The Morning Clouds Of Queen Charlotte Town 2012

Another small watercolor painting from our Queen Charlotte Island February trip, I mentioned earlier this year. I love its expressionistic style which I painted outside. The clouds were really enjoyable to paint as they were constantly shifting positions with one another in that blue sky. In the background way off in the distance the evergreen trees stood very tall and the foreground hedges are quite green. It began to rain so we all came in and I added some more detail, especially to those cumulus cloud formations. The suns appearance was brief but I liked the illusion it created and it gave depth to those billowy clouds.

Sloughs of Burkeville 2012

There it flowed,
Mostly dry today for its lazy dreams,
A channel they'd call overgrown and bold,
As the lines etched into thy brow,
Village on the edge of forgotten,
Moody slough do not drown the adventure,
True beauty is for this small water sketch,
Pretty heron with flashes of blue primary feathered gloss,
Muskrats scurry just below her breasts,
We must make hast for this place to rest,
And when the surge travels once again,
Fast to the tide and eddies to the west,
It is the straights of water and journeys beyond,
Always quiet Burkeville with its sloughs all around.