It’s been a while since I posted, (as I was gently reminded on Twitter today), so I thought I’d update what’s been going on since the last post. I did have a really great post written a couple of weeks ago while I was on the bus but when I

UPDATE: I’m pleased to report that my painting sold for $550. Apparently there was spirited bidding among 3 young lawyers. It’s also great because there was another well established, well known Edmonton painter with work up for auction and his 2 paintings went for $300 a piece. 🙂 This last

A couple of weeks ago I started the painting below. Almost from the start I felt a bit -meh- about it. I don’t hate it, but it doesn’t feel finished and I’m not sure what to do with it. I’ve decided that when I get stuck on a painting, the

After I finished Learning Jazz and Sunset at Patricia Lake, I was feeling really good about how things were progressing, both in terms of what I have been producing and the speed at which I’ve been able to finish things. Of course, the holiday break certainly helped but finishing 2

Last July was my 50th birthday and for my present, Kim booked us a little cabin at the Patricia Lake Bungalows in Jasper National Park. As you can see, we didn’t get to go until late September. For September in the Canadian Rockies, the weather was fabulous; Low 20’s C and

After I finished my last painting, The Kiss, I immediately stretched a canvas and went right in to “let’s do that again!” mode. And produced this: Well, that’s not exactly correct. I didn’t “paint” that. What I painted was crap so I just took a rag to the canvas. Then

Last week, in Just Along for the Ride, I wrote about a new painting I had started. Well, I finished it on Saturday and I’m really pleased and a bit surprised at how it turned out. This one is really not something I’d ever have planned, but I think it’s

I didn’t paint much at all for about a week after finishing The Road Less Travelled. Well, that’s not entirely true. I did paint something. I had an “idea”. A concept. And it was a mess. While my SDO project was absolutely something I did from an idea, and I’m

This past Saturday I spent about 5 hours playing around with the new brush technique I used in Harvest Hills. I came up with this abstract thingie.   I really like how it turned out.  Having no formal training, my technique(s) is a bit of a crap shoot.. If you

So this happened yesterday… NASASunEarth just happens to be the official twitter account of the SDO mission so a retweet from them is pretty cool. BUT…this wasn’t even a retweet. They actually got the image of my paintings from this blog and added the SDO images. It resulted in my