Month: November 2024
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Photo Diary – Royal Tyrell Museum
Drumheller and the surrounding areas have been on our bucket list forever, and we finally visited in early November. Of course, we soon learned there’s just too much to explore in a single day and we’ll have to return. My dino-nerd daughter would have it no other way. Our first stop was The Royal Tyrell…
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Quick and Easy – Watercolour Lightning
Let’s take the technique we learned in last week’s tutorial, Quick and Easy – Watercolour Galaxy, a step further. Lightning! For this tutorial, I used: I prepared the cloudy background using last week’s tutorial and a monochrome palette of greys and black, but the colour palette still doesn’t matter—feel free to use whatever shades speak…
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Quick and Easy – Watercolour Galaxy
My go-to things to paint have always included forests and galaxies. Not only are these subject matters welcoming to newbies, but you really can’t make any mistakes in painting them. With the holiday season looming, this is the perfect time to break out the craft supplies and make meaningful gifts for loved ones. For this…
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November Life Update
We’ve assimilated to life as Canadians in all but one aspect—I still do my spring cleaning in October/November, like I would in the southern hemisphere. And, as luck would have it, my intense spring cleaning fever coincides with something big this year. We’re moving. For many immigrants, purchasing a home is a long-term dream. Moving…
Yolandie Horak 