Tumbling Water - A Work in Progress

Today is the winter solstice and fittingly it is another cold day, but at least it isn't snowing.

I spent the afternoon sitting the Christmas Show at KAGS. As usual while I am there I am painting; today was no exception.

I lightly drew in where I wanted the paper left white for the waterfall.

For the rock faces I mixed different combinations of colour using Antwerp blue, French ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, raw sienna and alizarin crimson. These were put into various areas throughout the rest of the painting. Using a palette knife I scraped out the rock cliffs on each side of the waterfall.

I used a mixture of French ultramarine blue and Antwerp blue to indicate the motion of the water in the falls.

I started to paint trees into the background and while the paint was still wet scraped out some pale dead trees with the brush handle.

With a dark of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna I painted in a few dark tree trunks.

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

Quiet Place

Quiet Place is an original 9" x 13” framed watercolour.

This is the same fishing hole as Morning Light (see yesterday's posting), only in the late afternoon.

Now I have to head out to the LindsayGallery and take down my paintings from the Christmas art show.

Tonight I will spend the evening wrapping gifts for Christmas.

This painting is in the collection of Buckhorn Yacht Harbour Ltd. of Lakefield, Ontario.

Morning Light

This is an original 10" x 13-1/2” framed watercolour.

This is one of the best fishing holes for large and small mouth bass on Chemong Lake. It is near the channel marker for Pigeon Lake.

I have been there and seen it in all kinds of weather and at just about any time of day or night.

Congratulations to Mr. Bill Lowcock of Lakefield, Ontario on his selection of this painting for his collection.

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

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.