Morning Light-Saanich

This piece was painted last week on one of

those special spring mornings when that smell

of spring cottonwoods sweetens every breath you take.

The sounds and flight of birds fill the air and compete

with the quiet stillness of the rural countryside.

It was a grand day painting with three

buddies, plein air painters all!

Oil on canvas 20 x 16.

Your comments are always welcomed!

Jeffrey

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I would like to draw your attention to a

Washington state artist and blogger who's wonderful

work I have been following for awhile now.

Sara Winters water will blow you away.

She also paints "wow" clouds!

Click on her name above for more!

Saanich Spring

This piece was done early last week on a beautiful

spring day on the Saanich Peninsula. The shadows

being cast by the drifting clouds are what

really caught my eye in this scene.

Oil on board 11 x 14.

Comments welcome!

Jeffrey

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This painting is available for $635 CAN,

plus the cost of mailing.

Email me to arrange your purchase.

jjboronart@shaw.ca

Spring Morning-Beacon Hill

 
The naturalized daffodils and the many wildflowers are

blooming now in Victoria's Beacon Hill Park.

I painted with a group of outsiders there this morning.

This sky represents the one that I witnessed on

my mornings walk, however it had clouded over by

the time I was painting. But reality can be a

relative thing when one puts brush to canvas...

=;-))

Oil on canvas 16 x 20.

Your comments are always welcomed and encouraged!

Jeffrey

Mount Work Tapestry

I got up on the top of Highrock just in time to paint

these clouds as the heavy overcast began to

break up and form wonderful patterns

over distant Mount Work.

Oil on wood panel 9 x 12.

Comments always appreciated.

Jeffrey

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This painting is available for $450 CAN,

plus the cost of mailing.

Email me to arrange your purchase.

jjboronart@shaw.ca

Gillingham Islands-Saxe Point

 
The Gillingham Islands are
 a small group of rock islets

that lie off the southeast side of 
Saxe Point and

are a main feature in the views from this

park in lovely Esquimalt.

They are a popular diving and
 fishing location here,

and by the amount of interest 
shown to them by our group of outsiders 

Friday morning they are very popular
among plein air painters as well.

Another attempt for me to try and capture 
the subtle light and colour
 present on a cloudy morning

on the shore of Juan de Fuca Strait.

Oil on wood panel 
9 x 12.

Comments welcomed and encouraged!

Jeffrey

Highrock Light

This piece was painted en plein air last Thursday

during a lovely break in the weather.

I tried to capture that special quality of light that

happens at this time of year when the air still carries

lots of moisture. As well, I used a limited palette.

Oil on canvas 9 x 12.

As always, your comments are most welcome!

Jeffrey

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"We cannot express the light in nature

because we have not the sun.

We can only express the light we have in ourselves."

(Arthur Dove)

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This painting is available for $450 CAN,

plus the cost of mailing.

Please email me to arrange your purchase.

jjboronart@shaw.ca

Mount Doug Clouds

Several weeks ago I was able to photograph some

spectacular cloud formations from the top of Mount

Tolmie. These clouds where the type we seldom

see here in Victoria. They are the sort I have seen

painted of the skies in places such as New Mexico.

Huge towering formations rolling across the sky

changing rapidly as they past. When I got back to

the studio I was able to take more photo's of them

now filled with colours from the sun setting behind me.

From these photo's I hope to do a large series of

paintings, this being the first.

Oil on board 6 x 8.

Comments always appreciated!

Jeffrey

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plus the cost of mailing.

Please email me to arrange your purchase using

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jjboronart@shaw.ca

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Below is a photo I took from my studio

that evening!

March Clouds

I spent a lovely afternoon painting these clouds from

the top of Highrock park last Sunday. Our weather is

so unsettled right now that getting out when

conditions are good is a real treat.

I have been working with a different coloured

ground lately and liking it!

Oil on canvas 9 x 12.

Comments always welcomed!

Jeffrey

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This painting is available for $450 CAN,

plus the cost of mailing.

Please email me to arrange your purchase

using PayPal's secure on-line invoice system.

jjboronart@shaw.ca

March Sky-Discovery Island

About a dozen ardent plein air painters were

greeted with a raw wind, cool temperatures and

intermittent drizzle this morning at Cattle Point

on Oak Bay. Finding a spot where the wind

was bearable was a priority. Painting fast essential!

I finished this piece in the studio later.

Oil on canvas 12 x 9.

Your comments are always appreciated!

Jeffrey

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This painting is available for $450 CAN,

plus the cost of mailing.

Please email me to arrange your purchase

using PayPal's secure on-line invoicing system.

jjboronart@shaw.ca

Cloud Shadows

I made it up to Highrock yesterday afternoon

just as some fantastic clouds were forming

and casting shadows across the distant hills.

"Paint fast lad, paint fast!!"

Though we are still dealing with unseasonably
cool temperatures here, the spring wildflowers

have started up in the rocky meadows like

those in this park. I have uploaded a photo

of some of them below.

Oil on canvas 12 x 9.

Comments welcomed!

Jeffrey

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This painting is available for $450 CAN,

plus the cost of mailing.

Email me to arrange your purchase using

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jjboronart@shaw.ca

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Some Highrock spring wildflowers.

That September Afternoon

This painting was worked up using a smaller piece

I did last fall as a reference. Those wonderful

summer like days of late September last year

seem so long ago right now!

