Tag Archives: Painting of cargo ship

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 [...]

Kitsilano. Oil on canvas. 10″ x 10″ SOLD

Vanier Park, in front of the maritime museum.  There is a little bit of magic in this area for me after having viewed the fireworks from here in our first year in Vancouver and then having had a picnic here when the tall ships were in town.  The drawing for ‘Kitsilano” was completed on the [...]