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 […]
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My watercolour palette, desk setup
My watercolour palette, desk setup – by Carol Berry Watercolour and ink in a 3.5”x5.5” Moleskine journal Sketched September 24, 2015. Part of getting back into watercolour painting is the selecting, organizing and rearranging of my art tools into various work spaces. This is a wonderful distraction for me, although the explorations of the […]
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 […]
Pen and ink
Pen and ink, 2015 09 17. My overly arranged and rearranged art supplies. Glad I am finally sketching again.
Tuesday night model
I love going to Tuesday’s with my art club, painting with old friends and new, as well as spending time with my grown up eldest who is also a member of the Don Valley Art Club. Took me 15 years but I finally got back to painting the model in watercolour and with the influence […]
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 […]
Perrier Water
Carol Berry, Perrier Water. oil, 8 x 10 inches. ©2011. After a whole year of planning and making a homemade pochade box, I finally used the kit and immediately found a critical flaw, I was tensing my shoulder because the palette was too high and close to the painting. I paid a severe price the […]
Time keeps marching on
Carol Berry, Computer Virus. Digital, ©2000. It was never my plan to take a break from posting to this blog, but it seems that is what I did after all. Besides relaxing and spending lots of nice time with my family, since Christmas I have been busy selecting, buying and setting up my new Mac […]
Tangerine
Carol Berry, Tangerine. Oil, 8 x 10 inches. ©2010. This is another still life that I painted in our trailer one rainy Sunday last August. I was really pleased with this painting. I have always been in love with form and volume. Years ago I worked a lot in clay, always mindful of the play […]
Corn and Tomato
Carol Berry, Corn and Tomato. Oil, 8 x 10 inches. ©2010. I set this still life up in our trailer during a rainy Sunday last August. I have really enjoyed working on smaller canvases this year, this is new for me. The reward is that I can manage to finish a piece in an afternoon. […]
Coffee Cups
Carol Berry, Coffee Cups. Oil, 10 x 8 inches. ©2010. I haven’t painted a still life since university, but have really been enjoying following many excellent daily painters such as Carol Marine and her wonderful still lifes. So when the weather was too wet this summer, I was inspired to paint a few still lifes […]