OLD AGE, Perhaps?

Winter Tea Lake - Algonquin  Watercolour Sketch  2025

 Usually, when Christmas comes around, I make a few sketches, and give them out as gifts to friends and family. But, this year, after making a couple of sketches I seem to have run out of gas. Old age I'm afraid, it comes with years of doing and not receiving much attention, which makes one wonder the purpose of it all. Perhaps, it's time to retire the brushes and put away the colours. Perhaps. 

The Giant's Tomb - Georgian Bay                     Pen & Ink Sketch  2025

What Do You Do.......

 What do you do when you begin to think that you've done it all? It's a dilemma  that I find myself pondering these days. I'm in my mid eighties, been working at becoming an artist for some four decades with moderate results. To complicate matters age related mobility problems seem to be preventing my coming up with new material to write about, or sketch. So, what to do. And then it came to me, perhaps, I should take my own advice, and explore my memories of events experienced. And so,  made a few sketches......

I remembered times spent exploring along the shore of nearby Georgian Bay....

A strip of watercolour paper was handy so I scribbled a couple of scenes from memories stored. Quick pencil sketches with, perhaps,  possibilities.....

The first scribble reminded me of the rugged shoreline of Killarney Provincial Park, whereas the second thumbnail scribble reminded me of time spent at First and Second Beach at Awenda Provincial Park looking across to The Giant's Tomb Island. The first sketch interested me so I took up my 8X11 sketchbook and made a sketch.......

Following my making these quick sketches, and while thumbing through my sketchbooks I've been pondering a new project,  the possibility of publishing another book of sketches. Something to keep me busy with the additional time I seem to have inherited. After all, time, and our memories of time spent, are very precious commodity, and shouldn't be wasted.

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