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The storm at this point begin to quickly mature. It's rotation became very evident and it took on a classic supercell appearance on radar.
Using Personality by Emilie Daly for Modern Yardage; Carefree colorway
Blogged at pitterputterstitch.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-im-working-o....
Practicing capturing quick poses with a small round watercolor brush. Each figure was done in 1 or 2 minutes. I found I could use the search feature of FlickStackr on the iPad to find Creative Commons photos of people moving. I searched for the words shown under each figure. It's a great way to find reference material.
Strathmore 400 Series watercolor paper, Kuretake Mini waterbrush, Lucas tube paints - Light Yellow, Alizarin Crimson, Cobalt Blue, Burnt Sienna, Payne's Grey.
This guy is almost all custom made by me! The torso and legs were colored by yours truly, and the head is just the basic Anakin Skywalker head. I based this off the version in the amazing Young Justice TV show which ended way too quick! Wish they could bring it back somehow! The arm is a mummy arm with a black hand, the black L shapes piece often used in lanterns, and the red connector piece that is visible in the picture. And as usual, constructive criticism is welcomed!
Quick impression of the crowds that daily walk around in Venice in mid-summer. Might be fun to play around with some post-processing later on but figured I'd share the raw shot.
I'm not a quick worker on this assignment - actually I'm a slow worker in all :-)
So this is one piece of my day...
This palette is inspired by my travel yesterday:
i m looking at a BLOND woman in a jeans in light SALMON PINK and a silk PETROL shirt - color of deep touquoise or so - which is hold from a ORANGE/YELLOW belt and with a collier in RED/CORAL, sitting on a night-BLUEandblack-checkered seat in the train. She carries a ORANGE suitcase and a RED bag
Sweet Allie Rose, just Allie around here, she is only 4 1/2 pounds but is very protective of her home, loves to sit on the computer desk to watch the outside world and bask in the sun, not much of that lately. Quick drawing of different animal positions, had to add color to show Allie had cream fur.
Toweling off quickly after a quick plunge at North Ave. Beach to raise money for the non profit animal shelter, Animal Rescue. The goal is $40,000. Outdoor temperature was 10 degrees. Photo by Leslie Adkins
I was surprised by just how much traffic was slowly and constantly trickling through Evesham town centre on a Saturday afternoon, and it made my attempts to get some photos a bit tricky.
Here's a shot of another Diamond Bus Volvo/Gemini 2 decker, I just about caught it as it pulled away from the stop and in between the many cars.
Operator: Diamond Bus
Vehicle: Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini 2
Reg: BJ14 KTC
Fleet No.: 40625
Location: High Street, Evesham
Route: 247: Evesham - Redditch
Date: September 21, 2024
We managed to get to the Lake District for the Easter weekend. We were open at work on Good Friday so I had to be in at work for a couple of hours and didn’t set off until 9.00am. We had a quick café stop and then jumped on the M62. It took us until 2.00pm to get to Langdale. We crawled up the M61 and M6, reminding me why we used to avoid Bank Holiday traffic. Although staying in Ambleside we drove to Langdale to get a couple of hours walking in. Langdale was packed but we found a place to park at the foot of the pass up to Blea Tarn. We headed up Pike of Blisco – against a steady stream of walkers descending at this time in the afternoon. I didn’t bother taking photos to any great extent, it wasn’t great light, windy and the appalling weekend forecast had depressed me – this was supposed to be the best day and it was nearly over. After a nice settled spell, possibly the first in the north of England this winter (now officially British Summertime) heavy rain and gales were coming our way apparently.
Each morning I studied the maps trying to second guess the light, wind and crowds. On Saturday it was initially dry, much to our surprise, we parked in Coniston and set off up Walna Scar Road. It’s a long steep drag to the top of the pass, the cloud was down and thick, the wind was getting extreme as we got higher – and we didn’t see a soul! We were heading over Brown Pike onto Dow Crag, we weren’t likely to get lost on a ridge. By now it was raining hard and the wind was making staying upright difficult. We slid off the rocky summit of Dow Crag on our backsides, the safest way. We dropped on to Goats Hause, the wind was screaming through and but I guessed there would be some shelter if we headed for the Old Man of Coniston. We met the first person of the day here, arriving at the summit just before him. There was still winter snow on north facing slopes but the wind wasn’t as bad as Dow Crag. It was grim, 30 metre visibility and there was very little point in staying on the tops as originally planned. Jayne was up for heading straight down the tourist track through the quarries. We have only ever ascended it before but we set off down at a trot, passing some fell runners along the way. There was a steady stream of Easter trippers heading up and judging by the questions we were asked on the way down they had little idea of what they were heading in to or how far they were from the summit, and all in appalling conditions. Lower down it was quite calm and many had little idea of the severity of the conditions on the tops. The countryside was rapidly waterlogging again after the belated dry spell.
Sunday brought more very heavy rain and gales on the tops. What looked like snow had accumulated on high ground overnight. It was actually several inches of hail and was horrible underfoot, like small wet marbles but trapping a lot of water on the lower slopes below the freezing line. We parked at Patterdale and walked across slopes that the recent floods had wreaked havoc on, with a lot of remedial work to be done this summer. The plan was to get to Boardale Hause and decide whether to go high – over Place Fell – or head in to Boardale and stay low by doing a circuit of Place Fell. It was raining hard and there was a howling gale but it was behind us, the cloud had lifted a bit so we went high. The summit plateau was a nightmare, covered in slippy, wet, slushy hail with the wind nearly blowing us over. We went north straight over the top and down the other side, the top was in thick cloud but the lower slopes were clear and we legged it off the fell, descending by Scalehow Force waterfall, which was in fine form with the heavy rain. We followed the path above the shores of Ullswater back to Patterdale. Another wet walk.
