30 in 30: Day Six - Nightfall

Day Six - Nightfall

9" x 9" - acrylic and pencil on paper - $30

A visual riff on Day Four's composition (see that here). Trying to be loose and pushing the tree shapes to their abstract limit. Would love to try this on a big canvas......

Still Waters Run Deep: Painting Water, Land and Sky

Still Waters Run Deep

20" x 24"  acrylic on canvas SOLD

This tiny rocky island lies off a big island on Redstone Lake (in Ontario) where I am fortunate to spend time each summer in a small rustic cottage. Over the years I have taken many photos of this little island while we have paddled around the big one, and they have been starting points for several paintings.  Each interpretation, however, has been quite different. I really like the saturated palette, and the lightness of those hues reminds me of summer air and light. Lately I have been quite interested in pushing my landscape shapes and forms towards greater degrees of simplification and abstraction, and I think it has worked quite well here. Have a wonderful summer day.

Trees at Les Bassacs

Trees at Les Bassac 

8" x 10" - watercolour on arches paper

More watercolour experimentation, painting wet into wet, and then adding some marks with watercolour pencils.