty artist/seamstress, another artist/painter and also a jeweller. It is in a little white house there and NOT well marked. (SHHHH! I got the cutest little hand made bloomers for my new niece.) It is a great little outing. Creative things and then a lovely bunch of local food on your table for supper!
The show is now over. To see any works please contact Laura here.
Drawing to a Close
I am quite worried about how I am going to paint at Tiny House Ontario. I decided to prepare some canvas and draw in some of the lines so that they would be all ready to go when I do have light and time to paint. The doodling in process is the hardest part for me and I am not as interested in this as I am in playing with colour and light.
Anyway here are 9 (8×10)
canvases that I have prepared. Does anything look familiar yet?
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Kingston’s Wars
This painting is of Cathcart Redoubt which is one of the four large Martello Towers that were built along the shores of Kingston in response to the Oregon Boundary Dispute. There are also two smaller ones. All are still standing.
The perspective of the image: from Fort Henry using a telescopic lens, so that you can easily see the tower on Cedar Island as well as Wolfe Island in the background.
One does not see Dead Man’s Bay in this painting but it should be noted that during the building of this particular tower, 17 men perished when their boat capsized there. These men were trying to return home after a day of work; sadly, this is how this bay got its name.
These towers were pretty much obsolete by the time they were built and fortunately were never needed to be used militarily.
With the towering windmills behind the tower in this painting, the name Kingston’s Wars seemed to me to be appropriate. Kingston has new really seen any war but for any of you who are not local and reading this, the construction of these wind turbines caused many hard feelings and disagreement between neighbours. Now with them present, land values in question and still feelings running high, one wonders if the healing of this generation of islanders, will happen.
I truly hope that it will.
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