Today’s painting is a commission for a friend, so it’s larger, and the first landscape I’ve done in quite awhile. When I remember how I used to cry and tantrum while attempting to paint all the nuances of light on coulees, well, lets just say that I’m truly grateful that I can now approach it with a smidge of confidence. Having been raised with this very landscape I can truly say that I can feel it in my bones. It is such a joy, FINaLLY, to be able to paint it.
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Side Trip 2
The little landscape I did a couple of days ago for this blog has continued to haunt me. I kept thinking about it…the rhythm of the strips of yellow trees and undulating hills kept rolling through my head. I wanted to paint it again in a looser more impressionisitic way. So this time I didn’t do a drawing and I only allowed myself a flat brush, and I tried to do the minimum of layering. Turns out it looks pretty much like the first one! No matter what I do, I seem to do what I do!!
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Side Trip
Last week my parents came to stay, and since my dad grew up in the Cypress Hills, he loves to go for a drive out there. So we did, and it was a golden fall day with the exquisite clear light we’re so blessed with in October (if it’s not snowing!!)
We took a side trip across from north of Elkwater, east to Eagle Butte on our way home, and there was one stunning hillside after another. This was one of them. Good thing we went when we did; it looks quite different this week!
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Sundown Barn
No painting for you today…too many projects happening and not enough time! it felt really weird not to paint…or even DRAW today! Instead lots of computer time, which I swear rots my brain!
This photo is from my latest cross-country road trip…that gravel road I’d never taken before, which heads straight east at Rolling Hills and winds up in the middle of nowhere. I love it. And Look at the beautiful barn I found. Remember this story next time you want to take the pavement instead of the gravel!
Shine on Harvest Moon
Last week, returning from the mountains, I took one of my favourite back roads; one that offers miles and miles of uninterrupted native prairie. As I drove northeast, a pale pink disc peeked over the far, flat horizon, while at the same time the sun was setting on the far, flat southwest horizon. The moon was full and huge, as if attempting to compete with the sun, who was busy splashing everything in vivid tones of orange and pink. It was quite a contest, and I was aware that though the mountains are stunningly beautiful, so is our prairie.
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The Long View @ Longview
If you’ve never been down the Cowboy Trail, this won’t look familiar. This is the iconic Alberta scene that one sees over and over in our ads and promos of the province. Prairie gives way to foothills, which rise up to towering Rockies. Nowhere is this transition more dramatic than at the aptly named “Longview”. Just north of that little town there is this incredible depth-of-field which defies pen and paint, but I had to try anyway. Those who haven’t been there, it’s time for a road trip!
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Ponies @ Siksika
Often on my travels I like to cross the Blackfoot Reserve at Siksika. The Bow River Valley is so pretty there, and there’s no interruption of the native landscape by crops or oil activity. Often there are bands of horses, which is a real bonus! For today’s painting I thought we needed some tipis as well.
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Chain Lakes
This weekend was a celebration with my classmates of our graduation from nursing school many years ago (not saying how many!) We met in Banff and had 3 days of catching up and enjoying the last days of September in one of the most beautiful towns anywhere in the world. I always like to check out the back roads, so today I took “The Cowboy Trail” from Turner Valley to Chain Lakes and then cut across country to home, gathering fabulous visuals and visits with even more friends. It took all day, so no painting…. Instead, this photo, taken about 25 miles west of Nanton, of Chain Lakes and the Porcupine Hills stretching up to the Rockies.
October Breezes
It’s that time of year! One golden, warm and best of all…windless day after another. Although winter isn’t my favourite, I’m glad to live in a place that enjoys the variety of the 4 seasons.
SOLD
7 X 10″ on 140lb Fabriano
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Land of Shining Mountains
The news this week is that the plans for big energy developement along the front range of the Rockies from Longview down to Pincher Creek, have been cancelled. Whether it was the organized protests or the current low price of oil, I think I heard a sigh of relief. This gets to look like this for a while longer.
SOLD
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