This years first camping trip.

An early morning view of our campsite on the beach at Port Renfrew, Vancouver Island, Sat March 21st. Pretty cold, some ice on the puddles, but the day turned out fine and sunny (just as the weatherman had predicted!). In summertime this oceanfront campground tends to fill up with a few too many rowdies for our liking but either side of summer it makes a fine destination. Only two or three other rigs were set up and they were all nicely seperate from each other.

We took a long walk east to the Deering bridge over the sloughlike area of the San Juan River and then followed the road back to the south end of the beach then north along the beach back to our camp. About seven or eight kilometers total. Watched a mink, then an otter and a seal frollicking in the water and had fun with the campgrounds' resident crow population.

Arrival of the wettest.

Linda Heslop painted this large triptych seascape in acrylic and oil on 3 canvas boards, it is called 'Arrival'. The original image has a sale pending but is also available as a giclee print available from Full Circle Studio Arts. A typical view of the westcoast of Vancouver Island from the Long Beach area.

Rockin' new watercolors.

Linda spent Saturday and Sunday signing prints of these two new watercolors (here shown on the one sheet of paper they were done on) at the Victoria Home Show. They're so fresh that the giclee art prints were  picked up from the printers on Saturday morning! A limited edition print series of 200 each has been run off.
The work on the right half of the sheet has already been sold to a couple from Calgary, I believe the one of the rocks on the left is still available as an original.

Island Time

Three watercolors of some of Vancouver Islands many offshore islands followed by a few photos of the places we go where inspiration develops.