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 […]
My watercolour palette, desk setup
My watercolour palette, desk setup – by Carol Berry Watercolour and ink in a 3.5”x5.5” Moleskine journal Sketched September 24, 2015. Part of getting back into watercolour painting is the selecting, organizing and rearranging of my art tools into various work spaces. This is a wonderful distraction for me, although the explorations of the […]
Favourite backyard, West Hartford, 2015
Favourite backyard, West Hartford, 2015 – by Carol Berry Watercolour and ink in a 5″x8″ Pentalic Watercolour Journal Sketched August 3rd, 2015. This is a favourite spot in West Hartford on a hot afternoon, a surprisingly shady and cool backyard. I sketched while being serenaded by katydids and guarded by Bubba, a handsome Weimaraner, who […]
Pen and ink
Pen and ink, 2015 09 17. My overly arranged and rearranged art supplies. Glad I am finally sketching again.
Tuesday night model
I love going to Tuesday’s with my art club, painting with old friends and new, as well as spending time with my grown up eldest who is also a member of the Don Valley Art Club. Took me 15 years but I finally got back to painting the model in watercolour and with the influence […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]