This painting has been in my head since… Sunday, July 17th, around 5:00 PM. This was during an Evensong sermon at CCC, in which the pastor spoke to us organists about how we were all wonderful people but not adventurous unless pushed, so she challenged us to ‘step out of the box and head into the wilderness’ like John the Baptist and Christ and anyone else you can think of who went into the wilderness. Now that day I was really having a bad day, so the idea of ‘wilderness’ terrified me and I nearly broke down in church… but I did get this picture in my head, and I decided I felt like painting it because it’s an interesting picture.

Basically what this picture is saying is that if I ever get lost in the wilderness, I just have to remember that there are at least two people with me: my guardian angel and Flairé. My guardian angel is actually closer to me than Flairé… Well, he is the personification of my conscience, my angel, I mean.

I’m not sure about the lighting… I think I might tweak it a bit later. And one thing that is a pain is that I actually put a lot of detail on Flairé and the angel, but then I blurred them and put mist in front of them (because they’re supposed to blend into the background) so you can’t see ANY of the detail at all and in fact they look quite flat.

Okay, here is a de-fogged and de-blurred version because it looks cool too. Although Flairé is actually quite ugly. Blah.

You want to know about Vancouver and so on? Well, basically: swordfighting was tremendous fun, and the people and the place were fantastic. But rapiers are heavier than they look. That Wednesday I went with Organist to the VanDusen Gardens, and they were lovely. Gardens are so peaceful… Great way to relax. Henry V was fabulous, and The Boy was really good, and so was Henry, of course, and some of the actors were also in Othello last year, and Organist wasn’t too sure about the interpretive battle-dancing but the bits with Princess Katherine were really funny. : D

I also got to catch up with Leslie for the first time in a while, and hopefully soon I shall do the same with KevinT because I haven’t seen him in months either. And people will start returning soon and then… then school will start and things will be insane as usual. Can’t wait! XD