Due to inexcusable federal budget cuts, recently released from the Thomas - Candy - Moranis Institute for the

Criminally Humourous. Can be found at the corner of Kensington Road and 10th Street NW selling obscene doodles and cackling uncontrollably from the hours of noon til 3. Closed weekends and holidays.

Volume 10 Issue 3

Is it July already?
My goodness, where does the time go?

July 2012

Calgary, Alberta July something or other,

Summer has arrived. I can tell these things because it has been raining almost continuously since the Solstice. Before that august celestial event it merely rained every third day. The Seasonal Greetings card for Summer went out. With luck, they have all arrived at their intended destinations. Below are the two designs I used for the mailing. As always, if you want to receive a postcard with attempts at poetry four times a year, send me your snail-mail address. :) I did some paintings with the intention of using one or more as the Seasonal Greetings illo but none of them clicked for me. I had been doing composite illustrations for my contributions to Ryosuke Cohens Braincell and I had a photo I had taken a few years ago of a wonderful storm cell so I decided it was time to add some photo imagery to my Seasonal Greetings.

Summer Storm 4 x 6 inches photo - painting composite with digital alterations

Linear Prairie, Linear Sky, Summer Storm 4 x 6 inches photo - painting composite with digital alterations

copyright 2012 Theo Nelson / www.whimsyandcolour.com / tnelson@bexx.com

While I was pondering the advent of Summer I was playing with a photo my daughter Ingrid had taken. I was quite taken with it and I wanted to play with some different media handling.

Desert Derelict #1 10 x 8 inches / laserprint watercolour washes, marker & ink on bristol board

Desert Derelict #2 10 x 8 inches / laserprint watercolour, crayon, pearlescent acrylic & ink on 140 cold press

I had to play with the image as a drawing as well.

Desert Derelict #3 6 x 4 inches watercolour, pearlescent acrylic & ink on 140 cold press

Candy Coloured Desert Derelict 10 x 8 inches watercolour, pearlescent acrylic & ink on 140 cold press

The two paintings that didnt click for the Summer feel. Yes, #1 was being inuenced by the storm cell photo. Interestingly, because the photo was in a portrait mode I went with that format for the card. In playing with the image later I should have gone with landscape. Much more powerful I think. Obviously landscape format captures the expanse of the prairie better than portrait. A lesson for the future. Hopefully I will remember it. :)

Corduroy Prairie #1 6 x 4 inches watercolour, colour pencil, pearlescent acrylic & ink on 140 lb. rough

Corduroy Prairie #2 6 x 4 inches watercolour, acrylic & ink on 140 lb. rough

Crooked Tree Wit Apple 4 x 6 inches watercolour & ink on 140 lb. cold press

Again, Crooked Tree 4 x 6 inches watercolour & ink on 140 lb. cold press

Finally, some more Crooked Tree studies. Why Crooked Trees? I havent a clue other than I nd them interesting. I was going to include a number of collages I have done but, nah! If you ever visit my Facebook page, in addition to some of the paintings and such here I occasionally post my collages. Until the next time.

Crooked Tree Large 12 x 18 inches watercolour & ink on 140 lb. cold press