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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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I camped on Norah Lake in Algonquin this fall, saw a huge moose and geese flying south past a full moon, and a lonely loon called, it was all very beautiful. I remembered it all recently, so I painted this, acrylic on 16x20” canvas.
#art #nature #canadianart #algonquin
An acrylic painting showing a moose and full moon reflected in water. Geese fly across the moon and a loon swims bottom left. It’s reminiscent of a woodland style painting, but with an Australian tinge.
December 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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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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‘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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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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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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‘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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‘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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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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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
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Blue Heron returning to Canada in spring. Acrylic on 14x36” canvas.

I painted this after wondering what spring migration would look like from a birds perspective, as they approach the Point Pelee peninsula.

#ArtAdventCalendar
#birds
#canadianart
#nature
3 blue heron approach a triangle of green, pink, orange and red land at dawn. 3 pelicans are below them, as is the blue, green, and yellow Lake Erie.
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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‘Lake Oseetah, Adirondacks’. Acrylic on paper. I canoed this lily-filled lake daily when I stayed near Saranac Lake for 2 weeks. Beautiful area.

Day 5 of the #ArtAdventCalendar

#pleinair #adirondacks #canartist
White lilies on blue lake surface, purple mountains behind fading into a blue and yellow sky.
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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‘Village scene, Hombori’. Acrylic on 9x14” canvas, using reference photos I took whilst hiking in Mali, West Africa.

Day 4 of
#ArtAdventCalendar

#art #africa #humanmade
Lady with baby on hip stands before a thatched village and mountain range, known locally as le main de Fatima. A child plays on a tree, a holy lady is far left. The painting style is influenced by Giovanni Segantini during his Divisionism phase.
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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‘Monarch Migration at Point Pelee’, acrylic on 16x20” canvas.

Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar

#butterflies
#canadianart
Red and orange Monarch butterflies flying around blue sky and settling on green and cream plants, with indigenous carvings at bottom and a raccoon in a tree top left.
December 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Fresh snow by the pond, Upstate New York. Acrylic painting on wood panel.
Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar

#pleinair
#landscapepainting
#naturelover
Acrylic painting on wood panel, of fresh snow hillocks before a sunset sky. Started painting in the spot and moved inside when it got too dark/cold.
December 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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For the first day of #ArtAdventCalendar an acrylic painting of a pruning beaver that I encountered earlier this year at Point Pelee NP, when visiting for the excellent Festival of Birds.
#nature
#pointpelee
#canadianart
Painting of a beaver pruning its fur, having just woken up for the evening.
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM