First Catch

This is a beautiful spot on Pigeon Lake in the Kawartha lakes region of Ontario. I'm enjoy painting light and reflections in water, especially in the early morning.
6x8" Oil on Raymar cotton panel

Cupcakes

My submission to the painters challenge called Different Strokes From Different Folks hosted by artist Karin Jurick.
Between seeing the wonderful movie "Julie and Julia", and painting cupcakes, I am getting very interested in cooking and baking! I loved painting this challenge. I took Karin's advice and checked out the American painter Wayne Thiebaud, who is most famous for his paintings of everyday objects such as food, lipsticks, shoes and especially cakes and pastries. Interestingly, he was a sign painter early in his career, and so was I.
Painting these reminded me of birthday parties that my parents had for me when I was very young, and my mother made iced cupcakes, which I ate with ice cream and I love cake and ice cream to this day.
I didn't spend much time with tonal and colour sketches. I just drew charcoal sketch on a burnt sienna toned canvas panel, and painted most of it in one sitting and added highlights the next day. Sometimes I have to go away, and then come back to "see" what I should do next.

I really enjoyed this!
Check out all the others at the above link. It's amazing to see how differently everyone has handled this.

6x 8" Oil on Raymar cotton panel $65
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The Junction - Early Evening

The Junction is the neighbourhood in Toronto where I live so called because it is near the junction of four railway lines.

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Still

Working on reflective surfaces can be a challenge.

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Sunday Evening at the Beach

I love the time of day when there are long shadows and really warm coloured light.

Ferris Wheel

I took my niece to the Caledon Spring Fair, which was quite old fashioned and we really enjoyed it. There was a draft horse show, a country band, a home made baked goods auction, antique farm machinery, and of course a ferris wheel.

Green Canoe

I painted this canoe that resides at my friend Marylin's cottage last year, and I didn't like it much so I re-purposed it (what a word!). I think I like this one better.