Linda Denis

Spring is in the air- puddles, potholes and robins and hopefully goodbye to Covid-19.
Below is a watercolour with soft pastels on paper from my kitchen table this month of March 2022. It gives me pleasure and ups my spirit to paint these colourful flowers

I continue to follow Joined Brushes on WhatApp. Our weekly artist this week was Tetjana Yablonska (1917-2005) a Ukraine painter . I find it best to quote these words from archive.com  « possessed an inexhaustible love of life and optimism, which allowed the artist to maintain her strength and desire to paint even under the most difficult circumstances ». If you wish to follow her life of painting there is a great numbers of her works on the Internet.

The aim of Joined Brushes is to inform us about an artist weekly and then to chose a works we relate to and produce a similarity. It difficult as we are always aware of copyright and try not to infringe on this right of artists

Winter has arrived with snow, sun and comfortable temperatures. Sadly, we are entering into another lockdown here in Quebec. Omicron variant is now the dominant strain of Covid-19.

Great part about painting is it can be done in a crowd or alone in your home. Joined brushes on my WhatsApp each week presents an artist whom we might know or not with a brief background. An invitation is put forth for your individual depiction of a works. I have decided on sketches of a portrait this enhances my knowledge and strangely puts me in touch with each artist.

 Here are my interpretation of  Caravaggio, William Strang works.

To-day is winter solstice, this is what I see outside my window. Darkness around 4:30 pm today but tomorrow we start slowly back to more day light.

Now we are green coded for COVID-19. I have started to sketch in the surrounding area of Vaudreuil-Soulonges.

First stop, Soulanges Canal built from 1892-1900 to provide a safe shipping lane to avoid Cascade, Cedar and Coteau rapids. I sketched the abandoned locks at Pointe-des-Casacade. Free parking and entrance.

Then, Coteau-du- Lac, a National Historic site, a place to enjoy the history of this encampment used as portage and military station in the past. Free entrance now for 2021, picnic tables, toilettes, parking and lots of shade to rest under.