Dawnlight

Well the snow has finally stopped and we have a bright and sunny day for a change.

After looking at the two small paintings (see my posting on 17 January 11) I did in Janet Skrepnek's class I decided I would do a similar scene adding raw sienna into the sky instead of doing it as a graduated wash.

I did the trees as dark silhouettes against the sky using a mixture of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna.

This is an original 6-1/2" x 10" framed watercolour.

Thank you to new collector Ms. Geraldine Matheson of Riverside Park, Ontario on her purchase of this painting.

Rosy Reflections

Rosy Reflections is an original 5" x 7” framed watercolour using only two colours; Antwerp blue and cadmium red.

Antwerp blue was first washed into the sky and water. Cadmium red was then brushed in ad the colours were allowed to mix together on the wet paper creating some lovely greys.

A darker mix of the two colours were used to paint in the trees on the horizon line.

Congratulations to returning collector Mr. James Douglas of Cedar Hill, Missouri, USA on his selection of this painting.

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

Stained Glass - Removing the Masking

Today my friend and fellow artist Heather Grant and I got together at her house to work on some drawings of barns for a workshop with Emil Varga for next week; as well as to complete some of our partially finished paintings.

I managed to complete four drawings for the workshop and will transfer them down onto watercolour paper later this week.


After lunch I decided that I wanted to do more work on this abstract I had started a while ago (see posts on 13 April 10 and 15 April 10).

I painted in the remaining white areas of the painting and removed the miskit from the one area I wanted to keep white. After setting it up and looking at it from a distance I took out one area I had originally planned to keep white and painted in the dark horizontal bar.

I have completed a fair amount of it, but it still needs more work before it is finished and I will leave that for another day.

Dawnlight 1-2

Today I was at a workshop with Janet Skrepnek and we were working on a couple of paintings using only two colours, French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna.

We worked back and forth on the two paintings using the same colour mixtures. Painting one was a snow scene with the sky colour cast onto the snow and painting two was a misty morning scene of three trees.

Both paintings had graduated washes of burnt sienna for the sky colour.

In the first painting the wash was put down from the top of the sky to slightly below the halfway mark and then lightened to about a third from the bottom of the painting. It was set aside to allow it to dry.














Dawnlight 1

In the second painting the sky was washed right down to the bottom of the painting.

While the paint was still wet a small amount of French ultramarine blue was added to the burnt sienna and the foreground grasses were painted into the bottom of the second painting.

This same colour was then used to paint in the background treeline on the left side of the first painting.

A little more of the blue was added to the grass colour and a tree was painted into the right side of the second painting. Before the foreground grass could completely dry using the end of a brush the paper was lightly marked to create individual blades of grass.

This colour was used to paint in the slightly closer treeline on the right side of the first painting.













Dawnlight 2 SOLD

A little more blue was added to the tree colour and a slightly darker tree was painted into the left side of the second painting.

This colour was then used in the first painting to create a stand of trees in the foreground of the first painting as well as some individual grasses sticking out of the snow.

Again more blue was added to the colour mixture creating a fairly dark mixture and the center tree was painted into the second painting and a few dark coloured growies were added into the foreground grasses.

This same colour was used on the first painting to create darker trees within the stand of trees and to add a little more colour in some of the grasses in the snow.

Each of these original 4" x 6" watercolour paintings when matted and shrink wrapped will be available for $40.00

Autumn Maple - A Work in Progress

At the front of the property we have a couple of Maple trees that always start to change their leaves to the rich orange colours of autumn as soon as the cool weather starts.

Using a sponge and masking fluid the areas where the orange leaves were to be were masked out to protect the white paper.

Once the masking fluid was dry the sky was painted in using French ultramarine blue and leaving white areas to indicate the clouds.

Using the sponge and various greens made with combinations of French ultramarine blue, Antwerp blue, raw sienna and new gamboge the background deciduous trees were painted.

The painting was set aside to dry.

The masking was removed from the Maple trees and using the sponge an mixtures of alizarin crimson, new gamboge, raw sienna, cadmium red and cadmium yellow some of the orange leaves were painted.

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

On the Alert

Everything here is covered with over a foot of snow already and we are going to end up with another 8" of snow with this storm that is raging outside now.

I thought it would be a good idea to finish this painting of an old mare standing out in the field on the top of the hill in the middle of summer.













This is an original 13-3/4" x 20-3/4” framed watercolour available for $315.00. SOLD

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.

Country Lane - A Work in Progress

This is the kind of dirt lane you will often find on a large farm leading down to the various fields and pastures. Most of the time it is only the pickup trucks, tractors and farm machinery that uses these lanes.

Sometimes a herd of cattle or sheep was being moved from one pasture to another or a rider on a horse just enjoying being out riding on a trail.

There is still a lot of work that needs to be completed on this painting and I will post it again at a later date when it is finished.