Rod Mackay's writing and his paintings of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and St.Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. Notes concerning North American folklore, legend and myth.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Saturday's Child
This one did not get beyond the preliminary sketch as I had second thoughts about its reception in a market which is more in tune with panoramas of the harbour, individual homes, the three churches and the like. I will finish it from a photograph taken at the time. Here again, I realized, after the fact, that I had no burnt sienna and this scene had to have sunlight and deep shadow, the latter being an impossibility without this colour.
Rodney C Mackay is a traditional painter in the acrylic medium. He has been a newspaper reporter, high school teacher, antique dealer, bookman and biological technician. He married the late Anne Torey of New Glasgow, N.S. in 1957.They had four children. He had his first one man show in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1972 and he has been a full-time painter since that time. Three years after the death of his first wife, he married Ruth Brown in 1998. They reside in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
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