Category Archives: soldiers

Deployment

October 7, 2009 – 11:59 pm

Tomorrow I will be heading to the Edmonton Garrison to say goodbye to a group of soldiers being deployed to Afghanistan. This time it hits home more than ever with me. One of the soldiers has a child with, and is engaged to my cousin. This project has always been very personal to me, but [...]

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Cpl. David Braun

September 21, 2009 – 3:18 pm

As we work on Project Heroes™, it is important to us to convey an indication of the soldiers’ characters – something that is hard to achieve from their official military photos that are quite serious and straight-faced.Cpl. David Braun was a sincere pleasure to paint. My studio was so cheerful looking at this handsome, smiling [...]

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Still Life -Commemorative Painting

July 16, 2009 – 5:35 pm

Work on our soldier portraits carries on and in the meantime we’ve taken photographs of of some of the gear that the soldiers carry. The photos will be used for a number of commemorative paintings that we’ll be doing, a few of which will be still life. One of the first steps in preparing to [...]

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Painting Portraits on Canada Day

July 1, 2009 – 7:36 am

Today we Canadians celebrate our country’s 142 birthday. We’re a quietly patriotic nation with a deep love of this huge land with it’s many wild places and just like our anthem says we are indeed strong and free. Giving others the strength and the means to become free is what our soldiers are working toward [...]

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A Visit With Corporal Cole Bartsch’s Family

June 4, 2009 – 9:24 am

Susan and I (Cindy) recently had a visit with the family of Cole Bartsch, one of the soldiers who died on July 4, 2007. We heard about Cole’s love for the outdoors and comics, his antics, his great respect for the military, and his deep love of family. And photos, so many wonderful photos of [...]

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And we’re off…

April 15, 2009 – 8:54 pm

This week Shairl and Susan will be heading for Saskatchewan. We will be visiting the families of several of the fallen Canadian soldiers to gather some information to ensure that the paintings we do of our Canadian heroes are as true to their characters as we can possibly achieve post-humously. Some other information gathered, such [...]

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