Monday saw us parked a mile or so south of yesterday’s parking place in Patterdale at Bridgend. With the weather being bad people weren’t out early, even on a bank holiday, so we didn’t have a problem parking. There wasn’t a plan, we were just making it up. Today looked promising, Storm Katie was battering the rest of the country but missed the north for a change. The tops were wintry, again it was hail accumulations not snow, on the high ground it was on very old lying snow and very difficult on steep descents. We decided to take the steady slopes of Hartsop above How to Hart Crag, on to Fairfield and then hopefully over Cofa Pike on to St Sunday Crag, Birks and finally Arnison Crag. This was just less than ten miles and it turned out to be a very tough five hours, exhausting, particularly after the three previous days. A large coastguard helicopter circled us repeatedly and finally landed on the path we were following to Hart Crag, we assumed it was on an exercise. The ground was frozen above 2500 feet and walking was easier as the snow/hail was load bearing and we could yomp on a bit. It was like midwinter with frequent squally whiteouts blasting in. The wind would pick up first lifting the frozen hail in a frozen spindrift that bounced along several feet high blasting our faces, this was followed by, what was more like frozen drizzle than snow, fine, but hard, we could feel it through our clothes it came at us that hard. I decided that we would head straight over Cofa Pike to St Sunday. A mistake with hindsight. The lake of footprints was the first bad sign but we were committed. We lived to tell the tale but Jayne had a bit of a near miss. The crag down to Cofa is steep and it was covered in hail on old snow, the layer of hail was shearing away from the underlying snow and we had to go down on out backsides, keeping a tight grip as we went. At one point Jayne failed to arrest a slide that was above a steep and deep drop. I had hold of her from a position in front of her and to her left and I was fairly well anchored so I felt in control and was sure of the outcome. From her point of view it was frightening and it subdued her for the rest of the walk. She had also ripped the outer lining of her Paramo waterproof trousers as well. Considering that we were going downhill it was hard going, every step a slip or a slide, with the underlying grass saturated and a thin layer of hail it was an unpleasant walk off the fell. At the end of Arnison Crag we took a pathless shortcut – that we swore we would never use again years ago – to save around twenty minutes of walking. This was the only day I had the camera out all day and had to cover it with a dryliner bag whenever a heavy shower came in. I also broke the lens hood. We drove to Keswick for afternoon coffee and toast at Brysons. The new Paramo store across the square was the next stop for new trousers. These Paramos had cost £85 14 years ago and they have just brought a new model out. We had two choices, The old model was reduced to…..£85 – after 14 years we could pay the same price or we could return the old trousers - cleaned – and get a £50 voucher towards the new model, which are £135, or £85 with the voucher. The old ones were ¾ of a mile away in the car – unwashed – so we bought the old model. Needless to say we had a couple of drinks in the Golden Rule in Ambleside every night before our tea.
This NSU Quickly S2-23 1964 model was added to our collection in 2012. I fully rebuilt the engine and it is now fully working and I managed to complete around 500 miles on it around the lanes in our area last summer. We hope to have our other NSU on the road in 2013, this has been christened Lulu 2 and the whole bike needed a full rebuild but we are getting close to final assembly now in time for the spring.
January 17, 2012
Tribute Communities Recital Hall
Two of Canada’s leading classical performers come together for a thrilling concert featuring contemporary Canadian works on January 17, 2012 in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall at York University’s Keele campus. Violinist Jacques Israelievitch and pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico, both professors in York’s Department of Music, offer an evening of repertoire as diverse and inspiring as the Canadian landscape.
The program features a selection of complex but lyrical 20th century works by established Canadian composers. It includes Oskar Morawetz’s Duo ( 1961), James Rolfe’s Drop (1998), Gary Kulesha’s …and dark time flowed by her like a river… (1993) and André Prévost’s Improvisation (1976).
The concert culminates with Raymond Luedeke’s monumental Fancies and Interludes VI (1988). The quick changes of metering in the piano parts are “rhythmically challenging” for a performer, Petrowska Quilico notes, but the artists revel in the work’s “lovely tonal colours” and how they contrast with sections of exciting primal rhythms.
An internationally known violinist, Israelievitch served as concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for two decades before joining York University’s Music Department in 2008. He has appeared as chamber musician with such luminaries as Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman and Yo-Yo Ma, and performs regularly with the Naumburg Award-winning New Arts Trio and in the Israelievitch Duo with his son, percussionist Michael Israelievitch. His extensive discography includes the Juno-nominated Suite Hebraique with pianist John Greer and the first complete recording of Kreutzer’s 42 Etudes for solo violin. An avid performer of contemporary music, he has had works by Canadian composers R. Murray Schafer and Jeffrey Ryan commissioned for him by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The Toronto Musicians’ Association presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 in recognition of his distinguished contribution to the performing arts in Canada.
One of Canada’s foremost pianists and a multiple Juno nominee, Petrowska Quilico has appeared in solo recitals, chamber settings and with orchestras on four continents. Widely recognized as an innovative and adventurous artist, she is a longtime champion of contemporary and Canadian music, and has premiered more than 100 works by leading North American and European composers. Eminent Canadian composers she has collaborated with over the course of her stellar career include Ann Southam, Violet Archer, Glenn Buhr, Christos Hatzis, Alexina Louie, Larysa Kuzmenko and John Weinzweig. She was awarded the 2007 Friends of Canadian Music Award through the Canadian Music Centre and Canadian League of Composers in recognition of her dedication to Canadian contemporary classical music and her “unwavering support for Canada’s composing community”. In late 2011 she released her 26th CD, Tapestries, a collection of Canadian concerti. She has taught piano performance and musicology at York since 1987.
Photos by: Judy Karacs
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