Wild Grapes and Post 1

Today some of the members of the Buckhorn Artists' Group went to a paint out at JoAnne's farm.

We were spoiled by the number of things available for us to draw and paint.

Her wide variety of different themed gardens, her husband's collection of International Harvester farm tractors, old farm equipment found throughout various small planted areas, and the various barns and out buildings.

I spent most of the morning taking photographs of the tractors, garden sculptures, sunflowers and the barns before I finally chose to do a drawing of wild grape vines beside the barn.

They were growing so thickly over an old wooden loading chute that it could barely be seen. This is of the main post at the lower end of the chute.

Autumn Harvest - A Work in Progress

This is another painting I started in the Still Life class at KAGS last month where the theme for that class was fruits and vegetables.

A vine of wild grape ran down the side of a panel and I did a small section of the display that had a glass bowl filled with wild grape, red, yellow and orange peppers; at the base of the bowl were another pepper and a small turnip.














Before the break I started painting the orange pepper at the base of the glass bowl and forgot to take a photograph of the painting at that stage.

After the break I finished the pepper and worked on the turnip and completed it, but I feel the pepper needs a little more work before it is finished.

I will post this painting at a later date once I have completed the glass bowl.

Norfest 2014

It was a very busy day for me with having to go to Toronto first thing in the morning with the threat of freezing rain which fortunately didn't happen. We only received rain which with the temperatures slowly dropping throughout the day changed to snow.











After returning home I packed up the Blazer and headed to Norwood to set up my tables at Norfest which will open tomorrow.













I look forward to the show tomorrow and having some time to work on a few small paintings.

Wine Bottles and Fruit - A Work in Progress

It looks like winter is just not going to leave with having received another 4" (10cm) throughout yesterday with the temperature plunging to -8F (-22C) overnight and the wind chill bringing it to a bitter -20F (-29C).

I decided not going to go into the still life class today at KAGS, instead Idid a lot of the work around the house as well as finding a little time to do a bit of work on the piece I had started last week (see posting on 06 March 2014).

I put in the two green grapes that were in front of the pear and darkened the shadows under the fruit a little more. Then I sketched in the striped cloth on which the still life was placed.

I will post this painting at a later date once more work has been completed.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.

Wine Bottles and Fruit - A Work in Progress

Today in the still life class at KAGS out theme was Wine Bottles, Cheese and Fruit.

We had two separate displays which were needed since we had a fairly large class this morning.

I chose to work from the smaller display and omit some of the extra glasses and wine bottles shifting a few things around until I had the items that I wanted and was pleased with the arrangement for my painting.

I started on the pear to get it set into place as a grounding for the rest of the painting and added some of the shadows beneath the fruit.

I will post this painting at a later date after more of it has been completed.

Sunflowers, Squash and Onions - A Work in Progress

This is one of two paintings I started during the Still Life class at KAGS last month.

It was an interesting arrangement of a basket filled with sunflowers, together with a pumpkin, turban squash and onions.

I will post this painting at a later date once more of it has been completed.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and look at the artwork.

Study in Green and Gold

This morning I was at the Life Drawing class at KAGS and our model was Julie. If you would like to see my sketches from the class please go to my Life Drawing Portfolio.

This is another painting I had started at the Golden Acrylic workshop held at KAGS (see posting on 06 May 2011).

It was the second time I had taken the workshop and I learned a lot more about the versatility of the various Golden Acrylics products, especially about their Open Acrylic line (see postings for Strawberries 04 June 2011 and Citrus on 11 May 2011).

For this we used the Golden Molding Paste as a base ground for the painting (see post for Study in Sienna 21 September 2010). I used yellow ochre and sap green for most of the painting and a touch of Titanium white for the brightest highlights.

Study in Green and Gold is an original 6-1/4" x 8-1/2” framed, acrylic available for $150.00

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

Wine Bottles and Grapes

I find still life relaxing and enjoy moving the various elements of the composition around to create different effects.














How the light creates highlights and shadows on the folds of the cloth and the way different degrees of transparencies in the glass have such interesting reflections and distortions.

This 9" x 12” original, framed watercolour is available for $245.00.