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Was inspired to paint this scene on our recent trip to Medicine Hat Alberta.We see these pronghorn antelope periodically in that area and love the colour combination.
The supplied refence photo and my painting to compare this scene of a very tiny sapling sprounting out between a large rock in a stream. determined to survive and grow despite these major obstacles. Titled it appropriately Tenacity For Life,
A Bernese dog called Thelma, the right is the reference photo and the left the completed painting
An acrylic painting of a friends son, scared as he was going to his first cancer treatment while standing in a pedway tunnel in Granville, Vancouver BC.
View of one of the many lookout points overlooking the Grand Canyon, this commemorates the spot where a young lady friend was proposed to by her present husband
The Little House on The Prairie, an old abandoned homestead in southern Saskatchewan. Reference photos supplied by my drone pilot and photographer friend Cheryl Lynn West and the Red Tailed Hawk reference by birder and scientist Terry Sohl from South Dakota, USA
The Ghost Town of Bents, Saskatchewan, what tales these old abandoned towns could tell. Titled this The Silent Sentinel, emphasizing the red tailed hawk surveying his surrounding for the next meal. Another scene with reference photos supplied by Cheryl Lynn West and Terry Sohl
Watson Lake Lodge, in southern Alberta Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. A commemorative painting depicting the area and a donated bench by an elderly fellow that spent a lot of his time here.
The Narrows, a very wet hike through these imposing canyon walls to the falls, an area we visited in Zion National Park, in southern Utah, USA. Quite safe on a normal dry day but a rain shower miles up can create a very deadly flash flood.
Southern Alberta, cattle country in the foothills of the great Canadian Rockies, a backroad trek depicting the cattle here curiously observing the intrusion to their feeding ground.
A 1959 Mercury Montclair abandoned in the countryside of an abandoned
homestead situated in southern Saskatchewan. Photo reference goes to Susan Smith Brazill of Saskatchewan.
While hiking in the Canadian Rockies, a surprise visit
of a curious Grizzly Bear observing the intruder to his domain.
Ice melting, the sound of rushing water down a thawed out storm drain and several house sparrows enjoying the water for food and bathing.
A frantic female mallard duck trying to round up her gosslings away from the danger of the open storm drain while some curious ravens are investigating and looking into the open drain.
My beautiful grandaughter after her return trip from Colombia.
A friend of mines daughter fishing in Nova Scotia. Titled it Ellie and Peaches Go Fishing. Peaches stands guard, observing all while his charge is enjoying herself trying to catch a fish.
A moment in time captured by a friend of mine, Joan Melvin and was then painted showing the winter road leading to the Wild Horse Lake just outside of Hinton Alberta with the peak of Roche Miette looming in the distant sun set
Sedley Saskatchewan grain elevator loading before an oncoming summer storm. Photo reference credit goes to the awesome photos of Susan Smith Brazill.