Early Spring

A site that was crying to be painted. Painted with watercolour during a moderate winter, I thought it was a nice barn worth remembering. It's gone now, replaced by rows and rows and rows of new houses that all look the same. Most people who live there now will never know or imagine what was there before them. Well this is what you replaced but then nothing lasts forever and at some point the homes you live in will also be replaced.

All Stones Canyon, Alberta

This is a canyon in the Rockey Mountains near the Big Horn Dam. As you can see, the rock formations in this canyon are really unusual. They seem to have been twisted and pulled like toffee. Although the rock was red I did exaggerate the colour somewhat, near the base there are small veins of coal. Traveling in this area one has to be aware of and on the lookout for grizzlies. In a small box canyon, not a good place to meet one.

The medium is watercolour and pencil crayon. Watercolour was used in the sky and as a base for the pencil crayons.

Preparing for the next ride

This particular drawing is of a rodeo cowboy preparing his saddle and visualizing his next ride on a wild, red eyed bronc. This was from a photo I took at Swan River in Northern Manitoba.

Stuck on the Ice

This drawing was taken from a photograph in the Arctic near Baffin Island. The new Skidoo's were just beginning to take the place of the sled dog, however with a sled when things broke or a dog became injured or died, the owner still had at least half a dozen healthy dogs that would allow him to continue traveling.
Now if your sled has a problem you had better be able to fix it no matter what it is. Your life might depend on your ability to keep these machines running.

The House Warmer

This one is for my daughter and her husband. They just bought a new house and will be moving into it at the end of March. It's 11x15 " or 16x20 with the frame. I'll try a larger one later on, in the meantime I hope they like this one.

Bent All Out of Shape

One of the first paintings I did of a flower. I can't remember when ,I took the Picture, but I do remember it seemed to be a somewhat strange looking flower. One of my daughters liked it and took to Calgary. She's a good daughter, she likes everything I do!

Leaving Saskatchewan

An early snow and the geese are already gathering together for the flight to the southern states. One of Canada's most prolific hunting grounds, geese often cover farmers fields in Saskatchewan by the thousands sometimes destroying whole fields of grain. In Saskatchewan hunters are welcome.

Spring

Full of light and warm colours.
This is the kind of picture you want on your wall when the temperature breaks a 50 year record for the month of March in Alberta.
This year it fell to minus 32 or somewhere near minus 46 with the wind chill added.

This painting is an 8x 10 watercolour on very rare and very rough paper.

Parked for the winter

This India Ink drawing features a winter view, hard to achieve if your working with black and white. The town is nearly a ghost town. It.s called Rowley and is located in central Alberta just north of Drumheller a town that seems to be full of dinosaurs

Battle River Barn in summer

The Battle River barn in summer.
I could probably paint dozens pictures
of this barn from every angle and it
would still be a decent painting.
The old car came from Reynolds back lot -
his private collection.
Link to Reynolds Museum is found here.