Barron Canyon 1 - A Work in Progress

Today before I could get started on a painting I had a few things to do in the morning in Peterborough.

After completing my errands I arrived back home and started work on this piece that I had started last year (see post on 07 May 2014).

Beginning on the left side of the painting I added some trees to the top of the cliff's edge.













Working my way down the face of the wall I added some details to the rocks and at the base I put in darker colour to the shoreline and some trees against the shore. Then using the colour mixtures for the trees I painted in the reflections on the water.

I started adding some of the trees on the edge of the rock face on the right side of the canyon until Ron returned home and needed my help in the barn.

I will post this painting again once I have completed the right side of the canyon.

Wilderness Sunset - A Work in Progress

It is another rainy day; the only nice thing is the temperature is rising, but then it is also supposed to get very windy. Hopefully my lawn furniture won't blow away down the driveway as usual.

I started thinking about my time in Magnetawan at the beginning of this month and the unseasonably warm weather and the beautiful sunset over the marsh while we were going through Algonquin Park on our way home.








I brushed in some of the sunset colours that I remembered as well as a few of the dead cedar trunks.

Then I set the painting aside so I could think about what else I would like to include in the painting. I will post this piece at a later date once more of it has been completed.

Thank you for looking at my artwork.

Setting up in Algonquin Provincial Park

It is another wet and rainy day with the temperatures hovering just above the freezing mark. If it gets a little colder we may end up with the first snow of the season.














Algonquin Panel 1

Today I had to go and set up the show at the Visitors' Centre in Algonquin Provincial Park. I am hoping that the fallout from Hurricane Sandy will hold off until I return home. The trip up was relatively easy with no heavy downpours of rain or high winds.















Algonquin Panel 2

I took 43 paintings with me that I felt would allow me cover my 32 feet (9.75m) of wall space and I hung 30 of them on the four panels that were mine. This allowed me to leave the remaining 13 paintings at the Centre in case some of the paintings sell during the course of the show which runs until 26 June 2013.











Algonquin Panel 3

When I was packing up the empty boxes to take back home with me I noticed that the rain had turned to sleet and realized that it could be a nasty trip home depending on whether or not I would run into the high winds and if the sleet iced up the roads.












Algonquin Panel 4

About half an hour into my return trip the sleet and rain stopped and the roads were much nice to drive. It wasn't until I reached Apsley that the rain started again, this time it was a down pour which kept the wipers going continuously, but I was fortunate in that the high winds that were expected never materialized.

Algonquin Morning - A Work in Progress

This painting doesn't need a lot more done to it in order to be completed (see post on 05 May 2011) and I would like to have it completed in time for the show at the Visitors' Centre in Algonquin Park.













The background needed a few slightly more detailed trees put into it to fill in some of the open spaces and I added a few birds into the sky but I am still not totally happy with it.

I will post this painting at a later date when I feel it is finished.

Barron Canyon - A Work in Progress

I am gradually working on paintings for the show at the Visitors' Centre in Algonquin Park later this year. This one is a painting of a section of the Barron Canyon.

There are two ways to enjoy the Barron Canyon. If you enjoy hiking you can take the approximately 1 mile (1.5 km) loop called the Barron Canyon Trail that takes you along the top of the north rim of the breath taking, 328 foot (100m) high Barron Canyon before returning to the parking lot.

The other way is by canoe, which can be accessed from either the Bingham Lake Parking Lot and/or the Barron River Parking Lot. Viewing from the water and looking up the Barron Canyon walls takes on a whole new perspective.

Regardless whether one is standing and looking over the unfenced cliff's edge downward or those in canoes looking up, people will appear tiny against the magnificence of the Barron Canyon walls.

Once I have completed more work on this painting I will post it at a later date.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and look at the artwork. I hope you will return often.