Oil painting

Seaside Mayne Island oil painting study by Terrill Welch

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The evening light is fading as I sidestep my own long shadow to enjoy the view of the shore and sea. This small 10 x 8 inch oil on canvas study is part of my reference work for a large 60 x 36 inch oil on canvas of this scene. The large canvas underpainting is waiting for me to move forward and this small study is egging me on. Yet, it is also time for it to set out on a home of its own as I begin to muse about other paintings that will eventually take its place in my small home studio.

SEASIDE MAYNE ISLAND STUDY

Seaside Mayne Island study 10 x 8 inch oil on canvas by Terrill Welch 2013_08_02 021

Updated July 2, 2014: This painting study is no longer available. Feel free to select another work by Terrill Welch from her ArtWork Archive online gallery.

Also, the large SEASIDE MAYNE ISLAND 60 x 36 inch oil on canvas is still available.

Seaside Mayne Island 60 x 36 oil on canvas by Terrill Welch 2013_10_15 041

[Update February 2017: This painting is now sold]

Studio visitors regularly drop by to browse through my paintings and our home. It is a most pleasant exchange and one I will write more about in the near future. The most recent visitors this week left with a large photography print on canvas.

ARBUTUS IN FOG

arbutus in fog 2 TW1101P by Terrill Welch IMG_4365

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Sold – End of Day with Arbutus – Contemporary Canadian Landscape Painting

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There are times when paintings find their new homes before the paint is dry. Such is the case with this 8 x 10 inch oil on canvas END OF DAY WITH ARBUTUS completed four days ago. Packaged carefully to protect the still-tacky surface the painting is on its way to a new collector in British Columbia, Canada. The buyer had been waiting for months watching for “their” painting to come off my easel. It finally happened. Love at first sight. This painting was sold before it could be release officially here or in the Artsy Home online gallery.

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END OF DAY WITH ARBUTUS 8 x 10 oil on canvas

My comments as I set this painting aside to “rest” on four days ago….The body and weight of the evening light just before it dipped over the far hill was enchanting. The eyes were doing tricks as they saw into the shadows and recognized the reflected light. It was a bit of a Kandinsky (Russian Painter) moment where in a fleeting decision I dipped into the light blue to trap the last of the light onto my canvas – a wrong colour that felt just right. I liked it then and I like it now.

End of Day with Arbutus 8 x 10 inch oil on canvas by Terrill Welch 2013_07_08 003

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The Mt. Baker Reach – west coast seascape study

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There is something about coming to the Mayne Island shore and seeing Mount Baker across the Strait of Georgia that is like magic. No photograph seems to adequately capture my surprise and delight so I took the task to my canvas instead.

THE MT. BAKER REACH  8 x 10 inch oil on canvas study

The Mt. Baker Reach 8 x 10 inch oil on canvas by Terrill Welch 2013_07_02 015

Updated October 7, 2013: This painting is now SOLD to a private collector in California.

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Reaching for the Sea II west coast landscape painting

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Trees, sandstone shore and sea greet the midday sun as it comes towards all that is possible – never mind what has come before or what will come afterwards. This is now – beauty of a moment’s breath in time.

REACHING FOR THE SEA II 30 x 40 inch oil on canvas

Reaching the Sea II 30 x 40 inch oil on canvas by Terrill Welch 2013_06_25 007

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End of Storm Georgina Point Mayne Island – oil painting

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The waves are rolling at the entrance to Active Pass. Even though the clouds have broken, the tail end of the storm is still whipping the sea.

END OF STORM GEORGINA POINT MAYNE ISLAND 8 x 10 inch oil on canvas

End of Storm Georgina Point Mayne Island 8 x 10 oil on canvas by Terrill Welch 2013_06_25 017

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Plein Air Painting From Felix Jack Road Mayne Island

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A view that surprises as the viewer emerges from thick forested road. I pondered and mused until one morning I just through my easel and paints in the back of Red Rosie, drove over and parked on the side of the road to paint.

side of Felix Jack Road by Terrill Welch 2013_05_24 181

A predominately plein air painting with minimal edits back at the studio…

FROM FELIX JACK ROAD MAYNE ISLAND – 14 x 11 inch oil on canvas

From Felix Jack Road Mayne Island 14 x 11 oil on canvas by Terrill Welch 2013_05_28 267

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New Growth West Coast in late May – Canadian landscape oil painting

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The winter and spring rains have left both moss, salal and trees dressed in new frocks of vibrant green. It won’t last. As summer progresses the new growth will harden off and become dull and crunchy in the summer’s heat. Today though – we celebrate!

NEW GROWTH WEST COAST IN LATE MAY – 8 x 8 inch oil on gessobord with two inch wood cradle.

