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

Here's the finished piece-"Caramello" 30 x 40" acrylic. The painting has been delivered to Granville Fine Arts gallery in Vancouver.

Another stage of the Rose painting. Background finished and roses started. Things are getting a little cooler than I wanted so the finished piece will show that I warmed everything up again