Title: Visit to the Sugar Shack
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 10″ x 14″
Artist: Ian G. Nicholl
Year: 2010
About the painting: This painting was done after a March break visit with our granchildren to a sugar shack near Huntsville. It was a glorious spring day. Following a cool night the sun had the sap running and the children enjoyed snow cooled maple sugar twirled on a popsicle stick. In bush that was almost monochromatic, the children’s clothing provided a bright focus.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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/

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Title: Pez Collection
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 12″x16″
Artist: Maureen Wood
About the painting: This was my sons’ Pez collection.

Title: Solitude on the Way to Santiag
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 24″x36″
Artist: Encarnita Gardner

About the painting:  Belongs to a series of paintings drawn from my experience walking El Camino de Santiago. The Way to Santiago is the name given the route medieval pilgrims followed from all across Europe to Santiago de Compostela, a city located in the northwest corner of Spain where the Apostle Saint James is buried. Pilgrims walked this long route as penance or petition to the saint, with the expectation of achieving special grace. This painting depicts the solitude you face when storm and cold threaten as you cross the vast, flat Meseta. The tree, lonely itself, is your companion for a few steps. Last year I completed the 800 kilometre walk from the Pyrenees to Santiago with my husband John.

Artist’s websites:
www.johnandencarnita.blogspot.com
www.encarnita.ca

Russell Division 16x12in by Michael Steinhauser

I managed to sketch this picture the week before the TTC retired the old street cars. Great memories.

Michael Steinhauser

Title: Temple of Apollo and Church of St Paul, Syracuse, Sicily
Artist: Pat Vicari

About the painting: I found this an eloquent juxtaposition of the very ancient, and pagan religious monument and an eighteenth-century Christian church.

Title: All That Jazz
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size: 12″x9″
Artist: Gay Gooderham

About the painting: This painting was inspired by a beautiful jazz concert by Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White playing at Koerner Hall shortly after it opened. The notes just flew up into the air in bursts of colour.

Picture title: Trappers’ Cabin, Temagami
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 18′ x 24″
Artist: Jane Eberhard

About the painting: In the north, where hunters were out checking traplines for days on end, there were straegically placed trappers’ cabins where anyone could bunk down for the night.  Some remain, and this one is on an island in Lake Temagami.

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

Title: Algonquin Vista
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 15″x22″
Artist: Carolyne Pascoe
Year: 2008

About the painting: This painting was the 2008 winner of Best Landscape Award for the DVAC. Every year I participate in a show in Algonquin Park during October. This painting depicts a scene along the Highway 60 corridor, so typical of the beautiful fall in Algonquin. Many of my paintings are done on location, however this one was painted in the studio with a sketch, photograph and memories of that beautiful day for inspiration.

About the artist: Carolyne Pascoe is primarily a watercolour painter who enjoys painting on location in her many travels throughout Canada, New England and Europe. She also paints abstracts in acrylic and watercolour as well as flowers from her garden at home in her loft studio gallery. She is the immediate Past President of the Toronto Watercolour Society(TWS) and has received numerous awards for her paintings in many shows that she has been juried into throughout Ontario. She holds the honour of  a Silver Level of Distinction-Signature Membership of TWS and is also a member of the Scarborough Art Guild, Markham Group of Artists, Pine Ridge Arts Council, Central Ontario Art Association, East Central Ontario Art Association, Vodka Painters of Canada, and is an associate of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, as well as the DVAC. She has paintings in private and corporate collections in Canada, the USA, a variety of countries in Europe and Asia as well as Australia. On Location Carolyne tries to capture not only the mood of the day, but also her inner feelings towards the beauty of the landscape, sea and town that make it a unique moment in time and  and place.

Title: Calling the Grandfathers
Medium: gouache
Size: 16″ X 20″
Artist: Carole Robitaille

About the painting:
Painted after experiencing a Sweat Lodge Ceremony.  Near the beginning of the ceremony, everyone’s grandfathers were called upon to hear and aid in whatever we we needed assistance with. The experience  left a deep impression that seemed to open doors to my creativity.

Title: Winter memories
Medium: Acrylic on Watercolour Paper
Size: 16″x20″
Artist: Jullita Wolanska
Year: 2010

About the painting: I documented snow as it occured – looking through the window:)
Artist’s website: www.julitka.com

Title: Woman in Red
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 24″ x 24″
Artist: Grethe Jensen

Picture Title: Cotswold Morning
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 16″ X 20″
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.

Without hope. Portret, (oil on canvas, 16×20 inches), by Petro Dhimitri

Artist: Sandee Shore
Title: The Garden of Eden
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 15″ x 11″

Picture Title: Algonquin Park
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 10″ x 14″
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.

Mushrooms, by Maureen Wood

Boat Repair on Grand Manan 10×8 by Michael Steinhauser

One of the great scenes that a painter encounters on Grand Manan Island

Joanina Lake, Greece (oil on canvas, 16×20) by Petro Dhimitri

Emily Provincial Park (16 x 24) oil, by Carol Berry, copyright 2006

This painting of the view from the beach at Emily Provincial Park on Pidgeon Lake near Omemee, Ontario. Mixing the blues was very elusive, I finally realized that I had mixed all my tubes of blue paints together to get the blues I wanted.

Carol Berry

Coming from England to Canada more than 50 years ago, it was fun to return to  the U.K. to paint this sceneof the usually short-lived english winter in the so-called West Country.

Ian Balfour

Alejandro Rabazo

A view of the Toronto Don Valley River (oil, 16×20 inches) by Petro Dhimitri

“Moment of Forever” 24″ x 30″ acrylic

Mark Johnson is a Toronto artist and recently a DVAC member. He enjoys exploring and sharing his sense of Wonder & Whimsy through his drawings and paintings. Please visit his website http://markfineart.ca to hear more about him and see other examples of his work.

“Force” Acrylic on canvas. Julita Wolanska