Category Archives: old buildings

Alley off of Canyon Road

Canyon Road in Santa Fe, the “City Different”,  is a quaint 250year old street which is now home to many beautiful art galleries.  This is an alley which opens up to Canyon Road, and shows the gorgeous old adobe buildings so typical of the area.  On the far right you can see the exposed handmade bricks of a wall from which the adobe mud has eroded.  
This is such an organic and eco-friendly building style, I often wonder why it isn’t adopted on a larger scale.

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Barn @ Echodale

I spent a beautiful morning painting on the hillside above the buildings at Echodale this summer.  What a lovely old white barn, of the style built around here about 100 years ago.  There are still quite a few of these around the countryside, but not many are as well-preserved as this one.  The spectacular setting of the S. Saskatchewan River valley doesn’t hurt either.

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

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!

Mission Bell

Ahhh, the blue skies and ancient adobe walls of New Mexico are calling me, and the closer we get to winter, the more that bell rings in my head!  I notice a lot of restless Canadians these days….pacing and gazing southward.  I imagine there are a lot of similarities between our behavior and that of our migratory bird friends.  

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Corner of Canyon & Delgado

A few years ago, I was blessed enough to be given an Artist’s Residency in a lovely old adobe compound on Canyon Road in Santa Fe.  It truly was a magical experience in a mystical town. Just up the street from my studio was the corner of Delgado Street, with the most intriguing and delightful adobe home ever.  I always wondered about the history of the place, (of that entire area of town actually) and wished I’d lived there 100, or even 200 years ago.

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Farmstead and the Rockies

 This is one of the scenes I encountered this weekend on my travels to a family wedding. Another abandoned farmstead stands in a sea of wheat, presided over by the rusting old wind mill.  Such a nostalgic and now a very common sight! 

Imagine coming here a century or more ago to find the pristine spot this must have been, and carving out your livelihood, and community in such a place and at such a time. 

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Nantons’s Skyline

As you all know, I was in Nanton for the Ranch Rodeo this w/e, and as always I enjoyed their beautiful row of elevators.  Every town in S. Alberta used to have a similar skyline, but them days are over……except in Nanton for some reason, where they stand sturdy, freshly painted, and apparently operational.
 My nostalgia-meter goes ballistic, and I have to take a few minutes to just sit and enjoy.

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Hens @ Dorothy

The last time I was through the little hamlet of Dorothy on the Red Deer River, I found this little clutch of red hens, free-ranging it out amongst the sagebrush.  When I find scenes like this, I get that powerful nostalgic feeling that hankers for an older, simpler time. Meanwhile, I’m checking my smartphone to see if I have any emails.   
SOLD

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Holding up the Sky

 

Today you get a photo….this from my road trip last week. The old elevator at Dorothy, which I’ve painted for this blog already, has such grace and  “presence” standing alone beside the road on the sagebrush dotted river flat….right where it’s been standing for probably a century. 

  The colours were so great this day; such soft light and the way the silvery sky blends into the old silvery wood just seems so….elegant.

Pink Church @ Piapot

Having wondered for years what the town of Piapot (Saskatchewan) had to offer, I finally turned off the Trans Canada on my way by, and checked it out.  It’s barely a Hamlet, whose better days are long gone. Actually the place has the eerie feel of a ghost town, would make a great movie set for the “Halloween” movies. There’s not a lick of paint in the entire place, except for this fairly fresh coat of pepto bismol pink on the church! I’m thinking I have a new place to visit when I want to paint on location.

-for more on Piapot including history of the name and the area, go to www.piapotsaloon.com

7 X 5″ on 140lb Lanaquarelle

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