This is the Bank Before the Falls. The Trees are silhouetted by the afternoon sun. If you were there you would hear the crashing water of the falls downstream.

Bissett Creek along #55 Highway East of Prince Albert SK

The great blue heron in its relaxed pose. Salt is used to get the dappled effect on the water. The light shines through the reeds in the background.

The Sky is Pink as the evening sun reflects on the clouds. One has to stop to take a picture on The Way Home sometimes.

Abstract Landscape-Loose and Lovely with perfect imperfection.

En Plein Air (ePA)The boathouses are set for the convenience of getting a boat into them. The angles are often out of whack.

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The rapids on beautiful Mistik Creek MB near Flin Flon. The water appeared very rusty or dark brown and even black in places.

4x11.5

The High Bush Cranberry is not really a cranberry is used by many people for making a cranberry sauce. It tastes great, but it smells like dirty socks when cooked!

Loose and Lovely Highbush Cranberry

Smith Falls is in beautiful Northern Saskatchewan. It is rough and raw with no fences or stairs.

Dead Moose Lake, an alkali lake in the Humboldt SK area rich with waterfowl and shorebirds.

Ascension Church in Maryville ( near Melfort SK) basked in fall colours. Mounted on birch panel.

Painted en plein air from the deck of a rental cabin at Bayside Resort Denare Beach. It was a foggy misty morning,

The old bins lean and totter, but are a splash of colour in the snowy environment.

en Plein Air - These boat houses are actually garages built on floats! Some had weird angles which were fun to paint. The swallows were nesting in the open one.

Painted from a photo this giant cedar had moss that hung like chartreuse yarn. I was very captivated by the sun shining through the moss.

This is the second rendition of the beautiful swans I saw while plein air painting. They flew so near where I was sitting. It was a thrilling sight.

The Great Blue Heron Feasts on water creatures. I have seen them catch frogs with a quick dart of their beak into the water.

This scene's softness inspired me to paint it en plein air from my vehicle.

The sun shines through the cedar boughs at Stamp Falls BC

Went to a new home on Art and Found Day 2023

Psalm 121:1 sings in my heart when I visit this beautiful Valley. “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills. From whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.”

This is inspired by my own photo of ducks swimming in a local pond. I wonder where the girls are? Nesting maybe?

Painted en Plein Air at Qu'Appelle Valley this painting has a raw quality that takes me right back to the spot.

Sow Thistle and Sage grow side-by-side at the water's edge.

The inspiration was my own phot of the shore of McBride Lake SK. The ducks were added because- well- Ilke ducks.

One of my favourites with abstracted shapes and suggestions of the falls in the distance.

This falls is a fantasy. Metallic highlights are on the falling water. I love the mystic quality of the Misty background. It looks amazing in an almost black matte.

This is the final painting of a series in which I changed various components of the painting's value, colour and composition. This painting is accepted into the Online Catalogue for the International Watercolur Society Show "Stories in Light" Sept. 2023- Jan 2024

Prairie Sky from a Spring road trip.

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Psalm 121 (I will lift mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help KJV) inspires this loose and lovely abstract landscape.

A neighbours barn on a grey winter's day. The sun shines through the broken clouds.

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Has been professionally matted ready for a frame.

Dead Moose Lake in Humboldt SK area.

This gate brace caught my eyes every time I drove by it. The way the shadows in the snow and the grasses poked through the drifts. It is a warm winter scene.

5"x8" in 8x18 Matte

Painted en plein air in spring when the water was overflowing the channels.

Painted En Plein Air from Bayside Resort Cabin deck. This clump of birches were twisted together with one set off to the side.

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The Saskatchewan prairies have many alkali lakes that are rich with waterfowl. This is Dead Moose Lake near Humboldt SK grea Turing a Great Blue Heron.

Painted en Plein Air at Mistik Creek MB near Flin Flon MB. For this painting I was just feeling the motion of the water. Realism was not as important as the 'feel'.

This was my first rendition of the swans that graced my plein air painting trip be flying quite near my car.

Photo Credit Bas Hobson with permission.

An exercise in simplifying a beach scene and creating a pleasing composition. I wanted the glowing sun to be the star of this show.

Looking downstream at Mistik Creek MB.I love how the trees root on top of the rock.

9x12" Matted to 15 X 18

Created as an exercise in putting figures in paintings. Photo Credit Doug Swinton

There's the one tree that grows all crazy and spreading it's limbs, apparently discontent to grow straight and tall. It reminds me of the memes on social media about "There's always that ONE friend".