#96 Sweet ‘n sour forest treats
“Huckleberries” | 11×11″ | 02/2021
#94 Checkers and stripes
Wish you were here.
#93 Lovers’ leap one year later
Hope is not lost. “Lovers’ leap” | 8×8″ | 03/2020
#88 Some yellow, some green, will set the scene
Watercolour painting of winter in my backyard
Woo-hoo! My 4 paintings just got approved by FCA 10-squared exhibit
Douglas Firconian, Eeuphoria Mtn Ashium, Velcrophorbia Plantarium and Dand Dillion Ranuncullium
#79 Saturday’s en-pleinair
With my very good friend, a watercolour painter like me, after a whole year later than planned, we finally got outside last Saturday to paint together. There were so many distractions, like beautiful birds, and driftwood and dogs, that we didn’t actually paint much. So when I got home to my orderly and functional studio…
#43 Beach Cornucopia.
MAR 2019: capture a wave.
#31 It’s your turn, tern.
JUN 2018: tho winter is so dark and grey, must get outside to play.
#30 There’s more than one way to…
MAY 2018: paint the same subject in a different way.
#29 Our last day at the beach.
SEP 2017: show the end of summer.
#25 Murder, she wrote.
Mission: create a feeling of tension and uncertainty.
#24 Saratoga morning mist.
Mission: create fog and mist with paint on paper.
#23 Lost again.
Mission: read the tides, currents, charts, shipping lanes and weather before heading out.
#22 Gowlland Harbour, Quadra.
Mission: show the close proximity of the islands on a clear day.
#21 Artist’s doldrums.
The blank sheet of watercolour paper is sometimes daunting. Or sometimes you are lost in the quagmire of self-doubt. Or whether there’s any point in painting another painting…
#20 Time for reflection.
Mission: raise two birdlings ‘Another Hard Days Night’ | 2017 | 6×6”
#19 Orange and black.
Mission: create with seasonal colours. ’Orange and Black’ | 2018 | 8×8”
#18 Gospel Rock.
Mission: prove the impossible. ‘Red cedar’ | 2017 | 9×12”
#17 Swamp or beach?
Mission: decide whether an estuary can be called a beach.
#16 The September Crowd.
Mission: Create a visual likeness of the movement of the wind blowing the beach grass.
#15 Low low at Fanny Bay.
Mission: find a place for a quick nap while on the road up-island.
#14 Triptych unframed.
Mission: there’s a nook and there’s a crannie. Grab a toe-hold. Who’s your grannie?
#13 Passion.
Mission: show love with paint. Lust. Harmony. Perhaps monogamy.
#12 Breezy birches.
Mission: tree-like shapes, no leaves, starkness. How can I make it more interesting?
#11 Serenity, at last.
Mission: create a focal point. It’s hot. No breezes but the sweet smell of moss on warm rock.
#9 Secret. Lake. Water on water.
Mission: mix water and pigment onto paper – what will be will be.
#7 Stark stoic silver cedar.
Mission: capture the character of a tree worn and weathered, gnarly and regal.
#6 Hot summer day on the beach.
Mission: convey a sweltering hot, west coast day on the beach. How does that island look so distant while on other days it’s a stones-throw away?
#5 Imagination. Let it go.
Mission: paint loose. Paint wet on wet. Go less for representation. Create a suggestion.
#4 Painting water. Every wave.
Mission: create water with movement, crashing onto the rocks and shore. It’s water so use lots of water in my brush?
#2 First paintings – wet on wet.
Mission: paint loose and free. Beginner’s luck? Lesson learned: move the brush like water. Looking west from Georgia Beach. “Georgia Beach Bluff” 8×8 inches | 2018
#1 Painting with watercolours – my torturous medium of choice.
Mission: with a loaded brush and a white sheet of paper, capture the movement of wind.