Miniatures: Chipmunk
AS CHILDREN we always gravitated towards Chipmunks, squatting in total stillness with extended hands, hoping one would overcome its natural wariness and take the peanut being offered. The...
View ArticlePainting progression 1. . . ‘Cows’
THE DEWDROP VALLEY is a local site and part of a much larger area near Tranquille River and the Tranquille River Gorge. In essence, the Dewdrop is really rocky, hilly, grass-and-tree- covered pasture...
View Articlepainting progression . . . 2 “Cows”
THE PAPER IN USE HERE is a very smooth-surfaced one called Hot Press (140 lb.) by the French Company, Arches (a very old watercolour paper maker). Hot Press paper has virtually no surface texture at...
View Articlepainting progression 3 . . . . “Cows”
THE SUBJECT MATTER comes from this photo, very quickly taken when we’d stopped the car on the dirt road running through The Dewdrop Valley (just outside the city limits of Kamloops) after I’d yelled,...
View Articlepainting progression 4 . . . “Cows”
THESE ARE BEEF COWS, Herefords, the breed most favoured by ranchers in our region. Their origins descend from small red cattle introduced by The Romans in ancient Britain, along with breeds from old...
View ArticleFinished work….”Logged-In”
“Logged-In”, 25.5 cm x 35.5 cm (10″ x 14″), Watercolour on Arches 140 lb Hot Press paper, (donated to Kamloops Art Gallery Annual Art Auction)Filed under: animals, art, Art Show, cows, flowers,...
View ArticleACEOs (Art Card Editions and Originals)
ARTIST TRADING CARDS aka ART CARD EDITIONS AND ORIGINALS are popularly known as ACEOs. ACEOs are the size of baseball cards–65mm x 89mm (2.5″ x 3.5″) and are purchased and then traded and sold the way...
View Articlewee glimpses
PAINTING OUTDOORS has a way of getting a person to make judgment calls quickly, and in our area it is quite simply the heat of the day. KAMLOOPS, B.C., IS UNIQUE IN THAT its mountainous hillsides are...
View Articletranquille creek gorge
ANCIENT FLOWS OF LAVA have left our regional landscape (Kamloops, B. C.) with dramatic canyons, a single lane dirt road skirting the edges. ‘Tranquille Creek Gorge’, watercolour 23cm x 41cm (9″x16″)...
View Articleit’s not easy being….
The beauty of people is that though 99.9% the same, we all know it only takes going to, say, The Iowa State Fair, to discover we’re probably not. All you have to do is stand aside (wondering what on...
View Articlehot
This has been one. hot. summer. Right now smoke from fires burning on the Washington State/Canada border is blowing up our way due to Southwest winds. It’s an acrid, doused campfire smell and hazy...
View ArticleRock and Sky
We live in a very rocky place. Our house is situated just below a mountain ridge that is home to native varieties of cactus, sagebrush, tumbleweed, and the domain of Chukar Partridges, mule deer,...
View ArticleMidnight snack
My first real encounter with an owl took place in the middle of Toronto in the 1970s. It was a normal mid-summer night and I was at an inner city, tree-lined neighbourhood intersection, when...
View ArticleGrass-fed and rather contented….
Although centrally located–and well within the city limits of Kamloops (pop: 97,000), British Columbia, Canada–we nonetheless hear cows bellowing distantly from the mountain range across the way from...
View ArticleSeriously Shirley
‘Shirley Poppies’watercolour 5″ x 7″ on Bockingford Paperby Lance WeisserSOLD “Surely you can’t be serious.” “I am serious — and don’t call me Shirley.” [movie: ‘Airplane’ with Leslie Nielsen]...
View ArticleConjuring Up Wales
How does it go again? Oh yes….I never saw a Moor —I never saw the Sea —Yet know I how the Heather looksAnd what a Billow be. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) I’ve not travelled a great deal. My idea of an...
View ArticleCloud study
The problem is, clouds can look terribly dark, yet the prevailing wisdom by learned painters is the caution that regardless of how dark the sky might appear, it is the lightest component of any...
View ArticleThe Returning of Hot Days
I live with my husband, Raul, on a residential street that backs onto a mountain ridge which eventually meets up with the Lac du Bois Grasslands protected area . About half of our backyard is the sage...
View ArticleWhen it’s all about sky….
Lately here in Kamloops, British Columbia, we’ve been treated to cloud Cirque du Soleil. Each time I step out on our deck, there’s another stunning performance in progress: As a student of...
View ArticleSummer’s Zenith
We’ve been sizzling here in British Columbia’s Southern Interior. For the past two weeks, it has been very hot and very dry. This is when all the dirt bikes get loaded on the back of country...
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