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8″X6″ Oil on board I have painted so many gloomy winter days recently, so when I woke up to brilliant sunshine and a fresh dusting of powdery snow, I thought I should redress the balance. Shortly after we moved into this house I painted this same view in summer. It was a different colour [...] 7″X5″ Oil on panel It doesn’t look much like a golf course right now. The bunker-like building in the distance is Fort Mississauga, an interesting old brick building that I really must try to paint sometime. This is the first time I have painted in oils since before Christmas I think, whenever it [...] 5″X7″ Marker on paper The weather is about as vile as it gets. Hovering close to freezing with alternate snow and rain, turning the roads into slush and then ice, and back to slush again. Walking wasn’t much fun either when I went out for this one. [...] 7″X5″ Mixed media on paper I did several things here that I don’t usually do. I combined watercolour and acrylic ink, using the white acrylic ink for the snow on the trees. I used a hairdryer to speed drying between washes, and I used salt for the snow effect. I have actually painted this [...] 9″X7″ Oil on board A new, slightly larger, format in honour of the fact that I have a little more time. Having been living in a winter wonderland for that last couple of weeks, it rained on Christmas Day and the temperature is still above freezing. [...] 7″X5″ Oil on board Another feeble attempt to capture that magical light that we get so often in the early morning and late afternoon in the winter. The sky to the North is almost black, pregnant with snow, but the sun slants in underneath and briefly bathes everything in a golden glow. Here [...] 8″X10″ Watercolour on paper I was determined to paint outside today, rain was forecast for later in the day, so how cold could it be? I went down to the lake, only to discover that whatever precipitation that pregnant sky was about to unleash, it wasn’t going to be rain. It must have been [...] 7″X5″ Graphitint on paper I have to confess to suffering snow-blower envy from time to time. Yesterday morning, after spending one and a half hours digging out, might have been one of those times. The temperature was 3C this evening but is forecast to go back down to -4C tonight with another storm on [...] 7″X5″ Graphitint on paper It’s the boys’ birthday today, 17 years old. Why is March always so miserable? We had another storm last night, it dumped another 15 cm (6 ins) of wet heavy snow. It took us nearly an hour and a half to dig out. Only the main streets have been ploughed [...] 7″X 5″ Graphitint on paper This is between my back door and my car. I walk past it several times a day. I am awfully tired of the ice and cold, I am really looking forward to some Spring-themed pictures. Rehearsals started at the theatre this week, always an early sign of Spring. Today [...] |
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