OSWOA - Winter Shadows 1

I like the way the shadow patterns make their way across the snow.

They bend and curve with the dips in the snow covered ground.

The OSWOA shown here is an original watercolour painting using Artist quality Winsor & Newton paint on 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $30.00 and sold unframed.


Winter Shadows 1

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

ACEO - Single Flower 1 and Petunia 1

The nice thing about painting flowers, unless you are painting botanical studies is that they do not have to have a lot of detail in them for people to recognize they are flowers.

The red flower is a generic kind of flower. It could be any number of species of red flower it is up to the viewer to decide what they are seeing.


Single Flower 1

The second flower is very simply painted.

The leaves give definition to the bottom edges and with the center indicated and a little a small amount of shadow painted into the petal, it is easy to recognize the type of flower.

Petunia 1

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

The ACEO shown here are all original watercolour paintings using Artist quality Winsor & Newton paint on either 140lb. or 300lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. They are priced at $20.00 each and sold unframed.

Buckskin

Today I got my two 4" x 4" canvases for the Miniaturia show to be held in February.

While going through an old file folder I came across this study of a horse head.

It was signed and dated on the back July 1969. It looks a little like my buckskin Quarter Horse mare Sunsets L'il Eclipse.

It certainly brings back memories of some of the other things I used to draw back then.

Shade Trees

With all the snow on the ground I got to thinking about warm summer days and relaxing in the shade of some of the big maple trees.

This is a painting of one of the houses in Lakefield that had a couple of huge shade trees on the front lawn and you could barely see the house through the leaves.

Shade Trees is an original 6" x 9” watercolour available matted and shrink wrapped for $55.00.

Waiting - A Work in Progress

The autumn leaves have changed their colours from green to orange and gold.

The clouds rolling in have a hint of cold rain in the forecast and the waiting boat tied up at the edge of the lake will soon be taken out of the water and put away for the season.

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

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

Afternoon Stroll - A Work in Progress

Today we are having a major snow storm so I thought I would like to paint a place where it is nice and warm all year. This is another painting of a street scene (see Evening Stroll in my posting on 04 September 10) in the Caribbean.

The sky was painted with a wash of Antwerp blue and a few of the many pigeons were added.

I lightly drew in the people walking on the street so I wouldn't paint over them. Then the shadowed sides of the street were washed with Antwerp blue and the sunny side washed with raw sienna.

The building at the end of the street was painted with mixtures of burnt sienna and alizarin crimson.

The shadowed building on the left side of the street was painted with mixtures of French ultramarine blue, Antwerp blue and burnt sienna.

The sunny side of the building was painted with a darker mixture of raw sienna in some areas and a mixture of burnt sienna, raw sienna with a touch of French ultramarine blue to grey it.

The roof lines on all the buildings are pure burnt sienna and the shadow from the roof is a mix of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna.

The doorways, windows and the edge of the roof were a dark mixture of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna.

For the sunlit side of the street the window frames and door were painted with a mixture of Antwerp blue and raw sienna.

The flowers are alizarin crimson and the foliage are a mixture of French ultramarine blue and raw sienna.

I will post this painting when more of it has been completed.

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

Babbling Brook - A Work in Progress

There are many lakes and rivers to be found in the Kawarthas.

It doesn't matter what season of the year it is, you can always find a beautiful place to picnic, hike along or just sit and enjoy.

This is a place on Northey's River in the spring; it is one of the many small waterfalls that can be found on the river.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.