What a great time I had at the Summer Lights 2016 painting a rain barrel for REEP Green Solutions! Thanks to everyone for coming out to cheer me on, to James Howe of REEP for the unique painting opportunity, and to my fellow rain barrel painters, nik harron, Julian van Mossel-Forrester, and Jennifer Gough for their artistic fellowship! You guys did some amazing paint jobs!
My idea for the rain barrel was to have two distinct intertwining webs in earthy yellows encircle the barrel having over a deeper jewel-toned purple. The intertwining webs are about community and interdependence, while the purple background symbolizes the importance of what goes on in the unseen realms.
While the idea was to paint the barrel during a one-hour time slot, I’m afraid the design I chose to paint just wasn’t doable within the one hour timeline! What was I thinking!!!? I was so grateful that nobody seemed to mind that I took extra time to complete the rain barrel the way I had envisioned. And big thanks to Marco and Jessica Loof for jumping right in to help execute the painting! All in all, I put in 5 hours on that barrel…. so it’s a big fail on my time management skills, but still, I’m fairly pleased with how the barrel turned out. It’s not every night that one can sit smack in the middle of King Street in Kitchener and paint!
Happily, all of the rain barrels painted are available for sale! All of the painted barrels are being auctioned off at www.reepgreen2016.eflea.ca until June 27.
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