sig sauer 9mm

I just finshed this one today as well. The cat loves to chase crows and it is pretty funny to watch him jump 7 feet into the air after a crow then almost get killed by them nose diving over him. I think he rolled in crap cause he smells like ass so I gotta go give him a bath. Stinky kitty. I just finished the book "Great and Terrible Beauty" by Libba Bray and I am now reading Rebel Angel the part two of the trilogy. Oh they are a good read. and I just finished Inkheart, next book is Inkspell. by Cornelia Funke check out www.Imdb.com the movie data base website and check out the cast for the upcoming movie of the book Inkheart. She also wrote the book The thief Lord whick is a great movie as well. Now she was the producer in The Thief lord and the rendition from the book is exact, and the casting was impressive. She is also the producer on this movie Inkheart and i think it is going to be exciting. Bendan Fraser plays Mo. I am just giddy. Not like the terrible disappoinment of Eargon ( what the hell was that) nothing like the book whick would have been an awsome epic movie if it was rendered exact.

sniper .50cal

Your not allowed to let your cats out in this community. I find that is a form of torcher. We live in a rural very grassy fun area with lots of trees to climb and squirrrels to chase. I trained the cat and it does not leave the yard. It took over a month, of having it on a leash then a harness and a rope tied to the clothes line. Now he goes out a stays in the yard. I only let him out for a bit and I am always with him and he never goes out after the sun goes down. I have a string and he chases me around the outside of the house until he plops down exhausted. I also only let him out right before I feed him so he is hungry and will want to come in when I shake a jar of food. I worry cause cats can eventually get stubborn, you can only play fetch with them for so ling the they don't listen.
Here is my latest painting. it is the snipers .50 caliber rifle. I love the colors.
Here is something I do to remind me of Korea I make Bulgogi pizza
I love to cook,
I am not sure if you make you own pizza dough or buy the dough. I make my dough
you get fondu beef 5 bucks worth(you can get at every grocery story, its hard to find so ask the meat guy) its usually frozen
go to a korean grocery and buy a small bottle of Bulgogi BEEF (not pork) maranade sause.
OK maranade the fondu beef
to add a bit of taste to the maranade
two cloves of garlic minced
one small onion minced
if you have some sesame oil and soy sause add 1 tbl spoon of each with 1 teaspoon of brown sugar
if you dont have sesame oil don't add the soy sause without it
maranade for 2hours or make sure the meat is thawed
cook it up in a frying pan, let it simmer till the sause reduces. (don't want the pizza soggy)
add it on top of the pizza dough
add mushrooms if you like
mozarella cheeze and diced Jalapinos if you dare (all over)
cook in the oven for 12-15 minutes at 425 degress
yummy

30 hours of Hail

Oh my gosh the weather sucks we have had 30 hour of freezing rain, hail and fat wet snow. I have yet to see the sun in days. I am on my way to halifax for the last time in a while. Trevor is going to a funeral for one of the boy that died in Afganistan and I am picking up supplies and going to meetings. In the past two weeks or so I have done eight paintings, here are some pics of them. The walls here are getting pretty full and I have more work to do to finish the body of work. Last week I was able to view a lot of the infantry schools photo archive. Thanks you guys for all the help. I also was able to take pics of the LAV and the 50 Cal rifel. Oh my gosh that gun is heavy. Did you know the gun with its three parts weighs 148 pound this does not include the tripod. Can you imagin carrying one part of that gun for 5 KM. You would have to be a big guy. Thats like carrying a keg plus all your gear. I am currently working on the Sig Sauer 9mm pistol P223. It going alright, it will be done today. next two weeks I am doing the 50 Cal rifle, the 50 Cal sniper, the LAV, the leopard, Nyala and three artillery pieces. That should finish up the body of work. I still would like to do at least 50 more pieces. I have to get new paint brushes cause all mine have been worn down. Well back to work.

sad day on base

The town is very sad for the six guys who died this weekend, all flags are half mast some even in Fredericton. Trevor is teaching on an exercise for three day and it is gonna be lonely. We watched the three season of Entourage this weekend. It was great. Anything from HBO has so far impressed me. I would ge the channel but I prefer renting them on my own time. we also rented the matador. Too much dialogue and it was the worst movie ever, we had to watch it in fast forward. Ugh just terrible. So I check out the face book, its cool, I can chat with people I haven't seen in a long time and they are not on msn so I like it. I like that i can leave a note and not have to chat with them, most of the time, I have like half hour to fart around online when I am having my breakfast in the morning. so long chats, any chats are just to wordy for me. I am checking to see if I can photograph the 50 kalibler rifle today, some hand guns and check out their library of stock photos, wish me luck. Oh yeah here is two pics of my geishas I did this week.

