Last week one of my fellow Don Valley Art Club members offered to fill in when our model did not arrive. His pose for the whole three hours was very dynamic, he stood holding a staff and had his body all twisted, even kept his mouth open and his head tilted the whole time, very […]
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 […]
Carol Berry, My Friend, Petro Dhimitri. Oil, 24 x 18 inches. ©2010. I painted this a few weeks ago at the Don Valley Art Club. This particular Tuesday night the model did not arrive, and Petro Dhimitri, a fellow club member, volunteered to sit for the whole three hours. Petro is one of the many […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 (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 […]
Tuesday Night portrait session at the Don Valley Art Club (16″X20″) oil, by Carol Berry, copyright 2010 I painted this a couple of Tuesdays ago with my friends at the Don Valley Art Club. I’m learning how to work with my new water soluble WN oils. For long-term health reasons I’m determined to like them. […]
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 […]