"Three on the Salish Sea"

Winter Solstice was all sunny and bright and full of LIGHT 

for the Traditional Winter Solstice 

Linnyland Painting Adventure - UNTIL the paint was 

squeezed out on the pallette!!

Still, it was a JOYJOYJOY 

to be out in Nature, on the edge of the Salish Sea, amongst the Otters, 

Eagles, Kingfishers and the Looky-Lou Puppers!!

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 "Three on the Salish Sea", 8x6, oil on wood, @Linny D. Vine

Linny D. Vine - Annual Winter Solstice Linnyland Painting Adventure 2016

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#JOYJOYJOY

December and ....Winter Solstice and...

December snow...and warm & cozy inside...

AND HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE!

"View of the Village", 36 x 18, oil on canvas, ©Linny D. Vine

(available through Hampton Gallery, Kamloops BC Canada)

"HaPpY HaPpY Winter Solstice & HaPpY RETURN of the LIGHT!

HaPpY HaPpY Winter Solstice 

& HaPpY RETURN of the LIGHT!

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"The One and Only"

acrylic on canvas

48 x 24

(SOLD a number of whiles ago to Linnyland Collectors

 in Austin Texas USA)

New Moon & Lighthouse

Only four more days

 until Winter Solstice...and then the return

 of the LIGHT!

(According to Linny-Lore,

 it's tradition to celebrate Winter Solstice

in this way: write a list of what 

you'd like to leave behind along with the darkness, 

then write another list of what you'd like to welcome into

your life along with the return of the light.)

~

And speaking of light, here is the Brockton Point Lighthouse,

 in Stanley Park,  in Vancouver BC, 

in LINNYLAND!!

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"New Moon & Lighthouse"

oil on canvas

20 x 10

"In Front of Lulu's House"

On the afternoon of Winter's Solstice I went

on a painting adventure with

 fellow, fellow artist, Jeffrey Boron.

From where I painted, just over in Linnyland,

 I had a view of little red roofed houses 
and the Sooke hills beyond.

While I painted Lulu came by and told me
that she lives in one of the Queen's houses,
 then she told me some stories about her home and the area. 

Before she left we had talked  

cedar, sweet grass and some more Linny lore.

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"In Front of Lulu's House"
oil on cradled wood panel

6 x 8

Snowy Light

                    

 Happy Winter Solstice and happy return of the light!

Wishing you peace, love, light and joy for the holidays & throughout the new year.

Happy. happy and merry, merry!

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"Snowy Light"

oil on canvas

20 x 10

"Little, Little Lighthouse" (Race Rocks Lighthouse) SOLD

In honor of the winter solstice

here's a little light for everyone.

Happy Winter Solstice!

As of today we, in the northern hemisphere,

begin to experience an increasing amount of

daylight in every day.

According to Linny lore, the Winter solstice

is a day to release whatever

you'd like into the dark days of the past

and welcome whatever you'd like in to your life

along with the return of the light.
(I can see the Race Rocks Light from my studio window,

so, with a pair of binoculars and some Linnyland imaginings,

I welcomed this little painting into being.)

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"Little, Little Lighthouse"

(Race Rocks Lighthouse)

oil on canvas

12 x 6

SOLD

Little, Little Light (Fisgard Lighthouse) STOLEN

This is a tale of dark and light from Linnyland.

I was going to wait and post

this little, little Linnyland lighthouse painting

to celebrate Winter Solstice.

Winter Solstice is the day of the year

just before we, in the northern hemisphere,

begin our return towards the light and, little by little,

we begin to experience longer days of daylight.

Unfortunately, "Little, Little Light"

has vanished into the dark,

the victim of a little, little art heist.

On Friday I delivered "Little, Little Light",

along with other small paintings, to my Victoria art galleries,

(in time for December's season of the small painting).

Sadly, over the weekend, a grinch took

"Little Little Light" from the wall of one of the galleries.

"Little, Little Light" stands 12 inches high and 6 inches wide

and was last seen wearing a black wooden floater frame.

If you have any information regarding

"Little Little Light" and/or it's whereabouts

please contact me, the gallery, or the Victoria police.

Please help return "Little Little Light" from the dark to the light.

Help me to spread the news...

Make it right, return "Little, Little Light!"

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"Little Little Light" (Fisgard Lighthouse)

oil on canvas

12 x 6

STOLEN

Little Light SOLD

Happy Solstice Everyone!

The first time that I painted

the Fisgard Lighthouse it was on location

and it was a cold but sunny wintery morning.

Since then I've painted a few more "Fisgards" on

different shapes and sizes of canvas, and oddly,

I've painted them all in the

months of December.

Each time that I paint the lighthouse it

ends up being balanced on a slightly higher rock

and the last two have had fences as safe boundaries as well.

I'm sure that by this time in December we can all relate to the

lighthouse and are feeling the need to rise high above it all with

our boundaries in tact. So, on Winter Solstice today,

as you celebrate the return of the light

may you all have a little time to yourself to

find your balance and enjoy the light

- high above it all.

Wishing you joy & light!

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"Little Light"

oil on canvas

20 x 10

SOLD

November Light - Highrock Park

This one is from an earlier in November adventure to

Highrock Park in Esquimalt with fellow fella painter,

Jeffrey Boron.

Jeffrey has claimed thatthere are easily 100 paintings

to be painted in this park and I'm in agreement

- so, that means 200, doesn't it?!

We painted at the park on one of the few November days

that had any sort late afternoon light...only 21 more days until

Winter Solstice and then the light starts it's return.

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"November Light - Highrock Park"

oil on board

(plein air)

11 x 14