One of the things I appreciate about my ongoing involvement with the Federation of Canadian artists is being inspired by the themes of their upcoming exhibits to create work I might not otherwise have considered. Such was the case with the painting in this post, “Ripples in Time,” which was a response to the theme of the Federation’s “Water” show scheduled for later this fall. I was particularly interested to see if I could use the same sort of flowing, semi-transparent paint application I like to use in backgrounds, to represent the shallow shoreline ripples. The title was prompted by those ripples as well as the painting’s retrospective view of a long-since holiday.