Farm Yard I

After having breakfast we are leaving Nippigon and heading to Winnipeg where where we will drop the load and pick up another one heading into the USA either to Minnesota or Wisconsin.

On the outskirts of Winnipeg my camera died. I really cannot blame it for giving up the ghost as it had taken over 25,000 photographs at that point. After dropping the load we went out to get some lunch and then Ron bought me a new camera.













He slept in the bunk while I worked on this drawing of one of the local farms that I had sketched during the summer. I will erase the pencil lines once the ink is totally dry.

Farm Yard I is an original 6" x 9” pen and ink drawing which when framed will be available for $165.00.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.

Contrast I

We left North Bay early in the morning and are headed on our way to Nippigon. With being in the truck it gives and entirely different perspective of the road.

You are so far above the level of the cars you can see the traffic well ahead of you.

I have been taking a lot of pictures along the way. The colour hasn't changed much up here but we are getting a few snow flurries and rain mixed with snow.

While Ron was fueling up I inked in this sketch I had started when we were in Cuba. The only thing I have to do to finish it is to remove my notes for when I will do this one as a painting. I will do that the next time we stop.

Contrast I is an original 8-1/2" x 9-1/2” pen and ink drawing which when framed will be available for $165.00.

Caribbean Evening

It is September and the leaves are slowly starting to change and it won't be long before there will be snow on the ground.

I cannot help but think of the Caribbean and the warm weather that is fairly normal down there.

This is a scene I would often see in the evening from our balcony window. The palm trees silhouetted against the twilight, with the sea breeze causing them to sway and rustle softly.

I completed this original 10-3/4" x 13-1/2" watercolour painting today while with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painting Group. When it is framed it will be available for $345.00.

Now I am getting a couple of sketch books together to take with me tonight when I go with Ron in the truck to Winnipeg for a couple of days.

OSWOA - Little Brown Mushrooms

This is a painting I started at the Peterborough Riverview Park and Zoo, as part of the 9th Annual Worldwide Artist Paint Out, sponsored by IPAPO.

Today I finished the painting by putting the grasses around the mushrooms and decided that it didn't need to have a background added.

I think at a later time I would like to do a series of the different types of mushrooms, perhaps next year.

If you would like more information about OSWOA please go to my post on 12 March 2010.

The OSWOA shown here are is an original watercolour painting using Artist quality Windsor & Newton paint on 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $30.00 and sold unframed.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and look at the artwork. I hope you will return often.

ACEO - Autumn Colours 4-6

Summer is drawing to a close and the yellow school buses are on the roads once more taking the children to school.

The swallows and hummingbirds will soon be gone on their long journey south; and I can hear the flocks of geese calling to each as they fly across the sky in their V formation. It is time for me to start putting the feeders back out again for the many birds that spend the harsh winter here in Canada.


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The squirrels are busy hiding, chestnuts, walnuts and acorns for use later in the winter. But I also know they will be regular visitors to the feeders as well when the snow gets deep and food is scarce.

The temperatures are dropping at night and there is a hint of frost in the air in the mornings and the days are warm but without the humidity; good weather for working outside.

With the cooler temperatures the leaves are starting to change from their summer greens into the bright and beautiful warm autumn colours of yellow, red and orange.

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With all of the changes that are happening it is a small wonder why this is my favourite time of the year.

If you would like more information about ACEO please go to my post on 11 March 2010.

The ACEO shown here are all original watercolour paintings using Artist quality Windsor & Newton paint on either 140lb. or 300lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. They are priced at $20.00 each and sold unframed.

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Autumn Sky

I started this painting last year (see posting 10 Aug 10)and left it to decide what it needed.

While I was at the Peterborough Riverview Park and Zoo, as a part of the 9th Annual Worldwide Artist Paint Out, put on by the International Plein Air Painters Organization I added a few leaves to the bare branches to give it a little colour and movement.

This is an original 4" x 7-1/4” matted and shrink wrapped watercolour and is available for $65.00.

Calm Water - Revisited

Today I was picking out mats for a number of paintings that are finished and need to be framed.

After looking at this one for a while I felt that it still looked as though the main island was too much like a triangle in shape and needed something more (see my postings on 12 August 2010 and 02 November 2010).














I will frame it at a later date and now I have to go and set up the new show at KAGS called Changes.

I would like to thank new collector Ms. Teenie Gibson of Bobcaygeon, Ontario on her purchase of Water Jug I.