The end of the year newscasts have done alot of "Top Stories of 2011" and the Slave Lake fire was certainly a catastrophic event. I tried to capture some sense of the smoke and devastation that scarred the landscape ...........first in watercolour.

A New Year...a new beginning

Well, all the wonderful Christmas get-togethers are winding down and with New Years Eve only a day away, it's time to get back to what I love. A new year means a clean palette and I am so looking forward to being snowed in. No more shopping, wrapping, eating, drinking,cooking,baking and entertaining. I'm heading into the studio and ignoring the phone.
It's time to paint.

I have been experimenting. Impasto...it's new to me...and I like it. This is my first piece.We took the boat from Tobermory to Flowerpot Island...and I have wonderful sketches and photos of the water over submerged rocks. I think I will work on a few of these.






I like the realism of this piece I painted of the bridge at Ball's Falls in Vineland. In reality the stream is often a mere trickle, but I think this captures the feelings I have of this place.