Thursday, July 18, 2013

Repurposed Birdbaths

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My granddaughter Vicki has been here visiting since July 4. We decided to collect some garage sale stuff and repurpose it into birdbaths. ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Athabasca Falls (oil, 16"x20")

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Athabasca Falls, in Alberta's Jasper National Park , is stunning all the time. But when we visited in June last year it was thunderin...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Rocky Bloom (oil, 8"x10")

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On the rocks along Sheep River, near the falls, these tiny lavender flowers go about their blooming business as they are designed to do by...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Seriously Tiffany (oil, 8x10)

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Hopefully, some of you will recognize some of the features of my nieceTiffany Matson's in this painting. What a might struggle I'...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The challenges of painting figures

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This painting is my most successful one from the Zhaoming Wu workshop last week. Unfortunately, I failed to notice the looseness of the ...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Arts Without Borders Juried Show

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I've just delivered these three paintings to the Barr Colony Heritage Cultural Centre here in Lloydminster. They will be included i...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Zhaoming Wu Workshop

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Today was my first day at Zhaoming Wu's workshop hosted by FCA Calgary. Zhaoming painted for the morning and then coached us throughout...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Home Time (6"x6", oil)

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Just fun little sketch done on an overcast, gloomy spring day recently. I had fun starting this off completely abstract and then found t...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Floral sketch, watercolour WIP

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My mom and dad sent me a beautiful tulip bouquet for my birthday. They were mostly ruffled pink tulip variety and I took some photos of the...
Friday, May 10, 2013

By Any Other Name (oil on canvas, 6"x6")

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Funny story about this little painting: As usual, I handed over my iPad and asked Ron what he thought about this painting. He looked hard ...