Friday, November 4, 2016

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!

Thursday, October 27, 2016

The warm glow of street light


The warm glow of the street light on Balmoral Bay and two young figures passing by added a warm and cozy touch to what could be a bleak landscape at this time of the year.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Standing in the path of late afternoon sunlight

A quick oil sketch from our next door neighbor"s front yard looking at our house in late afternoon sunlight.

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Raining

Raining outside , cold, wet , and windy. Yet so hypnotic and mesmerizing, the sound of rain against the window pane , could not resist to paint again.

At the crack of dawn looking out of the window


Saturday, October 15, 2016

The Hunter's Moon

A full moon night when I looked out of the window at 8 p.m.

Transfiguring light



Sunshine pouring down our front yard transfiguring what is so mundane into something almost otherworldly. Yesterday , I came home after a painting excursion at BU campus around 2 p.m , and seeing the light and colour on my front yard, I set up my easel again to paint lost in the hypnotic world of light and colour.

Brandon University Original Building in warm morning sunlight

Today is Brandon University Homecoming weekend. Went to campus to paint this morning.

in the full morning sunshine a glimpse out of the window at 9 a.m


Thursday, October 13, 2016

Home on Balmoral Bay in warm late afternoon sunlight

I always feel the joy surging through me as I paint my own home on Balmoral Bay. It is especially so when the warm light and hue of autumn colour was glistening against  the clear blue sky at 4 p.m. today.