Deck View

 It is quite amazing what light will do. The photo on the left was taken indoors with the lights on, the one below was taken outside, even though the sun was being filtered through smokey skies from the province's forest fires.

I started drawing this out on location but the light was so dull it was quite uninteresting. This is the view of Mara Lake from Hyde Mountain Golf Course in Sicamous, B.C. This is one of my favourite views to paint en plein air.

The finished painting at the bottom can be viewed at Gallery One-Fifty in Sicamous B.C. until Sept 15.

"Deck View"

28" x 32" Oil on wood panel, framed

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Your Art Show Invitation

I am sooooooo excited to have this art show with two other painters that I started my art journey with, Debbie Adams and Linda Clowes. We have been each other's cheer leaders and critics over our journey so far. All three of us have been juried into The Federation of Canadian Artists as well as The Calgary Sketch Club. A lot of growth and frustration in our art journey and lives have been shared.

Allison Keating and Joan Keating are also two long time friends who do beautiful pottery and will have their unique pieces for sale.

Please join us in celebrating our art and each other.

Sketch Stalking

I have attended "Music In The Park" in Sicamous, B.C. and "WOW - Wednesday On (the) Wharf" in Salmon Arm B.C.This is a free weekly live  music family event that I bring a sketch book to and try to sketch the moving people (also known as Urban Sketching). My sister Shannon coined it "Sketch Stalking". Sometimes I have other sketchers with me like my sister-in-law Marg. We try and sketch discreetly so we don't get to many onlookers, interests and questions. These are not portraits but as much as we can get while they are still.

The lady on the right in the family photo had come up behind me during the musician's break and said "Looks like you are sketching my family", I was pleased they were recognizable as humans never mind her family. Her grand-kids came over and pointed out themselves and who I had not drawn yet. I only had time and energy to sketch the Dad and then closed up my book. I had also done a couple of pages of partial people as they moved or left.

Worth The Hike

This was a fun painting to do with our beautiful Rocky Mountain range in the background. This was painted in acrylic and I really had fun with the colours in every part of this painting.

This painting was sold in Gallery 150 in Sicamous, B.C.


"Worth The Hike"
SOLD

Walking In Peace

"Walking In Peace"

9" x 10" Pastel on paper

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I painted this with pastels for the 30th Annual Ribbon Fair at the Armstrong Spallumcheen Art Gallery.

 I was pleased with a second place ribbon in the pastel category. This is the first year I was able to enter one painting in each of the categories and will try to do it again next year. It is an interesting goal as I do not normally paint or draw in all the categories.

Golfers Haven

 This is one of my favourite views at Hyde Mountain Golf Course in Sicamous B.C. It has been so hot that I wanted to get out and paint before the heat of the day. I was set up by 6:45a.m. and happily painted. The sky was pink and hazy from forest fires around the province. I had to quit as the pink had disappeared and all the colours were changing especially in the shadows. Loved the happy sounds of the golfers getting ready for their tee off time.

"Golfers Haven"

8" x 10" En plein air oil painting

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