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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
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
December 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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
December 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
‘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
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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
December 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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
December 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
‘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
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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
December 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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
December 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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
December 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
‘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
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
‘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
December 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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
December 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Puffins at Latrabjarg cliffs, an acrylic painting inspired by a visit earlier this year to Iceland. #ArtAdventCalendar day 12.
#iceland #birds #nature
December 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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
December 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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
December 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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
December 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
‘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
December 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
‘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
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
‘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
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
‘Monarch Migration at Point Pelee’, acrylic on 16x20” canvas.

Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar

#butterflies
#canadianart
December 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Fresh snow by the pond, Upstate New York. Acrylic painting on wood panel.
Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar

#pleinair
#landscapepainting
#naturelover
December 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM