Snowboarding Family

There are many things that my family loves to do together, one of which is snowboarding. We love it with a passion. This is a video that we did a few years ago now. We are all in this one. We had rented a cottage near Crabbe Mountain and had fun taking lots of clips to later put together in this video. Turn up your volume and have a look and listen!

These are photos that we have taken this year while at our local hill. These will definitely bring me some inspiration. It makes me happy. When I'm happy I like to paint!!!

My son

My husband

Me

my girl!

This video is the Adrenaline Divas snowboard competition that Talia took part in this year. Feb 2014. She won 3rd place. It is a rails and jumps competition. Check her out....

This video is a Slopestyle competition that Wesley did in Feb. 2014. He won 2nd place. Also a rail and jumps competition.

Videos

As any mother, I am very proud of my children. I video and photograph them all the time. I have been making movies lately with some of these videos and sometimes uploading some stuff on Youtube.

Here is a video of my lovely daughter Talia singing with a friend. Talia is in pink. I hear her singing all the time but when I see her on stage I am always floored. She is awesome! I love listening to my daughter sing. Enjoy this Christmas song they did in Dec 2013.

My son Wesley loves to snowboard more than anything else. We have made lots of videos but here is one of the latest that I did to show the grandparents. He took part in a Rail Jam at UNB. When I first saw the jumps and rails I thought they were too big and scary but he got all excited! He checked it all out first to make sure he would be safe and off he went! Here is a clip. I am proud of him and love watching him ride!

Pinterest

I think I am addicted to Pinterest! I love it. I have been using it for a while. I find I will go on it for inspiration when I need a little help to get into a painting mood. And I definitely go on there for recipes. I have made lots of delicious recipes and I like how I can add my comment. This way I can remember if I liked it or what changes I made to it.

This is my Pinterest account: http://www.pinterest.com/studiorichard/

On there I have pinned photos of some of my paintings that link to my website. I hope that it will bring some people to my site and perhaps I'll even make a few sales from it!

This is the direct like to the board that I have my artwork pinned on.
http://www.pinterest.com/studiorichard/my-art/

and these are some of the photos that you will find on that board...

There are lots of great craft ideas and great outdoor ideas. I have pinned and made some great boards with lots of these.

Trying stuff out

So I am on this kick, trying out lots of cool things on the web. I am following a course that shows me lots of programs and how to use them. I just tryed ''Wordle''. Not bad, it's easy to use but hard to have it do something precise. I used to like working in Photoshop, it gave me much more flexibility and control. However in a pinch, Wordle would work nicely.

Here is the little example I tried, nothing fancy...

I like how I can do it very quickly. Seems like these days time is always of essence!

So in these next few post I will probably have lots of new to me things. I will post them here, a way for me to remember all these things that I just learned. Everything will likely all have to do with art since that is my passion but it will be pretty random.

I kind of like random!

Speaking of random, check out this beautifuly handpainted door that I found on Wikimedia Commons:

Anything painted comes to life!

Library info; pretty interesting stuff!

I learned allot about My Vision account with the NB Public Library.
Did you know that with your library card you can log into the NB Public Library and put books on hold, renew your books AND you can even create lists of books that you have read or would like to read. It is nice to keep track, you never know when it can come in handy. I don't know about you, but I forget book titles all the time. Now if I want to recommend a book to a friend I can do so cause I have my list, in my Vision account.

There is lots there to do, more than I expected from the library to tell you the truth. Libraries are really doing lots to keep up with the times. I would say they are doing a great job.

Now we can rent movies at the library and even comment on those, online. I can keep track of the movies that I have watched and so on. Kind of like what we can do on Netflix.

If you have a library card, check it out online. If you don't have a card yet, what are you waiting for!!!!

Webinars
My husband and I have watched a few Ynab webinars. It's this budgeting software that we find works really well for household budgeting. The webinars were very helpful cause we can listen to someone teach us how the software works while she is showing us from her computer where to click and what to do. She showed us many examples. This was my first experience with Webinars and I am all over it! We could learn from the comfort of our own home. In fact for one of these we sat with our coffee in had while in our pj's and learning a new part of the software. A great way to start that Saturday morning! There are Webinars on many different things. If you need to take a course and have this as an option, I would take this route for sure.

Twitter

Well I did it! I just set myself up with a Twitter account. Not sure how much I will actually use it. I tell you social media, there is lots! I am not sure if I will be able to keep up with all of it realistically. Maybe it will be nice to go just check things out every now and then, but not be on any one of them on a regular basis. 

https://twitter.com/lisedumasrichar

On another note; 

So I was at the mall today...needed to exchange my sons new snickers, we bought them 2 weeks ago and there is already a hole in it! Not even skateboarding season...imagine....anyway, I digress...so I saw this really nice belt and very cool socks. I know, simple accessories but both were so fun. The belt looks something like this;

I realized I really like old fashion cartoon images. I like the bright colours they used. The images were not necessarily simple images. In fact, I would say the Spiderman and Superman cartoons were pretty complex illustrations. Lots of details I think. These were the kind of cartoon books that I could look at for a long time, cause there was lots to look at in each square. Not a variety of colours, mostly just primary and secondary colours, but lots of images within one frame.

I'll have to keep that in mind in when doing my next painting. I'd like to paint something with lots of hidden images or just lots of things to look at, on that same canvas. 

I'm really drawn to these old fashion cartoons. I have a Wonder Woman mug that I justified the purchase by telling myself it would give me Woman Power when I drink out of it! Hey whatever works!

This is my Wonder Woman mug.

I'm attracted to the colour combinations, those reds and blues, bright green all outlined in black. That's probably why I love Pop Art. Andy Warhol's Marilyn series and the Campbell soup collection. For me, these combinations of colours read; Fun, Playful, No worries. Just look at this image....fun or what? I would so wear that!  Except I don't really wear heals...But so fun!

My daughter has these, she said one day she will wear them to gym class when they do lots of running! I think that is a great idea!

I need to start painting smaller I think cause I have so many ideas. I think it would be a reasonable way to get to do all of them. 

For now, I observe cartoons.....

  

My first post

Well, I finally set up my blog account! It will take me a while to get used to the whole thing but I think this could be a good place to put down all my art, thoughts and inspiration ideas. I plan on posting things that I will want to come back and refer to. Hopefully it will also become a place where other fellow artists will gain inspiration when reading it as well. Hey, you never know, someone who doesn't even do art, may like to read about the art world every now and again!

I discovered that I like journaling. It helps me figure things out. Not sure how captive my journaling will be to others. I tend to go off on tangents and get a little all over the place. Kind of like my sketchbook. I'm sure I'll get better as time goes by.

Today I picked up a couple of paintings that I had up at the Beaverbrook Gallery in town. It was an pleasure having my work up at that gallery.  These are both for sale but I will enjoy them in my home for now. I think they would look great in my bedroom!

Lucky 48''x24'' Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas

Transcending 24''x24'' Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas

Well that's it for my first post. I will spend a little time figuring all these functions! 

Have a great day!