Carol Berry, Study, Scottsdale Farm, Ontario. Oil, 6 x 8 inches. ©2010. Here in Toronto, it finally feels like spring will stay! The leaves are budding, the grass is greening up and we’ve put our winter coats and snow boots into storage. I’m finally painting regularly, though not every day. I’ve been plein air painting […]
Early Morning Hayfield
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 […]
4th Concession, Orono, Ontario (fourth view)
4th Concession, Orono (11 x 14) oil, by Carol Berry, copyright 2008 Here’s another painting done of a farm on Concession 4. This is the extra scenic road that leads to the campground where we spend all our summer weekends. Just like the previous painting posted, I actually painted this from a photo enlargement while […]
Emily Provincial Park
Emily Provincial Park (16 x 24) oil, by Carol Berry, copyright 2006 I have taken a bit of a break from posting because I had surgery a couple of weeks ago. Nothing serious, but certainly disruptive. This painting of the view from the beach at Emily Provincial Park is one of my first landscapes. Mixing […]
Concession 4 in Orono, Ontario (third view)
4th Concession, Orono (11 x 14 in.) oil on canvas, by Carol Berry, copyright 2008 I painted this landscape three summers ago, before we moved our summer trailer to our current campground on Concession 4. Every weekend, from May to October, we had been camping at Emily Provincial Park. On this day we took an […]
4th Concession, Orono (another view)
4th Concession, Orono (11 x 14 in.) oil on canvas, by Carol Berry, copyright 2009 I painted this landscape a couple of years ago. We spend our summer weekends in the countryside, north of Newcastle, Ontario. I personally think that we are located on the most scenic road in the region. Over every hill is […]
4th Concession, Orono
4th Concession, Orono (11 x 14 in.) oil on canvas, by Carol Berry, copyright 2009 Here is a painting that I painted last year. I was trying to paint a quick study, only to realize that I can’t paint quickly in the studio with photo references, my natural tight style edges in. I think I […]