Title: Flowering Hills on the Camino de Santiago
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 24″x30″
Artist: Encarnita Gardner
About the painting: This is a third painting from the same series. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the slopes, carpeted up to the horizon with spring flowers.
Artist’s websites: www.johnandencarnita.blogspot.com and www.encarnita.ca
Title: Â At the Fish Market
Artist: Myra Evans
Medium: Ink and Watercolor
Website: myra-evans.artistswebsites.com
About the Painting: This recent painting was inspired by a trip to North Vietnam. I especially enjoyed rendering  the “sea” of colorful hats the women wore as  they worked cleaning fish.
Title: Market Day in Aix-en-Provence
Medium: Watercolour
Artist: Irene Flint
Title: Sombre Light at the Brick Works
Medium: Oil on Wood Panel
Size: 36″ x 48″
Artist: Charles Wakefield
Year: 2010
Artist’s Statement: I started painting a series on the Don Valley Brick Works a few years ago to document the changes which were taking place in this historic site in Toronto. While most of my works are Plein Air paintings, this one is a studio piece, based on photographs that I take on my many walks through the walking trails in the old quarry. I chose to make this painting almost monochromatic to capture the moodiness of the scene. It was an overcast day, with low clouds, the city-scape barely poking through the clouds. The reflections of the buildings in the pond were marred by the slightest ripples indicating a breeze. The sun was bravely shining, behind the clouds, in a vain attempt to burn off the heavy mist, and cast its light on the glassy pond.
Artist’s Website: www.charleswakefieldartist.com
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:Â A woman’s portrait
Medium:Â oil on canvas
Size: 16″x20″
Artist:Â 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:Â www.julitka.com
About the painting: Inspired by hanging basket of fuchsia.
