I don’t know about you but …

If you’ve been reading along as I’ve been posting you might agree that we need a breather from the somewhat leaden content of the last few posts. We need some of that unbearable lightness of being author Milan Kundera wrote about.

Et voila :

title : dusking
medium : oil pastel on paper, wood support
dimensions : ? … 4″ wide x 7″ high

This view was snatched out of the air with barely twenty minutes of daylight left hanging on a July evening on Lake Calabogie in Ontario. It is my impression that I have only rarely succeeded in capturing anything of merit with the inspired quickness of a true landscape painter … however, this is one of those rare examples. I gave it to my parents for christmas that year – 2001. The last time I checked it was hanging in the hall near the kitchen doorway. Nice one.