Paintings used in 2023 calendar

Cover

 

A work in progress: Murchison River Gorge
from a photograph by Leonie Nulsen

January

Huron Avenue in January


February

My life journey in the style of a journey stone


March

Still life with a silver tin


April

Calla lily drawn in a pastel workshop


May

A still life with apples done in pen and watercolor crayons,
 in a class with Ann Wiseman



June

A day lily from our back porch


July

Adams House and Harvard Lampoon Building,
view from Mt Auburn St.


August

Abel Tasman National Park,
painted in online class with Mike Southern


September

Juniper, Cheryl Suchors' dog


October

Looking at Sandy Pond through trees
at De Cordova Sculpture Park
experimenting with a different style


November

Weeks Footbridge from a HSSPA photograph


December

Smith's Beach on Christmas Day 2019




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