Winter Memory SOLD

Wishing you peace,

love, light and joy

for the holidays and

throughout the new year.

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"Winter Memory"

oil on canvas

20 x 10
SOLD

"Little, Little Lighthouse" (Race Rocks Lighthouse) SOLD

In honor of the winter solstice

here's a little light for everyone.

Happy Winter Solstice!

As of today we, in the northern hemisphere,

begin to experience an increasing amount of

daylight in every day.

According to Linny lore, the Winter solstice

is a day to release whatever

you'd like into the dark days of the past

and welcome whatever you'd like in to your life

along with the return of the light.
(I can see the Race Rocks Light from my studio window,

so, with a pair of binoculars and some Linnyland imaginings,

I welcomed this little painting into being.)

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"Little, Little Lighthouse"

(Race Rocks Lighthouse)

oil on canvas

12 x 6

SOLD

River Rocks - Sooke

This is another Linnyland tale of dark and light...

I painted this one way back in

late October, (it seems to me like way, way back).

Fellow , fellow artist, Jeffrey J. Boron and I went out

to the Sooke Potholes for a painting adventure.

It was a decent day with a sky full of promises.

While we did our exploring the sky

continued to promise even more light.

After a warm and very sunny picnic lunch we set up to paint.

All was well at the start but about 10 minutes into painting

the clouds came in and it was so dark that

there were bats flying

back and forth and all around.

I really like bats so

I concentrated on the shapes that I

could still make out, (the rock shapes not the bat shapes),

and continued on with an "afternoon nocturnal paint".

And, amazingly, (as you know how it sometimes goes),

the sun didn't reappear once we were done.

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"River Rocks - Sooke"

oil on wood panel

10 x 8

Cherry Tree and Red House SOLD

This painting is from my recent demonstration/mini workshop
with the wonderful and adventurous
Windsor Park Art Group.
The group joined me in a visit to Linnyland by
"putting their hands in the air like they didn't care",
(a Linnyism that involves an enthusiastic dive into
each new painting adventure combined with
a fearless surrender to the unknown of where

the painting experience may lead...)
We enjoyed fearlessness

and fun that showed in everyone's paintings!
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"Cherry Tree and Red House"
acrylic on canvas
20 x 10
SOLD

Little, Little Light (Fisgard Lighthouse) STOLEN

This is a tale of dark and light from Linnyland.

I was going to wait and post

this little, little Linnyland lighthouse painting

to celebrate Winter Solstice.

Winter Solstice is the day of the year

just before we, in the northern hemisphere,

begin our return towards the light and, little by little,

we begin to experience longer days of daylight.

Unfortunately, "Little, Little Light"

has vanished into the dark,

the victim of a little, little art heist.

On Friday I delivered "Little, Little Light",

along with other small paintings, to my Victoria art galleries,

(in time for December's season of the small painting).

Sadly, over the weekend, a grinch took

"Little Little Light" from the wall of one of the galleries.

"Little, Little Light" stands 12 inches high and 6 inches wide

and was last seen wearing a black wooden floater frame.

If you have any information regarding

"Little Little Light" and/or it's whereabouts

please contact me, the gallery, or the Victoria police.

Please help return "Little Little Light" from the dark to the light.

Help me to spread the news...

Make it right, return "Little, Little Light!"

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"Little Little Light" (Fisgard Lighthouse)

oil on canvas

12 x 6

STOLEN

A Classic Evening - Fulford Harbour SOLD

From start to finish this painting was a joy to paint!

We're back on Salt Spring Island on a classic summer evening

with a pair of vintage gems cruising by each other

down in "feel good Fulford Harbour".

This painting is a gift from Jane to Robb,

(who I met one classic summer evening when I was painting en plein air

atop of Salt Spring Island's Mount Maxwell).

Again, Happy Birthday Robb!

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And, to all that are wondering, YES,

I am happy to consider commissions

of Linnyland/Linnyism style paintings

for your gifts and otherwise.

To inquire contact me at linnydvine@shaw.ca

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"A Classic Evening - Fulford Harbour"

oil on canvas

24 x 24

SOLD

Studio Cat

This painting is from last Thursday when I was invited

to give an acrylics painting demonstration

with a great group of artists,

the Painters Group of the Juan de Fuca Arts Club.

We all had fun during the adventure in Linnyland.

Next week I am doing a mini workshop

on painting Linnyism buildings

and I've asked the participants to bring a photo

of their home or studio to work/play from.

This painting and the photo of it will be an example

of where one might be going;

it has two painters painting (up there with their hands in the air)

on the fourth floor - plus one studio cat.

