Todmorden Mills, Toronto – by Carol Berry Watercolour and ink in a 10”x7″ Stillman & Birn Zeta Series sketch book May 07, 2017 My art club, the Don Valley Art Club, had a community day along with our spring art show at Todmorden Mills in Toronto. To celebrate Canada’s 150, we gathered and painted for […]
Outer Harbour Centreboard Club, Toronto
Outer Harbour Centreboard Club, Toronto Watercolour and ink, 5″x8″ Pentalic Watercolour Journal August 22, 2015 Colour sketch done while sitting in the shade at my sailing club after a lovely, long but hot, solo sail in my CL16 in the Toronto Outer Harbour. No idea who named my boat Wreckless, but I kept the name in […]
Time keeps marching on
Carol Berry, Computer Virus. Digital, ©2000. It was never my plan to take a break from posting to this blog, but it seems that is what I did after all. Besides relaxing and spending lots of nice time with my family, since Christmas I have been busy selecting, buying and setting up my new Mac […]
Coffee Cups
Carol Berry, Coffee Cups. Oil, 10 x 8 inches. ©2010. I haven’t painted a still life since university, but have really been enjoying following many excellent daily painters such as Carol Marine and her wonderful still lifes. So when the weather was too wet this summer, I was inspired to paint a few still lifes […]
My new plein air kit
I am having a fun morning, learning about Blogger. The fine artist in me has to compete with the applied artist. My latest kick is to figure out how to post here using my iPhone and more importantly my soon to be new iPad!
Whiskey, a wedding gift
Whiskey (18 x 24 in.) oil on canvas, by Carol Berry, copyright 2009 I painted this last summer as a wedding gift for close family friends. I loved doing this, although it meant that I wasn’t able to get out to paint en plein air. This was the first time I painted a complete burnt […]
Artist blogs are a wonderful inspiration
I am setting up this blog as a quick experiment, I run the Don Valley Art Club website as a self hosted WordPress site and I have used the free WordPress.com service but I’ve never used Blogger before and I wanted to see how easy it was to get started with it. I’m going to […]