Mystical - A Work in Progress

This is another painting I started in the Gary Chapman workshop earlier this month.

This is using a limited palette of Antwerp blue, burnt sienna and permanent rose. The one side of the painting is almost completed. I have to decide how I will finish the other side.

I will post it at a later date.

Thank you for looking at my artwork.

Morning Lake - A Work in Progress

Today is the last day of the Gary Chapman workshop.

This is another early morning scene but in a long horizontal format. Once again we used a limited palette of three colours, in this instance Prussian blue, Cadmium red and raw sienna.








There are a lot more things to be added to this painting before it is complete and I will post it again at a later date.

Cascade - A Work in Progress

Today is the second day of the Gary Chapman workshop held out at Six Foot Bay in Buckhorn, Ontario.

Rather than working on the traditional watercolour paper this morning's piece was worked on watercolour canvas.















Again we worked with a limited palette of three colours; Antwerp blue, permanent rose, and Windsor yellow.

There are still a number of things to do before this painting is completed and I will post this piece at a later date.

Dawn Mist - A Work in Progress

Today is the first day of a three day workshop with Gary Chapman. The morning painting was of a sunrise on the lake with the mist rising.













Three colours were used in this painting; Antwerp blue, raw sienna and cadmium red. The under painting is in place and I will have to do more work on it before it is finished.

I will post this painting at a later date.

Sunflowers 1-3 - Three Works in Progress

Today the Buckhorn Tuesday Painters had Janet Skrepnek as our guest artist to give a workshop on painting Sunflowers.

The sketches of the Sunflowers are lightly drawn onto the paper.

The inside area over all of the Sunflowers are carefully wet with water and a wash of pure aureolin is painted over the entire Sunflower as a base colour.

Sunflower 1

Raw sienna is used to give a little depth of colour to the some of the leaves, stalks and flower heads.

Next the flower heads are painted in using various mixtures of aureolin, raw sienna, burnt sienna, Antwerp blue and French ultramarine blue.

The leaves are painted using various greens made from mixtures of French ultramarine blue, Antwerp blue, cobalt blue, burnt sienna, raw sienna, aureolin and a touch of alizarin crimson into the shadows to darken the colour.

Sunflowers 2

The petals are painted next using mixtures of aureolin, raw sienna and burnt sienna.

Lastly the sky is washed in behind the Sunflowers.Using pure cobalt blue for the top of the sky and a mixture of cobalt blue and alizarin crimson where the sky colour touches the Sunflowers. Be sure to leave some white areas for clouds.













Sunflowers 3

I will post each of these paintings at a later as more work on them is completed.

Workshop with Margaret Roseman - Landscape

Today was the final day of the workshop with Margaret Roseman.

For the first part of the morning we worked on thumbnail sketches and tried different values on the same sketch to see which one would be more effective.

We worked on the contrast in our sketches, until we had a couple of workable sketches for the basis of our landscape paintings.

Winter Bridge 1

The first was a winter scene of a bridge, and the second of a sunset on a lake. I will post both of them when they are finished.

I worked on two different paintings.













Peaceful Evening 1

I will post each of these paintings at a later date once they are completed.

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

Workshop with Margaret Roseman - Negative Painting and Still Life

Today is the second day of the workshop with Margaret Roseman.

For the first hour we were allowed to continue to work on the lilies from yesterday or if we hadn't liked our background we had the option to do it again.














Clematis

This painting is an exercise in picking out flower shapes and painting in the negative. It was turned until we could establish whether to paint it in a horizontal or vertical format.

Various shades of greens and blues were used to give definition to the clematis flowers. Once their placement had been set, the centre stamen and pistol were painted to give the petals a place from which to radiate outward.

It created some interesting effects and I will post this painting as I continue to do more work on it and once it is completed.














Pears in Blue Bowl

In the afternoon we progressed to working on a still life composition.

I chose to work on a fairly simple composition of pears in a bowl. I will post this piece at a later date.

Tomorrow we will be working on landscape paintings.

Workshop with Margaret Roseman - Florals

Today I started a three day workshop with Margaret Roseman.

I have taken two previous workshops with Margaret that I thoroughly enjoyed even though I had to work hard at painting in a much looser style than I usually work; but I certainly learned a lot from her, which is why I have been looking forward to this class.














Our first painting was to be a floral, and the reference was a bouquet of Stargazer lilies.

Mixtures of blues and soft greens were painted into some areas of the background and sections were left white where the flowers would be placed. Darker greens for leaves were added to give shape and definition to the main lily.

Once the main flower had been established, additional flower and bud shapes were blocked in with pencil to give direction to the painting. This also made it easier to paint them in the negative.
















Stargazer Lilies

I will post this painting at a later date once more work on it is completed.

Before we left for the night Margaret had us use each of the three primary colours (a red, a blue, and a yellow) on a piece of watercolour paper which we threw water on in various areas. Each colour was poured onto the paper and rolled around and we were allowed to spray more water onto the paper to help it move until we were satisfied with the result.

We then left for the evening to wait and see what the results of this would be in the morning. (And if we liked it any better than when we left it.)

This is one of two backgrounds I created.

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