Carol Berry, Early Morning Hayfield. Oil, 11 x 14 inches. ©2008. This hayfield is near Emily Provincial Park. Summer weekends used to find me jumping in my car before breakfast to go take landscape reference photos. I forced myself to paint this in one day, encouraging myself to get into the habit of painting, signing, […]
Tuesday Night Racing
Carol Berry, Tuesday Night Racing. Oil, 16 x 20 inches. ©2008. In the Toronto Outer Harbour, the wind often drops at the end of the day, as it had here for these unfortunate Tuesday night racers, a couple of summers ago. Dinghy racing was a way of life for me until my mid-twenties, so painting […]
Cherry Beach, Toronto Outer Harbour
Cherry Beach, Toronto Outer Harbour (16″x20″) oil, by Carol Berry, copyright 2008 I previously posted the smaller study I did for this painting last January. I used a photo reference that I took while sailing, so this is a different vantage point of a very popular Toronto beach and life guard house. Painted a couple […]
From the Beach at Emily Provincial Park
From the Beach at Emily Provincial Park (14 x 11) oil, by Carol Berry, copyright 2008 This was my first small-size landscape painting, I challenged myself to start and finish a painting in a weekend. Even though I did not actually paint this on location, I did paint it outdoors on our campsite at Emily […]
My first watercolour
Angela (15 x 20 in.) watercolour, by Carol Berry, copyright 1993 I have not painted for three months, but everything I do when I’m not working as a graphic artist is geared towards getting me there, including creating this blog and going to meetings at my art club. While I am in this “between” time, […]