Working on my summer line

I am taking a break from the project for the next three days and I am working on my summer line. I have 6 soft pink, 7 lime green and 4 blue canvases preped. I am doing a series of geishas on the pink here is one I started yesterday, It is very far from completed but you get the idea. I think I will do some bamboo on the lime and some Koi fish on the blue ones. This is just to get my feet wet in the production for the summer. I will be in Toronto on the street near Queen and Spadina on June 1st- September. This year will be more of a busking event rather than a selling event of prints. I will have the prints but in poster format. I cannot find a frame supplier that is affordable anymore.
Here are some pic of my kitty. We looked up what breed he might be and he may be a bombay cat or he may just be a solid black cat. He is very vocal and has human like characteristics. Here is a pic of him in a box and in his new house which he is always on. They say Bombay cats have a tendency to get obease. So we ration his food throughout the day and only the specific amount. If I put any amount two table spoons or half a cup of food, he inhales it. I really don't want a fat cat so we are monitoring his food from the start. Pretty funny cat, he has a black toy mouse he carries with him and plays will for hours, and if you throw it at him and he is on the bed he will leap in the air three feet, fly into the wall in mid flight catch his toy and land on the floor, and ready to keep on playing. We have to stop because we can't stop laughing.

C14 Timberwolf

All done the sniper rifle. I think I have had my fill of painting guns. The cat keeps on trying to get out. In the town of Oromocto you are not aloud to let your pets out without a leash. We got the cat a harness and a leash but that has been a retarted experience. I would love it if my cat was an outdoors cat, but I think the cat is just going to have to stay in until we move to a different area. We might get a collar and just let it out and see if the cat comes back. I don't think it will get picked up by the municipality. Up next artillery.

TIMBERWOLF

This is the background for my latest painting. The canvas size is 18 by 36. The color in this is awsome I am so happy with it. I am doing the sniper rifle with camouflage paint on it and so I wanted to blend the background and make it have a pattern rather than be layered. I used 4/5 Cerulean blue hue mixed with 1/5 Neutral Grey Value 5 for the words Timberwolf. For the words C14 I used just the Neutral Grey Value 5. The colors that is the blend of both is just that. The exact mix of both colors. It makes the letters C14 look transparent over the canvas when really it's three different colors. I love how the blue makes the grey look like its a tan color. I wonder if in different lighting will it ever show itself as grey. I am starting the gun today. It is neat the change of a color when it is next to another. When the sun comes in our bedroom through the beige curtains it makes any black fabric look like deep red.
Like in the installation done by the artist Ann Hamiltion, she had live peacocks walking around the Contemporary Museum of Modern art in Montreal and over head was waving red fabric. The red Muted and dulled the peacocks brilliance.

C14

Today I am starting the C14 it is the standard issue sniper rifle. it is going to be fun beacuse it is painted in camoflage. I have had a sinus cold forever now and I can't seem to shake it. It is a pain to sleep. The cat is crazy as ever, if it is not sleeping its doing laps all over the house. We went tohalifax this weekend and had a great time hanging with our friends. its always good to stay in touch.

Carl Gustav 84 mm SRAAW(M)

Just Finished it. Blah, going to go take a break and rent Eragon. This the 84 Carl G it is an anti armour weapon. Basically a rocket launcher. I love the contrast between the bright orange background and the black green of the weapon. When the rocket thingy is fired a blast of flames comes out so I chose the background to refect that.

