Monday, December 5, 2011

Commission: "Pam and Ireland" 2008




"Pam and Ireland" Copyright Kathryn Wilde 2008. All rights reserved. 





High School Experimentation

"Brass" Copyright  2005 Kathryn Wilde. All rights reserved.

In grade eleven I made instant friends with a new addition to our class: Johanna Kilbridge. She was the only person in our small art class to really do photography. Our teacher Mrs. Allen dusted off our tiny darkroom so Johanna could develop and print her own 35mm film. At the same time, I was picking up the French horn as a minor in music class, having so far stuck to woodwinds (my majors were flute and tenor sax). New instruments, new mediums, and a new friendship came together in this colour shoot that Johanna and I did. This self portrait is based on one of those photos, and is roughly 17" by 11", watercolour and ink on watercolour paper. 

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Sketches of Poor Old Hobo Napping



"Hobo 1" Copyright Kathryn Wilde 2007. All rights reserved.

"Hobo 2" Copyright Kathryn Wilde 2007. All rights reserved.

"Hobo 3" Copyright Kathryn Wilde 2007. All rights reserved.

"Hobo 4" Copyright Kathryn Wilde 2007. All rights reserved.

The first day we brought Hobo home from the shelter, I stayed home to babysit him and these are all the shenanigans he got up to. He was so cute napping away I thought I might as well draw him. We only had him for about 3 years but he was something really special. RIP, Hobo.

Recent Addition to the Collection of Dean Antoni Lewkowicz of the University of Ottawa (and his lovely wife)

"Finding" Copyright Kathryn Wilde, 2011. All rights reserved.