Hello there, Another new painting to add to the gallery. This scene was taken from a Sunday family walk to local Finstersee falls. As you can see, it is like autumn has thrown up on a canvas. I had to force myself to put my brushes away and just let it be. It is freeing,…
autumn update
Hi all, November! Where has the autumn gone? It is a beautiful season as well as a busy season. Weekdays are swallowed up by things domestic and school routines (plus residual physio and medical appointments from the accident – soon to thankfully taper off). Weekends have been largely given to outings, hikes, seasonal festivals and…
cows in bonnets!
Hello all, September 23 was the first official day of autumn. In Switzerland, autumn means many things – folk festivals, harvest, morning mists, pumpkin soup, wild game and spaetzle in the restaurants, and socially acceptable fondue-eating (eating fondue prior to autumn is for tourists and people who are too crass to know better – according…
New painting – “Fishing Hole at Sunset”
Hello all, This painting is of Shannon Lake in West Kelowna – only a few minutes away from where our family lives. We would retreat there many evenings to fish, walk, and just enjoy the sunset. So it seems that kids in school + autumn = painting productivity. Those of you who have checked in with this blog…
new painting – “Falls at Ruine Wildenburg”
Hi all, After a summer away visiting the folks in Canada, finally another painting. This one is taken from a local family hike to the 800 year old castle ruins at Wildenburg (Kanton Zug, Outing to Ruine Wildenburg). For those of you that live around here and haven’t been, I would really recommend it. Near the…
may and june 2015 wanders
Hi folks, I have come to terms with the fact that a weekly post for my walks is not sustainable, and very possibly boring. For this reason I think I will post a monthly recap of our travels and wanders by the month. I think its kind of a nice idea… Switzerland by the month…
new painting – Silver Sands Beach, SA
Finally. This one took awhile, what with spring and bikes and low attention span and hospitals and casts and useless right hands, little wonder. This painting is a sort of thank-you gift for a wonderful friend and her family, destined for their family summer house on this beach in South Africa. I hope it suits…
HD gets a weeklong holiday at kantonspital
True, it has been awhile. I still have that same beach scene that I am “a week away from finishing” and have added no wander posts despite spending a good amount of time out there in the spring swiss countryside. Truth is I had been pretty absorbed in rediscovering my old pre-kids love of mountain…
weekend wander – march 22/15 (and “false spring”)
Folks from around here know not to trust the weeks of warm sunshine and the big melts of March. A person could be forgiven for not believing that winter could return after the weather we had last week. But the locals are right. The high moorland crocuses and snowdrops are once again covered in another…
new painting – Gerlos in Thaw
Hi all, Just in time for the weekend I have finished my latest little painting, “Gerlos in Thaw.” The source material is a photo from a hike on a sunny afternoon during our ski vacation in Zillertal, Austria. This one is a little rougher, a little less sentimental than the last. Frustratingly, my regular “panel” (certain family…
new painting – Gottschalkenberg, New Year’s Day
Well, that took awhile. The paint-over is now complete. I will leave to you decide if you like it or not. Myself, I am ambivalent – mostly out of weariness from having to look at it. While I still maintain the re-do was a good thing, it really sucks the joy out of the process. So I…
inauspicious beginnings?
Hi all, OK, since this is a blog for the amateur, I should really include little failures as well as successes. So here goes. Since the new year I have been obsessing over a new painting of a snow scene from a great photo taken by my husband. It is a little larger a canvas…
The Tipsy Pine 