Tomato, Goat Cheese, and Herb Tart (and a Galette) and some Caprese

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“It’s impossible to jump into a portrait. As I sketch, my subject becomes natural, more unconscious, and I catch an impression I may have missed at first.” 🖌
—#LiliasTorranceNewton, 1896–1980, Montreal-born member of the Beaver Hall Group best known for her portraits (via @artcaninstitute)

Small plates with the delicious Doris

Perhaps a delightful cocktail before dinner!

Tim Pitsiulak - Migrating Walrus

Kenojuak Ashevak - Owl with Dogs, Fish and Birds

Lawren S. Harris - Autumn Forest with Glaciated Bedrock, Georgian Bay, around 1914

Storytelling

Jack and the Jack Paintings

AGOing

sand castle (via @lizclimo)

Birthdays (via @animal_problems)

Tomb Raider

Word of the day: “sielunmaisema” - literally “soul-landscape”, “soul-scene”; a particular place that a person carries deep in the heart and returns to often in memory (Finnish). (via @RobGMacfarlane)

The Banquet (a loose adaptation of Hamlet)

Japanese painter Katsuda Tetsu was born on this date in 1896. This beautiful painting is “Evening, 1934.” @adachimuseum (via @ArtsyGirl62)

Terminal

Tom Thomson passed away on this day in 1917. Summer Day (1915), permanent collection of the #mcmichaelartgallery #groupofseven (via @mcacgallery)

Ready Player One

Weekly #sourdough (I skipped last week because of the heatwave. The last thing I wanted to do was to turn on the oven!)

A nice simple and homely dinner of Trout on Garlicky Mashed Potatoes with Lemon Green Beans and Crispy Skin topped with Toasted Almonds

WISHTONWISH is an old nickname for the prairie dog. (via @HaggardHawks)

#SaturdaySweets courtesy of Canada’s great Maritime realist painter #MaryPratt - “Strawberry Classic,” 2011, watercolour on paper (via @artcaninstitute)