Darlene Young Canadian Artist: 2013

722 Montreal East, Winter Scene Snow Bank Hurdles

sold

721 Scene Near Le Plateau Montreal

sold

720 Parc St-Viateur, Patiner

sold-Canada (Ottawa)

I used to skate at this lovely park when I was a kid. It hasn't changed one iota in 50 years. Beautiful!

719 Montreal Night Scene, Presse Cafe

sold

718 Montreal Winter Scene, rue Jeanne-Mance

Sold

717 Montreal Winter Scene, Mile End Shabbat

sold-Canada (Saskatchewan)

716 Montreal Winter, rue St-Denis

Sold

St-Denis is so magical in the winter with the large coloured globes hanging in the trees.

715 Montreal Winter Scene, Near UQAM

sold

714 Montreal Winter Scene, rue Bousquet

Sold

This was such a charming little street. Even the name Bousquet was charming.

712 Charlottetown PEI Winter Scene

Sold

Here's another Charlottetown scene. You can ski around town in December. But watch out for the cars. (The snow can be slippery like vaseline).

711 Charlottetown Winter Scene

Sold

710 White Roses

$100

I painting these on my work table. Hmmm.

709 Remembrance Day White Roses #2

sold-USA

Here are those pretty white roses again. I kept them in the fridge to keep the fresh. I love the texture in the paint strokes. They create a sense of movement and are interesting and beautiful in themselves.

708 Remembrance Day Roses

SOLD

White Roses signify remembrance for a loved one lost. I found these on a path near Beacon Hill Park yesterday and knew I had to paint them. While I painted them today I heard the gun salute from the ceremony in front of the Parliament Building.

707 Montreal Winter Scene, McGill University Scene

Sold

This is the entrance to McGill from Sherbrooke Street.

706 Red Tulips

705 Red Tulips

sold-Montreal

I found these lovely tulips at Thrifty's today. I was thrilled. I just love red tulips!

704 Montreal, Sherbrooke Est

sold

This is a scene from my visit to Montreal last winter. I wanted snow and got loads of it.

Robert Genn

Last night I received Robert Genn's newsletter "The Painters Keys" informing his subscribers that he has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Robert described this news as a "The Bomb".

I only met Robert Genn once in person at the Sidney paint out competition about 4 years ago where he was juror. However, I've been receiving his biweekly newsletter "The Painters Keys" since 2005. I've come to look forward to these letters which were his ponderings about art stuff (usually in response to letters from other subscribers).

Although I was one of many thousands of subscribers world wide I looked forward to it in my email as though it were a letter from a friend. It was insightful, often amusing, thought provoking, and always personal. Thank you Robert.

703 A Wonderful Story

Sold

Pardon the glare. A work in progress. I liked the motifs that surrounded and covered the girls. A very limited palette but exciting.

702 Red and Yellow Tulips in a Jar

sold-Montreal

I found these pretty red tulips with yellow edges at the local grocers. I haven't seen tulips since the spring and I just had to paint them. I've been stuck on the girl in the library painting lately. Sometimes when I'm on a big painting I find I find it hard to break away from it onto something else. But sometimes it's the best thing I can do.

The Girl in the Library (in progress)

I changed the dress a little to a smoother look. Still more work to do on this.

The Lost Leonardo

This is a copy of Ruben's copy of the Lost Battle of Anghiari. The original was thought to have been painted in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. It is believed that Da Vinci was trying out a new fresco method probably used cassin to paint on plaster. Over time the painting was consumed by mould.
I really liked the composition of this painting and felt it would be a good exercise (as well as a change from my own painting).

700 "Night Artist"

I wanted to do a study using a vivid light dark.

699 Montreal Winter, Chinatown

698 Sun Flowers in a Jar

These are the same sunflowers from last week. I started this painting Sunday night and left everything set up and took a couple of days away from the studio at the Empress. Today I went in and started working on it again. I had to lower the water line in the jar as it had evaporated (or the flowers drank it) over the two days. I decided to leave out the dark shadows from the flowers were casting on the blue cloth as I found it make the composition too cluttered.
Available $350 plus $20 s/h

697 Maple Leaf, Watercolour

This is the first leaf of the season. I picked it up from the sidewalk near my place. It is so early that it is still half green. It's a little torn too. But still worthy of a painting adds character.
$30 plus $10 S/H

696 Montreal Winter, Parc St-Viateur

Sold

8x10, oil on Belgian linen, mounted to mahogany panel.

695 Sunflowers in a Jar

I just couldn't waste these sunflowers, So here's another painting of them.

694 Sunflowers and Gerbera Daisies

sold

693 Carnations In a Jar

buy

691 Montreal Hiver, Before the Blizzard

sold

690 Montreal Winter, Av des Pins

sold

689 Montreal Winter Scene, McGill Ghetto

buy

688 Tea Room Scene, Work in Progress

Tea Room Work in Progress

detail

Here's what I've been working on on the side the past month. I was using photo references for the room and figures but found that the figures are so dark in the pics that I end up painting them from my imagination. Today I decided that I will take all the major characters and replace them with figures from the French Impressionist paintings. So far I painted in the two ladies in the right foreground with two Renoir figures. I like the result so far.

My Sketchbook