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