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\"mg_3767-e1\"<\/a>Tonight as I came down (finally) from my children’s rooms where they are both peacefully dreaming, I came across a few pastel sketches I did in 1999 while working for Ontario Parks (below) – when we went on a training retreat north of Toronto. I love the serenity of the landscape in the land of tiny lakes and islands, rocks and trees. It has always inspired me since I was about 10 years old, going to camp. The page I was working on tonight briefly, by scribbling all over it with a pastel, left me with the phrase “Silence all around.” I decided to echo the scene on the pastel sketch with a sketch using the painting knife.<\/p>\n

While watching the paint dry, I pulled out some old letters ranging from 1912 to another one in 1945, 3 days before my father was born. I was inspired to work something regarding mail into the piece. Remembering how important mail was in my childhood, when I logged the thousand letters I wrote within a few years; weaving reeds into mats one summer while waiting by the mailbox for the postman to arrive. Currently there is a Canada Post strike, which is not causing to much of a stir. So few letters come to me by mail now. My descendants will not have the privilege of reading a 99 year old letter, detailing requests for a couple of ducks and a hen, a patch to mend a silk dress, and some eggs and milk.<\/p>\n

The second envelope window peeks through to a sketch from the base page (Alice in Wonderland) of a gathering of animals (owl, rat, duck, etc.). Today a colleague and I were chatting about the possibility of publishing the book we co-wrote and illustrated at least 5 years ago. My first thought was that I would have put a little bit more effort into the illustrations if I’d known it was going to be published someday. Since I was young, I always imagined I would write books, and others have urged me to do children’s books but before having my own kids it didn’t really appeal to me. So I kept that group of animals on the painting as a nod to the concept of peeking through to the world of illustrating children’s books someday. Plus I have been teaching my 3.5-year-old how to draw this week – her fascination and wonder at my simple pencil crayon examples and her own innocent creativity are really inspiring.<\/p>\n

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Pastel sketch from weekend retreat in Ontario 1999<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight as I came down (finally) from my children’s rooms where they are both peacefully dreaming, I came across a few pastel sketches I did in 1999 while working for Ontario Parks (below) – when we went on a training … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33,40],"tags":[80,477,638,703,722,1026],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-genealogy-2","category-writing-2","tag-altered-book","tag-gesso","tag-mixed-media","tag-old-things","tag-painting","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}