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 […]
Swimming Pond at Cedar Valley Resort
Carol Berry, Swimming Pond at Cedar Valley Resort. oil, 8 x 10 inches. ©2011. This is my first plein air landscape painting of the summer, done in a couple of hours, a month ago at our trailer park. Cedar Valley Resort is much more like an Ontario Provincial Park and is the opposite of average […]
Perrier Water
Carol Berry, Perrier Water. oil, 8 x 10 inches. ©2011. After a whole year of planning and making a homemade pochade box, I finally used the kit and immediately found a critical flaw, I was tensing my shoulder because the palette was too high and close to the painting. I paid a severe price the […]
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 […]
Tangerine
Carol Berry, Tangerine. Oil, 8 x 10 inches. ©2010. This is another still life that I painted in our trailer one rainy Sunday last August. I was really pleased with this painting. I have always been in love with form and volume. Years ago I worked a lot in clay, always mindful of the play […]
Corn and Tomato
Carol Berry, Corn and Tomato. Oil, 8 x 10 inches. ©2010. I set this still life up in our trailer during a rainy Sunday last August. I have really enjoyed working on smaller canvases this year, this is new for me. The reward is that I can manage to finish a piece in an afternoon. […]
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 […]
Concession Road 4, Late Afternoon
Carol Berry, Concession Road 4, Late Afternoon. Oil, 8 x 10 inches. ©2010. I painted this right at the entrance to our campground. I had motivation problems that Saturday and only finally started painting in the late afternoon. The downside was that the sun changed a lot more than I was used to, but the […]
View from Newcastle Harbour
Carol Berry, View from Newcastle Harbour. Oil, 8 x 10 inches. ©2010. I loved painting this on location. I set up my gear on the breakwater near the lighthouse at the mouth of the Newcastle harbour. Besides the curious seagulls, a steady parade of large sailing cruisers motored past me while I painted which was […]
Concession Road 4, Orono
Carol Berry, Concession Road 4, Orono. Oil, 8 x 10 inches. ©2010. It has been a fantastic summer, highlights include my new iPad and the dry, very warm weather we had in Ontario this summer! I’m very glad that I got out sailing in my little Mirror Dinghy at least a dozen times. The biggest […]