This is one of my absolute favourite places to visit in Algonquin Park. After a 1km portage through the woods carrying a canoe through 27 mud puddles, the views and quiet and sounds are well worth the effort of visiting McCraney Lake. It is a shallow lake, so there are a lot of fallen trees…
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A Whole Field of Dahlias …for me!
It’s not often I get a chance to paint something for myself… so I set aside some time, and instead of painting just a vase full of dahlias, I painted the whole field so I can have ALL the dahlias! 😆 I visited this gorgeous field of dahlias many times in the late summer to…
Enjoying Winter Painting
It’s been nostalgic working on a few painting commissions which I want to share in more detail here. A view from my childhood, we visited our friends cottage almost every summer at Lorimer Lake, Ontario. My mum would grab an inner tube, and swim across to the little island and back, while we kids would…
portage on mccraney lake
This summer was the launch of my new watercolour series, The Park, inspired by the rugged landscapes of Algonquin Park. Some painted from the canoe, others back at home… from the biggest tree to the smallest clump of moss, I just love painting it! Now that access to the park is limited in the winter,…
Art at Andrews : Gourds & Ghouls
This weekend I will be a vendor at the Autumn at Andrews market at Andrews Scenic Acres. As well as my autumn trees, landscapes, toads, bats, and pumpkins, I will be bringing these new acrylic paintings framed in reclaimed wood. I have been making the most of some gorgeous little pumpkins I picked up there…
Art at Andrews : Dahlias
This is a little acrylic on canvas I painted en plein air at Andrews Farm & Winery. It was an overcast day, cool and wet… I brought a picnic blanket to sit on and paint from, but quickly realized the best view was from a standing position. So I basically held my little canvas &…
wild fungi
One of my absolute favourite things to discover in Ontario are the tiny colourful wild mushrooms on the forest floor. I had some fun painting a few this past summer, took a lot of photos to bring home and paint from. This is a little collection I am eager to continue with… once harvest season…
The Park : miniature moose
Having a break from pumpkins, started looking through my recent photos of Algonquin Park to study the trees and water. Enjoyed painting more mini-moose! Part of The Park limited watercolour collection.
a little forest available on etsy
Five new petite watercolours of conifer trees have been added to my limited watercolour collection, The Park. These are all trees I saw and photographed in Algonquin Park, and are little, 5x7inches.
Rain Lake : Day 6 after dinner
Last on my easel during our camping trip to Rain Lake in Algonquin Park this summer… 12×12 acrylic study of the view to the west of the cabin. I painted it on a canvas I had primed with blue, and I had used that canvas to wipe off excess paint… giving it interesting texture and…
Heather Castles Illustration 