Just finished this guy. Good timing because I'm taking it to Whistler tomorrow. The image is the Cheakamus trail in Whistler so I'll probably be walking there in the next couple of days.
I'm going for a reunion with some of my students- we will paint, eat and probably watch the hockey game- go Canucks!

CheakamusTrail 20 x 30" acrylic

Here's few pictures from last weekend's event at Painters Lodge in Campbell River. Me with my friend Sue, expressing my opinion on the chocolate dipped strawberries, me with Arthur Vickers, checking out the texture of each other's hair- his feels like a hedgehog!, and me painting in the tent.

The main event was eating, followed by goofing around and yes, I did do a little painting.

In all seriousness, we had a wonderful time , as usual and I think the caliber of art there was even stronger than previous years. We are over 30 artists in residence now. Chief Tony Hunt was the chosen one for this year and he was a great addition to the group.

Every time I go to Painters, I come away with the understanding of how important it is for we creative folk to have time together. To see what everyone is doing, to talk about ideas, to talk about the struggles and the triumphs, to laugh together- this is all like gold to me. Next week I'm going to spend a couple of days in Whistler, painting with a group of my students- it should be more of the same good stuff.

Yesterday the sun came out and it was glorious. I spent the entire day outdoors- mostly working in the garden. I had hoped for a little studio time too but didn't make it that far. I have a new piece on the easel that is close to finished. I'll be posting it soon.

Two new bird paintings just hatched in the studio- Raven I & Raven II, 8 x8" acrylics

Last weekend Blue and I did a dog agility trail in Pitt Meadows. It poured rain almost the whole time and the grass became a sea of mud. Here I am in one of the brief moments when it stopped raining.
Blue was unimpressed and ran like a snail. Next weekend we are going to the BC & Yukon Regional trial- it's outdoors too so I'm praying for dry weather.

Alan and I just got back from a couple of days at Pender Island, visiting my parents for Easter. My sister Suzanne, her fiance, David, niece Andrea and her partner Dan also went, so it was quite a gang that descended.
We hit every beach we could while we were there and were blessed with sunshine.
These two photos were taken at Roesland, my favorite place on earth. I have done many paintings from there and there will be more to come. There's something about the place that is just magic to me.
That's Suzanne, off in the distance.

This painting started out with a red underpainting and the plan was for there to be lots of red, black and buttery yellow. So much for plans. Things were not going well so I did a pthalo blue glaze over the whole painting and went in wet-in-wet.
I've done lots of paintings of crows though none recently. This one used a different photo for each crow- I cut them out and played around with different arrangements
"Blue Boys" 16 x 20" acrylic