The Proposal

Valentine's Day a couple of years ago I observed a couple in intense conversation.  The scene stuck with me and I finally finished the painting this spring.

Back Lane View

 Painted mostly with a pallet knife I had a lot of fun playing with the texture and layering that is really only possible with oil paints.

Last One To Know

On Facebook I asked people to name this painting. Out of 14 suggestions I chose the name; Last One To Know.

I am still trying to come up with a title for this painting.

Blue Table

Painted this spring, Blue Table is a loose representation of our dining room except that I had fun with the colours (I have always wanted a blue table!)

Red Truck

This home no longer exists.  Shortly after the picture was taken

the house was demolished and the truck was towed away.

I took a long time before I decided to offer it for sale as it evoked

strong feelings for me.

On hold until Before the Rush, Nov. 7,8,9

If Chairs Could Dance

The chairs are part of my antique collection and the dancers

are purely imaginary.

A corner of my gallery.

Part of my inventory of found objects and

paintings that will be at 

Before the Rush.

Which Painting?

Several of these paintings (and the grain auger as well) will

 be held for Before the Rush, Nov. 7,8,9 at the Ivy Lea!

Last Dance

A small painting/sketch on Masonite. Up close you can see

that I chose to paint on the rough side.  I like the effect.

Paint Pallet

I converted a primitive pipe rack table to hold my paint

brushes and it rapidly has become a paint pallet as well.

How Much?

I titled this painting "How Much".  It is meant to

convey that time just before an antique show is to 

open and the dealers when dealers often buy and sell 

to each other.

Andrea Mossop took this photo of a painting I am working on.  She called it a "a fun synchronicity" - the painting, the pallet, the table cover and my old shirt being recycled to clean my brushes.  I will post the completed painting later - though not much left to do on it.

A view of the new gallery/workshop on a sunny Feb. 16th morning.  I can't wait until it is really finished.  The light will be fantastic.

Envy:  I was at a dance at Queens' U., Wallace Hall where the young'uns were doing the jive to a live band.  This couple were really "jiving" and there was a lady, older, in a red dress along with a couple of other single women who were looking on.  (The punch bowl and glasses were part of the treats we had for our Feb. Thaw Sale)

Four Red Chairs:  Every piece in this painting I have owned or still own.  I painted this over a couple of years as a representation of the many antique shows I have done.  I was deliberately not trying to do a "composition" as I was trying to represent that moment just before a show begins and stuff still needs to be placed. 

Reflections:  With some liberties this is a corner of my living room.  The fish in the foreground is a folk art carving that I mounted on a stand.  I was trying to get the feel of a winter night when the windows are wet on the inside and the reflections are distorted. 

 "Painting in Waiting" by Blaine Levey

Red Chairs.

16 w. X 20 h.
Sold

Singing the Blues.

16 w. X 20 h.

Oil on canvas.