C9-A1

I have had a sinus cold for a week now causing a lot of frustration. I am not sure how I got it but I can't breath throught my nose most of the time. I finished the C9 A1 last week and I am on the finishing touches of the 84 Carl G once finished I will have completed all the guns in the series and so far since I have been here I have completed 17 paintings. Next week I am going on base and looking into their archives of photos. I am grateful and I feel privileged to be able to have so much material to work with. I am excited to see what will come of this exploration. I will be doing the artillery guns next. Like the Triple 7.
I started runnning everyday and I have toned up quite a bit. I am confused because I weigh the same but I have lost 4 inches on my waist. That is so discouraging. Trevor put a chin up bar in the door way between the bedroom/bathroom area and the livingroom/ kitchen area. Everytime he goes under he has to do a chin up. I do it as well, and I am getting pretty strong. At the the gym there are some crazy ass G I Janes working out. I call them the meat eaters. All they do is look at themselves in the mirror while they workout.
I am having new dreams lately they crop up daily. They are of women sprouting new wings. Tulips growing from rubble. I see a change in the way I work on the street. This summer I will be more of a busker and doing live canvases and I may have to switch to investing all my funds into a printing company and sell posters of my work than framed prints. The benefits of the change are plenty. I will not be spent time matting and staining frames. I won't be carrying so much weight and having the problem with glass breaking. The posters will be water proof incases of the sudden Toronto rain. I see some of my work better suited in large poster style. I am looking into different poster companies right now. I also can't find the frames I use to purcase anymore.
I am wondering if I put the painting I do up on the internet does that stop people from going to the unvailing of the series. Should I not be showing them at all? Should I be hiding some of them? Sometimes I think about this. Then I just think that it is best to share the time and process of a project and live in the here and now.
Here is a pic of Trevor and Spartan taking a cat nap.

New name Spartan

Holy coolest Kitty on earth. It doesn't flinch at anything. In fact it chases the broom. He sat in my office chair and chilled while I painted. very cool kitty. Trevor is in Cape Breton visiting Family. He knew I was getting a cat but he didn't know I named him Sparta. He called me after going to see the movie 300 and said I know what to name the cat Spartan. Its kinda weird we thought up the same name. Its ever weirder the cat comes to that name. Today I am working on the C9 A1 today and the CARL G.

SPARTA

Here is Sparta, he is all black and has a bit of siamese in him, he is loud and talk quite a bit, and he is a little crosseyed. very affectionate. I got him today from the SPCA in Oromocto. I just gave him a bath and he was fine with that. He is a lap cat. He has been sitting sleeping and purring on my lap for a half hour now. Soo cute. He is almost two. He was a stray when they got him at the SCPA on Feb 14th and they named him Titius. That just reminds me of the TV show that I hated, so lame. So I was thinking Sparta would be a good boy name and tough. So at the SPCA I said Sparta to him and he meowed loudly. Sot there yah go. I also always forget the age of a cat and how many years old it is. So calling him Sparta the same time the Movie is coming out is a great way to keep track of his age.

GPMG C6 PIG

Holy cow that took everything out of me to paint. blah so much detail.

M-2O3 C7A2

Sorry It has been a while. Just sitting pretty in my winter. This is all my brothers fault. We bought the game Carcassonne and it is awsome. We played the game Catan at xmas ( my brother brought) and it is a game only to be play with four players at best, two players is not fun because you can't trade cards with just two people. Anyways we went to Strange Adventures in Fredericton and found this game Carcassonne that is great for two player and its a lot of fun. We got hooked so we added to the game with the river II expantion pack, we had River I, and the expation pack with Traders and Builders. We also got the game Carcassonne -The City which is just like the original but you are building within and city wall. We think my neices and nefews will love it. You just match the tiles so they have the same landscape and build cities and get points. So we are bringing this at xmas. The Guy ( a self proclaimed Geek) working at The store said "Yeah this game is very Popular, different people are coming in here to buy these games and it is selling by word of mouth." We were like do we look like "different people" and he was like yeah but also university students are getting the game Carcassonne and Catan and you don't see that very often. I said well we wouldn't normally buy these games but my brother introduced it to us and he plays games. He said it was amazing how popular the games are just by people sharing and talking. We also Found out another game that is apparently the best ever called Puerto Rico but you need more players than two.
We have been visiting the SPCA and looking at their cats and dogs and looking at our lives and see if it can work out. We think a cat can work for now but we are still thinking. We have this empty house and all those cats in the shelter, its so sad. Here is a pic of Blossom, who is funny looking we spent time with her but she has no personality, she ignores you. Trevor liked one of the cats called Spook. We are now dog walkers as well and have started taking the dogs for walks. The Fredericton SPCA is very clean but very sterile and prison-like for the animals. The Oromocto SPCA is shanty but it gives the pets a more comforting homey environment with accents of plywood. We walked a dog from there too this weekend. You can look at some of the Animals by googling SPCA Oromocto and Fredericton. Here is a pic of the gun I finished last week I am currenty slaving over my C6 GPMG THE PIG painting.

