Category Archives: watercolour landscape

Redtail Country

I shot photos of this (I think) immature Redtailed Hawk on my trip down the Cowboy Trail last week.
Probably the most common hawk in North America and one of our biggest birds, he is truly a beauty.  This pale phase is typical of a youngster; he has at least 2 other colour phases including the famous dark-to-sandy phase with the namesake barred and fan shaped red tail. Identifying them can be tricky.  
It’s always a thrill to see them, but I thought he looked particularly spectacular in this landscape. 

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Morning Has Broken

This was the eastern sky on one of our fabulous mornings this past summer. One great thing about living on the prairie; there’s not much to spoil our view of the sky.

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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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Ross Creek Sundown

OK this is 4 times the size of my dailies, but this is what you get today…the creek just below my house on a beautiful spring evening. There’s that magic prairie sky, sun  low on the horizon giving colours and contrast that just sings with life. Who says there’s nothing to look at on the prairie?
   
 10 X 14″ om 200 lb paper

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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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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. 

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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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Evening Comes Stealing

My favourite place to walk is a loop around the horse pasture, along the S. Saskatchewan River.  The evening was stealing in when I walked the other night; the coulees drawing the purple, green and blue shadows up over their knees like you or I would a quilt. The warm last rays of sun tipped everything orange, and even the shadows borrow an edge of that magic light, while the sagebrush goes defiantly turquoise…an exact compliment of the orange.   I don’t often wish I was an oil painter, but today I craved brilliant oil paint colours in order to fully express that glow.

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Winery In the Hills

 Marty and Marie Bohnet, owners of the Cypress Hills Winery, truly subscribe to the “if you build it, they will come” school of business. They built this oasis of loveliness in the middle of pretty much no-where, and in a few short years it has become a destination for thousands, an award-winning business and a genuine vineyard on the Canadian Prairies.
If you haven’t been there yet….GO.
You won’t be sorry.   

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