Little Blue One, 20" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD, Art Among the Ruins, 2016

Parked out back

Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 12", SOLD

A quaint scene from Amherst Island.  Lovely little tractor really.  I enjoy the kiss of sunshine it is getting at the top.

Late Day Labour of Love

Acrylic on Canvas, 22" x 28", SOLD

This piece was a pleasure to paint I really enjoy the weed in the foreground because it was a gutsy decision that turned out! I left the underpainting poking through to construct it.  Then I added some darker tones to define it. The tones of reds captured make me feel the warmth of the late day sun when I look at the piece.  This was painted from a photograph that I took on Amherst Island, I managed to capture a farmer pulling out of his barn.

His and Hers

Acrylic on Canvas, 11" x 13", SOLD

This painting is just so old fashioned and quaint.  The front tractor is a Massey Fergusson- I am not sure about the one on the right.   I love the lighting in this piece; the light pouring thorough the door and illuminating the reds of the tractors in particular.  I really like the subtle tones in this painting.  I also like how there is not much colour to this one and then a punch of red- this is something that is hard to do for me.  I am so in love with bright colours that I just want to paint them all! Sometimes it is more effective however to just have a few - restraint was the excersise here!

  

  Case's Massey Fergusson 156

Acrylic On Canvas, 12" x 12", SOLD

I love this one.  I really get obsessed with painting wheels and machines and this was an inspiring picture to paint.  When I paint tractors from up-close it becomes an exercise in semi abstraction- FUN. This vintage tractor belongs to Case- a farmer on Wolfe Island form whom I buy Back Angus free range, grass fed, hormone free beef.  It is the best beef I have ever had and even better knowing that these little guys have a great life. 

Barn on Wolfe Island at dawn, SOLD

12" x 14", Acrylic on canvas

Stone Heron Gallery

This is a painting completed in 2010.  It is so interesting to look back on my old painting style.  I remember getting up at the crack of dawn to take a set of pictures in the golden hour- this painting is from one of them.   

Big Baby Blue, NFS- Gift

12" x 12", Acrylic on Canvas

I am in love with the composition, colours, and the quaint and personal touch of the pitch fork on the tractor. This makes me think that this tractor is a worker and has just finished a day's work in the field. The photograph was taken on a road trip I did with my Gran around Amherst Island. 

T  & C's Massey 156

Acrylic on canvas 12" x 12" SOLD

The picture for this painting was taken on Wolfe Island on the same farm from which I painted the Black Angus cattle.  This is a Massey Ferguson 156 with a sickle mower on the front used for cutting hay.  This is a vintage tractor that T & C took out of the barn so that I could photograph it.  It was really fun to paint.

Backing up the load, NFS- Gift

12" x 12", Acrylic on canvas

This on was from Amherst Island along with Old Red in the previous post.  I tried a neat technique on this one where I left the under painting showing through to create the weed in the foreground.  It worked quite well. 

Old Red, NFS- Gift

12" x 12", Acrylic and pen on canvas

I think the tractor looks like a lobser.  I gave this one to my best friend Isabelle's son.