‘Painting teaches you to see’: Elora resident embraces challenge, change at Elora Plein Air Festival

‘Painting teaches you to see’: Elora resident embraces challenge, change at Elora Plein Air Festival

ELORA – Judy French warmed her greys with brown and black, cooled them with blue, noting where the shadows fell on the face of the Henderson Street home of the late Beverley Cairns.French wore a faded, red jacket splotched with dried black paint, a gift from her mother some 40 years ago.French once raced sled dogs wearing it, she said.“You can’t dress up for this; I have paint on my pants too.”French studied the scene from under her Tilley hat, …