Mom’s sketches from our trip to Toronto
2012
This is a very big deal for me. Mom didn’t bring a sketchbook to Toronto so we picked one up at the AGO when we went to see the Picasso exhibition, which was awesome btw! So now she has a Picasso sketchbook and we went next door to Currys art supplies – OCAD, the art school I went to before, is right around the corner, so there are lots of art supplies in the area! Anyway, so we get Mom set up with paper and pencil and set her free.. and when I looked at what she was doing – I was awed!!
It’s that, Mom has lived with a pencil or paintbrush in her hands. her whole life. But, Mom had a stroke last year and getting back to painting and drawing, the love of her life, has been a big challenge. But I am seeing it. Her style is shining through and these sketches show so much of her former style in them.. well, it just about brought tears. So, I’m writing this and posting these pics for those who love her and know her and know how much this means.
Mom did the above sitting in front of Lululemon on Yorkville Ave, while I went in to try on a couple things. See, it was good I went in there!
Flowers from Dawn’s garden above.. Mom just left us and went off with her sketchbook. Dawn’s home below:
We were waiting to meet up with the kids at Yonge and Eglinton – busy corner!
Below is a sketch at the Dufferin farmers market. The main figures were reworked, but that’s ok, her sketch. I remember them well tho.. the guitar player was really good, playing 70’s music. It was really upbeat and fun. Somehow this captures it more for me than a photograph.
The next 2 pics are of sketches that she did on the train on the way home, mostly scenes from when we were stopped at a station.
..and the sketchbook is filling up. She’s been out lots with it since we’ve been home. It is the most rewarding thing in the world for me to see her into her art again! : )
