"Yellow Chair" pastel

We rescued a yellow chair from the dump bin, a friend suggested we turn it into a pot stand on our deck!

A quick pastel sketch.

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'Winter Sun Scia'new'
  oil on wood panel
8 x 10

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Beautiful morning out at the ancient lands of 

Scia'new (''the place of the big fish,") today...

The Scia'new First Nations trace their ancestry 

to people who spoke four different languages. 

The community recognizes all four languages 

although they are not all currently spoken.

 The predominant language is now Hul’q’umi’num’.

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Your thoughts & comments always welcomed!

Jeffrey

This was painted last fall with Alf's up on 

Mount Tolmie. Though I have painted there

several times this view was a first for me...

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'Morning Sky Haro Strait'

oil on wood panel

11 x 14

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Comments always appreciated!

Jeffrey

"Bird light" marker on oil underpainting

Marker pen (Sharpie) 3 1/8" x 5 7/8"

How to use off cuts from truncated canvas boards! Fun. Patterns in the sky. Poles apart. I could use any of these titles but I confess to this being an ALLA PRIMA piece - there's no correcting if you just do it. Plein Air artists do it in the open whereas Alla Prima artists do it all at once.....

"Three Fishes" 6x6 acrylic

Crop, crop, crop - everyone knows that those are three fish on a plate, we don't have to see their entire bodies nor the complete plate to know what's going on.

My thanks to Carol Marine - by studying her work and by reading her latest book I have really learnt a lot. And like a lot of artists I like to paint thick with great impasto.

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"Cockerel" oil 4.5 x 4.5 inches

Lately I have been fascinated by theses birds - cocky rosters and cheeky hens, all painted as miniatures and displayed on tiny wooden easels from the Dollar Store - they make interesting gifts at Christmas time or on family birthdays, anyhow they always fetch a smile....the naughty ones especially!

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The late Frank Sanford - Conté pencil

It's sad when someone leaves us. Frank was a great guy and we all admired him. He lived in a one-street town that he built himself in the Mohave Desert

They had to truck water into the property, and with the waste water they grew a tight little garden of fruit and flowers. Frank died many years ago. Wife Lorna passed away recently - a super talented writer. We miss them.

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