Day 30 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 30

Day 30 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Here endth this month's mad painting/drawing spree.  Until Jan 2017 when I plan to do it again but I will paint instead. At least that's the plan.

I may have left some out of the collage I'm not sure

BUT take a peek anyway

Here's todays treasure

 

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Collage 30 Paintings in 30 Days
Sept 2016

Day 29 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 29

Day 29 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Some days the old codgers line up and watch the doin's on Main St. they've been pals for years and years and know everything about everyone in town.

You just gotta watch your P's and Q's else you'll be the butt of many jokes and a lot of ribbing.

Here's todays treasure       

 

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Old Codgers
4" x 3"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 28 30Painginsin 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 28

Day 28   30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sometimes someone catches your eye and you have just enough time to catch a fleeting feeling.


Here's todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Pensive 2
3" x 3"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 27 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 27   Feel Free to share

Day 27 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sep 2016

Ever notice when someone is doing something someone else comes along to supervise unasked.

Straw bosses are everywhere,

Here is todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
The Straw Boss
4" x 5 1/2" 
pen on paper
Small works

Day 26 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 26,

Day 26,  30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

When this man bowed his head to pray in the local coffee, shop  I wondered what would happen. I watched with bated breath literally because this action could invite all kinds of trouble. 

Talk ceased. Silence descended for a moment. Anything could  happen..

People stopped eating, drinking and talking one by one. The silence grew respectful, almost tender in feeling. 

People waited quietly.

He raised his head and smiled gently at the people nearest him,  picked up his sandwich and took a bite. There was a barely heard general sigh. 

People looked at each other sheepishly then began eating, drinking and talking. The noise grew to it's normal steady hum but the atmosphere was definitely lighter and calmer. 

To my mind that prayer was both an act of faith and an act of bravery And for a moment united all kinds people of different colours, tempers and faiths together in a moment of thanksgiving. 

When moments like that happen, the possibly of a loving, gentle, kind community raises its head and you know, you just know, that people are inherently good and given an opportunity will behave well toward each other.  

It's humbling to be present for a moment like that.

Here is todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Public Act of Courage
6" x 3 1/2"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 25 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 25,

Day 25 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Here is one of my favourite all time human beings. A kind and gentle heart who turned no one away.

No longer with us here on the planet in physical form but I still carry her in my heart.


Here is todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Wanda Baa
4" x # 3/4"
pencil on paper
Small works

Day 24 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sept 24 Feel free to share

Day 24 30 Paintings in 30 Days 2016

It's always fun to draw kids as they move and shift talking among themselves.

Here's todays treasure:




















Alice Edwards 1949 --
Hanging Out
5" x 4" 
pencil on paper
Small Works



























Alice Edwards 1949 --
Hanging Out
5" x 4"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 23 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sept 23 2016

Day 23   30 Paintings in 30 Days

Lining up for donuts in the coffee shop early in the morning.
 Here's todays treasure           

 


















 Alice Edwards 1949 --
Ordering Donuts - coffee shop
8" x 5"
pencil on paper
Small works

Day 22 30 Pintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Feel Free to share

Sept 22, 2016

Day 22 30 Paintings in 30 Days 2016

Sometimes a vision of loveliness crosses your path in the most unexpected places as do strong friendships.

Here is todays treasure:

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Loveliness - coffee shop
4" X 3 1/2"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 21 30 Paintings in 30 Day Sept 2016

Sept 21,  Feel free to Share

Day 21 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Time to huddle and make plans for the coming winter. Let's see planning rink time, (yes hockey), ice fishing, putting away camping gear and finding the cribbage board for the long winter nights.

Yep, the boys in the coffee shop are planning big time.

Here's todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Winter Planing - coffee shop
4" x 3"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 20 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2106

Sept 20    Feel free to share

Day 20 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Maybe one of the last few warm days on the beach with a picnic lunch.

Here's todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Lunch Time
6" x 5"
pen and ink on paper
Small Works

Day 19 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept2 016

Sept 19, 2016

Day 19 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 21016

Where I live I get to see a lot of cows and steers hanging around chewing their cud.

They look so calm it's hard to remember they can mindlessly stampede when startled.

  Here's todays treasure:

 

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Minding Their Own Business
7" x 5 "
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 18 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 18, 2016

Day 18  30 Paintings in 30 Days

Remember hunting crawfish in the streams and creeks as a kid?
 
Here's todays' treasure

Alice Edwards --
Simon Hunting Crayfish
3" x # 1/2"
ink on paper
Small Works

Day 17 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sat Sept 17, 2016

 Day 17

Days are shorter, slightly cooler today so the boys are in town in the coffee shops and sports bars talking about ...   you guessed it .....hockey .

I'm already tired of the word.

Here's todays treasure 

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Hockey Talk
6" x 4 1/4"
ink on paper
Small works

Day 16 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sept 16, 2016

Day 16

It was beautiful out there today .. caught this guy having a fee Z's sunglasses and all

Here is todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Catching Z's
 3" x $ 3/4"
ink on paper
Small Works

Day 15 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sept 15, 2016

Day 15

Remembering can be hard work. This woman was miles away I wonder what she was thinking about?

Here is todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Miles Away
6" x 8"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 14 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Day 14

30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Some times there are only seconds to record what I saw.