New Growth West Coast in late May 8 x 8 inch oil on gessobord by Terrill Welch 2013_06_01 024

This painting is now in a private collection. 

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My painterly goal is to bring the viewer into the landscape so it is experienced rather than observed. The method of doing this varies from one painting to another but the necessity to do so never wavers. In this painting, I want viewers to feel the soft earth under their feet. Breathe the damp freshness of a rain that is not quite complete. Touch the tender new growth as if their eyes are closed. Smell the pungent salt of the sea lapping against their inner ear… all the while in mid-step, slightly off balance as the mechanisms of the eye and brain scramble for clarity in a driving need to still the body’s surrounds – a driving need to liberate the viewer from within the landscape. My painting challenge is to keep the viewer experiencing the landscape from within for as long as possible.

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Winter Sun II west coast Canada Landscape Painting

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Crisp air is softened in the early light. Another day begins as the sea hums a mellow tune that is being rehearsed in the west coast of Canada morning sky.

WINTER SUN II 18 x 24 inch oil on canvas

Winter Sun II 18 x 24 inch oil on canvas by Terrill Welch 2013_05_28 279

Update June 2, 2013: This painting has sold to a new collector in British Columbia.

Studio update: The painting NO REASON released last week has SOLD and is on its way to a home in California U.S.A.

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NO REASON Canadian west coast oil painting by Terrill Welch

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No reason is reason enough to sit quiet and observe and breathe into the world around us, a way of feeling more than seeing.

NO REASON  is a 12 x 10 inch alla prima or wet-on-wet Canadian west Coast oil painting study.

No Reason 12 x 10 inch oil on canvas by Terrill Welch 2013_05_20 008

UPDATE May 24, 2013: This painting has SOLD.

More about the background that inspired this painting on Creative Potager blog post “By the for no reason inspires west coast oil painting”

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Oil landscape paintings – three new releases and three to ship

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The studio continues to be a busy place this spring with the ninth Canadian landscape oil painting this year purchased by a collector yesterday. But let’s start with the three new paintings being released this morning before I share with you the other three I must get packaged for shipping next week.

Holding the tension between the west coast land, sea and sky….

Speak To Me esquisse – west coast Canadian landscape 12 x 16 inch oil on canvas

Speak To Me esquisse west coast Canadian landscape 12 x 16 inch oil on canvas by Terrill Welch

Leaving the Japanese Garden with an imagined landscape where the plum tree first bloomed….

Plum Tree Pink  – 16 x 20 inch oil on gessobord with 2 inch wood cradle

Plum Tree Pink 16 x 20 inch oil on gessobord by Terrill Welch 2013 04 13 020

Update October 27, 2014: This painting is now SOLD and is in a private collection in British Columbia.

An Art Commentary by Laurie Buchanan about this painting can be read HERE.

This third painting is the second work from last Sunday’s painting outing.  The previous photograph posted is the reference.

Active Pass Spring Morning 2013  – 16 x 20 inch oil on canvas

Active Pass Spring Morning 2013 16 x 20 inch oil on canvas by Terrill Welch 2013_04_19 047

Update August 23, 2013: This painting is now SOLD and is in a private collection in Victoria, British Columbia.

More about the day that inspired this painting in the Creative Potager blog post “Springwater Lodge en Plein Air”

Also, the plein air painting from this day Sold yesterday to an art collector in Alberta, Canada

Spring at the Springwater Lodge Mayne Island – 11 x 14 inch oil on canvas plein air

Spring at the Springwater Lodge Mayne Island 11 x 14 inch oil on canvas plein air by Terrill Welch 2013_04_14 154

I like the idea of transcribing earlier photography and memory notes of a moment with paint. It is never exactly accurate but maybe possibly enough of a translation to be understood. This is of course Reef Bay on Mayne Island with its sandstone beach and winter seaweed resting on the stones. But the details are not as important to me as my desire to render the feeling of timelessness I experience in this particular place. This is what I am after. The sensation of being part of the moment rather than an observer.

Secured by its new owner about mid painting process and is on its way to California, U.S.A…..

Transcribing January’s notes from the sea – 12 x 10 inch oil on canvas

Transcribing January's notes from the sea 12 x 10 inch oil on canvas by Terrill Welch 2013_04_15 006

Finally, we have a wee painting that is going to a family member in Vancouver B.C., Canada. Each of our eight children has been gifted a painting for one of their birthdays. I am not able to do everyone in the same year so the painting gifts are staggered over a few years. The person receiving the gift may choose any painting, regardless of size or price, that is available in my collection. After much thought and deliberation, this is the painting of choice for this individual.

End of Today – 5 x 7 oil on canvas

End of Today 5 x 7 oil on canvas by Terrill Welch 2013_02_27 013

So there we have it – three new paintings released and three waiting to be packaged for shipping.

May your week be filled with simple abundance!

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