Man-made Stripes. Red striped bathing huts at Knokke-Heist on the Belgian Coast. Striped painting in a gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark. Matching one’s blue striped outfit to a blue striped mural on Granville Island, Vancouver. Natural Stripes. Small scrub struggling to grow … Continue reading Stripes & Checks: Man-Made and Natural
Cee has been keeping me busy looking for leaves and flowers with surface patterns on them, and I’ve discovered that the patterns come in several variations. Veining. Sometimes the veining only shows up in the fall when the leaves change … Continue reading Patterns in Leaves and Flowers
I don’t usually post stuff from my art blog on Facebook, but I have been nominated to post a painting a day for 10 days on Facebook by Deanna Fogstrom, one of my studiomates. You can find her work at: … Continue reading Posting a Painting a Day For Ten Days Challenge
October is the month when the Sage Brush puts out yellow blooms in BC’s Okanogan. An ancient weathered sage with pale greens and oranges in the background. Look at these colours – October has to be the most beautiful month … Continue reading Sage, October’s Plant of the Month
Prayer Plants get their name from the fact that its leaves close up at night, appearing to be in ‘prayer’. Members of the Maranta or Prayer Plant family Marantacea often have colourful variegated foliage. This Rattlesnake Plant, Calathea lancifolia, has long ripply … Continue reading Artworks and Photos of the Maranta or Prayer Plant Family
Strolling along the Seawall this July I spotted a bunch of waterlilies in bloom. The shapes of the white flowers was beautiful but further along, just around a bend in the pond, were some pink waterlilies.The pink lilies were almost … Continue reading Artworks and Photos of Waterlilies at the Lagoons
My knee started to go on a Manning Park hike up the Three Brothers, so I settled myself down amongst the mosquitos with my sketch pad, and did these drawings of lupins in the wild. Pencil drawing of blue Lupins … Continue reading Blue Lupins Painted from Life Instead of from Photos
Dying purple tulip in my garden. Back-lit dying leaf of a Hosta.Dying Hydrangea in the late autumn. Dead sunflowers & rust composition.Sunflower head after all the seeds are goneThe flowers had all fallen off and the leaves were in the … Continue reading Dying Flowers and Leaves
In April and May 2020, during the worst of the Coronavirus, I stayed inside and started painting irises from photos, not the way I usually like to work. These photos of yellow and white Flag Irises were taken in 2017 … Continue reading Close Examination: Artworks and Photos of Flag Irises
The yuccas are in bloom this month in Vancouver. Watercolour painting in my sketchbook of a yucca that has grown tall enough to turn itself into a tree. This was inspired by a yucca ‘tree’ growing besides Las Margaritas in … Continue reading Yuccas in Bloom, July’s Plant of the Month