Here's todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
The Playground
2 1/2' x 2"
pen on paper
Small Works

 Sept 13, 2016
Day 13 30 Paintings in 30 Days
When you're desperate for a model trip over to your local coffee shop and you're good to go ...
In the mean time ...
Fingers are still crossed for the Mac which I will turn on tomorrow in the meantime thank god libraries have computers ...

Here is todays treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Coffee Shop - woman
5/1/2" X 4"
Pen on paper
Small Works

Day 12 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Day 12

30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2106

So this is how things stand.

I dumped a pot of hot sugary tea all over my MacBook Pro Things are not looking good. It is drying out.

Please pray or hold a positive thought that it recovers.
All my records are in there.

Thank you everyone

After driving to tow different towns to find an open library,

Here is todays treasure
 
 


















Alice Edwards 1949 --
In the Coffee Shop
5 1/2" X 8"
pen on paper
Small Works

Day 11 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 11, 2016

Day 11 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Ever wonder what the world would be like if we all stood on one foot. No wars would be fought. W'e'd all be busy keeping our balance.

Here is todays treasure

 

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Balancing Act
7 1/2" x 3 1/4"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 10 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 10, 2016

Day 10 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sometimes just looking back is all you can do.

Here is todays' treasure:

 









Alice Edwards 1949 --
Looking Back
6 1/4" x 4 1/2"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 9 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 9, 2016

Day 9   30 Paintings in 30 Days  Sept 2016

Sometimes you gotta take a nap when the urge hits you.

Here's todays treasure:

 Alice Edwards 1949 --
Nap Time
5 1/2" X 5 1/2"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 8 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 8, 2016

Day 8   30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sometimes the world seems a better place when you look at it from a different point of view.

Here is today's treasure

 

 









Alice Edwards 1949 --
Viewpoint
6 1/2" X 4"
Pencil on paper
Small works

Day 7 30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 7, 2016

Day 7 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sometimes there's nothing left to do but fling yourself down and the floor and howl.

Here's todays treasure

 







Alice Edwards 1949 --
Down on the Floor
6 1/2" x 3 "
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 6 30 Paintings 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 6, 2016

Day 6   30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

More and more I see the human body as a landscape. Beautiful no matter the size, shape, colour or sex.

How wonderfully complex yet functional.

Here's todays treasure

 

 











Alice Edwards
Pensive
61/4" X 4"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Day 5 30 Paintings in 30 Days

Sept 5, 2016

Day 5    30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

The plan was to paint today but somehow line is still wandering around and taking me with it.

Here's todays' treasure

 

















Alice Edwards 1949 --
Akimbo
5 1/2" x 4/12"
pencil on paper
Small Works

Sept 4,

Day 4   30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

I do seem to be all about lines right now. Sometimes just watching them evolve flowing one into another and morphing from there is quite meditative.

It's giving my brains a chance to reset after all the furious activity of a studio move that took three weeks packing, 6 trips and 5+ people plus a whole days unpacking by a different set of 4 of us and then another day transporting paintings puttig up a hanging system then hanging them, then rearranging it all to get ready for a pop up Open House thing with three days notice.

Truly needed some down time and the lines giving it to me. I've done 100 of these small linear works on paper.

Tomorrow I expect to be back behind the easel all things being equal.

I wanna paint ...

Here is today's treasure
Alice Edwards
the Gathering
5 1/2" x 8"
pen & ink on paper

30 Paintings in 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 3,  2016

Day 3  

It's been so hot this past summer. Like to melt you into a little grease spot.

So today, I found myself wishing for snow. Beautiful clear clean snow. I can remember getting into all the clothes you wore to go out to play in the snow when I was a kid.

By the time you were in your snow pants, assorted sweaters, boots and hat, not to mention the string from your mittens cutting the back of your neck and then got into your parka. You were melting. All sweaty and your mom hadn't even tied your scarf around you neck yet then you had to go to the bathroom.

So out of the outdoor clothes and then back into them only to get all sweaty again before you got out the door to play.

And it suddenly occurred to me that winter or summer aren't all that different.

In one season you melt from getting ready to go outside. In the other you're all sweaty and wishing you could take your skin off to cool down.

But I wished for snow today. and since I can't order it from the corner store I drew snow accouterments as a reminder of what's just around the corner weather wise.

 Here is today's treasure

Alice Edwards
After Playing in the Snow
5" x 6 1/4"
ink on paper

 

Day 2 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Sept 2016

Sept 2, 2016

Day 2

The open House went well. People made heart felt connections to
the large paintings on display. I felt so privileged to be there to see it
and talk to them.

But now  ...

It's back to my pledge to myself to do this 30 paintings in my own studio
instead of traipsing all over creation.

So here from my very own place, The Studio In Stayner

Here's todays' treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Decorated Porcelain Jug #2
4 1/2" x 5"
watercolour on paper

 

Day 1 - New 30 Paintings In 30 Days Sept 2016

Sept 1, 2016

Its started again. I've committed to another 30 Paintings in 30 Days.

Clearly I have lost my mind because this begins right in the middle of moving to my new studio,
The Studio In Stayner.  It's been an uphill battle which grew exponentially like nothing on earth . Must have been all the manure I put in my diapers as a young baby.

Anyway I slipped this monetary sketch in of an old antique jug.

Here is today's treasure

Alice Edwards 1949 --
Decorated Porcelain Jug
circa 1850
 4 1/2" x 4"
watercolour on paper