Moonlit Forest 1 - A Work in Progress

Today is the last day of the Brian Atyeo workshop and the theory for the day was about the importance of the use of line and shape within a painting.

For the demonstration in addition to doing his usual tonal value sketch, he also did a small colour watercolour value sketch.

This little painting was later raffled off to the class; unfortunately I didn't win it, but the small piece was exquisite.

The painting he did was a semi abstract with the use a line and shape to create an image of a forest of birch trees on a moonlit night.

My painting isn't quite as abstract as his one was and I am using a mixture of birch and cedar trees.

I will post more on this painting as it gets closer to completion.

Barron Canyon 1 - A Work in Progress

Today is the second day of the Brian Atyeo workshop and most of the theory was about the differences between, transparent, sedimentary and opaque paints, how they work together and what they do when applied to paper.













We worked on a landscape painting in the afternoon using different layers of both transparent and sedimentary colours along and when mixed together as well as layers of transparent glazes to achieve a depth of colour.

There are a number of things I still need to do and I will post this painting at a later date once I have added the trees and completed the painting.

Two Family Home 1 - A Work in Progress

Today was the first day of the Brian Atyeo workshop.

It was a learning experience; especially about the importance of preliminary sketches to get your tonal values correct before you start painting. Brian works on a scale of five tonal values in his paintings as well as strong use of shape and contrasts.













I did a number of sketches of a painting of a barn I would like to do at a future date and Brian's comments concerning the tonal values were very helpful.

I started a small painting of his demonstration piece. The painting still needs a little more work before it is complete. I will post the finished piece at a later date.