Digby Scallop Days Painting Event

Invitation to Artists If you are interested in painting and selling your artwork in Digby over the weekend of August 5-9, 2009 then now is the time for you to register. Leave me a comment if you are interested or check out the whole Scallop Days festival at www.digbyscallopdays.com I will be taking part, likely front and center on the waterfront where the views are the best. Hope to see you there.

March Wharf

March Wharf, 10 x 14", watercolour, March 2009, $425

This is a small version of a larger painting that I am now working on. This is a view of Digby very familiar to anyone who lives here as it what one sees when one drives down the main street downtown. It is one of the many pleasures of living here.

Spring in my thoughts

It would seem that I am now wishing for spring, because here I am painting spring flowers. There is an exhibit coming up in Annapolis Royal at ARCAC celebrating the Magnolia. I am taking part. I will be sending in the larger of these two and the close-up of a magnolia blossom that I painted in January of this year. The show begins April 18th and ends May 10th. Opening Reception is April 19 from 2-4 pm (Saturday).

Magnolia Branch II, 10 x 14", watercolour, 2009, $250

Magnolia Branch, 20 x 30", watercolour, 2009, Private Collection

I started the larger of these two and then wanted to experiment more with the background. The second version is where I did my experimentation. Though the two look very different, I am reasonably pleased with both of them. If you have a favourite version I would like to hear about it.

Finally! here is a new painting.

"Low Water, High Pilings", 14 x 21", watercolour, Feb 2009, $625

and a reworked one...

Winter Woods, 20 x 30", watercolour, Jan-Feb 2009, $925

Wharf in Blue

Wharf in Blue, 7 x 10", watercolour Jan 2009 Private Collection

Blue Jay

Blue Jay study, 7 x10", watercolour, Jan 2009, $98

These fellows have been visiting my feeder this winter. They come in groups of 8 or 10. The most I have seen together was a flock of at least 50 in a tree not far from here.

Reworked Pink Tiger Lily

Pink Tiger, 7 x 10", watercolour, 2006, $98

This is one that I did more than 2 years ago and have cropped significantly, bringing the focus more on the play of light across the petals.