100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #90

 Rose Creek, Anvil Range, Faro Yukon

6"x8", Acrylic

Photo Credit: Nina Toeller

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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures"

Henry Ward Beecher

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #89

Evening Pond on the Mitchell Road

5"x5", Acrylic
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"Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is."

Amy Carmichael

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #88

"Keno Hill, Yukon"

6"x8", Acrylic

Time for a summer scene.  Lots of green and arctic cotton.

Photo Credit:  Nina Toeller

“You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.”

 “Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.” 

― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #87

"Winter-Pond at Magundy"

6"x6", Acrylic

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
~ Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180)


100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #86

"Impression:  Winter Sunset"

5"x5", Acrylic
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I felt like painting from my imagination just letting the image and colour 

take shape on the  canvas - this makes it easy for me.  

My family and I had a big Christmas dinner and I went for a walk with my husband afterwards to clear my head.  It is a beautiful winter evening here in the Yukon.

The walk did me good as I ate so much today - so grateful for the good life!

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

~Henry David Thoreau

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #85

Sunset on the Pelly River

6"x6", Acrylic
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"The world in solemn stillness lay"

Edmund Sears

Wishing you all a peaceful and joyful  Christmas 

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #84

"Lapie Lakes , the South Canol"

6"x8", Acrylic
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"If my heart can become pure and simple,

like that of a child, I think there probably

can be no greater happiness than this."

- Kitaro Nishida

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #83

"My Front Yard at Magundy"
6"x8", Mixed Media
(Gouache)
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty, if only we have the eyes to see them.


John Ruskin 1819-1900


Note:  for those of you who don't know where I live.  We have an acreage on the Magundy River which runs out of the Pelly Mountains off the South Canol and meanders along for many miles  and makes its way to Little Salmon Lake.  Our house is built 60 metres from the Magundy River on 8 acres of land in the forest. Our lane is about a km long and is off the Robert Campbell Highway about 30 Km from Faro. I have often said that I could spend rest of my life painting around where I live and never run out of inspiration 

Post & Beam, Piece on Piece (Squared Log Home)

My husband built 

The Country behind our Place 

We were on a two day hike when this photo was taken

The Magundy River out our front door

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #82

"Dancing with the Moon"

5"x5", Acrylic
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 It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.
From The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to his Brother, 
1872-1886 

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #81

" Cliffs and Pond Near Magundy"

5"x7", Mixed Media

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I spent from 12:30 to 8:30 tonight ( with a break for dinner) at the Local Recreation Centre with the youth of Faro making watercolour Christmas Cards.  I love watching children paint.  They are very spontaneous and don't think about making mistakes. It was amazing all the different cards they made.  We used transparent yellow, rose, and pthalo blue and had angels and reindeer and  Spruce trees.   We sprinkled salt on the wet paint to make snow and stars

I loved working with the watercolour again.  I was exclusively a watercolourist for years.

There is watercolour in the above painting and it didn't take very long.  Needless to say it has been a very long day!

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a
sphere of activity in which we are
permitted to remain children
all our lives."
- Albert Einstein
~

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #80

"Pond Reflections at Magundy"

5"x7", Acrylic

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."

Marc Chagall

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #79

"Lower Blind Creek Road, Faro Yukon"

6"x8", Acrylic
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If you drive down the Blind Creek Road you come to a steep section where it drops off on the one side and the sandstone cliffs are on your other side.  I think this is a really lovely spot.  The moose like it too!

"Nature is the art of God eternal
"

Dante 1265-1321

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #78

"Sunset at Blink Creek"

6"x8", Acrylic

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I have done this scene in watercolour - this is a first in acrylic.

I have been very busy with the Christmas season upon us - I never thought of Christmas when I planned this project.  If I start one next fall I will start in September!!

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #77

"Pond at Magundy from the lane"

6"x8", Acrylic
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"Winter is on my mind
 but eternal spring is in my heart.
"

Victor Hugo 1802-1885

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #76

"Magundy Valley looking to Atherton"

4"x4", acrylic

"The forces of nature are huge, and we are tiny, and in the mountains it's easier to remember this.... I live in, or rather below, the mountains for two basic reasons: because I think the mountains are one of the last huge and wild and magnificent things we have left in this country, one of the last few things we have not yet, in places, grasped and squeezed and sculpted into some unrecognizable, and diminished, shape - a landscape, therefore, in which possibility still exists."

- Rick Bass, Why I Came West

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #75

"Evening Approaches on the Magundy"

4"x4", Acrylic
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Ice and water, again.  I really like the play of these two elements in a painting.  

It is hard to be objective with your own work but I think my brush work has loosened up since I started this 100 paintings in 100 days.  My work is not as controlled.

I am three quarters of the way done.  Wow!  I don't know what it  will feel like when I am finished.  I know that I will start another project but not sure what yet.  I have a show in March at Yukon Artists at Work so I will begin preparing for this.

"What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."
~Gerard Hopkins

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #74

"Sunset At Fox Lake"

6"x6", Acrylic
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"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty, if only we have the eyes to see them."
John Muir

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100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #73

"Pelly Mountains from Blind Creek Trail "

6"x6", Acrylic

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Last fall, my friend Yasmine and I went for a hike along a beautiful ridge not far from their Farm.  I love the way the aspens grow stunted and twisted along the side of cliffs.  We could see the valley all along the trail this was in late September.

"Nature has given to every time, place and season, splendours of its own."
Unknown

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #72

"Pond on Mitchell Road #3"

6"x8", Oil Pastel
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This is my second day in Whitehorse and I have brought some supplies with me from Faro so I could complete my painting today.  I Christmas shopped all day and went out to dinner and came back to the hotel and launched in.  I am really tired. I asked my son what he thought - he's seen better.  I have to agree, I guess they all can't be masterpieces.

Good Night!

100 PAINTINGS IN 100 DAYS #71

"Ketza River Valley #2"

6"x6", Acrylic

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Some of you may recognize this place from a few days ago.  I did an oil pastel of the same place.  I wanted to try the same scene in acrylic.  I am not sure which one I like. I find the pastel was much softer.

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

                    

                   Samuel Johnson