 It has warmed up to -18 today, while other places further south are dipping drastically into frozen temperatures. With the warmer weather the foxes have been playing out in the yard again. Apparently my car is their new playground!!! It is 10:30 AM and still pitch black out - it's almost hard to believe that the light will soon eat up all the dark until there is none left. For now I am enjoying lunchtime sunrises and afternoon sunsets; the two are still close enough that sunrise blends into sunset creating cotton candy daytime skies. Spent the day yesterday outlining - soooo much outlining! Today will be re-working the foreground. So off I go - back to the studio with my tea!!! 
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 Urchin Acrylic on paper 5"x7" - 2017 Urchin Cling tight Urchin Cling to home To love Cling urchin Cling To all that matters  Delta Freeze Acrylic on paper 5"x7" - 2017 Delta Freeze Freezing air snaps at the surface Of the Mackenzie River Dragging frosty jagged nails across slight waves Bringing temperatures down Sucking in rising water vapours Breathing it back as ice  A Whisper in Time Acrylic on paper 5"x7" - 2017 A Whisper in Time Whisper carefully - "Come home to me After you follow all your dreams And drift back across the sea For I will wait As long as it takes For I know that you will never break"  To Each Their Own Acrylic, pen & ink on paper 5"x7" - 2017 To Each Their Own To each their own Trying not to fall When they cry Though people see Just what they want to see It doesn't hurt...... If no one sees you in tears  Process of "Rusty" the beluga watercolour, pen & ink, 5"x7" The past few weeks I have been working on some sweet Arctic cetacean minis. I thought it would be lovely to have some original pieces on hand for the Inuvik Christmas Bazaar this year. Sooooooooo as you can see, I did go a wee bit crazy with the belugas! I really couldn't seem to help myself and will most likely draw a couple more as they just seem to have so much charcater. I have finished my beautiful Narwhal painting and will post pictures of it soon - I need to really practice my photography skills.  Bowhead Whale pen and ink, watercolour 5"x7"  September in Inuvik is a rather quick succession of the finality of summer, with Autumn just barely allowed to dig her brightly coloured nails in before Jack Frost and his hounds of the blowing snowy whirlwinds descend. I have attempted to enjoy every moment of this quick northern Autumn and her stunning colours have had to offer. I took some time off painting to go cranberry picking and enjoy being immersed in the luminosity of our rather hasty Fall season.  I find that the brilliance of Autumns' cloak of vividness really inspire a lot of my current work. I adore colour and enjoy using bright colours that you almost cannot imagine in nature, but there they are! Colours which become even more vibrant when they are peeking through a light dusting of snow; or just a couple of red hued wild rose leaves reluctantly hang tight to their branch amid a chorus of twigs and branches now turned dismal shades of brown and grey.
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