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"Studio Cat"

acrylic on canvas

24 x 12

Autumn-Turner's SOLD

And, as I promised yesterday,

here's one more

little painting of the Turner's building.
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"Autumn - Turner's"

oil on canvas

6 x 6

SOLD

September - Turner's SOLD

It seems that it's the season of

small paintings.

(Four of my galleries have recently
asked for some of my small paintings.)
This little painting is of one of my favourite
Victoria landmarks, the Turner's building. Yes, I've painted it
a few times and tomorrow I'll post another.
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"September - Turner's"
oil on canvas
6 x 6

SOLD

Little Red Lighthouse SOLD

It seems that I paint

lighthouses

at this time of year.

Based on my composition I

thought that maybe it was from a desire

for balance and boundaries

during the holiday season but

maybe it's simply a need for more light

at this time of year

- or perhaps the message is to lighten up!

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"Little Red Lighthouse"

oil on canvas

24 x 12

SOLD

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

High Hopes

This one is the latest from

my grain elevator series

(these old wooden buildings are one of my

few memories of the prairies).

This one is a "sunny side of the tracks,

long and leaner".

Thanks to Erik and the Skiff, Alberta elevator

for the inspiration.

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"High Hopes"

oil on canvas

20 x 10

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

Late Summer Evening SOLD

This one is

from a recent adventure

atop Highrock Park as a

late summer storm approached. 

I wish that I had at least three

more sets of hands along with

three more easels so that

I could have made an attempt

to capture all of the

changing and increasingly

intense colors.

As it was, I feel fortunate to have

been out painting on that

particular evening.

Plus, imagine how long

it would take to clean up eight hands,

four easels

and all of the brushes, too.

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Late Summer Evening

(plein air)

oil on wood panel

12 x 9
SOLD

A Full Day

This is from a late August

late afternoon

adventure

to

Moses

Point.

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"A Full Day"

(plein air)

oil on wood panel

9 x 12

Late Summer - Cowichan Lake

This one came back with me from

last week's Cowichan Lake adventure.

During late August

and September Vancouver Island

has a soft, gentleness added to it's

beauty.

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"Late Summer - Cowichan Lake'

(plein air)

oil on wood panel

9 x 12

Prairie Gold

Here's another

in my grain

elevator series.

It's based on

one of the three

(as far as I know)

still standing

wooden elevators

of Mossleigh, Alberta.

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"Prairie Gold"

oil on canvas

20 x 10

Katie's Window & The Gallery Below

Wednesday night was great, thank-you

to all of my collectors and friends who attended!

'Life is good', truly good, having all of you in it

-including, you, my blogger friends.

This is the painting from

that lovely, lively, fun-filled evening at

The Gallery where Katie, from the suite above,

came by and said that she

has always wanted to live in a building that

was "cool enough that someone would

want to do a painting of it".

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"Katie's Window & The Gallery Below"

oil on canvas

(semi-plein air)

12 x 9

Summer Fields SOLD

I painted this little one a few whiles back,

it's from an evening paint on the way

home from an afternoon paint.

A magical evening next to

the freshly mowed hayfields.

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"Summer Fields"

(plein air)

oil on wood panel

6 x 8

SOLD

~

If you're in Oak Bay tomorrow night stop by

at The Gallery in the Oak Bay Village for the start of,

~LIFE IS GOOD~

Local landmarks & other happy places
paintings by Linny D. Vine

18 August - 25 August

2223A Oak Bay Avenue

~

Cherry Blossom Castle

 This one is a Linnyland long and leaner

version of Victoria's castle on the hill,

The Craigdarroch Castle.

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"Cherry Blossom Castle"

oil on canvas

24 x 12

Late Afternoon - Lake Cowichan SOLD

And, after the picnic and an afternoon

of swimming among the small orange bellied newts

(the first that I've ever seen - maybe the young of

the lake's legendary "Stin-Qua") I painted this one,

then another swim...

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'Late Afternoon - Lake Cowichan'

(plein air)

oil on wood panel

8 x 10

SOLD

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

Gallery Treasure

I mentioned in my earlier post on this year's

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Moss Street Paint-In

that I would post the painting

that I worked on during the event and this is it.

Each year at the Paint -In I have worked on a painting

of a building that is located somewhere along Moss Street

so, this year I decided to get a few reference shots

of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria from the angle of it's

beautiful Asian themed garden.

While I was in the garden getting the photos

I saw the door to the gallery open and I was delighted

to see, Mary-ellen, the co-ordinator of the Paint-In,

come through the door for a coffee break in the beautiful garden!

And, as I mentioned (approximately 30,000 times) during the

Paint-In, the gallery's special garden is a gentle place

to calm one's senses after the stimulation

of taking in all that there is to experience

during a visit to the gallery and/or

to the Moss Street Paint-In.

