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#152 Galvanized steel, soft suede gloves, wispy green branches

Drink up my lovelies it’s going to be a long hot August

#149 Wild geraniums

Really teeny tiny five-petal pink flowers all over the lawn. So delicate and pretty that I couldn’t let them be mowed down.

#147 Follow your doctor’s orders

#144 Daffs

There’s so many ways to paint daffodils. Their distinctive shape let’s you go loose and yet not so loose that you lose the shape

#139 An invitation to start a renaissance

The pandemic has you inside looking out. Now tweak your gaze slightly to looking inside. Look at things, hold them, feel their weight, scent, sound. Now look at those same things from on your device. You can’t see textures on your device. However, watercolour paper is all about that. The paper seduces. The paints reply….

#138 Blooms blessed blooms

No more watercolours coming for the next few months. Today I’m having hip replacement surgery – hurray!!

#135 Dolls

Doll collection… Guess who?

#131 The lions looked dandy yesterday

“Dandelions” | 10×10″ | Oct 2021

#130 Echinaceas

I can gaze at this watercolour taped on my wall and benefit from the healing power of Echinaceas.

#129 Mossy mansions

#128 Canna canna canna

#127 Pineapple weed

#126 Home base for the honey bee

#125 Deep Bay

Exploring Ships Point Road I landed at Ships Point Park. It’s a very rocky pointy-shaped park on a spit with a dramatic view of Deep Bay.

#123 Fanny Bay, low tide

#121 Ships Point Road

Exploring mid-island I had to pull over at the first view of water along Ships Point Road.

#119 Kids. Mine. Yours. Theirs. Kids. Just kids.

#118 I offer you an Alder branch [sold]

#117 Hot hot hot weather

Cooling down at Sunny Beach.

#113 Oh, what tangled webs these trees

#112 Fairy ferns

#111 Pansy

The velvety petals are captured on the texture of watercolour paper, mmm-mmm, nothing like it when you can hold it in your hand!

#110 pleinair, day one, May 7

We met at the Buckley Bay rest area at 1:00. We meet again May 14 at Rosewall Park – see you there! Although it started to rain after the first hour, we had an awesome time. And cuz it’s outside we can be covid-safe. I’m hopeful more will show up each Friday at one o’clock….

#106 Dacks

#105 I adore adirondacks

#104 Dear adirondacks

Adirondack chairs served up fruity.

#101 A new swoosh of colour in my garden.

#100 Bridge to the beach chairs

#99 Can you eat it?

#98 Fishing lessons

#97 Ducks in a row

#96 Sweet ‘n sour forest treats

“Huckleberries” | 10×10″ | 02/2021

#95 Our favourite drinking hole

#94 Checkers and stripes

Wish you were here.

#93 Lovers’ leap one year later

Hope is not lost. “Lovers’ leap” | 8×8″ | 03/2020

#92 Swamps, bloated creeks, heavy with rain; Uproot our great giants from their towering reign

#91 Winter light and birches with stripes

Seasonings greetings

#90 Dixon’s passion

#89 Nice break from political turmoil.

#87 Friend or foe?

#86 We three kings…

#85 News flash: Locals raid bird feeder

Woo-hoo! My 4 paintings just got approved by FCA 10-squared exhibit

Douglas Firconian, Eeuphoria Mtn Ashium, Velcrophorbia Plantarium and Dand Dillion Ranuncullium

#84 Umbrella twist with a girl

#83 Burley Mr Burdock bangooned

#82 Drafts for Umbrella Girl

#81 More Nester’s Chums

#80 Nester’s chums. [diptych]

#79 Saturday’s en-pleinair

With my very good friend, a watercolour painter like me, after a whole year later than planned, we finally got outside last Saturday to paint together. There were so many distractions, like beautiful birds, and driftwood and dogs, that we didn’t actually paint much. So when I got home to my orderly and functional studio…