The colours on the West Coast are amazingly beautiful!! The vast coastline of British Columbia has such big skies and such variety and dimension with all the thousands of little islets.
Port Renfrew Colours 30 x 24, acrylic on canvas - sold
Author: Elizabeth Austin
Pacific Protectors 30 x 24, acrylic on canvas - sold
In the summer months the West Coast Sea Stacks bask in the sun and relax and reflect their shapes in the calmer waters! They are true survivors of the exciting winter storms that find their way in from the Pacific Ocean and I think the Sea Stacks enjoy the gentler summer weather.
View from Kits Beach – SOLD 8 x 10 oil on birch board
I set up on the beach with other plein air enthusiasts. The time was mid June and the sky was overcast but the air temperature was lovely with a light breeze coming off the ocean!! Facing north west across the harbour, a temporary home to many freighters, towards West Vancouver, including Point Atkinson.
Port Renfrew 16 x 20, acrylic on canvas - sold
In Port Renfrew at a beach called Botanical Beach there is a little island that caught my attention! Sold at a Charity Event Silent Auction at Pacific Arts Market, 1448 West Broadway, Vancouver, proceeds donated to the North Shore Women’s Centre.
Pacific Colours 24 x 30 acrylic on canvas
Out on the west coast yet again! The sky at sunset was just amazing with the light hitting the lower edges of the clouds! As the sun goes down at the end of the day the under bellies of the clouds pick up the last light as it is cast up towards them. The tops … Read More
Winter Fun 10 x 14 acrylic on canvas
Kids, fresh snow and winter fun on the hill!
Joyous Times 10 x 14 acrylic on canvas
Painted for BC Children’s Hospital 2019 Hospital Holiday Card Program. This will be the 21st year I have contributed an image to BC Children’s Hospital!!
Learning “ABC’s” 11 x 14, acrylic on canvas - sold
A teddy for a new baby!!
Vancouver Elements 20 x 20, acrylic on canvas
A fun collage, sort of speak, of bits of Vancouver.
Piggy 11 x 14, acrylic on canvas
I was smiling when I painted this one!! I did not realize until after I completed “Piggy” but the pig is the 12th animal in the Chinese zodiac according to the Chinese calendar and 2019 it is the year of the pig!! Coincidences never cease to humour me!!