I went with acrylics for this painting as it has

been quite awhile since I last used them and

thought I could use a bit of a refresher.

Acrylic on canvas 30 x 24.

Your comments are always appreciated!

Jeffrey

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acquiring this painting.

jjboronart@shaw.ca

Rainy Day-Albert Head

I am becoming more and more convinced that I will

have to invest in some sort of "brolly" to cover my easel

for those inevitable showers that plein air painters

have to deal with from time to time.

Friday morning was just that sort of occasion.

I was set up in a wonderful spot high above Wittys

Lagoon and Albert Head in the middle distance with

Trial and San Juan Islands on the distant horizon.

Showers stopped and started and stopped completely

with the sun out about 20 minutes after

we packed it in! =;-))

Oil on canvas 9 x 12.

Comments always welcomed!

Jeffrey

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This painting is available for $450 CAN,

plus the cost of mailing.

Email me to arrange your purchase using PayPal's

secure on-line invoicing system.

jjboronart@shaw.ca

Friday Morning at Frank's

On Friday morning our non group of plein air painters

were invited out to Frank Mitchell's farm to paint.

It was a magical morning filled with the

bleating of the farms newly born lambs and their

mothers. The farm is situated high on a

cliff overlooking the strait of Juan de Fuca and

the approach to Witty's Lagoon.

Two ancient Hemlock sisters caught my attention,

the way they will lean together always and the

striped car track leading toward the

farm buildings back in the trees.

Oil on canvas 12 x 9.

Your comments are always appreciated!

Jeffrey

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This painting is available for $450 CAN,

plus the cost of mailing.

Email me to arrange your purchase using PayPal's

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jjboronart@shaw.ca

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"In a tree is a spirit of life,

a spirit of growth and

a spirit of holding its head up."

(Robert Henri)

March Morning - Oak Bay Marina

Had a lovely morning plein air painting on Thursday

with a couple of buddies. We set up on a pretty

busy spot near the marina in Oak Bay and

spent about an hour. This piece is a little different

in style for me as I simplified as much as I could.

I like the very graphic result.

Oil on board 6 x 6.

Comments always welcomed.

Jeffrey

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This painting is available for $100 CAN,

plus the cost of mailing.

Email me to arrange your purchase using PayPal.

jjboronart@shaw.ca

Island Spring

The areas of natural Garry oak meadows in our area

will look much like this sometime in the later part

of April. It is a real south island treat to walk

amongst the flowering oaks and carpets of

camas lily and other wildflowers at that time.

This is another piece I will have in the show

opening tonight at the Morris Gallery.

Oil on canvas 30 x 24.

Comments always welcomed.

Jeffrey

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"For...first artists, the native people,

art was not only of a functional nature,

but also linked to their concepts of religion and

the relationship of man to his environment."

(James J. Kurtz)

High Rock Rumba

I was up on High Rock park on Friday morning

and came back with this piece.

Our native Garry oaks really are this twisted

and curled and seem at times to be growing

right out of the rock.

I tried for a stylized look with this piece.

Oil on canvas 12 x 9.

Comments always appreciated.

Jeffrey

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This painting is available for $450 CAN,

plus the cost of mailing.

Email me to arrange your purchase using PayPal.

jjboronart@shaw.ca

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"For almost two months now I've been

struggling away with no results."

(Claude Monet)

Lagoon Sky

I painted this piece using a smaller plein air sketch,

done early last summer, for reference.

This is an important area for migrating shorebirds

and waterfowl. Birders will be watching for small bunches

Pacific Black Brant which have already been sighted

in this area last week.

Oil on canvas 9 x 12.

Comments always appreciated.

Jeffrey

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This painting is available for $450 CAN,

plus the cost of mailing.

Email me to arrange your purchase using PayPal's

secure online system.

jjboronart@shaw.ca

Low Tide at Sunset

This is one of the paintings I will have in an upcoming

show at the Morris Gallery here in Victoria.

"SPRING EQUINOX"

opens March 12th 7 - 9pm.

Runs March 12 through to April 03, 2009

The show will feature 12 of the gallery artists.

If your in our area please drop by.

Oil on canvas 30 x 36.

Comments welcomed.

Jeffrey

Afternoon Clouds-Esquimalt Harbour

Drifting clouds casting shadows on a sunlit afternoon

is a cherished memory to contemplate on

a cool overcast day in February.

I guess those teachers and adult figures in my

past who mentioned so often that

"I had my head in the clouds",

may have been right after all!

Oil on canvas 12 x 9.

Comments are always welcomed.

Jeffrey

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This painting is available for $450 CAN,

plus the cost of mailing.

Please email me to arrange your purchase

using Paypal's secure on-line invoice system.

jjboronart@shaw.ca

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"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers

is always the first to be touched

by the thorns."

(Sir Thomas More)

Passing Storm

This painting was worked up from a small one that I

painted several months ago. One of Victoria's

important light stations it sits about three miles to the

north of Victoria's inner harbour. Trial Island light has

been guarding the approach to both Oak Bay and

Victoria for many years and has been instrumental

to navigation and saving the lives of many mariners

in the often rough seas it surveys.

Oil on canvas 16 x 20.

Your comments are always a pleasure.

Jeffrey

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"Write the bad things that are done to you in the sand,

but write the good things that happen to you

on a piece of marble."

(Arabian wisdom)