The Dome Building on Keystone Grounds Brandon

The " Dome Building" --------Manitoba Provincial Exhibit Building on Keystone Grounds in early afternoon sunshine. Whenever I get bored , I pick up my paint brush, whenever I feel unhappy, I pick up my paint brush, whenever I get tired and sleepy, I pick up my paint brush. No exception today when I felt myself overcome with drowsiness at noon , I simply packed up my French easel ,loaded it into trunk of my car, and started to drive aimlessly until I spotted the dome building with its domes sparking in wintry sunlight. That is it. I set up to paint there and then against the cold, against the wind and even against the occasional sensation of hunger until what has been bugging me all dissipate and what is left in me is nothing but the pure bliss , the painter's bliss.

Brandon Court House in the early afternoon sunlight

Brandon Court House on Princess Avenue painted in sub -zero temperature today at 12 p.m. The greatest challenge painting outdoor faces at this time of the year is actually not so much the cold weather as the quick change of light which forces you to paint even more fast. Spent less than two hours painting today at the corner of 11th Street and Princess Avenue . Always enjoy the special kind of light at this time of the year which tends to imbue the landscape with a tinge of visual tenderness , and a wisp of light sorrow

Another window view in the morning

Sunny early morning , the same window view

Sunny again in the afternoon , the same window view

A window view a lady in red with baby trolley passing by

A window view early in the morning

A quick oil sketch this morning looking out of the window. Cold and gloomy with inevitable fall of snow. However, a flick of light from the window across the street outside , and Mozart's Piano Concerto N21 from CBC Radio 2 are enough to bring a touch of warm and a sense of jubilation to what should have been a bleak landscape in my sight.

When the full moon is rising last night

A study of a full moon lit sky

A glimpse of the Super Moon night sky

Brandon Rideau Park

A brief moment at 2 p.m today when the sun broke out of the clouds just when I set up my easel at Rideau Park ready to paint. A surge of joy through my heart trying to translate that sense of joy and awe into a visual statement on my canvas.

A glimpse over the hedges in the morning

Full moon night sky as viewed from our door way

Our neighbour across the street

In the noon hour sunlight

A house on 13th Street Brandon

Early in the morning a look at our backyard

When the full moon is rising in the evening sky

A Warm Novemember Day on Balmoral Bay

My tribute to the fallen on Rememberance Day

A quick oil sketch from Brandon Cemetery this morning to pay tribute to all the brave men and women past and present who scarified their lives so that we can live free.
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.”

Sunrise moment

the Multi-tasking Wife

the Sunset moment

Downtwon Brandon on a warm Sunday afternoon

For Sale, 42 Balmoral Bay Brandon Manitoba

For Sale ! 42 Balmoral Bay Brandon Manitoba.
This beautiful home on Balmoral Bay owned by Mr. John Gross is now up on the market. When I saw the for sale sign up on John's front yard, there arose a mixed feeling and emotion in me, a sense of passage of time ,and a sense of inevitable relinquishing of something that people always hold so dear to their heart. This home is also special to me personally as a painter, for over the past decade I have painted so many paintings en... plein air using this home either as my backdrop or as subject of my painting. So many times I just invited myself over to John's beautiful backyard to paint there with my portable easel seeking inspiration from John's meticulously hand crafted garden! Tomorrow, this beautiful home will be open for public view to potential buyers. Do not you want own a beautiful home so close to me as a painter who will constantly immortalize it in his paintings? If you do please hurry, for it will not be on the market very long!

Sunlight pouring through hedges in the late afternoon

In the receding light