Peonie in Calgary

I painted this on a 20" x 20" inch gallery wrapped canvas in acrylics while I was in Calgary in April 2012. Needless to say it is remaining in Calgary.

In the Garden

Two more painting in progress, inspired by another beautiful photo taken by my girlfriend Martina. These are both done in acrylics on 16 x 20 gallery wrapped canvas. And guess who I have lured into my studio.....yes, the photographer Martina has put aside her camera for a few hours, and picked up the paintbrush. She is a natural! Martina's painting has the blue and peach coloured chairs and I painted my garden chairs in orange and pink.

First Snowfall Winter 2011

The inspiration for this winter scene is from my girlfriend Martina's blog. She took a picture to captured her Christmas decorations on her patio after the first winter snowfall just before Christmas 2011. It is an oil painting on a 16 x 20 gallery wrapped canvas.

The Codfish

There, my codfish painting is finished. It is an oil painting on a 16 x 12 x 2 gallery wrapped canvas.

Fishy bubbles

I can't help myself, I'm drawn to fish...look at this cute little fella, done on a 8 x 10 canvass in acrylics. For one of the fall 2011 classes we were instructed to bring anything we wanted to paint. Lessons learned were water flow and how to make bubbles.

Fruit bowl

Another creation from the 2011 Fall art class session. Lesson that evening was painting fruit and placing the glass bowl around it. I started this shortly after Thanksgiving 2011 when the whole family was home and we went apple picking on the Kingston Peninsula, I wanted to capture the feeling of the beautiful sunny afternoon we spent outside. It is an acrylic on a 16 x 20 gallery wrapped canvas, I think it needs a different shaped bowl with more shadowing, so don't be surprised if it reappears on the blog a little revised in the future.

Stripe and whirlpool abstract

A person could get hooked on abstracts, by adding one more oil colour, titanium white, to the sap green, phthalo blue and cadmium yellow hue, from the Circle Abstract, the looked totally changed on the 16 x 20 gallery wrapped canvass.

Circle Abstract

Abstracts are so free flowing, I had loads of fun using oil paint colours of sap green, phthalo blue, a cadmium yellow hue and making swirls on this 16 x 20 gallery wrapped canvass.

The 3 dimension guitar

This is my first commissioned painting, someone was so impressed with the guitard for Scott's room they wanted one for their husband for Christmas 2011. It is also a Les Paul and I added three dimension aspects to this painting. It is arcylic on a 24 x 48 gallery wrapped canvass.

In the Mountains

This is my first painting done with a knife. It took a few classes in the fall of 2011 to finish as I was such a novice with this technique. It is an arcylic on a 12 x 16 gallery wrapped canvass. Lessons learned were various methods to hold the knife to create the feeling you want, creating a misty atmosphere in the mountains and the importance of shadowing.

Beach through the flowers

Gerry and I spent a few days at Stanhope Beach, PEI in early August 2011. I took several pictures while walking on the beach in anticipation of painting a picture back at the hotel. Gerry is a real sport and is always carting in the easel and canvass. This is a 16 x 20 arcylic on a gallery wrapped canvass.

Special guitar

I wanted to paint something very special for Scott who is an avid musician and has various guitars. This oil painting on a 24 x 48 gallery wrapped canvas is my interpretation of his Les Paul guitar.