Here's Looking at You

This 8" x 10" acrylic painting (see yesterday's posting) is pretty much finished. I may add a little more detail to the turtle after I leave it overnight and look at it with fresh eyes tomorrow.

The painting is being donated to "The Art of the Turtle" Auction. This is a fundraiser for the Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre and will be held on 14 May 10, at the Peterborough Public Library Auditorium, 345 Aylmer Street North, Peterborough, Ont.















All these pieces works will be sold by silent auction. The event takes place from 7-10pm, with extended viewing beginning at 6pm. The silent auction will be ongoing followed by the live auction at 9pm. SOLD

Thank you for looking at my artwork.

Here's Looking at You - A Work in Progress

Today I spent the afternoon over at Heather's house and we worked on our turtle paintings for "The Art of the Turtle". Artists were given an 8" x 10" canvas to create a painting featuring a turtle.

All paintings will be auctioned to raise money for the Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre.















My first piece didn't come out quite the way I wanted, although it will become landscape painting and will post it at a later date.

So I had to start over on a new canvas and try a different way to create the turtle with a different background which seemed to work better at placing the turtle in a pond.

This is my painting about half way finished. It is still very rough, but should work out better than my original painting.

Spring Arrival

My daffodils are in full bloom in my garden, while above them hovering on jewelled wings the hummingbirds have returned. They are a delight to watch as they flit back and forth from the hanging feeders to the flower beds.


















Congratulations to new collectors Glen and Mary MacDonald of Orillia, Ontario on their purchase of this original 8 x 10” framed watercolour. SOLD

Happy Faces

This is a painting that is currently being exhibited at my solo show at the the Showplace Performance Centre.

I have always liked pansies. They are such a cheerful flower that comes in a wide variety of colours and seem almost to smile at you.


















This is a 10 x 14” framed, watercolour $325.00.

Moon Rise - A Work in Progress

The sun is in the process of setting and the moon is on the rise in the east. The evening sky reflecting back some of the colours from the sunset.

The horizon line was taped and the sky was washed in with layers of colour. Darker cloud shapes were painted in as the paper gradually dried enough to allow some control of where they would be placed and yet still have a softness at the edges.














The painting was set aside until it was completely dry. Using a template and water I lifted the paint from behind the clouds to create the full moon. The masking tape was removed from the horizon line, and as you can see there was a little run underneath it, but it will be covered once the distant shore is painted.

The faint impression of the foreground shore and the main tree trunks has been drawn. I will post more on this painting as it gets closer to completion.

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

Gentle Snow - A Work in Progress

Irene and I were over at Heather's home today painting. The three of us are some of the founding members of the Buckhorn Artists' Group and often get together to paint or do framing.















We were finishing a number of paintings that have been stated over the winter to have more new works ready for our 22nd Annual Among Friends Art Show, held over the Victoria Day weekend at St. Matthew's Church in Buckhorn, Ontario.

It was an enjoyable afternoon and this is one of two paintings on which I was working. While I am still not happy with the overall composition it is closer to completion and I will set it aside to look at until I decide what more it needs.

Stained Glass - A Work in Progress

The Outdoor Painters Group meets at the KAGS on Thursdays from October through to the middle of April and then they paint outdoors at various locations in the area, weather permitting.

I decided that this one would be a good choice to work on while there as in the afternoon (see posting on 13 April 2010), it was my turn to sit the "Faces and Figures" Show which closed today at 4:00pm. It is the kind of painting I could leave it at any time to talk with the people who come in to view the paintings on display in the gallery.

With the areas masked out with liquid friskit that I wanted to keep white, I didn't have to worry about how I applied the colour.

To try and capture the feeling of stained glass, I added brighter, more transparent colours to some of the areas to give the impression of the various sections "glowing" as though light is passing through glass.

Trying to keep the painting fairly bright and clean looking I added various blocks of colour to the painting. To create interest I added darker lineal shapes and then some smaller simple shapes into some of the areas of colour so they wouldn't be just a solid mass of one colour.

I wasn't able to finish the painting today, but then tomorrow is always another day. When I come back to working on this piece again I will post the changes.