Battle Royale

This original 15" x 20" framed graphite pencil drawing is available for $325.00. SOLD

I have always had a fascination with mythical creatures, dragons, unicorns, phoenix, Pegasus, hippocampus and centaurs. This is just one image of many I have created.















It is also available as an 11" x 14" limited edition of 500 signed and numbered reproductions for $45.00. It can also be remarqued for an additional $25.00 Prints are shipped flat and unframed.

There are currently less than 30 prints remaining in this edition. Edition SOLD OUT

I would like to thank the Great Blue Sky Gallery for selling The Mustang (see posting on 12 June 2010) and unfortunately no information was kept about the purchaser.

OSWOA - Granite

In the Kawarthas there is a wealth of lakes, rivers and wetlands.

 The most common rock in the area is granite in both the pink and grey colours.

In many places along the lakes and rivers there are strikingly beautiful and massive outcroppings of pink granite. Burleigh Falls is one area well known for its rushing water set against the pink stone.

Calm Afternoon

If you would like more information about OSWOA please go to my post on 12 March 2010.













Pink Rocks

The OSWOA shown here are both original watercolour paintings using Artist quality Winsor & Newton paint on 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. They are priced at $40.00 each and sold unframed.

ACEO - Flower Bed 4-6

With these paintings I sprinkled water onto the paper and dropped various colours of paint onto the paper and let the paint move on the paper.














Flower Bed 4

As the paper dries I went back into the paintings adding a few more details to the flowers and leaves.

When the paintings were almost dry I went in with a fine brush and some green and painted in a few more detailed flower stems and growies.

Later I have to go to The Lindsay Gallery and pick up my artwork from the Juried Show and then go and sit at the Kawartha Artists' Gallery for the People, Places and Things Show from 1-4pm today.


Flower Bed 5 SOLD

If you would like more information about ACEO please go to my post on 11 March 2010.













Flower Bed 6

The ACEO shown here are all original watercolour paintings using Artist quality Winsor & Newton paint on 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. They are priced at $20.00 each and sold unframed.

Free Flow

Today was a day that I felt like experimenting with combining various different media and seeing what they would do when mixed together.

I was using combinations of chalk pastel, watercolour and acrylic paint on 7" x 10” Arches 140 lb. watercolour paper.














This is one of six mixed media paintings I was working on today and is available framed for $185.00. I will post the others as I finish them.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.

Buckhorn Artists' Group Blog - JoAnne Connell Northey

I have posted the biography of another member of the Buckhorn Artists' Group,JoAnne Connell Northey to the blog as well as an example of her artwork.

Open Fields

Occasionally I have had the opportunity to go with my husband, Ron in his transport and I was able to make sketches and take pictures of various places throughout North America.

I am always amazed by the differences in the landscape a few hundred miles will make as we go across Ontario.









From here in the Kawarthas, with its rolling landscape and many lakes, as you head west and the land flattens out to where it seems almost as though you are going through the prairies of western Canada.

This is an original 4-1/2" x 10-1/2” framed, watercolour for $225.00.

Thank you for looking at my artwork.

Spray - A Work in Progress

This is one of three paintings I started with the surf crashing against rock.

The main rock shape was lightly sketched in and the white surf crashing against the rock was masked out. Some of the masking fluid was splattered over the paper to keep areas of spray white.

The sky was painted using a mixture of French ultramarine blue, and Antwerp blue. The shadows on the undersides of the clouds are both blues with a touch of burnt sienna added to grey the colour slightly.















The ocean was painted in using various mixtures of both blues and burnt sienna to create the waves. Then the painting was set aside to dry completely.

The masking fluid was removed. The base colour of the rocks was painted and colour was lifted using a palette knife. I will have to go back in and do more work on the rocks as I am not satisfied with them.

I will post this painting again as more work on it is completed.