Golden Light

This is an original 7" x 10-3/4” framed watercolour.

This painting was done using a limited palette of French ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and raw sienna.

The sky is painted using only pure raw sienna and pure burnt sienna, allowing the paint to mix together on the wet paper. Some areas of white were left to suggest wispy clouds.

The water was a mixture of raw sienna and burnt sienna put down with horizontal strokes and then French ultramarine blue was added to the mixture to indicate some movement on the water.

This mixture was darkened slightly and the distant shoreline trees were painted, keeping them soft and without a lot of detail.

While the paper was still a little damp a darker mixture of background trees was used to indicate the closer trees still keeping the edges fairly soft. As the paper had dried a little more an even darker mixture was put into the trees to create some interest.

Now I have to go to the Executive meeting today at KAGS.

Thank you to new collector Mrs. Carol Forsythe of Bridgenorth, Ontario on adding this painting to her art collection.

Burleigh Falls 4-5

These are two more value sketches of Burleigh Falls.

Either one could be worked up into a painting which would clearly show what the Falls are like with the rushing water pouring over the rocks.














Burleigh Falls 4 SOLD

I will probably do both of them a little later in the year, probably during the summer.

The pictures shown here are all 9" x 12” original conte drawings and are available matted and shrink wrapped for $40.00 each.














Burleigh Falls 5 SOLD

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and enjoy the artwork. I hope you will return often.

Buckhorn Artists' Group Blog - Tom Young

I have posted the biography of another member of the Buckhorn Artists' Group, Tom Young to the blog as well as an example of his artwork.

OSWOA - Cloudy Sky 1 and 4

Clouds are ever changing and I never tire of watching them as they race across the sky.

Cloud types are usually grouped into low, middle or high clouds, referring to the altitudes at which they occur. Low clouds are generally below about 6,500' (1,981.2m). Middle clouds range from 6,500'-20,000'(1,981.2m-6,096m). High clouds range from 20,000' to over 40,000' (6,096m-12,192m+) in altitude.

Cloudy Sky 1

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

The OSWOA shown here are 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.

Cloudy Sky 4

ACEO - Winter Scene 1-2

Today I am at the Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio painting with the Outdoor Painters' Group.

I thought I may as well paint snow scenes today since there is still plenty of snow on the ground, even though we are into spring.

Winter Scene 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 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. They are priced at $20.00 each and sold unframed.

Winter Scene 2

Autumn Afternoon

Autumn Afternoon is an original 9-1/4" x 11-1/4” framed watercolour.

There is something very tranquil about an autumn afternoon on the lake when everything is still and quiet. No breeze to cause ripples to disturb the reflections on the lake.

Thank you to new collector Mr. John Martin of Epsom Surrey, Great Britain on his purchase of this painting.

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

Pink Flowers - A Work in Progress

Today I painted with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painters.

This was an interesting exercise, we made mono print paintings.

A piece of watercolour paper was soaked in water and while it was soaking we dropped colour on a piece of glass. In this case I used French ultramarine blue, raw sienna and alizarin crimson.

The paper was removed from the water and placed on the sheet of glass and using a rolling pin or brayer the colour was transferred to the paper.

When the paper was lifted from the glass to me it looked like flower blossoms.

I made a green of French ultramarine blue and raw sienna and started picking out some leaves. Most of the background of this painting will be done in the negative.

I will have to spend some time looking at this painting before I go any further to decide what I would like to do with it.

I will post it again at a later date after I have completed more work on it.