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Painting at Mariners Park Museum

Welcome! Today I had my first of two painting sessions at the Mariners Park Museum in Prince Edward County as part of my big World War One Project entitled To the Sound of Trumpets . I'll be spending two days in each of PEC's five museums (not including the Museum of the Stick ), the idea being that people can come out to a museum they might not have been to before (or revisit one), or watch me paint (if they haven't already been bored by that yet), and ask me questions about this project, or general questions about painting...or about anything*, really. Surprise me. I'd scheduled myself to paint from 1–4, but I arrived early to take a look around the grounds and the museum itself... House of Light! Appropriately, they've got a life-sized lighthouse outside (and tiny models of them and parts of ones inside). They also have bits of ships all over the place, as though they all crashed right here: What's left of the Florence. And this thi...