"Full Moon Light"

HaPpY FULL COLD MOON from Linnyland!!

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"Full Moon Light", 24x8, oil on canvas, ©Linny D. Vine

www.linnydvine.com

#LinnyDVine #Linnyland #FullColdMoon #FullMoon #Light #Lighthouse 

#LighthousePainting #FineArt #JoyandLight #Adventure 

#Freedom #Joy #JOYJOYJOY

"The One and Only" the CoverGirl/Boy

Thanks to the Association of Book Publishers of BC

"The One and Only" is a Lighthouse CoverGirl/Boy once again!!

"West Coast Light" SOLD

It's here!

Happy Winter Solstice!!

Happy return of the light!

Now, I'm off to the Linny-Lore lists, (see previous post).

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This Linnyland lighthouse was

started at the 2012 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria's

Annual House Tour. 

"West Coast Light", 24x12, oil on canvas

SOLD
Private Collection
Calgary AB Canada/Playa Del Carmen QR Mexico

#LinnyDVine #Linnyland #AGGV #TrialIslandLight #lighthouse

New Moon & Lighthouse

Only four more days

 until Winter Solstice...and then the return

 of the LIGHT!

(According to Linny-Lore,

 it's tradition to celebrate Winter Solstice

in this way: write a list of what 

you'd like to leave behind along with the darkness, 

then write another list of what you'd like to welcome into

your life along with the return of the light.)

~

And speaking of light, here is the Brockton Point Lighthouse,

 in Stanley Park,  in Vancouver BC, 

in LINNYLAND!!

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"New Moon & Lighthouse"

oil on canvas

20 x 10

Golden Light

"G" is for "Golden Light", oil on canvas, 10 x 5.

Little Lennard Light SOLD

Haiku Ode to Lennard:

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Early, not yet bright

on Chesterman Beach painting

Lennard Island light.

~

The sunrise for the second paint of my recent Tofino 
Linnyland painting adventure was spectacular - and without wind! 
I wasn't aware that I'd set up to paint beside an entrance 
to the beach until the first group
 of early morning surfers arrived behind me and

excitedly exclaimed , "SWEET!!!".

I was focused on my painting 
so I thought that they were, too.

My toque was getting a bit tight 
before I twigged that the surfers were (of course!) 
referring to the great wave conditions. 

Hat fitting more appropriately, I continued painting.

Soon after, a couple of the freshly suited up surfers offered,
 "Like your depiction of Lennard Light", 
as they ran past me towards
 their sweet waves.
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"Little Lennard Light", 12x9, oil on cradled wood, ©Linny D Vine
 SOLD

Private Collection Oak Bay BC Canada

"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

Race Rocks Sunset SOLD

The Race Rocks lighthouse

is on the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

From my studio window, on a clear day,

I can see across the Strait to the light and the Olympics.

(I'm able to see the lighthouse itself

even better with

the help of binoculars

and a little Linnyland imaginings.)

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"Race Rocks Sunset"

oil on canvas

10 x 5

SOLD

Warm Sunset - Fisgard Light SOLD

And, for Groundhog Day (and with the movie in mind),

here's another lighthouse painting.

I heard that the groundhog didn't see it's shadow today

and that means that spring is happening - soon!

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"Warm Sunset- Fisgard Light"

oil on canvas

6 x 6

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

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

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

Little Light SOLD

Happy Solstice Everyone!

The first time that I painted

the Fisgard Lighthouse it was on location

and it was a cold but sunny wintery morning.

Since then I've painted a few more "Fisgards" on

different shapes and sizes of canvas, and oddly,

I've painted them all in the

months of December.

Each time that I paint the lighthouse it

ends up being balanced on a slightly higher rock

and the last two have had fences as safe boundaries as well.

I'm sure that by this time in December we can all relate to the

lighthouse and are feeling the need to rise high above it all with

our boundaries in tact. So, on Winter Solstice today,

as you celebrate the return of the light

may you all have a little time to yourself to

find your balance and enjoy the light

- high above it all.

Wishing you joy & light!

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"Little Light"

oil on canvas

20 x 10

SOLD

Fisgard Fantasy SOLD

Today is the 22nd ANNUAL MOSS STREET PAINT -IN!!!

12 noon - 4 pm

I'm at site #61 between Clover Avenue and George Street

at the Dallas Road end of Moss Street.

See you there!!!

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"Fisgard Fantasy"

acrylic on canvas

36 x 24

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