Birthday Bash/Book Launch Photos!

The most fabulous and my first birthday party ever! March 7, 2018 at Pauper's Pub in Toronto. Spectacular and so loving I am still quite overwhelmed (about 60 people came, wow!!). It couldn't have been better! Thank you so much to everyone who came out to share this special day with me. Much love!

                                                                                                                                                                            

Thanks to my brother, Allan Clews, and my son, Adrian Henderson, for all their help, and John Oughton, for snapping the pics. (They are a bit blurry because I increased the exposure by 1 stop for the darkened room and then forgot that the camera must be held very still. Ah well, I love the photos and am so glad I have them!)

For everyone's names, see the Fugue in Green album in Google Photos.
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My little Lola tucked under my arm; Stella in Lola’s bag. Yesterday, St Patrick’s Day!

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Birthday Bash/Book Launch, Wed March 7, 7-9pm, Pauper's Pub, upstairs

My Birthday Bash/ Book Launch is this week, Wednesday, March 7th, 7-9pm at Pauper's Pub (upstairs in the back, a lovely secluded area that seats 60-80 people), 539 Bloor St W (by Bathurst Stn and next to a Municipal Parking lot) in Toronto.

Come ​have dinner and drinks or just drinks and talk, chat, mingle, enjoy each other's company. I only intend to read for about 10 minutes - and my books, Fugue in Green, newly published by Quattro Books, and Tidal Fury, with Guernica Editions, will be available (each one singly is full price, and I'm offering a 25% discount on getting both together). I'll be reading only for about 10 min since what I most wish for is a party for all of us, a social evening for our community of writers and singer-songwriters. How often do we get together just to hang out and have a good time? No gifts - you are the gift.

p.s. Excuse the crazily-overdone flyer, I got carried away in Photoshop and every balloon and heart is a different layer! Now that's pure silliness.
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More TTC Subway sketches

          

The latest TTC Subway crop: the first one on 6"x9" tan paper (pen is unforgiving, and the cross-hatching on her left cheek isn't quite right, but, hey, just a transit drawing); the latter two on 3½"x5½" cream paper. I do like working in the small book - more discreet. Disclaimer: These resemble the folks who inspired them but are not accurate renderings since either they got off the train or I did before I was finished the drawing and so relied on memory.

Later: It looks like I forgot to upload a couple more transit sketches.

                                      

The last page shown here is what happened when, unknown to me, I used water on one of the sketches... it soaked through with the ink and ruined a few pages back. So I did a few more sketches in the Strathmore toned grey, and then bought a new sketchbook, and another smaller one.
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Saturday Morning Pet Sketches

Saturday morning sketches with a rather crude ink pen that resisted the Strathmore 80lb drawing paper, and required digging the nib in, and losing finesse of line. Drawing with it is like hacking away at the paper. But my babies don't mind, and they sweetly slept.

And this little charcoal sketch of Aria, maybe Jan 2018. It's black and white charcoal only. She moved before I drew the back of her head, and so that is a bit awkward.

Charcoal is much easier, for sure. Just not sure it is the look I am after.

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