View from Salmo Creston Pass

                                                         View from Salmo Creston Pass
                                                       oil on canvas 20x24in. April 2018

Unity Festival 2016

            
            TINY HOUSES 30x40in, oil on canvas, July 18, 2016, painted at Slocan City Beach.


Terrific time at the Unity Music Festival in Slocan, showed up with all my painting stuff, encouraged others to join in. Theme, tiny houses. Everyone who participated had a fun time, this was the painting I had at the end of the day.

Landscapes

                                                      Slocan Lake 16x20 oil June 2016

                                                        Valhalla 16x20 oil June 2016

                                                      Slocan River 20x24 oil June 2016

Pretty Canadian

                            Slocan Lake before the storm, 12x16in. oil on canvas, July 1 2015

Kootenay light

                                     Kootenay Light, 16x20in, oil on canvas, June 23 2015

View along the Salmo Creston

                           Along the Salmo Creston, 18x24in, oil on canvas, June 17 2015


A beautiful afternoon, a painting that is not quite finished, but the paint is thick and wet and I will wait to put some final touches and enhance the composition.

Two Late Arrivals

                          Draw that looks like a diving bird, 8x10in oil on birch panel, June 8 2015

                                 North from Bannock, 12x16in oil on canvas, June 9 2015

These two oil sketches need some touch after I got back home, touched them up this morning, and presto, two more pieces.

Valhalla Homestead

                             Valhalla Homestead, 8x10in. oil on birch panel, June 9 2015

Slocan Lake from New Denver

                        Perfectly hot day, Slocan Lake, 20x24in, oil on canvas June 8 2015

Spent a super hot day under a shade tree by the lake, good decision, I was nice and cool by the water and managed to kick out this oil sketch, needs a bit of touch yet but I think it represents the iconic Slocan Lake view.

Power House

                                         Old Power House 8x10in. oil on birch, June 6 2015

This old power house along the Kootenay River has seemed like a good painting subject to me for a number of years, finally got to it yesterday.

Taghum BC

                         Low water, High Noon, Taghum 16x20in oil on canvas, May 22 2015

The river is low, the glacial runoff and rainwater usually fills it by July, here's hoping that the dry hot summer being predicted isn't too severe.

Afternoon sketch

                               Beacon Light at Balfour 16x20in. oil on canvas May 18 2015

A quick oil sketch between tent jobs.

Looking north again from Balfour

               Kootenay Lake looking north from Balfour 2 16x20 oil on canvas May 14 2015

                Kootenay Lake looking north from Balfour 3 16x20 oil on canvas May 14 2015

Another fine painting day with my friends Brigitte Debois and Stephanie Gauvin, the weather started out a bit damp but we toughed it out, and we were rewarded with a nice day and some fun painting time.

Looking North from Balfour

                     North Kootenay Lake from Balfour 16x20 in. oil on canvas May 11 2015


A great day to paint Sky!

Nancy Green Lake

                                      Nancy Green Lake 16x20 oil on canvas, May 8 2015

I was in Rossland on Friday, so I whipped over to Nancy Green and then whipped out an oil painting!

One of my favourite spots

                                          Above Slocan, 16x20in. oil on canvas, May 2 2015


I really like this spot to paint from. I am high up on a bluff, way above the water, and getting a really interesting angle of repose from here. I love the way the wind and water make S shapes on the water surface, how the sounds of people in boats carry up toward me, how the crows and ravens are always checking me out as they float past the bluffs.

                A progression

Bannock Falls

                                   Bannock Falls, 16x20in. oil on canvas, April 27 2015

A most excellent day painting and jawing with my friend Sandy Stevenson,  I regaled him with many a story about my trip south, my views on the world, and we compared notes on some painting ideas.
And I managed to squeak out this painting, despite spending all that time talking at poor Sandy, who endured my rants and raves with a smile. All in all, a very good day indeed.

Prescott AZ

                         Ancient tree and rocks, graphite pencil on paper, 11x14in. Mar 13 2015

Hangin' around Prescott Arizona for a few days, then off to Phoenix to pick up Evan.
Nice place, Prescott, pronounced Preskitt by the locals.

Valley of the Gods

                                       Bluffs at Bluff, 20x24 in. oil on canvas, Mar. 6, 2015

Made my way to Bluff, Utah, took a few days to rest up, then a couple of days exploring Valley of the Gods, no painting, simply absorbing the amazing energy of the place, taking some photos, and then back to painting. Heading south tomorrow to check out Canyon de Chelly, Arizona for a few days and to replenish some art supplies in Prescott. I have run out of canvas.

                                                                        Truck selfie.

                                               Magical place, Valley of the Gods, Utah

Valley of the Gods, the energy of this landscape is powerful. Very happy that I took the time to retrace some of my travels and spend a couple of days here, or I would have missed this.

Millions of Years

                              Millions of Years, 10x14 in. oil on mahogany board, Feb 28, 2015

Take a mile thick of petrified sandstone from ancient ocean sediment, add wind and water, bake in a few millions of years in time, and if you are lucky, one day you get to paint a picture of it.