DF Gray

a Dodge returning to the woods in Errington, 18 x 24″ pastel from life

A Ford F800 Big Job an old landscapers truck in a Cedar wood owners have sold it but it wouldn’t start so I had time to paint it, 18 x 24″

At the Fathers Day Show in Qualicum Beach, I have to find a local that gives some space between me and the subject and room for me to work this Ford fits the bill. 18 x 24″

The Last Protester Standing
18 x 24″ pastel from life

Long ago this car was part of a blockade a local farmer set of all of his vehicles across the old highway into Parksville(no mention of what he was pissed off about) when he was to dismantle the protest this car wouldn’t start so was pushed off into the woods beside the road, revisiting…[Read more]

Lucky to be the May pin up in the Port Alberni Trucks calandar
1937 White, while painting in the woods this day I met a woman that told me her mother had two of my large pastels, one to go to her and onr to be left for her sister…her sister had health problems and passed away, her pastel was hung in the nurses station of the renal unit at Royal…[Read more]

1965 Matchless 500 cc G80CS R Police special,Rhodesian Police bike just down the street
pastel from life

car shows

Cumbya’s Combi in Coombs…

Fathers Day show and shine in Qualicum Beach, a Saturday night Dance

Long gone at the bottom of a cliff, now a park, the old Alder probably was a seedling when these were pushed over, 18 x 24″ pastel from life

Melting Merc…in an Errington wood(I am artist in residence in this wood) 50’s Mercury, pastel from life 24 x 18″

this is my first of2014

the first of 2014 1960(or so) Dodge Dart
Mt Arrowsmith with new snow in background
18 x 24″ pastel from life

the second of 2014 a 1949 International
18 x 24″ pastel from life

an Errington Xmas display…the front yard of a neighbour
1968 International Travelall, 18 x 24″ pastel from life

Barn or woodpile find…except it is my 1964 Dodge Dart in our backyard on a hot summer day, Pastel from life, some steps developing the piece can be found here
http://www.members.shaw.ca/dfgray/barnfinddemo.htm
I also can be seen in the Artists Magazine July/August issue in the feature article ‘Livin Large’, painting large works ‘en plein…[Read more]

Sunday show, the Damn Yankee on town square, pastel from life 18 x 24″

the Saturday Night Street Dance in Qualicum Beach pastel from life 18 x 24″