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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.
Decided to do another painting of Bents, the ghost town and give it some drama, storm clouds and a flock of racous ravens