“In the moment”. Painted February 2022. 10″x10″. Acrylic on cradled wood panel. I’ve been doing a month long challenge sponsored by the local art supply company Opus. Today’s prompt word was “present”, which I interpreted to mean “being present” or in the moment. True to my Scottish heritage, I can’t stand wasting paint, so when my stay-wet […]
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Sweet Reflections. Painted February 2022. 24”x24”. Acrylic on Canvas. Just a few hundred meters away from the Bluff is a heron rookery, so it is very common to find a heron standing motionless on shoreline rocks near the bottom of our ramp in a perfectly transcendental state. If an animal can exist totally in the moment, at one with
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“Set Fire to the Rain.” Painted January 2022. 30” x 24”. Acrylic on Canvas. Almost three years ago, I did a painting of a family in New Zealand playing in the water at Muriwai beach (famous for it’s black sand and large colony of gannets). Although I liked that painting, it wasn’t quite where I wanted to go. I knew
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SOLD. “Good Day Sunshine.” Painted January 2022. 12″ x 16″. Acrylic on Canvas. Sometimes the best antidote for the long grey days of a West coast winter is to spend a few hours painting a summer scene full of sunshine. Last summer our friend John drove up to see our place on the coast and
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The start of a new year is often a time of action, preparing, planning. A fresh start, full of energy. For some reason, this year I feel the weight of waiting on my shoulders. Despite a quiet and friendly Christmas Season, Omicron is now spreading like a viral wildfire. My booster shot is a day
It was a true Christmas miracle. As the hour neared midnight, the snow began to fall, and by the time we got up on Christmas morning there was a blanket of white as far as you could see. It is very rare to get snow on Christmas Day here. The weather on this stretch of
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It’s been Mitch’s dream to have a Christmas Enchanted Forest walk through the woods in the back part of our acreage. As soon as we bought the land, he was planning power outlets, clearing paths and dreaming BIG dreams. Being the first year, it was a bit of an experiment. The walk takes about ten
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SOLD. “In Autumn, Beauty Stood.” Painted December 2021. 16”x16” Acrylic on Canvas Last week, my mother mentioned that she was looking for a painting of flowers to hang on her wall and decided to put her eldest son to work. I’m always up for a challenge and jumped right on to it, so I’d have something
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This post is a bit long, so feel free to skim through it. I wanted to get a record of the framing before they start building the roof, so it’s not intended to be entertaining. It’s been several weeks of framing and the crew is just about ready to start building the roof over the
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SOLD. “Sunset on Savary Island.” Painted November 2021. 24”x24” Acrylic on Canvas Every few paintings, I have a total failure and no matter how much tweaking, I can’t salvage it. Eventually I cover it with white gesso and start a new painting over the old one. I’ve noticed that these new paintings are generally more successful than the old
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