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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Walsh Road No.2
Carol Berry, Walsh Road No.2, oil, 8 x 10 inches. ©2010. It is another rainy Saturday, so instead of painting I am finally writing this post. So much of my life is geared towards the summer month; sailing, camping and plein air painting. These major activities have to compete for my time with everyday chores, […]
Walsh Road No.1
Carol Berry, Walsh Road No.1, 6 x 8 inches. ©2010. Finally, painting outside! It was an unusually warm day for the first weekend of June, so I wore short shorts, a tank top and crocs. I remembered sunscreen but I thought it was too windy for my fancy new plein air umbrella so I took […]
Concession 4, Orono
Carol Berry, Concession 4, Orono. Oil, 11 x 14 inches. ©2009. Here are two paintings I did in the studio of a scene I love. Something so simple as grass, grown and cut, all orderly and so satisfying. I see the influence of my formalist art school years, many years ago – simplifying the elements […]
Study, Cherry Beach en Plein Air
Carol Berry, Study, Cherry Beach en Plein Air. Oil, 6 x 8 inches. ©2010. My eldest and I set-up our easels right by the lake on Easter weekend. The sun was warm but the water had a cold breeze coming off it. It was a very hazy morning and my painting looks quite muted but […]