Advent Giveaway!!

The Season of Advent is here and to celebrate we'll be doing a weekly giveaway! This week we'll be giving away an 8x10in print of

"In Toronto."

How to enter:

1. Visit the TRG Prints website.

2. Come back and leave a comment stating what item you'd like to be given away next week as well as your email address.

3. For an extra entry - post about the Advent Giveaway on facebook or on your blog and leave a second comment telling us where you posted.

Don't forget to visit the website for Christmas shopping. Check back for sales and discount offers coming soon!

Against the Wind

Once again I pulled from Grandpa's photos and tried my hand at capturing a moment from the distant past. This was from a very small image, about 2X3 inches, so I had to use a magnifying glass to see the details. Nevertheless, I am trying to not be too tight and go more for speed and wetter painting, particularly in sky and water. Also, especially with these B/W photos, I am limiting my palette to three or four colors. This automatically helps to tie the sky and water together, but I also wanted the boat to be part of the sea, vs a canvas sail color. Anyway, there you go...(I stole the title from a song by Bob Seger!)

Late Afternoon Tower

From another photo Bill Church took - I wanted to play with the light and the colors, as well as the various textures of these great old buildings that are so much a part of our landscape here. It's hard to do them justice in their height and strength. They constantly remind of us of our past and all that we depend on from God's blessings of this land. And, they're just fun to paint!