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

~

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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

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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

Silver Afternoon

Here is one more from my afternoon
adventure at High Rock park.
(Any guesses on the order in which I painted these three?)
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"Silver Afternoon"
(plein air)
oil on wood panel
6 x 6

Blue Sky and Clouds

This is another little one from

one of my recent

High Rock afternoon

adventures.

(Same location, opposite

direction

from yesterday's post.)

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"Blue Sky and Clouds"

(plein air)

oil on board

6 x 6

To the Top SOLD

This is a little one from an afternoon adventure

at High Rock Park in Esquimalt.

(I have two more little paintings from that afternoon

that I'll post later this week.)

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"To the Top"

(plein air)

oil on board

5 x 5

SOLD

"a little LINNY show"

You're Invited!
She Said Gallery

"a little LINNY show"
~ Linny's new paintings from daily life and other adventures ~

2 May - 31 May 2010
Opening with artist: Sunday, 2 May 1:30 - 4:30 pm
2000 Fernwood Road

(across the square from the Belfry Theatre)

250.361.3372

Magnolia Sky

Happy Earth Day!

(Lorna's magnolia tree inspired this one.)

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"Magnolia Sky"

oil on canvas

18 x 36

View from French Beach SOLD

This little quick one is from way back in January

when fellow fellow painter, Jeffrey J. Boron, and I had an

up island adventure to French Beach Provincial Park.

The view is across the Strait of Juan de Fuca

to the Olympic Mountains.

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'View from French Beach'

(plein air)

oil on wood panel

8 x 10

SOLD

La Maison Lavandre SOLD

Happy Easter!

This one has tried on a few titles;

'The Purple Palace',

'The Mauve Mansion',

'Queen of Aubergine',

('The Lilac or The Lavender Lady' were quickly discarded),

but 'La Maison Lavandre' has

a playful elegance fitting to this regal home.

(I recently read that purple and orange are spirit colors,

and this purple palace has spirit!)

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'La Maison Lavandre'

oil on canvas

24 x 12

SOLD

(To an oh so elegant and playful spirited woman.)

Spring Classics SOLD

Cherry blossoms, a VW van

and a cornerstore - who could want for more?

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'Spring Classics'

oil on canvas

11 x 14

SOLD

Mighty Memory

Recently I have been on a bit

of a grain elevator jag

that was initially inspired by my early,

(and nearly only), memories of the prairies. I painted this one

and afterwards I was

doing a little grain elevator research,

and discovered that this one, the Fleming, Saskatchewan elevator,

(built in 1895), was Canada's

oldest standing elevator on it's original site. That same evening

artist Barbara Muir left me a comment,

saying that she had heard sad news

of a fire that destroyed one of the old wooden elevators.

Tragically, it was the Fleming elevator.

The residents of Fleming had been working

to restore their historic elevator

and were nearly finished the restoration.

My heart goes out to the people of Fleming

on their devastating loss.

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"Mighty Memory"

oil on canvas

20 x 10

Bikes and Blossoms SOLD

Bicycle rides and cherry blossoms

say that spring

is here!

(Even though, earlier this week, there were snow flakes falling

while the pink petals from the plum tree blossoms

were floating to the ground.)

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"Bikes and blossoms", 12 x 12, oil on canvas, ©Linny D. Vine SOLD

Private Collection 
Grande Prairie, AB Canada

Springtime in the Harbour SOLD

It was fun to paint this one at the same time as

the city's landscape turns to pink.

Springtime in Victoria is pink blossomtime!

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"Springtime in the Harbour"

acrylic on canvas

16 x 20

SOLD

Island Memory SOLD

This is another "warm memories of

a visit to Salt Spring Island" painting.

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"Island Memory"

oil on canvas

24 x 24
SOLD

Private Collection
Maple Bay BC Canada

Sunny Day- Botanical Beach Bay

This one is a plein air from yesterday's

adventure to Botanical Beach Park.

It was a gorgeous day of

warm sunshine and fresh ocean air!

On the drive home, just when I thought

the day couldn't possibly get any more glorious

and even before I'd seen the brilliant orange sunset,

I had the good fortune

to see a Northern Pygmy - Owl.

(Seeing a Pygmy - Owl and seeing a movie in 3 - D

are two things that I have experienced

this month that have long been on my

large list of things that I have my heart set on

experiencing in this life time

- I'm having a good month and a good life!)

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"Sunny Day - Botanical Beach Bay"

oil on wood panel

(plein air)

12 x 9

Chinatown Pine SOLD

Sun Neen Fai Lok! /Happy New Year!

The year of the tiger starts today and Victoria's Chinatown

is decorated in preparation for the

new lunar year celebrations.

All along the streets there are large red lanterns

strung high above the cherry and pine trees.

The color red represents happiness and good luck

and the pine tree represents longevity and endurance.

Having a pine tree on your property

is said to bring good fortune,

(and, according to Linny lore, a painting of one will as well!)

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"Chinatown Pine"

oil on canvas

20 x 10

SOLD

Big Red

For Valentine's Day

weekend it's "Big Red"!

"Big Red"was inspired by Bill

and a prairie giant in

Beatty, Saskatchewan.

(According to the 2001 census

Beatty's population totals 61.)

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"Big Red"

oil on canvas

20 x 10

A big thank-you to Bill!

And, wishes of happy hearts for all!