Samples of lightning paintings. I like painting the elements, fire, wind, lightning. I also like water paintings. I prefer dark, moody colouring for some reason. Both of these are acrylic underlay with oils layered on top.

Mimes

I thought I should post these two again just to keep the mime series together.

Both are OSWOA (4" x 6") pieces. Unframed as always.

Need Reference photos?

Artists, do you need reference material. I found artmorgue.com. It's free to join, and it looks like it has a lot of material. (at least I hope it's a good site) Let me know if you have other sources that are good.

Marketing Poll to the right on the page.

I'm conducting a poll to see what drives you to do what you do. Do you try and figure out the market and paint or create accordingly? Or do you just do whatever inspires you and hope that you find a market for it. Or I guess some people just create and don't give marketing a thought.

I have tried to figure out what is popular at the moment, but am not always inspired to paint what it seems everyone wants. When I paint "popular" pieces they don't sell as well as pieces that truly inspired me. On the other hand, things I thought were masterpieces were complete failures.

Have you had the same experience?

Ballet Shoes

This is part of my "mime" pieces. All have been done with coloured pencil. I'm slowly getting the hang of them. Although I still can use the practise of blending.
This is also a 4" x 6" piece. This is the size I prefer although before Christmas I will have to get back into the 1 1/2" size for the doll house people. :)

Peach Lotus

I finished this piece tonight. It's an OSWOA of course! I was tired of painting pink water lilies so I decided to do a peach one.

Kingsmere Lake

Daughter Erica and grands at Kingsmere Lake. Accessable only by foot (or boat if you portage 1 1/2 kms)If you go by boat to the far end of this lake you can portage again to another lake and find Grey Owl's cabin and gravesite. On my "to do" list some day.

Portage Kingsmere Lake

We walked the old rail bed to the lake, but we did run into these fisherman who were portaging their boat to the river to fish at Kingsmere Lake. They left that boat and went back and got another one to portage. They gave the kids a ride on the railcar that they were pushing the boat on. It was really neat.

Kingsmere Wilderness

River connecting Waskesui Lake and Kingsmere Lake

Waskesui

Breakwater at Waskesui Lake