Bill Tomlinson
Drawings and Paintings by Bill Tomlinson, plus occasional offerings by other artists and poets.
29/12/2021
Oil on Kraft Paper
18" x 24"
28/12/2021
Crystal's Back,
Oil on Board,
12" x 16"
28/12/2021
Keri
Oil sketch on Kraft Paper
18" x 24 "
28/12/2021
Blind Woman and Blowing Curtain
Oil on Board
12" x 16"
28/12/2021
Jessica
Oil on Board
12" x 16"
28/12/2021
Crystal with Paintings
Oil on Canvas
24" x 30"
27/07/2018
Crystal
Oil on Kraft Paper
18" x 24"
19/07/2018
More Life Painting, oil on kraft paper, 18" x 24"
19/07/2018
Reclining Crystal,
Oil on Kraft Paper
18" x 24"
16/07/2018
15/07/2018
Bill Tomlinson
Bill Tomlinson's cover photo
Tin Siding, Belleville Railway Yards
oil on stretched canvas, 12" x 16",
copyright William Tomlinson, all rights reserved
Shell, oil on canvas, 24" x 30"
Broken Shell, oil on canvas, 24" x 30"
Shell -- oil sketch on canvas panel, 9" x 12"
Shell -- oil sketch on canvas panel
Canada Day, oil sketch on canvas panel
November -- just across the road. oil on canvas panel.
Late October near Stirling. oil on canvas panel
Ruined Barn and fields on the Stirling to Campbellford road, oil on canvas panel
Upper end of a churchyard on the road from Stirling to Campbellford. The building at the upper left is the church hall. Oil on canvas panel.
Recent life drawing
Yes, that's me.
Oil on panel, 12"x16"
Oil on panel, 8"x10"
oil on canvas panel
12"x20"
Number 5: Limestone Barrens, Burnt Cape, northern tip of Newfoundland
And another. This is the view from the same point where I did S**g Rock, but turned 90 degrees left. (Thank you Gord, for the use of your deck.)
Another from Newfoundland. This is at the foot of the Tablelands in Gros Morne National Park. They're basically an upheaval of the Earth's mantle, the result of a continental collision -- one of the few such places in the world. Nickel, a main component of the mantle, is toxic to plant life, so the table lands are utterly barren. It's pretty much like walking on Mars.
Fisher's Point, St. Anthony, Newfoundland
oil on canvas panel
Haven't done landscape in about thirty years. Have been wanting to give it a try for a while, so when we went off for two weeks in Newfoundland I took my oils and a French easel. I enjoyed it a lot -- found it exhilarating, actually, though I had to get used to it -- especially the wind, which at one point blew my painting straight down on to my palette.
S**g Rock at Norris Point, was done over two mornings, plus some studio time later; fortunately conditions each morning were pretty similar. The official explanation for the name of this cliff is the shags -- cormorants -- that hang around it, but I never saw any cormorants, so I prefer the unofficial explanation: you're shagged if you run your boat into it.
The smaller one is at Fisher's Point in St. Anthony, near where the Viking settlement was discovered. I had just got started when the fog began to descend, but managed to blunder through. A few days before, we had watched two humpback whales feeding on capelin -- blowing, diving and breaching not three feet from those cliffs in the background. If you'd been standing on a rock you could have jumped onto the back of one of them!
Charcoal, sanguine conte and pastel….