working out a few small pickerel weed natural flow designs that are rattling around in my brain at the same time while working out a larger idea ‘lillies catching raindrops’ as my way of emptying my distractions and regaining my … Continue reading →
As well as liking what nature did in designing how pickerel weeds looks, I also like that pickerel weed, and arrowheads, are an incredibly efficient aquatic plant that acts as a natural biological filter of polluted water … Continue reading →
working out suggestively interesting small interactional designs between water, shorelines plants including water lilies, pickerel weed, arrowheads, wild rice, (and those yet not discovered and as such as yet not included) lily and 3 bobbing pickerel weed 11″ x 8 … Continue reading →
love how the flotilla of pickerel weeds are riding the breezes yet rooted at the same time kind like letting go with one hand pickerel weed catching the night light / moon over margaret lake 16″ x 12″ watercolour / … Continue reading →
the sixth visit from / of backyard panther now in my neighbourhood / backyard-panther-on-elm-ave 16″ x 10″ watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel 400.
Continue reading →There is a natural elegance both to and in the world. my paintings, of wetlands we have found, as reflections on the middle of nowhere, are meditations on that elegance; they all contain the endless looking for divine spark of … Continue reading →
latest ‘fall’ study, from out where nipissing river flows under hwy 64 ‘sparkles sparkling along the west arm of the nipissing river’ 16″ x 16″ / watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel / 550.
Continue reading →the gently curving line from left to right glides me thru the painting. that simple. i guess i first saw it in Lemieux’s figure paintings which a slanted horizon line behind the figure creating movement … Continue reading →
another of my ideas for paintings preferring the visual kaleidoscope of mystery colour fragments that makes up the screen of trees teasing about what the lake will reveal at / from the waters edge. my newest watercolour is one of … Continue reading →
for me painting a lake, just stepping back a bit from the shoreline offers up a fullness which fragments the lake view into a tangled autumn colours overgrown ‘waterfront screen’ is more interesting than the open view once i reach … Continue reading →