16 pounds Command strips

Four pairs of wall hanger strips hold up to 16 pounds with a maximum frame size of 24in(52cm) x 36in (76cm)  Framed  5.25lbs(2.4kg) unframed 1.5LBS(1.2kg).

The average family home has paintings in the 16(40cm) X 20(50cm) range and weighs about 2.25 lbs( 1kg) unframed to 5 lbs(2 kg) Framed.

Don’t replace reuse

Command stips are velcro, meaning they have a hook side and a loop side.  If you wish to change wall hanging more often you can buy loop side-only velcro adhesive tape. As long as you only use the hook side on the walls and the loop side on the paintings you can reuse these repeatedly.

Using Command strips the right way

3M Command

Rule of 57  High of pictures

Hang the picture so that the center of the picture is 57 inches from the floor. Doesn't matter how tall or wide, measures 57 inches from the floor. Mark that with a pencil on the wall, then hang your art so that the center is at that spot

How it works,   measure the picture top to bottom divide by 2 and add 57 (125.5cm) this is the top of the picture.

Seasonal wall art

No need to change our entire home decor but possibly a section of a room or entryway to change and rotate your art. Something like a person's little art gallery that will inspire and lift your mood as the seasons change.

Maybe you have a collection of cool landscapes or flowers for summer to inspire or allow you to just relax and enjoy the view as if you were walking through the summer flowers.

 

In fall you could change to bright landscapes to display the beautiful colours nature has to offer, and offset those dull rainy days

 

Remove those winter blues with something happy and vibrant.

And start a new spring with pictures inspired by life anew. Think of all the possibilities.

Mounting 

With the availability of the command strip, it is very easy to change the pictures and if you place the strips in the same place you will not even need to replace them.  Pro tip Once you place the first strips take the picture down and allow the glue on the strip to set for 1 hour 

 Was able to do some walking the other day,  visited Little Davis falls with my loving Wife Helen. Could not make it to the base of Felker's falls as the trail was a little to rough for us but had a grate walk

great inspiration

16 Fear

Fear is a thing to be overcome with care. It’s easy as to say “it’s only in the mind and we have nothing to fear except fear itself”. These are great words that have been repeated over and over but they don’t always account for the reasons we start to develop fears.

As we get older or develop a disease that weakens us our fears try to protect us from doing things we would have not been afraid of when we were younger or stronger. Simple things like Driving to visit someone on a rainy or cold day when we were young would not even enter our minds, but now we think what would happen if I had a breakdown.

Once about a year into my struggle with wegener's (GPA) I drove to the drug store on a very cold day somewhere around -16C( 3 F) and my van would not start after getting the new medications I needed. Tried to call my neighbour for help but got no answer. Hey, I am just turning 50 and my house in only 4 maybe 5 blocks away, I can walk home and wait for my neighbour to come and help me. Seem the strain of that short walk in the cold may have triggered the big flair I had a week later, OK note to self don’t take unnecessary risks your not as tough as you once were and fear is growing.

This is not a bad fear as it will protect me in the future and I now avoid going out on cold days and bought a very good and overly expensive battery for my vehicle. The problem is these fears have a habit of growing on their own for no good reason, I could get stuck in traffic and get too sore, what if the path is too long and I can’t get back, it’s slippery I could fall, what if by the time we get there I am too sore to enjoy the visit. What if it’s too hot and what if the painting is too hard with too much detail and I will hurt too much to finish…

Fear is a very good thing but you have to trim it back once in a while or it will overgrow your garden. I visited the Walpole Bay Hotel a long time ago and wanted to paint this picture for a very long time but was afraid because of the many details and colour challenges. This picture took longer than most of my paints and I had to take many breaks but it's nice to trim back the fears and see the beautiful garden again.

15 Grandchildren

Creating the perfect place to play starts with love,grows with caring and develops great memories of youth. All these things and more I wish for my Grandchild. Lots of toys , lots of fun and most of all lots of love.

14 Jasper Moutains

Starting with a picture, either one I take myself or a free to copy and use image from the internet such as this one,  I crop and print to the size I want to paint i.e. 20 X 16.

 
Tracing a very basic outline of the painting with just enough detail to show the basic location and shape. This could be measured and drawn but it’s much faster to just trace a few basic lines.

I cover the sky area with a very thin titanium white to wet the canvas and very quickly add blue to create a sky with more life and random color by using an x shape when applying the color.

Then I add some clouds with some titanium white and a very small amount of red to start, then some gray or darker blue to build up more layers in the clouds. Working from the most distant to the closer clouds.

Using Blues and Purples I block in the mountains using a lighter blue for the Distance Mountains.  At this point I am using very little detail as these are a long way off in the distance.









Using titanium white and a little blue I add the snow using a very light touch on the brush so the darker undercoat will show through, making sure the brush stroke runs downhill.  Again this is in the distance so not too much detail is needed.

       

Using a very thin blue glaze I covered the bottom of the mountains to represent a light fog at the base of the mountains.  Again this is to give the effect of distance.

            Adding a little green I make the first row of trees on the distant shore. Much of this will be cover by the foreground tree so very little detail appears here too.

            As I work forward with the tree I add more green, darker colors, and details.  The darker color brings the trees closer to the front and pushes   the background back further into the painting.

      


       The trees in the foreground use the darkest colors for the basic shape and then adding very bright highlights on top to show all the details.

            Now that the base is complete I spend the rest of my time adding highlights to the foreground in this case the bottom 3^rd of the painting.

      Finally adding detail to the foreground water and tree shadows. 

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