Bestest Christmas card ever

This has to be the "bestest" Christmas card ever.
Hand painted by my artist friend Linda. This is a keeper.

Friday night December 2 at Harcourt

Friday night December 2 at Harcourt, just dropped in to pick up a painting and drew that last pose.

Really mild day so I revisited some landscape from last month

From out where the prairie meets the bush country. 

It really is not that green at all, made most of that up.

Range Road 25 area.

Friday Night sessions 2 sketches of Carolyn

sketches from the Friday night session

Jon and Lynn's Wedding day zipped down to a minute and a half.

Here are all the images I took on the wedding day compressed into a minute and a half.

murmuration, a new word to me

Murmuration, how can one not be entranced?

Friday sessions are back

Working with the figure again. Friday night sessions.

leaf landcapes

Leaves surrounding the back patio area are saturated in color and making perfect abstracted landscapes.

Elk Island paintings

For the past two weeks I have been pleinair painting with other artists in the aspen parkland lakes just east of the city. The leaves are at their colorful best and the skies filled with snow geese, canada geese, and sandhill cranes. The light  and colors can be the most dramatic and saturated in the year.

Fragments Series

Here are some of the fragments series completed in September. Some are available at the Kurbatoff Gallery in Vancouver. Fragments Series: I_11_05 | Not A Red Square 02/01 diptych | 24" x 24"  2011 | Available at Kurbatoff Gallery (604) 736-5444

Raven Origins 3: The origins of light on the earth and the first humans

This is the final story in this series on the origins of the earth. It is based on the Tlingit mythology that has countless variations. These drawings and writings are based on the mythology first presented by John R. Swanton that were part of an oral tradition that goes back before anyone knows. These visual imaginings are the result of reading these stories and attempting an image of how this world may have appeared.

Raven Origins 2: How Raven gains the powers of light

Here is the second version of the story of Raven Origins 2. Here Raven gains control of the powers of light.

Raven Origins 1: a visualization of an old Tlingit myth on the origins of light.

Here are my visualizations of the first mythical story of the origins of the world based on the writings of John R Swanton at the turn of the last century.