Thursday, 19 February 2026

THEME: Water water everywhere

Sorry folks, I blanked on what day of the week it is! As we are expecting a rain storm later today AND my family is talking about taking a cruise to Alaska later this year (don't think I am joining...the thought of a large cruise ship not my cup of tea!) AND I am in the process of trying to determine the value of a vintage lithograph I own of a barque (four-masted sailing ship) called "The Peking" -- I have water on my mind and I will make it this week's theme!

Thursday, 12 February 2026

LOVE is in the air with a little help from Venus & Aphrodite!


A very voluptuous Venus by Titian -- detail from Sacred & Profound Love ca 1514 by Tiziano Vecellio (aka Titian) meets Aphrodite ca 1915 by Paul Klee. What could go wrong?

Wednesday, 11 February 2026

THEME: Love is in the air

Get those hearts and flowers and candy ready and a romantic poem might not hurt:

A Red, Red Rose – Robert Burns

O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.

Saturday, 7 February 2026

SURREALISM: A Magritte Mash-up


So...I decided to cut up and rearrange some of the master's work. If you want to see the three pieces by Magritte that I used look these up:

"The Portrait" 1935

"Melusine" 1952

Drawing for "Month of Grape Gatherings" 1959

Surrealism in the Park

Thursday, 5 February 2026

SURREALISM on the LANDSCAPE


If you look real close, to the right of the horse tail, you will see the image of a fish head with an eye seeming to be breaking out of the ground as I used a piece of an Odilon Redon painting for the sky/land portion of the collage!

Surreal Sausages.

 I looked back at the surrealists for inspiration..my favourite were the simple ones such as an apple in front of a face…I went for “Frankfurter salad” a strange recipe in itself.

I also found an accidental one in a chopped up book…glued as found.




Wednesday, 4 February 2026

THEME: Surrealism or the Irrational Juxtaposition of Images

I just picked up a wonderful catalogue of a show of the works of Rene Magritte (Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris February 11-June 9 2003) and I am feeling inspired. Have fun.