Mel Malton

@melmalton.bsky.social

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🇨🇦Gardener, cook, scribbler and god-botherer. Author of the Polly Deacon mysteries.

Pen and ink drawings of grapevines. Lots of green shades and shapes.
A small building surrounded by trees, with a white fence leading off to the right. One of those soft, post-rain days.
Two boats in harbour at low tide. A rainy sky above, and docks out of focus. Watercolour and ink with coloured pencil on paper.
A watercolour sketch from Kingsport beach, NS. A distant blue headland, distant water, then the pea-green sea grass and terra-cotta mud exposed by the low tide.
Watercolour scene from a high vantage point, looking out over fields below. The cliff is full of greenery, and the distant valley becomes misty on the horizon. Ink, pencil, watercolour on paper.
Watercolour, ink and graphite sketch of a harbour mouth, looking out to sea. Some hills in the distance. Misty. Up
A pink rose in a cut glass vase. The light’s from the left, making the leaves and petals glow. It’s sitting on a weathered pine table, photographed against a neutral grey background.
A seaside rock, covered in draping seaweed, like wet hair. Watercolour and ink.
View from a terrace into a tree-scape, with a distant barn roof.
A bright moon shines above sunlit clouds in an evening garden. A rose bush beneath seems to glow with colour.
Watercolour study of Fundy shoreline. The tide roils the water into an interesting mix of purple and green.
Watercolour rendering of Prescott house. Big old house with wild garden, paired in various robes of blue-grey.
Watercolour scene of a salt marsh river at high tide. Terra-cotta coloured mud banks, reeds in foreground and a tree line in the distance.
Watercolour view of a woodland stream. Lots of boscage and leafery. Some bits that work, others that don’t. Green light and spring vibes, hopefully.
Watercolour sketch of a farm lane. A wooden fence leads the eye to distant fields.
Little watercolour sketch of a river bank with trees in the distance.
Anne, my mother, in a pink jacket and Vera bucket hat, waving a sparkler with a face full of joy.
Ink and watercolour sketch of a road bisecting a tangle of spring shrubs in the foreground, and a pond in the background, connected by a culvert.
Dachshund, with long ginger hair and stubby legs, lies deeply asleep on her back with her tongue poking out of her mouth.
Sketch of a birch tree, just starting a green spring haze in its branches. Pond in background. NSPower pole in foreground.
Acrylic painting of a winter scene. Tree in foreground is a tad wonky, but sincerely meant. In the middle distance, a snow-topped cabin, and trees and fields in the distance. Under some snow in mid-ground is a glimpse of some outbuildings, seen from the ridge in the foreground.
Huckleberry. A derpy dachshund terrier mix with plans to steal your heart and probably your toast. Looking at you with googly eyes and a bit of a smile. Don’t trust her.
Lucy dachshund stares into your face with typical wiener intensity. She is on her back, inviting a moderate belly-tickle.
Acrylic painting of the corner of a wooden deck, crusty with a spattering of snow. Beyond it, the frozen soil is frost covered, with a couple of twigs lying there, a bit snowy, too. Very sombre.
Lucy, a long-haired dachshund, up in arms and wrapped in a fluffy towel, is told that muddy fur must be dealt with. She is rolling her eyes.
Huckleberry, a miniature dachshund, deeply asleep on my lap.
Lucy, a long haired dachshund, keeps watch at the window. Very intensely.
Acrylic painting of colourful sunrise seen through a window.
Rather a lot of snow outside the front door.
The front door, standing open, reveals its own imprint in a bank of snow piled against it. More than knee high.
Small icicles coming from melting snow on the roof cast interesting shadows on the side of a house.
Bee bottom
Interior of shrieking red pepper.
February. Evening light on lots of snow. Minus 4. Sigh.
The photo on which I’m basing my picture. A sunrise on a winter landscape, as seen through my kitchen window.
Rather gaudy winter sunrise as seen through kitchen window. I’m battling to get the windowsill right.
Interior of sliced red pepper seems to be screaming.
Nativity figures are joined by a simply enormous camel.
Orange sky over the hay field. Kitchen window view.
Lucy dachshund chewing a stuffed badger
Horror tinsel on the Mersey river, Nova Scotia.
Squash muffin recipe
A simple and random sign in a bank. It just says “thank you”.
Elderly frog stuffie holds “Resist” sign he made wif a piece of paper and a toofpick.
A late rose in evening light, with a rainbow in the distance.
Acrylic painting of farm family in Annapolis Valley, against backdrop of Cape Blomidon
Dachshund album cover
A furiously blooming red rose bush, in the middle of a provincial drought.
Woodshed doorway to field beyond.
Sunset in Nova Scotia, looks like the artist went a bit overboard with the orange.
Moth who looks like a scary mask
Special spoon and porridge add-ins
Bee butt leaving the lavender
Through the woodshed to the field beyond
Rose-breasted grosbeak, black and white, with a startling, blood-red shield on his chest. Posing like an influencer.