Forest Trail I

Today I have been working on a number of pen and ink drawings, many of which will end up has future paintings.

I finished this one of two riders enjoying an afternoon ride through the York Region Forest, better known as the Vivian Forest.

It is an extensive stand of hard and softwood trees covering many acres (hectares) of land on the Oak Ridges Moraine in northern Whitchurch-Stouffville.

It is located between Highway 48 to the east, Vandorf Side Road to the south, Warden Avenue to the west and Davis Drive to the north.

This original 4" x 6" pen and ink drawing will be available framed for $125.00.

Sable Island Wreck I

Yesterday I was at a workshop with Frances Ferdinands and this is one of two mixed media collages featuring wrecks I did using gel media and acrylic paint.

This 8" x 10" mixed media painting is of a wreck on Sable Island, which when framed will be available for $150.00. SOLD

Solo

Today I am going to the Golden Acrylic mixed media workshop with Frances Ferdinands at KAGS.

It should be an interesting class since we will be creating four art pieces using a variety of gel and paste media during the course of the day.

What I am most interested in is doing the image transfers into a gel skin along with a variety of collage techniques.

Solo is an original 9" x 12" framed watercolour available for $180.00.

Stillness

Today is going to be a very busy day for me.

First I will have to take the all six barn cats to the veterinarian to be spayed or neutered.

Then after dropping them off I will go to KAGS for the Still Life class where we will be doing a painting of clay pots.

After that it is off to lunch with my friend Joanne, before returning to KAGS to sit the art show there as well as having a meeting with the Group who will be showing in Algonquin Park later this year.

After I close the Gallery for the day I will go and pick up my cats and take them home and get them settled in for the night before heading back into Peterborough and have supper with my daughter and bring her dog home with me for the weekend.

Stillness is an original 5" x 7" watercolour painting which when framed will be available for $85.00.

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

Skiing

After the one day of nice, warm, sunny weather it is back to being cold again 26F (-3C).

With wintry temperatures back I thought a snow scene with skiers would be fitting.

 Skiing is an original 5" x 7" framed watercolour and is available for $85.00.

Shelter I

The land is often hilly in the Peterborough area and many times while driving past the farms all you will be able to see is a roof top or only small sections of the barns.












In fact in between the hills you can miss seeing an entire herd of horses or cattle.

This original 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" pen and ink when framed will be available for $125.00.

Ploughed Fields II

On a number of the local farms the tractors have been out and busy preparing the soil for the coming planting season.

The land looks like a patchwork quilt with square areas of rich, dark, freshly turned earth.











Other fields starting to show the bright green of new crops of winter wheat sewn last fall and the pastures and hay fields display a mixture of green and gold as the grasses push up through the soil coming back to life after a long dormant winter.

This original 3-1/4" x 5-1/4" pen and ink when framed will be available for $125.00.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.