Category Archives: weather

Sunflower Study # ??

I promise that this is the last sunflower study I will bore you with for a loooong time.  I just had to take one more stab at it.  Trying to listen to you John, but loosening up for me is like swimming upstream!  I picked a new sunflower today…a yellow one. Trying to be looser and lighter with the paint.  Very little drawing.
Off to a Cowboy Poetry festival for 3 days, and doubt that I’ll have Internet access, so you’ll get a reprieve!!  Hope everybody has a great weekend; the weather is going to be spectacular!  
SOLD

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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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Hail Mary

Our summer skies have an entirely different personality from winter, the cloud structure being the difference.  We never see these towering thunderheads in winter, nor the devastation of the hail that often comes hurling down out of them.  Still, they are breathtaking from a distance.  I love the roiling, sullen layers of navy blue, transforming up into creamy, billowing crowns of  purest white, with subtle variations of colour and light on every level.

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.

Summer Skies at Last

One thing you can say about all the dramatic weather we’ve been getting, the skies have been even more incredible than usual…and not in a good way.  So when these beautiful summer clouds show up it is such a delight. The landscape here (what there is of it) is the coulee that I’m so lucky to live on and the blue on the horizon, the Cypress Hills.  
Have a great holiday weekend, and don’t look for me tomorrow; I’ll be camping out of computer and cell phone range.  Summer in Canada!!

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.

With the Wind

Betcha when I didn’t post this several days ago, you thought you’d seen the last of it…..that I’d thrown it in the garbage. Right!?   It was very polite of you not to ask. 
 It’s here, but I’m not delighted with it.  I may do it again, (hoping for different results) ….wait a minute, that’s the definition of insanity isn’t it? 

16 X 20″ on watercolour board

The Wind_ painting stage

 I dithered quite awhile; looking at photos of wild skies and at the gloomy, heavy sky outside my windows!  Finally had to get at it.  I found a 2″ flat brush and started in with the orange and yellow across the mid sky, and dragged purple and blue in below that, down through the horses, to the horizon. Fun…and stressful! Banged in some grass while it was damp so that the horizon wouldn’t have too many hard edges.

Now for the big racing black cloud overhead.  I slopped in a ton of paint, and then I mixed green and poured it over top and let it run.  Then orange along the bottom edge, and flung in with my brush.  Yikers. I think I’m ruining it, but we won’t know till it’s finished, will we.

Sagebrush Symphony

 Wow, the Meadowlarks were singing their heads off this morning, and I’m hoping they’re calling in the rain.  My brother, a rancher, calls them the “Rainmakers”, believing that they have the ability to do just that.  Here’s hoping! SOLD

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Sunbaked Bison

If ever there was an animal who was adapted to the harsh climate of the prairies, I think it had to be the bison.  If you’ve ever seen them in a herd on the highest hill, with their faces into a gale force blizzard, you’ll know what I mean.  This guy however, is enjoying a sun drenched siesta while the opportunity presents itself.  It’s a real gift to be able to embrace whatever life gives you.

5 X 7″ on 200 lb w/c paper

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February Feed Ground

Recently I visited family on their beautiful Saskatchewan ranch, and this is the sight that greeted me on my arrival.  As the sun was going down and the sky was threatening snow the cattle contentedly fed.

I did this quick impression in my sketch book, and it is my offering for today.

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Sorting

 Ranchers  are some of the most resourceful, resilient, hardest working and optimistic people I know.  Can’t thing of anybody better to have stewarding our native grasslands and growing our world class food..Thank you all for all that you do.   SOLD

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