Moon Dreams and Discoveries
I am a dreamer… I dream almost every night. My dreams are often very vivid and metaphorical. Perhaps that is when I am most receptive to the more subtle messages of the Universe? Winter Moon, 8×10, acrylic Some see dreams as messages from the ‘unconscious’ and a rich resource for the artist. Therefore, it would [...]
Art and Spirit
In the summer of 2001, I took an excellent workshop with Ojibway painter David Beaucage Johnson. David is an exceptional painter with a gift for sharing his stories through his art. He is also a very lovely man. I believe him to be the inspiration that pushed me toward painting seriously. It took me a [...]
Making a Field Colour Chart
I thought it might be a good idea for those of you interested in using field colour to explain how I painted my charts. It is a valuable exercise, even if you use a more direct method of painting and don’t use a variety of colours in your underpaintings. In this post I will explain [...]
More Painting with Field Colour
Before I go into my post for today… A note to my e-mail subscribers! Posts coming into your e-mail boxes are now abbreviated (as of January 18, 2008). It is an unfortunate side effect to changing it on my feeds. To see the full post click on the post title and it will take you [...]
Finally… the Sun
The Weather Network was right… Today was a beautiful, cold, crisp and sunny day! My mood was immediately elevated and I thought it would be a good idea to go out and collect some images for the studio. Late this afternoon, I packed up the camera and headed down Doe Lake Road. I love the [...]
Some Days….
There are some days when getting started in the studio is like trying to get excited about going to the dentist. Today was one of those days. I must be a terrible person for comparing my work in the studio to going to the dentist! Or perhaps I should apologize to the dentist – he [...]
Field Colour
Early in 2007, I took a course with contemporary realist painter Scott Owles. Scott is an affable guy with a great sense of humour and, what’s more, a fantastic teacher and artist. I had no practical training in fine art previous to this as my art education is in graphic design. Many of the principles [...]
Passion for Snow – W.L. Palmer
I am a nighthawk and I often find myself unable to sleep until well after midnight. Last night, I was watching the Antiques Roadshow on PBS. I like to watch from time to time and see what kinds of outrageous things people bring! Every so often a painting shows up and it is fun to [...]
Painted Horses…
With the holidays behind me, I am getting back into the swing of painting. I started a piece that I planned to do with oils before I fell in November. The canvas is prepared, my field colour selected and, over the weeks in between, the composition has shifted. I think I am finally ready to [...]
Happy New Year!
For the first time in a few years, we had an ‘almost’ party here for New Year’s. My sister and my husband’s best friend dropped by and we ended up having a wonderful meal, a great laugh and celebrated what we all hope to be a bright new beginning in each of our lives. Many [...]
