I want to invite all my friends to visit my very own brand new web site: http://www.paintedtomato.ca

See you there!

  On the way to our cottage in Haliburton, there's a farm with a little gift shop by the road. We often stop there to stock up on unusual cheeses, homemade butter tarts and garlic stuffed olives. I tell Larry what to buy and he goes in to shop while I walk back behind the gift shop towards the barn to take pictures. I've already done a painting of ( Read more... )

   Well, this is the cello player I talked about in the Javawocky picture. While I was painting him there was an accident with his arm and some black paint but Photoshop did a nice job of healing him. I really didn't want this picture to end up in the paper shredder. The day we saw him and heard him play we were on our way to dinner with relatives  ( Read more... )

Hi, and welcome to my first entry for 2006. There's no picture today because Johanna, the blog slave, is sick. I don't think she's really that ill but it is to my advantage to be nice and coddle her a bit so that blogging can continue into the future. I've had plenty of time over the holidays to do some more painting which you will see eventually ( Read more... )

   To all my blog friends, I hope you had a great Christmas ( Read more... )

This is Piper's Lagoon. It's at the north end of Nanaimo. At low tide ( Read more... )

 Hello. I did not paint this. Carol Evans did and she is a totally ( Read more... )

 Hi. This is Cat. I don't know his real name but I have been told ( Read more... )

November 9, 2005    Postcard from the edge...of Canada 
Two ladies sit at a table in the sun, deeply engaged in conversation ( Read more... )

 November 1, 2005  We are now back on Vancouver Island. The ( Read more... )