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Dave Wise
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Trying to live authentically in Tkaronto. All images my own. No AI. ☮️🔻🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈🌱 Latest film on hiking, painting, and powwow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct6JJeMVT7w
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A sacred family scene; Elephants in Sri Lanka, acrylic on 5”x7” canvas, a memory from when I visited Pinnewela in 2014. I’ve really enjoyed taking part in the #ArtAdventCalendar Thanks @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca for organising!
#animalart #elephants #srilanka
An acrylic painting of a mother elephant standing in a river helping her baby drink. The father is half shown in the right. In the background are 3 more elephants feeding in a tropical green landscape.
December 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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One year exposure of the sun passing over the white pines, Greenfield Centre, Upstate NY, made with a tin can camera onto photo paper. White arcs show sunny days, dark arcs show overcast days. Day 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#solargraphy #pinhole #photography
The daily arc of the sun is shown for the period of one year, showing as white lines on sunny days and dark lines on overcast days, there are silhouettes of white pine trees and the overall colour cast is green/blue.
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Day 23 #artAdventCalendar is My hand-carved, hand-printed lino block print of the well-known, ancient Chinese folktale of the magpie bridge linking the lovers, The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, separated by a great river, which is the Milky Way, is printed on lovely Japanese paper, 11” x 14”.
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My black and white linocut the Chinese folktale of The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, shows the Cowherd at the bottom right, reaching up towards the weeping Weaver Girl at the top left. Each stands on a stylized raining cloud. There are 6 magpies in flight, flying over raining waves of the river between them. As you look from the bottom left of the river up towards the top right the waves transform into the simple dots of the stars in the Milky Way.
December 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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‘Winter Solstice; The Dark Is Rising - vigilant crows, and trees’. Pinhole photo, made using a 1970’s Nikon, and photo paper. Day 22 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#pinhole #photography #wintersolstice
A pinhole photo showing a dark sky, silhouettes of bare trees, some crow nests and a flying crow. The sun is low on the left.
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Stonehenge and crow’, taken with a pinhole camera onto photo paper. Before I left England for good I took a 3 week long walk, sleeping rough, approaching ancient sites as they were meant to be approached. Stonehenge was one such site. Day 21 of #ArtAdventCalendar #pinhole #photography
Black and white pinhole photo of Stonehenge, with a crow standing before it.
December 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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A curious fox that came to my camp at sunset in Algonquin, painted acrylic on 16”x20” canvas in the style of Giovanni Segantini, one of my favourite artists. Day 20 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#OpenHouse #natureart
#BlueSkyArtShow
#canadianart
A multi coloured painting in the Divisionist style, with an orange and white fox in the middle left, 3 mushrooms bottom right, and 3 trees behind. Behind that is a lake, mountains, and a blue, pink and purple evening sky.
December 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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‘These simple things are all we have left to trust…’ Natural Earth pigment paint on found birch bark. Between AI, digital art, and the DoubleTalk of journalists, politicians, and their super rich masters, it’s hard to trust. But apples, these I still have faith in. Day 19 of the #ArtAdventCalendar
A green and red apple painted using natural pigments on a piece of birch bark, with the sentence ‘these simple things are all we have left to trust’ written underneath.
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18

A puffin in coloured pencil.
#puffin #birdart #birddrawing #SciArt #seabird #colouredpencil
A puffin with its colourful red, blue and yellow bill. It is sitting on grey rocks against a blue sky.
December 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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A few moments from a Christmas walk; people who never have enough time to talk finally gather to discuss family issues far from prying ears, the dog is distracted by the robins among the sumac, me watching it all, sketching, detached. Day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#birds #natureart
3 robins surround a brown dog, 1 of the eating red sumac berries. Trees swirl and in arcs, enclosing a couple of hikers at the top left.
December 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Red Headed Woodpeckers and Blandings Turtle, acrylic on 16”x20” canvas, based on life I encountered during a day’s hike at Point Pelee. Day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#birds #nature #turtle #canadianart
A sunny woodland scene with Lake Ontario visible through golden trees. Two red headed woodpeckers look to the right whilst a yellow and green turtle sits at front, beside a blue stream.
December 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Monterey Cypress 💙 #ArtAdventCalendar day 16 #art #watercolor
I loved painting all the details in this composition. Inspired by walks along the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail in Pacific Grove. #painting #nature #Monterey #California #coast #trees #ThickTrunkTuesday

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Watercolor painting of a Monterey cypress tree with rocks and ice plant. Overlooking Monterey Bay.
December 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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A snake I painted (acrylic on wood panel) after a long weekend involving much nature viewing and a pow wow. Nature is alive and watching, with eyes everywhere! The ‘Woodland Style’ influence is heavy in this one, I love Morrisseau’s work. Day 16 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#natureart #snake #canadianart
Blue, yellow and red coiled snake on a white branch, with a yellow background. Eyes are in the branch, and in the grasses.
December 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Day fifteen of #ArtAdventCalendar

