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One Room School
Not far from Kamloops is the lovely rural town of Pritchard. On Duck Range Road was an old one room schoolhouse that was ‘adopted’ by a local farmer who had attended it as a boy and hoped some...
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High Country
Within the Kamloops city limits lies The Lac du Bois Grasslands Protected Area, dedicated to preserving native grasslands and the sweeping vistas of this special region. Old time ranching and a...
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Mount Peter
To look up the face of Mount Peter– (the sibling of the larger Mount Paul), the signature mountains overlooking our city of Kamloops, B. C.–is to look upon the core of a mountain. These are mountains...
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Oregon Coast
The natural rock formation known as Arch Cape is located along the Pacific coast and is 3.8 miles south of Cannon Beach, Oregon–in the extreme southwestern part of Clatsop County. For a few summers at...
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Rainy Day Study I
Golden Ears Provincial Park is one of the largest in British Columbia (over 62,500 hectares;1 hectare=2.47 acres) and features the pristine Alouette Lake. It also has three campgrounds and hiking...
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Gettysburg
Gettysburg. The very name sends all manner of emotion through my heart and out the other side. I began studying this famous American Civil War Battle (July 1,2,3, 1863) some twenty years ago and then...
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Painting Progression 1….
THERE WAS an old schoolhouse in the Township of Pritchard, British Columbia, just down the road from my friend Shiela. It was kept on a corner of field by a rancher who had attended it, hoping someday...
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Painting Progression 2
TREES are painted in very dark and the watercolour pigment tempered a bit in order to have it resist being completely taken away by an overlay of secondary wash. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged:...
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Painting progression 3
THE MOON and schoolhouse roof were masked, then a wash applied in the sky areas. Once done, a decision was made to next eliminate the horse, it becoming an unintended focal point if left in. (A lone...
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Painting progression 4
MORE TREES needed adding. The suggestion of rocky outcrop is introduced. The aging building is blocked in. Shadowing completes this phase….. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: architecture,...
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Painting progression 5
THE FINISHED piece–“Abandoned Schoolhouse, Pritchard”. The rocks needed darkening and definition. Pines were added. Spattering of snow was used to unify the whole and add a feeling of movement....
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……’why the moon glows’, by Ane Jones (age 8)
Filed under: animals, birds, children's book, drawing, moonscapes, people, seascapes, summer, watercolour Tagged: birds, child, children, moonlight, nature, painting, seascape, sky, summer, surf,...
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Conclusion…..’Why The Moon Glows’ by Aneleise Jones, age 8
Moral: don’t mess with Mother Nature (or the Ocean Man). ~~~~~ Aneleise (Ane) at her Grandparents’, age 8. . . Filed under: animals, art, birds, children's book, drawing, moonscapes, people,...
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The Federation of Canadian Artists’ National Show
THE FEDERATION OF CANADIAN ARTISTS had its beginnings in 1941, and had as its goal the unified representation of all Provinces through one organization. Canada’s premier artists, The Group of Seven,...
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the stuff of watercolour
WATERCOLOUR is simply a mixture of pigment (ground-up minerals: organic and synthetic) held in a semi-solid form by a binder (usually gum arabic). In days of yore (not that long ago)–this was...
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mountain storm
MOUNTAIN STORMS ALWAYS COME WITH high winds and occasionally with hail, and here in Kamloops, British Columbia, are often felt in one part of the city and not in others. Being a city of roughly 90,000,...
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breakers
The depicting of waves in watercolour is particularly challenging when one has decided on being a ‘purist’ by refraining from both opaque white and masking fluid. Personally speaking, masking fluid...
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standard-bearer of watercolour
Touted often as being the most difficult of mediums, and sometimes even as ‘the medium of mediums’, not everyone holds watercolour in such honour. Indeed, oils are deemed the zenith of painting...
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ocean study
For many years I lived in Vancouver, B. C., which is considered one of the top 3 ‘most livable’ cities in the world. One of its best features is being surrounded by water on three sides. On one...
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Rock and Sky
We live in a very rocky place. Our house is situated just below a mountain ridge that is home to native varieties of cactus, sagebrush, tumbleweed, and the domain of Chukar Partridges, mule deer,...
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