Winter Playground

When my daughter, Christine was very young her best friend was one of my neighbour's children Tim Dunford.

He was always very patient and looked after her much like an older brother would take care of a baby sister.

This painting is a result of some of those memories of them tobogganing down the big front hill, and I will at a later date paint some of them when she was learning how to skate, and them going trick or treating in their costumes.

Thank you to returning collectors the English Catholic School Association, (Mr. Joseph DiProfio) of North Bay, Ontario on their purchase of this painting.

Daffodils - A Work in Progress

This is a small 4" x 6" painting that I worked on with live flowers.

The only drawback to this is that as the day progresses the flowers open more and change slightly.

With the one daffodil almost completely finished I decided to add a dark background in behind it to see how it would look.

I will post this once I have completed more on the painting.

Summer Afternoon

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

This is a scene that we often see when we are out on the lakes. The beautiful pink granite rocks reflected back into the water near the calm shoreline on a hot summer afternoon.

This original 9" x 12” framed, watercolour was donated to the Trent University, Teacher’s Trust Fund.

Philrick Star

Philrick Star was a Standardbred mare by the grey stallion Futurity Chief out of Star Adios C, an Adios granddaughter. She was never raced, but did compete in western pleasure, trail and reining classes.

As a broodmare produced two colts, Star Holder by Title Holder who raced as a 3 year old and was later used as a field hunter.

Star Skipper by Kawartha Skipper who just before he was due to start his racing career as a 2 year old had an unfortunate accident which ended any chance of racing. When he recovered he became a favourite school horse at a summer camp.

This is an original 18" x 24” framed conte drawing and is available for $350.00.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and enjoy the artwork.

Spring Bouquet

This is an original 7-1/2" x 10-1/2” framed watercolour painting.

I remember when my daughter, Christine was little would go out into the fields and bring me a bouquet of the weeds and wild flowers she would find.

Thank you to Mrs. Marsha Rennie of Lakefield, Ontario on her selection of this painting for her art collection.

I am now going to head out to paint with the Outdoor Painters' Group.

Whispering Waters - A Work in Progress

This is another painting I started from Neil Broadfoot's workshop last year ( see postings on 20 September 2010, 04 October 2010 and 18 October 2010).











The sky, background trees and water has been completed. The masking tape has been removed from the foreground and a small amount of the water rushing over Burleigh Falls has been indicated.

I will post this painting again once it is completed.

Snowy Day

This morning I was at KAGS at the Life Drawing class and Katherine was back as our model. If you would like to view the sketches I did of her, please go to my Life Drawing Portfolio.

This is an original 5" x 7" framed watercolour.

Yesterday was very hot, hazy and humid; today is supposed to be more of the same. So to try and cool things down a little I thought a snow scene would be nice.

Thank you to returning collector Mrs. Betty Shewchuk of Bethany, Ontario on her purchase of this painting.