Painting – Doug Rutherford

January 1, 2024January 1, 2024

A new year

It seems I start a lot of posts with “I’ve been a bit remiss lately.” However, with the new year, I figured I should get around to posting more often.

First, Happy New Year, all.

I’ve had a busy year. I have a play almost finished, although I did want to submit it to a one-act play competition but did not get around to finishing it before the submission deadline. I did finish 379 paintings this year, and only missed three days: February 21, July 23, and December 25.

I have to get a little busy since I have a solo exhibit in April, It will be paintings of the Kluane Ranges in Winter.

I tried to pick my 10 favourite paintings of the year, but I settled for 10 I liked more than others.

And, here is the first painting of 2024.

May 27, 2023August 10, 2023

Gallery Paintings

I currently have paintings for sale at two galleries: Yukon Artists at Work and Arts Underground, in Whitehorse. Arts Underground does do online sales, although this is not true at YAAW.

Arts Underground

Mt. Slim, watercolour on paper, 8×10, $125.00

Yukon Artists at Work

Forest morning sun, watercolour on paper, 8×10, $125.00.

March 26, 2022March 26, 2022

Year 3 of a painting a day

Now that we’re into the third year of the painting a day, here’s a few of the ones I’ve done so far.

**Bennett Lake, 8×10, watercolour on paper**

February 9, 2022

More winter paintings

I did a little count and my streak of painting winter scenes is now at 31 days. Here are a few more of my winter scenes.

Auriol Range, watercolour on paper, 8×10

January 23, 2022February 9, 2022

Embracing winter

When painting, I have made it a point to avoid doing winter scenes. I didn’t get a handle on painting the winter at first. And, while I don’t hate the season, per se, it harder to deal with the pandemic a bit more than it is in the mid-summer and who doesn’t want to think more of summer.

But, I have decided to jump into the winter scene, so to speak, in the last while. I have made an effort concentrate on winter scenes lately and am trying to put together a small show of winter paintings. Here are some of the winter scenes from the last two months.

Three of these are not Yukon/BC/Alaska scenes. One is loosely based on a tutorial from my Facebook painting group (Art by Paul Clark ) and two others are based on photos posted as challenges from the same group and I don’t know exactly where in the UK they’re from.

Carcross Desert (8×10, watercolour on paper)

August 12, 2021August 12, 2021

My first residency

I finished my first painting residency today, the Yukon Fresh Artist in Residence Exchange. It was 10 days of painting and workshops in variety of subjects.

I completed 18 paintings, and liked most of them. I did one workshop, teaching introductory watercolours to 7 students. All told, it was a great 10 days, although it did have a rocky start. I was going to stay in my camper, but it developed some mechanical issues on the way back from Fox Lake and I can’t get in into the shop until next week. My daughter and son-in-law offered their travel trailer for the residency, saving me from 10 days in a tent. I’d have to buy one, at that, since my little pup tent isn’t really a choice.

So here are some of the paintings I did. Most were local southern lakes scenes, including a few from up at the Tagish fire tower where the view is incredible.