Logan's Meadow has a homepage!!!!

That's right! Logan's Meadow now has it's own homepage!!!! I'm very excited to launch my own site and look forward to sharing all of my work with you. You can browse the site by either clicking the above banner, or the link at the right hand side of this page. I hope you like it!

Coming soon......

Well, for the last year I've been thinking and thinking and plotting and thinking....

In the last weekend I have finally made up my mind and started work on what will be my website. It has been, so far, a rather bumpy road. But bumpy helps you learn and stretch your skill-set. So far I've been lucky and have had the help of some friends in overcoming these hurdles that have come up. Two pages down, three or four to go........

Adventures with canvas...

Today while my son was napping and my daughter was playing with her vsmile, I got the chance to paint...



For a long time I have pretty much not bothered with landscapes. However, my trip on Mother's Day to the McMichael art gallery and some encouragement from my friends awokened a love for it. I think this phase will last a good while yet.

ACEO babes YouTube debut!

I've written about my fellow babes before. I absolutely admire the work these talented women create and I was honoured to put this together for them. So please sit back, relax and enjoy!

Charcoal meets Watercolour

My newest piece I plan on listing this weekend on eBay. The charcoal works great in contrast to the softer watercolours. I'm hoping to experiment more combining the two mediums, it was a great experience. My last few pieces were quite a bit "darker" so the fusion of colour into the charcoal medium was a welcome change.

***Update***
This piece is currently for sale in my Etsy Shop. Click on the picture to be taken to the listing directly

Happy Belated Mother's day!!!

Yesterday was just like any other day with the exception of our outing for the day. For Mother's Day I managed to snag a family pass from my work for free admission to the McMichael Art Gallery in Kleinburg, Ontario. The hubby was willing to go, the artwork breathtaking and the kids were eerily well behaved. We only had to remind my daughter a small number of times not to touch the walls or paintings and my 15 month old didn't fuss at all until the very end when he decided enough was enough he wanted to nap!

There were two pieces that struck me the hardest of all. One was a work by Takao Tanabe "low Tide" The simplicity in the fog and the incredible detail that created the "texture" in the pebbles along the shore took my breath away. Quite a few of his pieces left me in awe, however that one spoke to me the loudest. Try as I might I couldn't find a suitable (and affordable) repro to take home with me.

The second was a particular piece by Tom Thompson of The Group of Seven. I don't think there was an exact title other than Algonquin Park 1914. Please don't quote me on that, I'm still regretting not having written it down for reference. All of the Group's works are beautiful but this one patch with faint red line work in the center in the forest really struck me. Most likely due to it being of Algonquin Park. I fell in love with the beauty of that area when I went camping a few years ago and Tom Thompson had a tremendously gorgeous way of portraying it through his work. Unfortunately no repro of that piece either......

I guess I will have to make a return trip won't I?

Working with charcoal pencils....

A completely different media than I remembered. I really do love it, but it's so incredibly easy to overdo it. I love using the white charcoal though to highlight. Any studies I ever did in High School art class conveniently left this little beauty out so I'm glad to have discovered it! Here are my first two pieces drawn in years:


Smiling Eyes


Pale-Lit

I look forward to creating more pieces with these pencils. The technique can be quite delicate and for once I love that!

A wee bit of a dry spell......

Well not quite...late last week was the last piece I created. A really neat experiment with charcoal pencils that turned out great, except I still have yet to buy the spray to seal it so that it doesn't become ruined by smudging.

Since then though I have yet to paint/draw. I did however make a card. Although I have to admit, while I enjoy them it didn't quite quelch the artistic thirst. Inspiration is lacking at the moment though. In my personal life, I am not extremely happy outside of the home. Things aren't going quite the way I pictured them to be and I have not been doing well with it. However when do things go exactly the way one would want them to? That's reality......or so I am told. All I can do is put one foot in front of the other, embrace those I know appreciate me and stop caring about those that poison my environment, life is too short.

And hopefully this dry spell will fade away.......