Campfire - Preliminary Sketch

"Campfire"

Preliminary Sketch

(H/HB graphite, sketchbook)

    I was talking with a friend this past week about how much her family looks forward to campfires in the backyard and making S'mores over the open flame... She then said I should make a picture of several woodland animals sitting around a campfire making S'mores...  I could see it all in my mind the moment she mentioned it and so I grabbed my sketchbook when I got home and worked up this sketch.  Like the preliminary sketch of Nicholas in his shop of antiquities light and shadow are very important in creating the proper atmosphere...

    I may be working this one as a painting while displaying my artwork at the Jordan Musuem grounds (3800 Main Street, Jordan) on Saturday, July 28th from 10am - 6pm.  The town of Lincoln has created an 'Art in the Village' day in participation with the "Niagara: Cultural Capital of Canada" program for 2012.  I submitted some artwork and was selected so I will have some of my acrylic work there and many of my watercolours... nothing is for sale - it is a display show only - I am looking forward to seeing you all there!

    ♥ Cath-    

As a deer...

"As a deer pants for the water, so my soul pants for You, O God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God."

Psalm 41:1-2

    ♥ Cath-

    Whenever I look at this photo I imagine a deer timidly coming out of the brush to drink in the cool waters, so it always makes me think of the bible verse I included above. ♥

    I took this photo in 2005 during a visit to my parents home in Bancroft, ON.... this is a calm resting place after the rushing of the water through Egan Chute. Egan Chute is located along the York River, east of Bancroft on Hwy 28.