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  SELECTIONS OF ART OF ABOUT 25 YEARS FULL TIME

A Selection of Landscape Paintings

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EXAMPLES OF SMALL PAINTINGS

- 8" x 10"-

(a few are 12"x16")

My hand in this photograph gives an idea of the small size. Once framed such wilderness landscapes sold like hotcakes.


Another example with hand showing the small size



A pond close to Algonquin Park. It is the basis of a large detailed painting of the same location (see below for later developed version)


A scene beside road at Buckhorn, Ont




from 2001. I am challenged by any scene including this scene with fallen trees



1995 -In that year I painted small paintings left and right because they sold well in galleries in Toronto and elsewhere,




From 2003 - a marshy location beside the highway


Spring melt creates rushing creeks. This painting shows my impressionist technique to capture the energy


Capturing the colour and liquidity of water, rocks. driftwood in bay of a large lake



Capturing the character of a landscape near Burleigh Falls with impressionistic technique



I have a special attraction to paiinting water


From 2001 - falls at  Lasswade (near Apsley)




Capturing fall colours along driveway
It is not easy to make leaves look three dimensional as opposed to flat


From 2004 - evening scene on Eels Lake with windswept pines on a point




Snowy trees beside the winter road



Some such paintings inspired larger paintings that include an animal



This small painting inspired a later painting with a wolf



Sun lights up the leaves in foreground trees beside shore



From 1999 - a scene back in the bay from my location. This inspired a larger painting with a kingfisher in the foreground
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I was attracted to the colours on the lake shoreline  as well as the rocks and driftwood




The birch tree is attractive and allows such a painting in which the black branches  provide a design



I tried a more impressinistic technique of a field behind a fence



Early morning at Bon Echo






Experiment to give this scene a more abstract impressionist treatment. This painting is a little larger than the small ones. I cannot say I like doing this kind of art because I like to explore detail.





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  EXAMPLES OF LARGER LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS

- up to 20" x 30" -

The larger landscapes are from about this size to twice this size
The purpose was to provide more detail so that the viewer  could experience more of the scene at the same distance of down to about arm's length




This was a study in light shining down to the shore of a creek




In this painting I was able to control the arrangement of lilypad leaves for the design and place the flower at a focal point


This was a large detailed landscape painting to which I added a heron in the sky. Painted in high detail in a 20"x30" size



Sunlit lake island in winter




I saw the colours of leaves and grasses against a rock very attractive and I was able to adjust their locations in order to make the design more interesting





The large painting inspired by the scene first created in the small painting  High detail level on 20" x 30" painting

MORE ON HOW THIS PAINTING WAS DEVELOPED >>>




This is one of the few landscapes not depicting the wildermess





I caught this scene when driving south from Temagami in the early morning. I designed the elements to create a balanced abstract design (this large painting is available)

Comment; This is only a selection of large landscapes. Note though that many wildlife paintings are mostly landscapes. the animal being placed in the landscape. See the next Wildlife Art selections for examples

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