Posts Tagged 'instagram'

The Pianoman

As part of Toronto ramping up for the 2015 Pan Am Games they’ve participated in an international project call ‘Play Me, I’m Yours.’ The project involves putting pianos in public spaces, and has already been through 26 cities around the world. Each piano is painted by a local artist, and they’re all beautiful.

This piano is outside of Toronto’s Union Station, partly hidden by the hoarding around the building announcing renovations. The person sitting there was playing beautifully, the sun was setting, the light was gorgeous and I was entranced. Alas, all I had was my iPhone, but the Instagram shot was everything I could have hoped for. I might just turn it into a painting.

A day at Wonderland, through Instagram

 

Instagram Canada's Wonderland

This weekend I have done nothing but have fun. Dearly needed, overdue, fun. Sunday was the icing on the funnel cake as a bunch of us spent a glorious day at Canada’s Wonderland.

Instagram Canada's Wonderland

A rainy morning combined with a long weekend resulted in a park that was practically deserted by normal standards. The skies opened up into a beautiful, clear blue and we never spent more than 5 minutes lined up for any ride. Score!

Instagram Canada's Wonderland

My diet went to hell, and I enjoyed every minute of a cheeseburger, fries, funnel cake and cotton candy. I shall redeem myself later, but no regrets.

Instagram Canada's Wonderland

All these photos were taken with the instagram application on my iPhone. It’s a great little app if you haven’t tried it – and however cynical I might be about a kitchy little photo app that lets you put filters and faux tilt-shift effects on your images…. well this one is addictive. I admit it.

Instagram Canada's Wonderland

Hope you all had an amazing long weekend!

The Artful Life

Here are a few photos of my works in progress over at the studio – life has been such a bubble of busyness that making studio time has been next to impossible! I had to get in there though – I promised the Purple Purl a bunch of yarn bowls in time for the knitters frolic next month.

yarn bell

This one is a yarn bell for someone who ordered one from me, oh, forever ago. I’m using the shellac technique described here for the filigree detail.

yarn bell

Next up is a froggie yarn bowl that’s being sent to a convent in Boston. Normally I don’t ship pottery anymore, but honestly, how could I refuse nuns? The lady I dealt with was so sweet I decided to make an exception for her, and what her Mother Superior wanted was a froggie yarn bowl. I’m actually quite flattered by this.

Yarn Bowl

Incidentally, all these photos are being taken with my new instagram app, with which I am hopelessly obsessed. I mean, I’m a graphics professional, you’d think an app with built-in filters and false bokeh would feel cheesy to me, right? But seriously, I love this app. I think the photos are lovely. Of course the baby ferret is my favourite subject matter :)

Other happenings in the artful life include a new series of resin jewellery that’s curing now, a print series I’m doing out of my recent aurora photography and the fact that tonight I’m finally getting in some lamp working studio time after a very long wait.

Tuckered Out

Tito and I are debating about another late night photo shoot tonight to see if we can catch more aurora but after 5 nights in a row of 3am shooting I’m totally burnt out. And it’s a work night. When I was a kid sleep was like bank overdraft; you paid it back once and you were good to go. Now sleep is like a high interest loan, and recovering from too many late nights takes me at least a week ;)

However I’ve got to say that on top of all the other great artsty stuff we’ve got going on those late night trips have been fun. I love living creatively!



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