Lily S. May–Life with Art
Recently, I decided I'd like to draw some cartoons. I've started with a dream I had several years ago that captivated me for its strangeness. I've done a lot of imagining and writing since then on the Care of Latent Kittens Course. Perhaps you'll see some of that here. I keep going over the writing and thinking… Continue reading Dream Cartoon
I returned to the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) this week during my wanderings. I sat for a while near windows looking onto Dundas Street, the busy street the Gallery fronts onto. I liked the echoing patterns of the trees and frosted glass through the window. Later I sat in the Grange and did another… Continue reading Back to the Gallery
Yesterday, on my wanderings around Toronto, I stopped into the AGO--the Art Gallery of Ontario. While there, I had lunch and afterwards did a few contour drawings, something I haven't done in many years. Contour drawing is a type of drawing in which you don't look at the paper, but at what you're drawing. You look… Continue reading Meandering Around Toronto
Here's what I originally wrote in this post: Several years ago, I had a dream that made a great impression on me. In it, I was at a retreat in the countryside on a grassy lawn with a forest at its edge. There I heard about a course being offered called The Care of Latent Kittens. I… Continue reading The Change in Our Fortunes–Massively Edited
I've been enjoying working on a series of scratchboard drawings to go with writing I did a few years ago. I hit upon scratchboard drawings because they can bear some resemblance to lino and woodcuts which I love but gave up making because of repetitive strain from carving. I made the three papier mache masks… Continue reading Scratchboard and Masks
A few years ago, I entered several notebooks and photographs in The Sketchbook Project. In 2012, I sent away for another moleskine book. I had previously written a poem that I thought would paradoxically work with the topic "Fill me with Stories." I made a book using very simple line drawings and printing. I can't recall why… Continue reading The Emptiness We Require
Last week while looking through the sketchbook in which I found the artwork for my previous post, I came upon a drawing I had forgotten. A few years ago I used the drawing as a starting point for an oil painting. The painting was, in its style, unlike other work I had done. In the painting,… Continue reading The Road
We are walking in a garden we are blind to though it bears our names. And the suffering, the suffering is great, but the unveiling of the heart is greater. © 2015 Lily S. May
Yesterday, while waiting in line for rush tickets at Koerner Hall in Toronto, I whiled away the hour by drawing. I used to take crossword or sudoku puzzles to places where I'd have to wait in line or for an appointment. Then it dawned on me that a small sketch book and pens would offer… Continue reading Among the Falling Leaves
Here's another, and quite different, ink drawing I found in a sketchbook last week as I was reviewing my art work. It's from 1988, signed under my birth name that I later changed. It looks to me like a science fiction image, with an emphasis on environmental degradation. Also, I was exploring body image and different parts… Continue reading Sci Fi
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