I've been at Bastion Square the past few weeks. Here are a few sketches I've done there.

Wild Irises

Here's another Wild Iris Painting I did en plein air while sitting in a kayak in Prince Edward Island.

Maple Leaf Study

sold

Chestnut Leaf

Oak Leaves #2

71/2x11 water colour on paper

Fisherman's Warf

Sharing a sunday

Out with Nana

I spent the day painting at Fisherman's Warf. There are lots of cool float homes and stuff to paint there, but I was most inspired with the families.

A Day at the Beach

Grace the Parrotlet and her lady

Little Miss Pigtails gathering driftwood

I love sketching people at the beach. Well I enjoy sketching people anywhere, but today I went to the beach in search of inspiration. Here's a couple of sketches from today.
The lady with the bluebird enjoys taking her 4 year old parrotlet Grace for walks.  Grace sure seemed to enjoy the attention she was getting from curious people. 

Lunds Auction, wc/paper, 6x12"

Here's a scene from Lunds Auction last week.  Watercolour and pen on paper. $20

Kenna Fair Demo at Opus

I did this charcoal composition at a workshop/demo by Galiano artist Jenna Fair. It was a free demo put on by Opus Art Supplies.

Everyone was handed a big sheet of white paper and some charcoal. Then we are told to draw a grid on the paper so its divided into 6 squares. Then we drew a few shapes in each square.  Then what we've done is handed to the person on our right and they are asked to join the shapes and were given an hour to make something out of it so that the viewer's eye would move around inside the image and not wander off the edge.  Well, this is what I ended up with. Sort of an interesting abstraction.  Kind of cool, eh?

The Sketch Club

I belong to a great art group called the Victoria Sketch Club. During the winter we meet once a week to paint together indoors (outdoor in the summer months). We also hold meetings to decide on the program etc. Heres a couple of sketches from these meetings.