A window view on the last morning of the year 2012

Standing by the window,  painting on the last day of the year, I bid my silent goodbye to the year gone by.

On the full moon wintry night

A quick oil sketch of the full moon window view at night.

a window view on a sunny morning

Another quick oil sketch early in the morning from the same window.

a window view late in the afternoon

a quick oil sketch of our window view late in the afternoon.

a glimpse from our doorway

A quick oil sketch from our doorway!

Looking out of our bedroom window early in the morning

In the intense winter morning light from our bedroom window!

Early Christmas morning looking outside from our window

Early in the morning looking out of the window on Christmas Day of 2012!

Sunny but cold!

A window view at noon on Christmas Eve,  one of the coldest winter days of the year!

Standing in the twilight of a winter afternoon

A beautiful moment in the winter afternoon from our front yard!

A winter wonderland from Balmoral Bay

The light was fading so quickly in the afternoon when I set up my easel to paint this view from our driveway in the afternoon.

From our front yard on a hoarfrost morning

What can be more unearthly beautiful than a sunny hoarfrost winter morning ! Painted this view from our front yard.

A hoarfrost morning

A beautiful hoarfrost morning !

On the night of 12.12.12

On the dark winter night of 12.12.12.

On a cold winter morning

Setting up my easel close to our living room window in the morning and painting this window view while listing to CBC Radio2 , I feel myself totally submerged into an  entranced world .

On an early winter morning

Pulling up the curtain of our  bedroom window early in the morning, I set up my easel in a rush to try to capture the moment when the sun started to rise pouring its radiant light through the wintry early morning landscape outside.

Cloudy and snowy at the moment when the lights are being switched on

It was dark, cloudy, cold  and snowy at 4 p.m when I set up my easel at the end of our driveway on Balmoral Bay. However, there was something indescribable about the cosy serenity of the view in front of me, spellbound by the beauty only winter could offer. Finishing my 16"x20" painting in an hour at around 5 p.m when all of a sudden the street lights were turning on transfiguring the whole mundane landscape into something bordering on divine.