Have not made any sketches for a few weeks but feel like starting again. #ttletter

I helped my Uncle Brodie, a well-known naturalist, gather specimens. He gave me the eye for the details of nature.

1915 Wild Cherries, Spring #tt1915 #upclose No. 1

Harris, a Theosophist, MacDonald, a Transcendentalist, I just liked to paint

Artists were accused of the moral degneracy that led to the War.

With my Grip friends, we would make frequent fishing trips to Lake Scugog.

Invite an artist over for a hot dinner, a good conversation, a stiff drink, and buy his art so he can pay his rent.

1916-17 The Pointers Up Close Boat 2 of 4 #ttcanvas

I once gave a hermit at Canoe Lake a new set of winter underwear.

I find power in my sketches - small but meaningful.

Have not made any sketches for a few weeks but feel like starting again. #ttletter

My father wanted to get his money's worth from me. I had to stay on the farm until I was twenty-one.

1916 The Dead Pine @AGOToronto #tt1916

I had something that nobody else could acquire - the north in my blood.

My two preoccupations: the sky with its magic configurations and the miracle of spring.

Oct 09, 1916: Thanksgiving. Eaton's is closed today

For the landscape to paint, I was indebted to the lumber companies; dams, log shutes, camp clearings

Toronto World: Oct 9 1916: BRITISH MAKE FURTHER ADVANCES IN PICARDY

I made my first trip to Algonquin just after meeting Fred Varley

1916 Algonquin Park Vista. #tt1916

I never truly realized what I had, but others did.

Canoes are too small to accommodate clashing personalities

What's actually encoded in the NFC ring? I have some NFC cards that I am experimenting with. Is it LNURL pay with Lnbits?

You can judge a moose by the size of its antlers. Too bad there's no similar rule for judging men.

I didnt analyze. I worked from my inside feeling and let that govern my work.

1914 The Last Fence #tt1914

1916 Spring #tt1916

Americans think we are like the British. The British think we are like Americans

1916 Autumn #tt1916

You work with your mind not with your hands

I was more than once drunk in the Studio Building.

MacDonald made his first visit to Algonquin in March 1914. Jackson had been there a month.

1916 Poplars by the Lake #tt1916

Annie Fraser always thought I had something going for Daphne Crombie

I prefer a more direct handling of colour than focus on meticulous detail and perspective.

Harris was attracted to the occult

1915 Hillside ttlastspring.com #tt1915

This place is getting too much like north Rosedale to suit me #ttletter