Bai Ting Wun, DVAC member

Bai Ting Wun

Title: Path in the park
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16″x20″
Artist: Bai Ting Wun
Year: 2009
About the painting: This painting just won the Jurors choice Award in 2010 Art Club juried show
Artist’s website: http://btwunarts.weebly.com

Julita Wolanska, DVAC member

Wolanska

Title: Blooming
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 10″x8″
Artist: Julita Wolanska
About the painting: Inspired by hanging basket with petunias.
Artist’s website: www.julitka.com

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Linda Roy, DVAC member

Summer In Glen Williams

Title: Summer In Glen Williams
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 12″x18″
Artist: Linda Roy
Artist’s Blog: lindasartandattitude.blogspot.com

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Brent Arlitt, DVAC member

Title: Cotswold Morning
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 16″x20″
Artist: Brent Arlitt
About the Painting: The mill at Lower Slaughter in the Cotswold, built in 1658. The brilliant June morning sun warms the stones as the clear water happily cascades down the mill race to the tune of birds singing.
About the Artist: Mr. Arlitt is a professional engineer who enjoys capturing and conveying the feelings of a landscape scene into a painting.

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Maureen Wood, DVAC member

Title: Trumpet Flower
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 6″x9″
Artist: Maureen Wood
About the painting: Trumpet flowers from my garden.

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Encarnita Gardner, DVAC member

Title: Poppies in a Wheat Field
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 24″x30″
Artist: Encarnita Gardner
About the painting: This is another painting in the Camino de Santiago series. In late spring the rich red colours of the poppies in the foreground contrast with the green of the wheat.

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Petro Dhimitri, DVAC member

Title: A woman’s portrait
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 16″x20″
Artist: Petro Dhimitri

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Carole Robitaille, DVAC member

Farm on Hill

Title: Farm on the Hill
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 11″x17″
Artist: Carole Robitaille
Year: 2000

About the painting: Driving through country side near Kirby Ontario and found lovely view of farm, with cows grazing on slope. It was a beautiful day and totally enjoyed the afternoon paintinn many different mediums. First love is painting people, but have also grown to love plein aire painting and also doing some abstracts.

About the artist: Love painting in many different mediums. First love is painting people, but have also grown to love plein aire painting and also doing some abstracts.

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Pat Vicari, DVAC member

Title: Solar Storm
Medium: Acrylic
Artist: Patricia Vicari
About the painting: The sunspots created by explosions on the sun’s surface during a solar storm look oddly like huge sunflowers. I found the granulation of the surface, seen through a telescope quite fascinating and tried to capture the effect here.

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Michael Steinhauser, DVAC member

Artist: Michael Steinhauser
Title: Psyche bathing
Size: 20″ x 16″

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Jane Eberhard, DVAC member

Title: The White Pine
Artist: Jane Eberhard

About the painting: In Temagami Provincial Forest, the white pines are the forest royalty. This ancient giant is on high ground, but even if it weren’t, it would tower over all other trees on its island. It can be seen from a great distance, and is a landmark for boaters.

About the artist: Jane has spent summers in Temagami almost all her life. She has a strong emotional attachment to the wilderness forest. This feeling is expressed through the colours in her paintings.

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Carol Berry, DVAC member

Title: Walsh Road No.1
Medium: Oil
Size: 6″x8″
Artist: Carol Berry
Year: 2010

About the painting: It was an unusually warm day for the first weekend of June, so I wore short shorts, a tank top and crocs. I remembered sunscreen but I thought it was too windy for my fancy new plien air umbrella so I took it down. Big mistake for two reasons. Although I was very happy with my painting, the mid-tones are a bit dark when viewed indoors, because the strong daylight light was so much brighter when painting without my umbrella’s shade. And because I was in the direct sunlight, I myself got fried by the sun, but only where I missed with my sunscreen. Particularly horrible are the small circle tan marks on my white feet where the holes in my crocs let in the sun.

About the artist: I am involved in both the applied and the fine arts fields. Work days are spent as a production designer, creating print layouts on my Mac. With job and family commitments, as well as (oddly) my volunteering for my art club, I only find time to paint a couple of times a week. I attend Tuesday evening life painting sessions at the Don Valley Art Club, where the models hold one pose for three hours. On the weekend I try to paint en plein air, capturing the orderly farmland and countryside near Toronto, Ontario. I spend about three hours on these life and plein air paintings and I consider these quick studies to be finished paintings. The benefit of working alla prima is that I push myself to focus on the composition and values. I try changes to the colours on my palette and with the materials I work with. No touch-ups are done later in the studio, these studies capture a moment in time. I approach larger studio paintings completely differently, much more time is spent planning their composition and developing the forms with underpainting and glazing.

Artist’s website: http://www.carolberryartdesign.com/

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Sandee Shore, DVAC member

Artist: Sandee Shore
Title: Watering Can Bears Fruit
Size: 18″ x 24″
Medium: Watercolour
Artist: Sandee Shore

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Liz Creswick, DVAC member

Title: The Scarborough Bluffs
Medium: Stryofoam oil palette & gesso
Size: 5″x7″
Artist: Liz Creswick
Year: 2009
Artist’s website: lizcreswick.com
About the painting: This is one of my newly invented “Recycled Styro Art”, made from using styrofoam trays, reused as palettes, then cutting up into images and embedding in gesso/plaster.

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Julita Wolanska, DVAC member

Title: Blooming
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 10″x8″
Artist: Julita Wolanska
Artist’s website: www.julitka.com

About the painting: Inspired by hanging basket of fuchsia.

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Linda Roy, DVAC member

Title: Luty Light House
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 18″x18″
Artist: Linda Roy
Artist’s Blog: lindasartandattitude.blogspot.com

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Petro Dhimitri, DVAC member

Title: Pensilvania (USA)
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 18″x24″
Artist: Petro Dhimitri
Artist’s website: http://petrodhimitri.blogspot.com/

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Brent Arlitt, DVAC member

Title: Laccalmie Comes to Rest
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 16″ X 20″
Artist: Brent Arlitt

About the Painting: The old freighter was beached in a storm and abandoned for decades at Baie ST. Paul, and now evokes a variety of feelings.

About the Artist: Mr. Arlitt is a professional engineer who enjoys capturing and conveying the feelings of a landscape scene into a painting.

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Ian Nicholl, DVAC member

Title: Rose Cottage
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 12 3/4″ x 18 3/4″
Artist: Ian Nicholl

About the Artist:
Ian Nicholl has been drawing and painting most of his life. Since retiring he has concentrated on watercolours pursuing a love of landscape and architectural subjects developed in his native England. In addition to commissions for house and cottage portraits his paintings and prints have sold privately and at shows in Muskoka and Toronto.

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Alejandro Rabazo, DVAC member

The massive Danforth Bridge always captivated me. My first painting of it, a full size watercolour, bought by The City of Toronto, was of the bridge before the protection at the top, which may be very convenient, but ugly. Its real name is the Prince Edward Viaduct System, or more commonly know as The Viaduct, and it was completed in 1918.

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