“With the housing crisis and renovictions going on,” she says, “tenants don’t really know where to go, so they have to turn to Dal to help them through the hearing.”ĭalhousie Legal Aid is a non-profit charity funded through donations and grants from the Law Foundation of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, and Dalhousie’s Schulich School of Law. She herself used the office’s walk-in service just a few weeks ago to ask a question about a letter she received from her landlord. “For low-income people,” says Lisa Hayhurst, “nobody can really afford legal services, (Dal Legal Aid) is basically who they turn to.” The chair of the Dartmouth chapter of ACORN, a grassroots advocacy group which works on affordable housing issues, says the loss of the drop-in service is a blow to the community. “We saw rents increasing in Halifax at levels that we’ve never seen before, and we also have the rent cap, which has kept rents from increasing drastically while tenants had a lease, but it also meant if people have to move, they face a huge increase,” Hussey explains. “When (the federal pandemic emergency benefits) went away, that caused problems.” “I think it’s a whole lot of things that came together at the same time,” she says. Hussey says that often takes a lot of time, as the complaints process with Nova Scotia Residential Tenancies can take months. She says where the clinic’s work was once equally divided between tenancy issues and income assistance cases, that has since shifted almost entirely to tenancies. Hussey says since September, Dalhousie Legal Aid has worked with 102 households facing eviction, compared with the 30 households the clinic assisted during the same period the previous year. “We’ve generally been able to make it work during those student transitions, but this time we just felt we needed to take that break.” “But also, we are a teaching clinic, so we have new students who are joining us at this point and so we’ll be spending some time training them,” Hussey adds. Part of the challenge, she says, is the sheer volume of cases she and the other community legal worker are handling. Hussey says the office normally sees about 10 drop-ins each time. “We’ve decided to pause our drop-in intakes, which usually happens twice a week,” says Hussey. Joanne Hussey says the number of renters seeking out free legal help to deal with evictions has reached the point where the office has been forced to eliminate its walk-in service for the month of May. Then at last I used the Derwent Operated Eraser to get some light back in this little drawing of the acorn.A community worker with the Dalhousie Legal Aid Service says the office is dealing with more tenancy cases than it can handle. It essential to use a good sharpener with pencils in general but especially with the Lightfast range. The pencils I gave a nice sharp point by using the Derwent Super Point Mini Sharpener or you can use the Derwent Super Point Desk Sharpener. Here I did not only give colour but also drew lines with the Derwent Lightfast to create the structure of the ‘hat’. I am very surprised about the paper, I think this would not be the last creation on this paper -).įor the ‘hat’ of the acorn I used Sandstone, Natural Brown, Scarlet, Sun Yellow and Violet. It is an off-white colour paper with a smooth surface that hold down the layers very nicely. The paper I am using is the new Derwent Lightfast 100% cotton paper. So always remember create a colour with at least three colours to create a beautiful colour. Of course it would be easy if you have the 100 colours of the Lightfast, but remember creating a colour from multiple pencils is better then to use one correct colour from your collection of Lightfast pencils. I start with the light colours and build it up just to create the right tone. I will build up the colour with many layers of the following colours: Brown Ochre, Mid Ultramarine, Sandstone, Natural Brown, Scarlet, Yellow Ochre, Sun Yellow and Violet for the shade tones in the acorn. This time with the Derwent Lightfast pencils, with colours chosen from the 12 tin, on the Derwent Lightfast 100% cotton paper. After I have lightly sketched the acorn basic shape with Graphic HB pencil, I began to add colour. For today, I have chosen a little brown acorn to draw. Like all of my pieces, the best place to start is with a sketch of my chosen subject.
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