Ross River Youth Workshops, Recreation and ART

Classes are held at the Hope Centre in Ross River every 

Monday from 1-3Pm 

The course has been well-attended and  in the last couple of weeks we have made Butterfly/ Dragonfly Decoupage on Canvas with Acrylic and 

Watercolour Roses.  It has been wonderful working with the kids! 

This week's class will be art cards and stamping. 

Seniors Outdoor Painting Week 6

This week we decided to paint something with rocks. Our Landscape is of Lapie Canyon.  We were outside for this class and the bugs were fierce! This workshop has always been about getting out, being social and having fun and it has definitely been that.  I notice that the "regulars"  are becoming more comfortable with the acrylic medium.  Now they are starting to pick up on technique and composition, value and colour mixing.  We also gessoed our canvas with a warm orange tint so they could see how it adds to the painting.

Magundy River - Spring Break Up

Original Acrylic 

20x20

Ross River Art and Recreation Workshop

Our workshop today was attended by some elders and a grand daughter it was a very relaxed and fun time painting.  The subject for painting was a moose on a small canvas using acrylic paint.  We had a break with snack which was Carrot Cake and Fresh Fruit.

Class is held at the Hope Centre in Ross River.

Sample of their Artwork

Busy Painting!

Faro Seniors Outdoor Painting Week 5

This week we painted small Landscapes of the Yukon River on Canvas using acrylic paint.  We had started in painting on the Interpretive Centre Deck and the rain came.  We moved inside and the sun came out.  It was a great turn-out this week with 12 people attending and their paintings are shown below.  We have so much fun, about half way through we have our break where we do our stretches and some exercise followed by a healthy snack which was nachos, salsa, avocado,fruit and strawberry whipped cream cake.

Katy was not quite finished but we asked her to put it in anyway

Five Paintings for the Yukon Gov't

Original Acrylic on Canvas

5x7

Gifts for the Minister's Conference held on July 9,10,11

Fireweed in the Yukon

Original Acrylic on Canvas

5x7

Painted this little piece from imagination, a summer day in the Yukon.

Hiking from the Robert Campbell

Original Acrylic on Canvas

16x20 

Thomas Creek Valley View

This is across the road from where I live on the Magundy River 

on the Robert Campbell Highway.  I went for a hike early last fall with my friend Nina Toeller and my husband Jeff.  There were storm clouds in the distance and the quivering Aspen looked so lovely in contrast.

Yukon Artists At Work, Come to my Show Opening, Tomorrow 5Pm

I will be at the Gallery on Friday Evening at 5Pm 

for the opening.

Wine & Cheese 

Refreshments & Appetizers

For All 

Thumbnail: Yukon River Sunset

Commission YTG

5x7 Acrylic on Canvas

Yukon River Sunset

Solo Show Works ... Mood of the Yukon Landscape July 5th to 30th, 2013

Pond on the Mitchell Road

Faro Yukon

Original Acrylic 

16x20

Alpine Lake on the South Canol

Lapie Lakes

Original Acrylic on Canvas

8x10

This is my favourite Camping spot in the Yukon.  The drive along the South Canol Highway affords some of the most spectacular scenery of mountains, valleys and beautiful alpine lakes. I have fond memories of camping here with my children when they were younger.

Summer Fun! Workshop: Outdoor Painting for Seniors

This is turning into a really busy summer for me!  I am in the midst of running a 12 week Outdoor Painting for Seniors  program which is funded by Recreation and Parks Yukon.  

I am also running a program for youth in our neighbouring community of Ross River for 12 weeks. So once a week on Mondays and Wednesdays I am busy painting with these groups.  I have been preparing for a solo show in Whitehorse which opens on July 5th and runs until July 30th.  Plus painting commissions and keeping my galleries happy in Faro.  I don't have time to stop!  

The seniors  just completed week 4 and it was 32 degrees celsius outside during our last session -  the week that we painted the wild roses that are blooming all around the local interpretive centre where we sit outdoors.

Watercolour Demo:  Wild Roses

Some samples of their works! 

Wild Roses

Faro Peak from the Pelly

Midnight Sun, Yukon

Original Acrylic

5x7

The Dempster, Yukon

Original Acrylic

 of the Blackstone River

5x7

Making  5 more paintings for the Yukon Government.  Feeling the pressure, running two workshops a week, getting ready for my show in 13 days and doing some work for my local gallery.  Whew!  

I am so grateful 

Mixed Media with Watercolour - Anvil Range, Yukon

One  of the most beautiful places on earth.... the Yukon Wilderness.  I am so grateful that I live in such a beautiful landscape.  It really inspires me.   

This little work is a Mixed Media Painting. It has watercolour, graphite, ink, conte, and coloured pencil on 300 lbs Arches Rough Watercolour paper. I break all the rules with my watercolours. I work them and work them and then work them some more!  I remember reading about Rembrandt once and how he did his watercolours and sketches, I felt so grateful for reading this little commentary on him, I felt not so alone. He would grab whatever was close at hand and rub and scratch until he got the desired effect he was looking for. Yes!  I do the same. 

Original Mixed Media on Arches Paper (300 lbs)

Anvil Range, Yukon

Yukon Aspen Forest

Original Acrylic on Canvas

Yukon Aspen Forest

24x36

I completed this piece last week for my upcoming solo show in Whitehorse at Yukon Artists at Work from July 5th to 30th. 

Commission Completed for MInister's Conference YTG

All nine of them

I really enjoyed painting these

Yukon River Near Carmacks

The Yukon River near Carmacks

Original 5x7 Acrylic on Canvas

A Yukon Burn with Fireweed

Original Acrylic on Canvas

5x7

A typical Yukon burn will have the standing dead trees and the official flower for the Yukon will bloom year after year after the fire is long gone.  

This is a typical summer day with blue sky and wispy clouds and a profusion of flowers.  The Fox Lake Burn between Carmacks and Whitehorse is the subject of this painting.  

In 1998 there was a huge fire in the Braeburn and Fox Lake area.