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Hatch

hatch, a photo by mister anchovy on Flickr. This is a small painting I made back in 2006. It’s oil on canvas with some rough and tumble textural bits happening.

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Shack Nasty

Shack Nasty, a photo by mister anchovy on Flickr. Here’s an old painting I’ve been thinking about. I believe I made it in 1995 or 1996 and I exhibited it in the exhibition c. 1996. I remember painting it like it was yesterday. Funny how… Read More

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Short Squat Mushrooms

I’m always interested in the variety of search terms people use that land them here on this blog. Today somebody got here after searching Russula brevipes. Now this is an interesting mushroom to me, and it’s interesting because it has a special relationship with another… Read More

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Fat Tuesday

Tuffy P picked me up at work tonight. In the car she said, are you making us pancakes tonight, it being pancake/shrove/fat Tuesday and all? And I said…. My spy boy told your spy boy Sittin’ on the bayou My spy boy told your spy… Read More

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Wrong Season

Somebody entered “Aborted Entoloma Spring” into a search engine and came up with my little slice of paradise. Around these parts, though, you won’t see aborted entoloma, or Entoloma abortivum, in the spring. You’ll see lots of them in the fall, though. The naming of… Read More

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Exhibition

Tuffy P – AKA Sheila Gregory – has work in an art exhibition that opened today at the Doris McCarthy Gallery (University of Toronto Scarborough Campus). The exhibition is called The “C” Word – A Look at the Role of Craft in Contemporary Art, guest… Read More

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This Afternoon

The crisp clear afternoon has coaxed a lot of people in the neighbourhood outdoors. The toboggan hill at the filtration plant has hardly been in use this season for lack of snow, but enough came down the other day to create a marginal base. Marginal… Read More