Here’s a little watercolour of a Jenny Wren.
A watercolour painting of a Wren. The bird is perched on the ground and surrounded by blue Forget-Me-Not flowers.
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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‘Lavender fields under cloudy June skies’. Acrylic on 6”x4” canvas. Painted this yesterday whilst remembering the fields near Shoreham in southern England where I used to have picnics. Nice to think of them now the Toronto winter has hit. Day 15 of the #ArtAdventCalendar
#natureart #canadianartist
Lavender fields are all around a Tudor farmhouse, backed by poplar trees. A green lawn to the left of the house and white morning glory flowers at front complete the painting.
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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For #ArtAdventCalendar day 13, one from my 2018 Turbulent Skies Project.

I Can See It…With My Imagination
44x60 112×152cm
Oil on Canvas
2018
Abstract landscape: swirling storm clouds with a wall cloud and rain underneath, yellow field and trees
December 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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‘Gullfoss’. Acrylic on 9”x6” canvas, inspired by a visit this year. I’m eager to return to Iceland, nature seems very prominent there. Humans are relatively few, and waterfalls drown out voices wherever we go.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#iceland #natureart #art #acrylicpainting #canadianart
A 2 tier waterfall dominates the centre of the painting, with green cliffs either side and a stormy sky above.
December 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Day 13 #ArtAdventCalendar Striped skunks with solomon seal plants. Another one with moths :)
#NatureArt #WildlifeArt #AnimalArt #BotanicalArt

Drawing of two skunks circling each other with green yellow leaves on a blue background with white moths.
December 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Among Mum’s belongings was a photo of a misty island. I’ve no idea where she took it, somewhere in Cornwall or Wales maybe. I figured it was a special place for her, so I painted it in memory of her.
Day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#acrylicpainting
#landscapepainting
A mist cloaked pale blue island sits in the calm ocean just offshore of a hillside riddled with multi coloured roots. 5 trees rise vertically. A large bush peeks out from the left hand side of the painting.
December 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Puffins at Latrabjarg cliffs, an acrylic painting inspired by a visit earlier this year to Iceland. #ArtAdventCalendar day 12.
#iceland #birds #nature
Two puffins sit in green grass with yellow flowers. Behind many more birds cling to a cliff face, and in the far distance is a volcano on the horizon.
December 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Whilst doing a scuba dive compression stop in the Mediterranean Sea a curious red octopus tapped me on the hand. We exchanged looks until my 5 minutes was up and I had to surface. Acrylic on 5”x3” wood panel.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#nature #art #octopus #acrylicpainting
A red octopus with curly tentacles looks towards the viewer, backed by shoals of fish and 2 rays. Red corals growing on arches of rock are between them all.
December 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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I made this shortly after George Floyd was killed. All of these are stamps from colonies, mostly British, but not all. I call it Punching Up. #ArtAdventCalendar
Brightly colored stamps from a variety of colonies. Amidst them is a black power fist punching up through the stamps and disrupting them. Yellow matte, black frame.
December 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Acrylic on 12”x12” wood panel. This year I visited Iceland. This shows the day we had a long picnic on a beach whilst seals basked on rocks and played in the water very nearby.

#ArtAdventCalendar
#iceland #natureart #seals #canadianart
An acrylic painting of a seal basking, asleep, on a seaweed covered rock. In the background 2 other seals play in the water, before a pink coloured volcano.
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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View from the porch of the snowed in barn, frozen pond, and southern Adirondacks. Acrylic on 6”x4” wood panel, painted #pleinair whilst staying with family during Christmas.
Day 9 of the wonderful #ArtAdventCalendar
#humanart #canartist
A snowy, cloudy scene, the top half shows the brown timber underside of a porch, the mountains have a blue tinge, layers of green forest lead back to a frozen pond and partially snowed in barn. Painted plein air.
December 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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A Barred Owl I met whilst hiking this fall in Frontenac. Acrylic painting on 16”x20” canvas. Day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#naturepainting #birds
#hiking #traditionalart
A light brown Barred Owl sat on a mottled grey tree, before a darker brown and red tree. The background is yellow at the top and purple at the bottom, with green oak leaves separating the 2 colours.
December 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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‘Waterfall at sunset, in Yosemite’, for day 7 of the #ArtAdventCalendar It’s an acrylic painting on 5”x7” board, based on a woodcut by the Japanese American artist Chiura Obata.

#traditionalart #artbyhumans #painting
A cliff face painted in orange, brown, red, grey, and pink hue, against an indigo blue sky. The waterfall to the left is cream, and in front is a single tree top.
December 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM