First New painting

This the first painting this year as I have been busy illustrating a children’s book for #Railfencebooks.  This is my fifth sojourn in doing illustrations called the Railfence Bunch series. This painting is a larger version of one I did a while back.  If you go back far enough on this blog you may find […]

Square foot painting # 50

Beaver Valley Barn looking north Acrylic on gallery style canvas. The fall colours this year have been amazing and trying to capture them has been a challenge. It almost looks too over the top with the reds of the maple trees and  yellows of the poplar and birch trees.

Another new Painting

Cedar Shore  8×10 acrylic on a gallery style board.  This is from a photo I took a couple of years back although I have painted this before, I do like to paint certain images more than once.

New painting

Swampy Shore  8×10 acrylic on a gallery style canvas  I was paddling around a small lake and came across this very wet shoreline and  I loved the submerged trees showing under the water and it was a challenge for me to get it right but I think I  have succeeded

A cold April in North country

We have had a cold April this year about three weeks ago I do a little walk arround our property as I passed by our pond there was these bull rushes in ice with a snow build up around their base. I loved the way the ice, snow and the bull rushes worked together to […]

New Painting for winter

It’s been a while since my last post I have been busy illustrating my third children’s book and  have just sent it on to the author. so it back to painting. We still have winter up in this neck of the woods with below normal temperatures and lots of snow. This painting was done form […]

Country Road In The Fall

I love this time of year where we live, the colours in the fall along with great skies make this a great time for paintings unfortunately the colourful leaves do not last long especially after a strong wind .  At this time in Nov. all the leaves are off the trees. This is a 16×20 […]

8×8 acrylics

This painting is showing the fall colours  of the maples along with some elm trees that ave died. maples thrive here but the elms are struggling. This painting is 8×8 acrylic on board called Elms and Maples

8×8 Acrylics

This painting is in the field across the road from me and again I liked the contrast of sky and fall colours.

8×8 acrylics

This time of year we get all kinds of crazy weather. this painting is called Snow Storm Passing By.  A light dusting of snow fell and as the storm passed the sunlight was a sharp contrast to the dark clouds.  These are acrylic on 8×8 board.