"THIS IS MY COUNTRY. WHAT I WANT TO EXPRESS IS HERE AND I LOVE IT. AMEN" - EMILY CARR (MAY 1934)

Thursday 14 July 2011

REGARDING BETTER LEFT ALONE

This is the first "finished product" but I was not satisfied.

 Title:  Impression:  Dragon Lake, Yukon
Medium:  Mixed Media (Acrylic and oil pastel)
Size 3ftx4ft
Sold

This was the finished product - the warping has diminished somewhat and 
I had some indentations which showed up like the canvas was stamped 
but another Faro artist suggested that I take a cloth with water and 
see if I could get the marks out and this worked beautifully!
So here is the painting and I thought it was ready for the dumpster.
I hung it today in the Anvil Range Art Society's  Gallery and Gift
Shop right here in Faro.

Tuesday 12 July 2011

MORE SMALL WORKS


All paintings are 4"x6"
They frame to a 5x7 and the medium is Watercolour, watercolour pencil, india ink and some oil pastel 


(sold)







                                 
(sold)

Monday 11 July 2011

BOLETUS, HYDNUM IMBRICATUM AND OTHERS

Title:  Yukon Mushrooms 
Medium:  Watercolour
Size: 9x12

I really enjoy mushroom hunting and they are popping up everywhere.
The hydnums are really nice to look at but they are not edible. Squirrels 
love to eat them tho. I like to eat the boletus 
and the red caps and of course morels.  I had a discussion today about 
very large mushrooms that are edible. They sound like a portobello 
mushrooms but I have no idea if we have them in the Yukon.

Thursday 7 July 2011

BETTER LEFT AL0NE


Title:  Dragon Lake
Medium:  Acrylic
Size 3ftx4ft

Well this painting no longer exists.  It became another painting 
because I  added to it and it became a new painting. I was looking 
through my photos and came across it and it caused me to pause
because I actually like it just like this and wonder why I 
felt a need to change it.  
That's life, I guess sometimes I can keep working on 
a piece when really I should have just left it the way it was.
The revised painting is in an earlier posting and it has never been 
hung anywhere because the canvas warped and I need to fix this:
I'm not sure how so it sits in my basement.

Wednesday 6 July 2011

ART CARDS



In the last year of have started making Art Cards. I really enjoy making these.
Here are a few samples