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 […]
Outer Harbour Centreboard Club, Toronto
Outer Harbour Centreboard Club, Toronto Watercolour and ink, 5″x8″ Pentalic Watercolour Journal August 22, 2015 Colour sketch done while sitting in the shade at my sailing club after a lovely, long but hot, solo sail in my CL16 in the Toronto Outer Harbour. No idea who named my boat Wreckless, but I kept the name in […]
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, […]
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 […]