#43 Beach Cornucopia.
MAR 2019: capture a wave.
#31 It’s your turn, tern.
JUN 2018: tho winter is so dark and grey, must get outside to play.
#30 There’s more than one way to…
MAY 2018: paint the same subject in a different way.
#29 Our last day at the beach.
SEP 2017: show the end of summer.
#25 Murder, she wrote.
Mission: create a feeling of tension and uncertainty.
#24 Saratoga morning mist.
Mission: create fog and mist with paint on paper.
#23 Lost again.
Mission: read the tides, currents, charts, shipping lanes and weather before heading out.
#22 Gowlland Harbour, Quadra.
Mission: show the close proximity of the islands on a clear day.
#21 Artist’s doldrums.
The blank sheet of watercolour paper is sometimes daunting. Or sometimes you are lost in the quagmire of self-doubt. Or whether there’s any point in painting another painting…
#20 Time for reflection.
Mission: raise two birdlings ‘Another Hard Days Night’ | 2017 | 6×6”
#19 Orange and black.
Mission: create with seasonal colours. ’Orange and Black’ | 2018 | 8×8”
#18 Gospel Rock.
Mission: prove the impossible. ‘Red cedar’ | 2017 | 9×12”
#17 Swamp or beach?
Mission: decide whether an estuary can be called a beach.
#16 The September Crowd.
Mission: Create a visual likeness of the movement of the wind blowing the beach grass.
#15 Low low at Fanny Bay.
Mission: find a place for a quick nap while on the road up-island.
#14 Triptych unframed.
Mission: there’s a nook and there’s a crannie. Grab a toe-hold. Who’s your grannie?
#13 Passion.
Mission: show love with paint. Lust. Harmony. Perhaps monogamy.
#12 Breezy birches.
Mission: tree-like shapes, no leaves, starkness. How can I make it more interesting?
#11 Serenity, at last.
Mission: create a focal point. It’s hot. No breezes but the sweet smell of moss on warm rock.
#9 Secret. Lake. Water on water.
Mission: mix water and pigment onto paper – what will be will be.
#7 Stark stoic silver cedar.
Mission: capture the character of a tree worn and weathered, gnarly and regal.
#6 Hot summer day on the beach.
Mission: convey a sweltering hot, west coast day on the beach. How does that island look so distant while on other days it’s a stones-throw away?
#5 Imagination. Let it go.
Mission: paint loose. Paint wet on wet. Go less for representation. Create a suggestion.
#4 Painting water. Every wave.
Mission: create water with movement, crashing onto the rocks and shore. It’s water so use lots of water in my brush?
#2 First paintings – wet on wet.
Mission: paint loose and free. Beginner’s luck? Lesson learned: move the brush like water. Looking west from Georgia Beach. “Georgia Beach Bluff” 8×8 inches | 2018
#1 Painting with watercolours – my torturous medium of choice.
Mission: with a loaded brush and a white sheet of paper, capture the movement of wind.