Commanda and the Old Nipissing Trail
The Old Nipissing Colonization Road was one of the routes opened up by the province under pressure from the logging companies to encourage settlement for the purposes of providing labour for the industry. The soil was thin and rocky and most farmers abandoned when the lumber mills closed. For this reason, the road is now [...]
Restoule
After a stressful start to the week with painting and printing, I settled into a mini-holiday for my birthday this week. My husband and I set off in the RV to Restoule. Restoule is between Sudbury and North Bay on the south side of Lake Nipissing. Restoule Provincial Park, Lake Restoule, © Michelle Basic Hendry [...]
Echoes
Echoes – acrylic on canvas, 36×24, © Michelle Basic Hendry (click for larger image) I am having a love affair with this house. This is my second painting of it and a third is on the easel. I am not often moved to paint something more than once, but, somehow this building and its landscape [...]
WIP – Echoes
Echoes – Work in Progress, © Michelle Basic Hendry The postcard/invitations for the show are to be printed next week and I am still painting the canvas that is going to represent it! I figured it would be a good one to show as a work in progress… The sky is complete and the house [...]
Spring Convocation 1949
Taking a break from a 36×24 inch canvas that I was working on this afternoon, I went into the storage room in search of some documents on architecture relating to the buildings I have been painting of late. I had completed the soft sky and blocked in the foreground and before I started on the [...]
Doors Open Muskoka 2008
Saturday was Doors Open Muskoka, 2008. It is a part of the Doors Open Ontario program which allows people an opportunity to visit sites of historic interest that are otherwise closed to the public or are private residences. My time was limited, so I was only able to visit one community – Bala – one [...]
Algonquin – Lake of Two Rivers
Thanks to the BOSHart Blog for making Artscapes their “Blog of the Day“ for June 7, 2008! Two Rivers, Algonquin Park, acrylic, 10×8 ©Michelle Basic Hendry, 2008 This is a place that I have had on my list to paint for a while. It is from my trip to Algonquin Park during the peak of [...]
