Saturday 31 July 2010

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


Friday 23 July 2010

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

Wednesday 21 July 2010

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...)

Thursday 15 July 2010

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

Tuesday 13 July 2010

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

Sunday 4 July 2010

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

Thursday 1 July 2010

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
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