On Loon Lane

This oil painting was done from a photo  that was taken when we painted on Loon Lane during the summer months. This was one location that I was looking forward to since the year before I had been delighted with the lane way and various rustic sheds and buildings. I set up to paint during the summer paint out in this spot. I was excited by the Lane, those buildings, and the sunlight. My notan was looking very good and I was looking forward to the actual painting. Things did not turn out as I had planned. The nearly finished painting was scraped off. What a wet, uninspired mess it was. Now the end of November and I thought I was ready to attack the scene again. This is the result. I am very pleased with the painting, the second time around.

                              

Pansies

One of the things I have always enjoyed sketching or painting is flowers. My favourite of all those flowers is pansies.  As a change from painting landscapes or doing collage I always return to pansies; to this lovely little flower with its delicate, colorful petals and wonderful, unique centre. Here are some yellow pansies on an 11x14 board.

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Beside the Lake

This painting has the same feel as the previous  one of a cabin beside a stream. It looks like a wonderful place to stay, curl up beside the fireplace or sit and look at the lake. I wonder if it's the time of year that I feel like coccooning in a cabin in the woods? Winter is coming and the leaves are nearly all down after a hard frost last night. Time to light the fire. 

This is an oil painting and it was done on a 11x14 board. 

                                       

Daisies

As fall closes in, and winter approaches, the opportunities to paint outside are few and far between. For a change from oils, I have done another collage, this one of daisies. it's made from magazines, computer paper, tissue paper, 3D paint and a very good slathering of Gloss Medium and Varnish. What fun this was, varnish and bits of paper all over the place and the sound of tearing paper. Cruising Oldies from the Fifties filled the background with music and I sang along as the picture developed. It is on a 16x20 canvas and  I hope you enjoy it.

                        

Pines by Bartlett Lodge

Last summer we stayed at Bartlett Lodge in Algonquin Park for a few days. What a wonderful, relaxing way to get back to nature. Your own cabin and canoe in the woods surrounded by pines, chipmunks and loons. When you also have three meals a day in the dining room, what could be better. The painting was from a photo taken from the launch as it took us to the island where the Lodge is located.

It is an oil painting on a 16x20 canvas.