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Painted in April, 2025.  16”x12”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $220.00 Cdn. Framed As Spring has hit the West Coast, I wanted to get in the right mood for my big landscaping project by doing another flower painting.  This time I chose to paint some wild Blanket flowers (Gaillardia aristata). Due to their deer resistant properties and the […]

Painted in March, 2025.  20”x16”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $320.00 Cdn. A big challenge for any painter is nudes and portraits.  If your proportions are off, it is quickly apparent to the viewer.  A good artist can get away with this, but I am still learning and wanted to go for a more realistic style.  The second half

SOLD. Painted in February, 2025.  12”x16”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $192.00 Cdn. – unframed. Growing up on a ranch provides a kid with endless places to explore.  Now as an adult, it’s giving my endless references for paintings.  Down below our main barnyard is a paddock that my Dad would use for spring lambing.  On the West side of the

Painted in February, 2025.  16”x16”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $325.00 Cdn. – framed. Coffee brewed in a traditional Dallah and shared with family or friends has represented hospitality, generosity and social connection for thousands of years.  During this time of incivility, I wanted to paint a still-life that expressed a sense of warmth and welcome.   I put a

Painted in Dec, 2024.  35cm x 25cm.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $ 125.00 Cdn. – framed. For the last day of my seven day “Still Life” challenge, I decided to really push myself and created a still life that involved both glass and fabric.  I found an old blue checkered tablecloth wrapping one of my Christmas plates and

Painted in Nov. and Dec, 2024.  20” x 16”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $320.00 Cdn. – Framed. Our West Coast home is a world away from the hot desert surrounding Alice Springs, Australia.  Hidden within this landscape are a number of natural swimming holes.  My favourite was the Ellery Big Hole.  The water was clear and cool and the surrounding

Painted in Dec, 2024.  14”x11”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $140.00 Cdn. – unframed. Glass and highly reflective surfaces are a challenge with acrylic paint. It’s hard to blend and when you add white, the paint often feels flat. For this challenge, I chose a small metallic apple Christmas decoration and put it on the kitchen counter in

Painted in Dec, 2024.  14”x 11”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $140.00 Cdn. – unframed.  I’m working on a series of still lives and this is a painting of a potted plant house warming present from some neighbours. I love the textured pot and the array of green succulent stems that created the most interesting shadows on the

Painted on November, 2024.  30” x 24”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $720.00 Unframed. In my painting course, we did a session on broken colour technique, so I thought it would be a good idea to use this technique on my next painting. Small daubs of pure colour are painted on the canvas side-by-side. Your brain takes the

Painted on November, 2024.  14” x 18”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $290.00 Framed. I’m taking a course on Acrylic Painting from Vancouver Island University, and it forces me to try out different techniques.  The first week was working with monochromatic paintings and then applying an overglaze on parts of the painting.  The painting is based on a reference photo