"After Dinner"

A make believe back alley somewhere i might want to live. 

Kids play outside! Imagine that? 

Watercolour, 18 X 22. 

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"Polly's Dairy"

Polly's Dairy is a wee watercolour sketch.

It is approximately 8 X 11. 

The sketches such as this will often end up as larger pieces 

in one form or another. A summer version would be fun as well. 

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"Coffee Cove"

Watercolour, 22" X 22" on paper. 

Another in a series. 

Love to work the colours in these. 

Hope to get another license for a puzzle. 

Will most likely re-do them all as a winter scene. 

Add some hockey players and skaters. 

Fun to be an artist i think. :)

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"Cottage Country"

"Cottage Country". A wee watercolour 14 X 21. 

This is based on what i think an ideal place would be to enjoy winter and summer. 

Our house is the tall thin yellow one way off yonder. 

There's a pond out back with ducks. Must paint that some day. 

I'm sending this off to Ravensburger and see what they say.

 Got my fingers crossed. :)
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"The Family"

We know a little girl who is fighting a serious illness but is surrounded by her family and friends enveloped in their love. 

Their faith is seeing them through as they rest in God for strength. 

When families stand together, no matter what, miracles are apt to happen, 

like cows jumping over the moon. 

Watercolour on Arches CP paper. 5" X 7" .
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"Blu Street"

This is a commission piece for a young lady who wanted one similar

a while back. Sadly, her husband would not let her have it.
 A short while later she got rid of the husband

and now has a painting! :)
Husband was gone probably not because of the painting
but it's fun for me to think so.
It has been a long while
since i painted watercolours and a village.
I was very happy to do this. They are such fun.  

Watercolour on Arches 300 lb. cold pressed paper. 16" X 22" 

"Hockey Night in Canada"

I forgot to take a picture of this without frame. It works so much better when i do. 

This is one of my entries in the "Oh Canada" show this weekend at the 

Ruberto Ostberg, Galleries in Calgary. 

It is what i feel represents Canada and that is a good old fashioned street 

hockey game on your typical street anywhere in rural Canada. 

This scene is based on "Victoria Street" in Nelson B.C. 

I love to do the villages and will often rely on my sketchbook 

for inspiration. Sometimes summers are spent wandering and sketching. 

This is watercolour on my Arches paper. 

"Barnumtown"

This was another re-do of an older painting i had laying around. I'm finding that by re-doing these pieces it is showing me that often there is so much more that can be done and perhaps i am hanging incomplete paintings. I was at a workshop on the weekend with Brent Laycock and a fellow student asked him, "when do you know that a piece is finished?". He said, "when i cannot do anymore to it.". Also by doing this i realized a lot of the paintings i had done did not have enough dark value in them and tended to be in a safe zone of mostly middles. There needs to be contrast and the tension created between the darks and the lights can be dramatic. As in life, we do need those shadows don't we?
I'm excited to put to use these new understandings and look forward to the next discovery.
This is watercolor on Arches 300 lb. cold pressed paper approximately 8" X 22".

"My Town"

The beginning's of a whimsical take on my town, Calgary. Some of the recognizable places are evident like the "Saddledome", "Bow Tower", and "Calgary Tower". The houses in the middle ground represent inner city communities of Sunnyside and Hillhurst. These i plan on doing brightly colored and fun. The city buildings will mostly be grays, blues, purples outlined in white and a sky filled with dancing images and stars. Not too sure what to do with the foreground yet and have to be careful. A painting like this can become too busy in short order. The rows of houses will be the focal point of it all. These are fun to do and i have hopes of doing a series based on local, familiar areas. We shall see. I get sidetracked so easily. Sigh! Hope all are having a great day with new paintings all around. God bless, and Happy New Year.

"Montague"

This time i think i would live in the little purple house down the path on the right. It would be closer to the dock and i could get onto my boat anytime and sail away. But then maybe one would not want to sail away if living in Montague? I tried something a little different on the foreground with the squares of color. Kind of like pointalism but on a larger scale. It made for a very interesting texture and pattern.