556 Charlottetown Winter

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This painting is from my winter spent on Prince Edward Island.  Charlotte is such a charming and quaint city. So cozy with the tight little streets lined with crooked wooden century homes and snow piles. 

555 Maple Leaf Study

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This is a watercolour study I did today. I haven't done watercolours in a few years so I'm rather rusty. Watercolours are so relaxing to do compared with oils. When I paint with oils my muse is highly charged and energized.  But with watercolours my muse is serene and delicate. Are they actually separate muses? There's a muse for every mood.

554 Sweet Dream

This is an alla prima painting I did at a life painting session with the Sketch Club. The model was particularly graceful.

553 Rue Jeanne-Mance

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This is another image from the neighbourhood where I grew up.  Montreal is especially lovely in the autumn with all the maple trees in colour. Parking is way difficult and they now have bicycle lanes running all over the place. Good thing there's lots of posts to chain your bike to.

552 Av du Parc

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This is a scene near my mother's home in Montreal. Why is rain so beautiful? I really enjoyed painting this. I used a larger painting I did a few years ago as a reference. (Usually it works the other way)

551 Autumn Forest

It was an an amazingly beautiful day at Goldstream Park. The autumn colours are so inspiring! The salmon are swimming upstream to spawn. Thousands of them. It's an amazing spectacle. The smell of rotting fish is in the air as well. It's a seagull and eagle buffet. The forest is amazing too. Old growth towering overhead and branches blackened and covered with moss twisting at strange angles.  At first I thought these branches are so clumsy and considered painting them with more graceful curves. But once I really gave them my attention I realized they had a grace of their own. I painted them just as I saw them. 

550 Charlottetown

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Winter in Charlottetown is so pretty, and snowy. You can cross-country ski around the downtown area after a snowfall. The earth is so red that if you're new to PEI it might look like somethings been run over on the road on a slushy day. Those  towering steeples are from St Dunstan's Basilica.