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Calm before the Storm
There is a wind warning put out by Environment Canada for Mayne Island: Southeast winds up to 100 km/h expected today for North Vancouver Island, central coast, north coast and Haida Gwaii. Southeast...
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Singing Seas with Tafoni Rhythmic Response
The musical voice of the sea is forever calling me to its shores. Sandstone, washed and shaped by the tidal chorus, seems to hold the notes of the sea in rhythmic response. The small holes in the...
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THE SEA TO ME original oil painting by Terrill Welch
Fresh brush strokes, loose and easy, flow onto the canvas of a new painting. Lusty dank seaweed brings its dark beauty to the summer sandstone shores along the inside passage on Saturna Island. My hand...
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For the Love of Brown-Eyed Susan
The gray and rain of January give a person a chill that can only be warmed by thinking of summer while sipping a hot cup of mint tea. This and a photograph of a clump of Brown-Eyed Susan taken during...
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My gift to you of 12 landscape and seascape photographs for Earth Day 2012
I was going to wait until morning but why wait? Why not start such a beautiful day of celebration early? Here is my gift to you of 12 landscape and seascape images in celebration of Earth Day 2012 for...
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ALONE BY THE SEA original oil painting by Terrill Welch
Don’t even ask what I was supposed to be doing this Friday because whatever it was it isn’t done. Instead, I worked on this new 20 x 20 inch oil on canvas painting that is of East Point on Saturna...
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Does anyone read blogs and does it matter that you write?
Short answer: Yes they do and yes it does! Sold – photography print on canvas of Building with a View #2 in series of five by Terrill Welch (available for purchase HERE) There is a wonderful story...
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Sketching by the Sea – 7 tips for sketching with children
My grandson, Arrow, and I are on vacation over on Saturna Island this week. Yesterday was an overcast. No rain but the light was dull and lacked luster. Photography and painting en plein air just...
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An Evening on Brown Ridge Saturna Island
Oh it seems like forever since I have checked in! Paintings and photography prints have sold. I am part of a new project for an online One Day Only – Artist Studio Floor Show, August 31, 2012. New...
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Autumn Sliced with a Tear
Just the highlights from a painter and photographer’s last five days… Sunday – Today is one of those slow-baked, melancholy west coast Sundays, so moist and tender you can slice it with a tear. Autumn...
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Sunrise to Sunset Traveling the British Columbia West Coast Water Highway
The Government of British Columbia and its fine west coast island citizens are in agreement that something has to change to sustain one of the most beautiful water highway systems in world. There is...
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Saturna Island and rendering overlapping memories
Mid-August brings blackberries, hanging fruit and puffs of dust as our sandal clad feet catch the spots where grass has given way to daily meanderings. The farm geese play watch dog and the cows search...
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Garry Oaks viewed from Brown Ridge – Canadian landscape painting
Originally posted on Canadian Contemporary Artist Terrill Welch:These muted hues have endurance and awe brushed into their presence. So often painters seem to feel the need to resist the gray and brown...
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A Seascape as a Place to be on Saturna Island
East Point on Saturna Island is a fine place to be in almost any weather but a warm end of June just brings out its best. From the little fog house that is…. to the sight of Mount Baker sitting grand...
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