Tag: Niagara Escarpment
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Return to Plein Air
This painting was done over the winter from a sketch done in mid-May last year. This year we had a snowstorm on May 15! Our spring is very capricious, so one has to be prepared to take advantage of the good weather when it happens. The scene is part of the Milton Outlier of the…
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Earth and Water
Earth and water is one of the definitions of mud. Ending up with “mud” is a common complaint of new watercolour painters who are trying to mix colours. Painting mud on purpose is a different thing altogether. One of the challenges I have been focusing on lately is how to paint water in the shallow…
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Explorations
A recent painting excursion was to a natural conservation area I had never visited before, the remains of an estate on a river on the Niagara Escarpment. Near the entrance were the expected picnic areas and river, which opened to a pond with a flat, terraced area on the edge. I settled in with another…
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Landscape of the Imagination
I have been studying the work of the famous Group of Seven painters this winter, marveling at what they were able to capture, the colour and composition in their paintings, and hoping some of it will rub off on me. One of my discoveries was how the individual artists seemed to have an affinity for…
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