Category Archives: summer

Lift Off

This is a progression from yesterday’s painting and if you’ve ever watched pelican’s take off you’ll know what a lumbering, splashing, flapping affair that is!  It reminds me of the hulking Hercules airplane trying to get off the runway! 
Once these American Pelicans are finally aloft though, you never saw such elegance and grace, and if they’re beautiful solo, they’re absolutely magnificent as they soar together in their squadron formations.

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Launch-ready

“A rare old bird is a pelican”!  and this one wasn’t comfortable with our proximity, so had his wings at half mast, ready to embark on the laborious task of launching himself  airborne. Meanwhile I loved how he was lit up by the sun and so beautifully outlined by the shadowed shoreline.

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August Assortment

Here’s another bouquet from the back yard ( I warned you!)  One of my favourite plants is a perennial called Russian Sage. That’s the periwinkle blue in this arrangement; tiny blue, long-blooming flowers on tall fragrant spikes.  It smells aromatic…similar to our wild prairie sage, and that beutiful blue is such a great complement to the warm colours of the sunflowers & zinnias. Did I mention that I love summer?

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Corrals and Chief Mountain

I’m still down here in the SW corner of the province, lucky me, and this rugged old set of corrals with it’s breath-taking backdrop was one of the sights we passed on our way to Police outpost Lake yesterday. It’s been such a great year for rain, and the pastures and meadows are still knee deep in grass and wildflowers. 
 There are some tell-tale signs though that summer’s days are numbered, as time and the seasons roll on.

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July,

One really important thing to my style of watercolour is the concept of “negative space”, which is clearly illustrated here in a portrait of a white bucking horse.  In order to depict this subject in watercolour, I have to have a really good idea not only where my paint will go (or NOT go),  but how much paint, and in the case of the white parts, no paint at all!  Does all this make any sense at all to anyone but me?  Ah well, I hope you enjoy the painting anyway.

CraZy Sunflower

Brace yourselves…my yard is full of sunflowers and I keep bringing them in the house, where I promptly fall in love with them.  I didn’t realize what a gem this one was till I sat down and really looked it it…he’s just a little guy, and my painting fails to convey how extraordinarily beautiful and wonky he is.  He has this wonderful blue and green center, surrounded by a gorgeous fuzzy fringe, and the petals seem to be all different lengths and go in haphazard directions; a true individual.  But aren’t we all. The great thing about painting is that it affords the painter an opportunity to really LOOK at things we might otherwise miss. I’m never disappointed.  

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Good Morning Crow

On the Thursday morning of the rodeo, I wandered over to the grounds to absorb the behind-the-chutes action. There was a “murder” of crows hanging around the bucking horses, raising hell and generally dominating the scene as only crows can do. This guy sat on the top rail and tried out his version of a stare-down with me. I won, and he left.  

As always, it left me wondering about the secret life of crows and all other non-human species.

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Shaggy

My favourite sunflowers are the big, heavy-headed ones, and last week my friend Kathy brought me a bouquet of them….we were both sad about the loss of our friend Joyce.  

As the week has gone on those sunflowers have gotten saggier and shaggier….and more fun to paint.  
 So to you Joyce…I hope there are fields full of sunflowers where you are now. 

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Any Day Now

The tomatoes are hanging…., heavy and abundant.  I’m so enjoying my garden every single day, and this is the best tomato crop I’ve ever had. Except for this one guy who is almost there, they’re all that translucent golden-green shade they have just before they turn red.    Tonight before supper I was out there beating the underbrush for just one really ripe one for supper.  No luck.  But…..any day now!  

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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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