Rain's Thursday Art Date - Signs of Spring

Photo

scanned version

I did an ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") featuring spring nail art for Rain's Thursday Art Date.  I am showing a photo and also the scanned version.  My scanner turned the real pink colour of the flowers painted on the nails into purple which is fine too.

Here is the answer to yesterday's riddle by the way. It is c) daughter

Signs of Spring

The trees are coming to life once again:

Maple Tree Blossoms

Crabapple blossoms

M and I were bed shopping on the weekend. We met a well-dressed 79 year old salesman in one of the stores. He told us he was the number one saleman for his company and went on the say how many children and grandchildren he has. When people ask him when he's going to retire he says 'when I get old'. I noticed him smoking outside when we left. M found him very gruff in nature and in fact, did not like his authoritative manner. I had no problem with that, in fact, he is a role model for the older generation!

Crocus

Last Wednesday the temperatures hit record highs for the season and I noticed the first signs of spring peeking out in my garden:

There was an interesting article in the newpaper yesterday about the Artists group fighting for re-sale rights.

  'In 2003, Charles Pachter painted a vibrant, poppy-red double image of a barn, as seen after the springtime thaw had turned the fields near his rural studio into sodden slicks of melted snow. It was called “Red Barn Reflected,” '  Here is that beautiful painting:

Anyway ' a CARFAC-proposed amendment to the Canadian Copyright Act that would give living artists a five per cent royalty on all sales of their work after its original sale' is under review by a government committee.