Snelgrove Brook 1 - A Work in Progress

Today is not going to be a pleasant day, with having had freezing rain overnight and a Meteorological Alert for Wind Warnings of sustained winds of 31mph (50km/h) and wind gusts of 62-68mph (100-110km/h), a high of 37F (3C) and two thunderstorms, one in the morning and one in the afternoon (although I am not going to complain about the thunderstorms, as I enjoy watching them).

I decided that since I am staying indoors I may as well paint. I picked this piece that I had started a number of years ago while driving home (see posts on 23 September 2013 and 08 December 2018).















I started with the pine trees in the forest behind them using mixtures of French ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and raw sienna.

Next, I put in the reeds along the far side of the brook, using various mixtures of raw sienna, burnt sienna, aureolin and new gamboge.

I will post this painting at a later date once I have put in the foreground shoreline.

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Late Fall

I wanted to finish this painting that I had started a number of years ago.

First I removed the masking fluid from the birch trees and the leaves in the foreground.

Using various mixtures of raw sienna, new gamboge and alizarin crimson I painted in the remaining leaves on the trees in the foreground.

Next I made a grey of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna and put it onto the shadowed side of all the birch tree trunks.

With a darker mix I added the markings.

This original 11" x 15" watercolour painting when framed will be available for $245.00. SOLD

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Twin Birches 1

It is nice to have a warm 43F (6.1C) morning for a change and to make things even better I was greeted to a thunderstorm earlier this morning as well. Even though the storm didn't last very long it was still nice to watch and enjoy.

Down by the Snelgrove Brook in the last bottom field before forest starts there is a pair of large, twin birch trees.

About four years ago there had been a slightly smaller birch but the beavers came along and cut that one down to build their lodge.

I thought I would do a quick sketch of the trees with the brook and far shore behind them.

This drawing with spring colours would be nice, or perhaps in the future I could easily do them as a four seasons series.

Stormy Sky I

It was a beautiful day today with the temperature going up to 77F (25C) and with the humidity it felt more like 88F (31C), this caused us to be treated to three thunderstorms.

I have always enjoyed watching thunderstorms and with living on the top of a hill you can see the lightning all around you during a storm. It was especially nice being able to sit on the front porch with my husband and enjoy the beauty of the storm with its many lightning strikes.












While going through some drawings I came across this one that I had started a few years ago (see post on 27 August 2011).

I thought it fitting that I should finish this drawing of a stormy day.

I lightly penciled in the bottoms of a series of clouds and then gradually inked in the layers of the clouds as they stacked one on top of the other.

This original 4-1/2" x 9" pen and ink drawing when matted and shrink wrapped will be available for $45.00.

Snelgrove Brook 1

Today as I was driving home, I stopped and did this little sketch of the Snelgrove Brook that runs along the side of the road on my way home.

When I first moved out here the Brook, in the spring when the ice melted would usually run over the road washing parts of it out. One year it washed out so bad that they had to close the road on the south end.















That year I rode my hunter mare, Buck down the road through the water. On my way back home a couple of people in a BMW Mini Cooper asked if they could make it to the end of the road. I just shook my head and let them know the water was up over my horse's knees (which was about halfway up the side of the car door).

Needless to say, they turned around and found another road to take them down into Peterborough.

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