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Ferry Dock, Balfour, BC. 8 x 10″ acrylic on canvas For Sale – $250 One of my favourite parts about the area is taking the ferry across to the West shore. I have fond memories of crossing at night with … Continue reading
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Left of Centre – April 2011 Canadian Houses of Parliament 4 Colour Reduction Woodcut print 8 x 6.5″ on Cranes Lettra ECRU 300gsm All I can say is that I need coffee. Badly. But it was worth it. Morning came … Continue reading
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Though the last couple of months have been pretty crazy with teaching, client work, and music, I have managed to focus in the last couple weeks on doing some reduction prints for an upcoming show at The Arts Station in … Continue reading
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Here are a few images inspired by a recent visit to the metropolis of Vancouver and its fringes. Whiterock, Chilliwack, the VAG and Cafe Artegiano.
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Here are a few recent paintings I’ve been working on. The first is a wintery scene (they all were until this week) looking up the Elk River near Fernie, BC. The second is a beautiful, old, and now condemned old … Continue reading
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Wycliffe Plateau 20″ x 10″ Acrylic on canvas SOLD This was my first ‘en plein air’ painting of the spring. With the winters around here you just can’t paint outside all year ’round. I drove out to Wycliffe which looks … Continue reading
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“Mike, your drawer of Goudy Hand-tooled is at the airport. Where else would it be?”. This was the text I got from Mark on Monday afternoon. “Doug has it, he’s with airport security”. I had just met Mark three days … Continue reading
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One of the tricky things about painting is finding not only a unique style, but a unique perspective. Most of the scenery we tend to see is from a car, looking out the window. While there is plenty of beauty … Continue reading
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My dad lives on the edge of Lethbridge, Alberta in a house with a wedge-shaped lot that backs on to some railway tracks. If you go out the back gate, down the path that runs parallel to the tracks for … Continue reading
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Anie and I spent the afternoon last weekend in Fernie, and on our way home in the late afternoon the sun was turning the Steeples range into a light-show. As we crossed the bridge into Wardner I got Anie to … Continue reading
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In a rare moment I found myself with a few hours on a Saturday afternoon with a canvas gesso’d and ready to paint. I even had an idea waiting for this moment so I didn’t have to much prep, just … Continue reading
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Over the Christmas holidays I grabbed an afternoon to myself and headed to downtown to do some drawing of old buildings and stock up on art supplies from Mona Lisa on 17th (it’s seriously a tragedy that such a nice … Continue reading