Painting

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here is a fun way to look at the art of colour….With paint from my pallet, I dragged the brush across the canvas and and I left light in the sky.  The sea stacks and their inhabitants standout against the colour in the sky.

Sung Cove, on Bowen Island, is where the ferry docks.  I painted this piece from a photo I took when I was on the ferry.

There are literally a hundred or more islands in the Broken Group of Islands.  In this painting the setting sun fills the sky with light and reflects in the sea while almost silhouetting the little island.  The clouds were so fun to paint!!  Big strokes sweep across the sky!!