Tag Archives: blue

Oil painting of English Bay, Vancouver with cargo ship and yacht by Vancouver artist Leanne Christie

In the gap. Oil on canvas. 8″ x 8″. SOLD

A full year in the seeking but here she is. The perfect Vancouver stormy light. You know the moment when the clouds have descended, the sun is either beginning to set or she is hidden by cloud density, the atmosphere is dark and charged but suddenly the sun slips through. Slicing the air and bouncing [...]

Lunch Break. Oil on canvas. 10″ x 10″

Painting of tug boats moored next to the Vancouver Ports, view from Crab Park. The struggle: the harmonization of the overall blue tones with the punctuating browns of the pier and the reds of the life saving equipment on the tugs. The secret: Keeping the blues just slightly tinted with red so that there were [...]