C7A1

Today I am working on the Lancher,Grenade,40mm,M203A1,w/rifle C7A2. I have to go on Base and photograph the rifle itself I can't find any image with the launcher on a C7A2 facing left. They are using the M203 on the C7A2 in Afganistan and are phasing out the use of the C7A1. Anyways I have to take pics of this facing to the left as well. the sight is on the left side. I go to the gym all the time and I am still a cow, I even only drink beer (coors light) on the weekend. I don't think its what I eat, it's how much so I am going to cut my meal sizes down now. I found this really cool website. it is pandora.com and I love it. Random music, customized to what mood I am in. Anyways back to work I go. Here is a Pic of the C7A1. oh yeah, I am hunting the web for a recipe for Tabouleh and some say to put garlic in it and some say not to. Majority say not to, but I love garlic. Is there garlic in Tabouleh?

Sha Blam

By far this is the best piece I have done in the series yet. I am so happy with this piece. It took a lot out of me. I would say I put around 15 hours into it. Today I am starting the C7A1.

Badminton pains

So Trevor and I started playing Badminton, just as a change of working out in the gym. Its really fun and your like sweating in ten minutes. We played for an hour last night and both of us can't walk. Sore back sore arms, sore all over. What is going to kill me is that Trevor wants to do the SPIN class tomorrow night. You know the one on the bike, where there is a puddle of sweat around your bike when you are done. I am scared, but stubborn so I will be stiff in time for Yoga on Thursday.
So I made pizza (and the dough) this weekend and I did something really cool you should try it. I bought the President's Choice Artichoke and Asiago Tepenade, its a small sizes pasta sause jar in your pasta aile. mIxed a bit of pasta sause with it and put that on the pizza as the sause, one jar make 4 pizzas. Then I added chicken ( I like the barbecues chickens ready made) mushrooms then mozzarella and feta then jalapenos all over the top. mm....mm good.
Here is the base coat of the C7A2 and the C7A1, I am going head first into these two for the next two days and they are going to rock. THANK YOU COLT CANADA for sending me the visuals and the text and all that stuff that I know so little of. The image through the C79 is awsome and the Image and text for the M203 is so appreciative. I am doing my first Bilingual piece. c'est cool, No? If you don't know what the C7's are just google them or checkout Colts website its cool.

Portrait Of Girls

I just finished portraits of the carpenters, that maintains our house and many others, two daughters. I am always uncomfortable doing commissions like this, it is so intimate and personal that your interpertation of the photo you have and what the person who hires you expects may be totally different. Anyways it is a valentines gift for his wife I hope she likes them. I made her youngest look like a tree Faerie, she is an outdoors type and love butterflies. The oldest loves dolphins so I put a sea shell in her hair and on her neck. Today I am working on paintings to sell in the summer.

Apple Blossoms

I am waiting to work on new material from base and from my mind. I did this painting today for fun. I have always loved apple blossom trees. And well I totally love pink. I think I will do many more like this painting to discover the balance of its essence. I think I might be revisiting the Koi fish as well. I was thinking about my carbon foot print on the earth and I think I am going to try and plan a tree for every month. So when the ground thaws I will plant from January. I will plant all kinds of trees, apple, fur, oak, pine, bushes, etc. Could you imagine if one of the trees I plant become a great tree. Who knows. So I would plant 12 a year for the rest of my life. Well that is my New Resolution, only time will see if I stick to it.

Tanks in the sun