Big Sky - Burgoyne Bay

This is another one from a recent Salt Spring Island

 Linnyland painting adventure.

From my Burgoyne Bay/Linnyland hayfield perspective the sky

 appeared to be framed by Mount Maxwell on one side

 and Mount Sulivan on the other and 

 what I really wanted to do was lay on my back and paint

 the amazing sky. Or I did, until the rain started to POUR down and easel, painting, pallet, brushes, backpack and painter performed an awkward but fast waltz for cover within good old Vinny Van Go.

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"Big Sky - Burgoyne Bay"

oil on wood

11 x 14

"Little Bad Boy Lighthouse" SOLD

From a recent sunny morning

Linnyland painting adventure at Witty's Lagoon.

I decided to paint the snow capped Olympic Mountains

with the Race Rocks lighthouse in front.

The lighthouse was too far away for me to see any of it's features

but I thought, "No problem, I've painted it before

and I can do it from memory". (Ha ha.)

When I finished painting I could see that something wasn't

quite right with the lighthouse tower.

It wasn't until I was back in my studio, and I had looked

through the binoculars at the Race Rocks Lighthouse,

that I realized I'd given the tower an extra white stripe.

Ah...that's why the little lighthouse

sports the "convict in striped pajamas look"!

So...after some concern and careful consideration

I've come to understand that the little lighthouse

hasn't done anything too seriously

bad or wrong - really, the only crime (if one can call it a crime) 
that he committed

was that he wanted to be a little bit different -

and that might explain the reason that he stands out

from the crowd the way that he does.

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"Little Bad Boy Lighthouse"

oil on wood panel

8 x 6
SOLD
Private Collection
Metchosin BC Canada

One Day Last Summer

This studio piece grew from,

'Late Afternoon - Lake Cowichan'

an en plein air painting from an

"one day last summer adventure" to Cowichan Lake.

(It was the afternoon that I swam amongst the

orange bellied newts.)

It's entirely possible that me painting this painting

may have inadvertently caused summer weather

to linger longer here in Victoria;

I was able to have breaky out on the deck

on the 4th of November - unheard of in our climes!

(Oddly, now that the painting is finished

the autumn weather has started...)

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"One Day Last Summer"

oil on canvas

30 x 36

Evening Sky - Highrock

This little one is from a few whiles ago.

I was at Highrock Park in the late afternoon

and the pillowcase clouds lined up in a row

and said, "Hey, Linny, paint us!"

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"Evening Sky - Highrock Park"

(plein air)

oil on wood panel

6 x 8

Forest Gold

This is another from my

recent Cowichan River adventure.

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"Forest Gold"

(plein air)

oil on wood panel
12 x 9

Cowichan River Gold SOLD

Here, in Victoria BC, it's a beautiful,

sunny and warm day.

So warm that this morning I enjoyed

breakfast outside on the balcony - in October.

Happy Thanksgiving Day in Linnyland!

This painting is from another recent warm day adventure,

further north on Vancouver Island, along the Cowichan River.

Thanks to all of my friends and patrons

and land of blog buddies for all of your

comments and support.

Wishing you all a beautiful day, too!

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"Cowichan River Gold"

oil on canvas

(plein air)

12 x 9
SOLD

Rainbow Park Gold

This is another little one from

a recent road trip, painted in

the postcard beautiful Rainbow Park

at Alta Lake.

There I was surrounded by

beautiful mountains,

and yet, it was

trees that inspired me.

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"Rainbow Park Gold"

oil on wood panel

6 x 8

Thanks and credit for the photo go to Jason Boron.

September on the River

This one is from

a recent roadtrip

painted above and beside the powerful

Cheakamus River falls.

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"September on the River"

oil on board

10 x 8

Summer Morning - Lake Cowichan SOLD

Last week

I enjoyed an up island

adventure to Lake Cowichan with

fellow, fellow painter

Jeffrey J. Boron.

We arrived at a quiet spot on the lake

early in the day and I painted this little one

before my first swim.

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"Summer Morning - Lake Cowichan"

(plein air)

oil on wood panel

6 x 8

SOLD

Tourmaline Morning - Trial Island SOLD

This little painting of the Trial Island Lighthouse

is one that I started last spring on an outdoor

adventure with the Al Fresco non-group.

Finally, this week, I added a bit more

paint to it.

(I remember that it was the morning of Good Friday

and there were Easter eggs on the ground

all around us as we set up on Anderson Hill.

While we painted a swarm of children

appeared and then disappeared along with the eggs.)

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"Tourmaline Morning"

oil on canvas

9 x 12

SOLD