Category Archives: still life

In His Shoes 7

Today’s offering; another of my son’s shoes. Thankfully he’s safe & sound on Canadian soil, and going about his challenging and interesting life. But his shoes kicking about the place make me smile. This is one of his many pairs of “chucks”….the many pairs being necessary in order that every outfit have just the right colour and style of shoe! This is the guy who loves “gear” of any kind and that has always started with his foot gear.

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Tomato Season

We had our first really hard frost last night, and considering the date, that’s pretty generous of Mother Nature.  Her other recent gift was the fabulous tomato crop we had this year, the last of the fresh ones going into a batch of cabbage rolls for supper last night. 
Time and the seasons march on, changes are guaranteed to happen. I guess our job is to rise to each occasion.  

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Delphiniums @ Echodale

Echodale Farm  was my location of choice yesterday, and the flowers were in all their glory; there were even some delphiniums still in bloom.  I loved how the light hit them and lit them up against the dark foliage background.  Again, I tried to paint them much wetter and more directly, with no layering or glazing. It’s fun, but I’m not getting the lost edges I want,   so I’ll keep trying. 

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September Song

Today’s painting is another attempt at a more direct style of using watercolour, with no drawing ahead of time and a one-stroke style of applying the paint. It’s still not the result I want, but I intend to keep on trying. 

The flowers are from the yard…a reminder that though the calendar says summer is nearly over, we still have lots of flowers to look forward to for a month or so anyway.

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My Summer Deck

My apologies to the followers of this blog, for I’m away from home and was unable to access the Internet last night. We got it figured out this morning so here’s your painting.

  The weather here has been absolutely glorious, so  I painted out on my deck yesterday, and this was the scene; my little chimineya amongst the flowers and that famous brillian, bouncy Medicine Hat light that I love so much.  Enjoy your summer!

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A Gift From Jill

One of the really great things about summer is all the company I get.  I’ve had visits from many friends and rellies over the past month, the latest being my niece Jill.  She showed up here with this beautiful vase, stuffed full of a “ditch bouquet” that she’d picked beside the highway somewhere in Saskatchewan!  What a girl.  This porcelain vase is extraordinary; made in Portugal, it has a gorgeous, shiny, iridescent glaze which made it almost impossible to paint.  I tried though, and it’s much prettier than the painting shows. Trust me. 

As you can see, Jilly knows her aunt very well…chickens and sunflowers!

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In His Shoes 4

There, lurking in the basement, I found another pair of skate shoes.  This pair is a little more worn and despite frequent coats of polish, there are a few scuffs.  You never saw a guy who has always been so particular about the condition, style and functionality of his foot gear. I should have had a clue or 2 from that, one would think.
This piece was first drawn in pen & ink and then I only allowed myself to use a flat brush….the result being more “painterly”…maybe? 

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Lucky’s

Anybody know what this is?  Well, it certainly doesn’t feel like my work  It’s dark and mechanical-looking and even sinister.  

Since doing this daily practice, drawing has become a form of meditation for me, and I found this piece to be extremely challenging, requiring total concentration, and thus a deeper meditation. I enjoyed it, even though it’s not my usual subject matter, telling me that my creative “thing” might be just as much about the process as it is the result.
 It’s drawn with Faber-Castell pen & ink, some watercolour and then F-C coloured pens. I’ll be waiting for feed-back as to what it is for you.

7 X 5″

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Lodge @ Ft. Walsh

A few years ago I went to a powwow at Ft. Walsh.  I loved this beautiful white tipi against the black trees and the stacking depths of the hills…those magical Cypress Hills.  

I think it’s time for another powwow.

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In His Shoes 3

  Lurking in the furnace room are umpteen pairs of my son’s cowboy boots in various states of wear and tear.  Obviously these were the ones he wore to the latest branding he was at, still boasting a liberal amount of mud and manure, and still with his spurs on. What is it about footwear that so powerfully evokes the person who last stood in them!?

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