Spotted Drumfish - Juvenile 2

As the Drumfish gets older the dorsal fin gradually is reduced in size, the body thickens and lengthens as the fish darkens and develops its spots.

Spotted Drumfish - Juvenile 2 is an original 4" x 4" acrylic, sold unframed for $125.00.

This is the second of two acrylic paintings that I am submitting to the Miniaturia Show at the Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio. For Spotted Drumfish - Juvenile 1 (see posting 21 February 11).

I am currently working on sketches of an adult Spotted Drumfish as a companion piece the two juveniles.

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

Sunflowers 1-3 - Three Works in Progress

Today the Buckhorn Tuesday Painters had Janet Skrepnek as our guest artist to give a workshop on painting Sunflowers.

The sketches of the Sunflowers are lightly drawn onto the paper.

The inside area over all of the Sunflowers are carefully wet with water and a wash of pure aureolin is painted over the entire Sunflower as a base colour.

Sunflower 1

Raw sienna is used to give a little depth of colour to the some of the leaves, stalks and flower heads.

Next the flower heads are painted in using various mixtures of aureolin, raw sienna, burnt sienna, Antwerp blue and French ultramarine blue.

The leaves are painted using various greens made from mixtures of French ultramarine blue, Antwerp blue, cobalt blue, burnt sienna, raw sienna, aureolin and a touch of alizarin crimson into the shadows to darken the colour.

Sunflowers 2

The petals are painted next using mixtures of aureolin, raw sienna and burnt sienna.

Lastly the sky is washed in behind the Sunflowers.Using pure cobalt blue for the top of the sky and a mixture of cobalt blue and alizarin crimson where the sky colour touches the Sunflowers. Be sure to leave some white areas for clouds.













Sunflowers 3

I will post each of these paintings at a later as more work on them is completed.

Spotted Drumfish - Juvenile 1

The juvenile Spotted Drumfish has to be one of the most enchanting fish I have come across on the Caribbean reefs (next to the seahorse, of course).

This is a painting of a very young juvenile with the extremely long dorsal and tail fins which flutter like twin black and white striped streamers as the fish moves along the reef.

This is the first of two acrylic paintings that I am submitting to the Miniaturia Show at the Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio.

This is a 4" x 4" original, acrylic sold unframed for $125.00.

Pleasant Place - A Work in Progress

The sky has been painted with storm clouds rolling in and a little blue showing on the distant horizon.

A space has been left for the trunk of a foreground pine. Then the background trees were painted and their dark reflections have been put into the water.

I will post this painting at a later date once the main pine tree has been painted.

Forest Shadows - A Work in Progress

I wanted to keep everything soft and slightly out of focus using only three colours which were aureolin, French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna.

The painting is almost complete. It still needs a few more dead trees in the background.

I will post this painting when it is finished.

Autumn Roadway - A Work in Progress

I have sketched in the roadway, background fences and a jogger.

The background trees have been painted and the trunk of a pine tree in the foreground has been indicated.

I think the jogger needs a dog for company and I will put that in next once I decide on the breed.

I will post this painting again once I have more work completed.

Meadowpond's Bonnie Charlie

While all the dog breeds are eligible to compete in the Obedience Ring most of the time you will almost always find at least one Shetland Sheepdog, Labrador Retriever, Poodle, Border Collie, German Shepherd Dog or Golden Retriever.

This is a sketch of a Golden Retriever as he sat waiting during the long sit for his owner to return to the ring. He never moved, he just stared at the last place he saw his owner, ignoring everything going on around him the arena.

It was not surprising that he took High in Trial with an almost perfect score of 199-1/2 out of a possible 200 score.

Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Jack McKissock of Nepean, Ontario on their selection of this charcoal painting of their Obedience Trial Champion Meadowpond's Bonnie Charlie UD.