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April is National Poetry Month and I’ve once again shot portraits of the Manitoba poets whose work will be running in the paper as part of Writes of Spring.
I am taking the opportunity to practice my painting skills and will post them as I finish them… here are the first four.
Day 6 - Heather McCormick
Heather is the chair of the education committee of the Winnipeg Indigenous Executive Circle. https://t.co/fH4mVU5yzu
Day 5 - Ron Schuler
I’m starting to wonder if noses was a good idea… the plan is to base most of the drawings off of assignments that I attend. Ron Schuler was the only person who didn’t wear a mask at the Justice for PS 752 rally on the grounds of t… https://t.co/PJzdQV75Y0
Day 4 - Brian Bowman @mayorbrianbowman
Continuing my adventures of drawing noses for October. https://t.co/TShpWKwivz
Finally got this painting I did of @jonadaskin awhile ago scanned… had no idea that I would have trouble scanning a 10x14 sheet of paper.
Jon is trading me a wetplate collodion portrait… I’m so looking forward to this! https://t.co/Et5Adht19g
Willy Williamson, @willywilliamso9 , is the last, but not the least(!) portrait of the pandemic selfie paintings I did of the @winnipegnews staff that were involved in the COVID and the City feature published way back in May.
It was a lot of fun to do! Thanks for all the ❤️’s 🙏🏻
Manjit Singh with Mango and Rose Faloodas at his restaurant, My Indigo @myindigowpg , which is dedicated to the Indian street food experience.
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Heading into the last handful of pandemic selfie paintings and I noticed a distinct evolution starting with Dan Lett, @danlett . I’ve learned a lot, so much more to learn! https://t.co/zJ15gnuFXS