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"Gallery Treasure"

oil on canvas

20 x 20

Sunset Sheep SOLD

This one is from a recent

summer evening

painting adventure.

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"Sunset Sheep"

(plein air)

oil on board

12 x 9

SOLD

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 23rd Annual Moss Street Paint - In

photo credit Shirley Grosser
photo credit Jeffrey Boron

photo credit Jeffrey Boron

Last Saturday was

the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

23rd Annual Moss Street Paint -In. This year 140 artists

were invited by the gallery "to bring their studios to the street".

Each year there are approximately 30,000 in attendance

at this ever popular "crazy fun" art event.

Thank-you to all of my old and new friends

and collectors who stopped by to visit.

And welcome to the world wee, precious Juno

who, at 5 days old, attended her first AGGV Paint-In

and congratulations Janice and Darren!

(I'll post the painting that I was working on there soon...)

Amber Sky

This painting grew (& grew) from the smaller

plein air painting, "Gold Sky and Firs".
(Emily Carr watched while I painted both.)

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"Amber Sky"

oil on canvas

36 x 24

Roadside Attraction

This one is from an evening painting adventure to
the hay fields where this field in front
of the Garry oaks had yet to be mowed.
(It's a drive in the country
on the way to an old style bowling alley
kind of painting.)
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"Roadside Attraction"
oil on wood panel
(plein air)
8 x 10

Red Railing SOLD

Another with a holiday color theme,

(this time red, white and blue),

Happy July 4th to our

friends to the south!

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"Red Railing"

acrylic on canvas

24 x 12
SOLD

Red Barn Ruckle Park

Happy Canada Day!

As I was getting set to do this post

I realized that, although I use red paint in just about

every one of my paintings, none of my recent

"hot of the easels" (that are photographed)

are red enough for Canada Day. So,this is one from

a few whiles ago, it's of a barn that's

at Ruckle Park on Salt Spring Island.

(It was a red hot day on Salt Spring Island

when I painted this one!)

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"Red Barn - Ruckle Park"

(plein air)

oil on canvas

14 x 11

Late Day Light SOLD

This little lighthouse painting

is another that "grew"

from a plein air adventure

to the Fort Rodd Hill Light.

It's one of three little paintings

that I have in the

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Summer Small Work Exhibition and Sale

~ June 26th - August 29th 2010 ~

"A salon - style exhibition and sale

of approximately 200 works by some of

Vancouver Island's finest artists."

1040 Moss Street

Victoria BC

250.384.4101

www.aggv.bc.ca

~

"Late Day Light"

oil on canvas

8 x 6

SOLD

Prairie Red SOLD

This is the latest

in my long and lean

grain elevator series.

Thank-you to Bill

for the inspiration;

Fuedal, Saskatchewan's

giant landmark.

(Along with the

painting come wishes

for better weather

conditions for

the prairies.)

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"Prairie Red"

oil on canvas

20 x 10

SOLD

Silver Sky Magnolia

One more magnolia painting.

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"Silver Sky Magnolia"

oil on canvas

18 x 36

Burgoyne Bay Barn

This one is from a recent adventure

to Salt Spring Island.

The old barn in this painting is in a field in

Burgoyne Bay Park which is at the base

of Mount Maxwell.

It was a grey sky afternoon as I painted yet, flying above me, there

were three varieties of swallows (Barn, Tree and Violet Green) and I had my

first dragonfly sighting of the year.

Plus, with the miracle of paint (in Linnyland), the sun

was shining on my canvas.

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"Burgoyne Bay Barn"

oil on wood panel

(plein air)

14 x 11

Woman with Grey Cat

One morning,

a few whiles ago,

this image was in my mind

as I surfaced from sleep.

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"Woman with Grey Cat"

oil on canvas

10 x 10

Afternoon Clouds - Strait of Juan de Fuca SOLD

This one is from last week's

sunny and warm afternoon adventure

among the Camas lilies at Anderson Park .

I painted facing west looking across

the Strait of Juan de Fuca toward Bentinck Island,

(and with two bald eagles over my right shoulder.)

While I was painting a kind couple, Larry and Susan,

stopped by for a visit and to let me know that

I had been photographed.

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"Afternoon Clouds - Strait of Juan de Fuca"

oil on board

(plein air)

9 x 12

SOLD

Photo credit Larry McCann.

Thank-you, Larry!

May Afternoon

Last Friday, late in the afternoon, I enjoyed

another wee rendezvous to High Rock Park.

The cloud formations were magical and

my inspiration.

And speaking of clouds and inspiration and magical visit

talented multi media artist Melinda Esparza

on her blog - she's amazing!

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"May Afternoon"

(plein air)

oil on board

6 x 6