Christmas Candles - A Work in Progress

Christine, Trevor and their dog Sully came over last night and we had a pleasant evening as we waited for midnight and the arrival of Christmas morning.

The stockings were handed out and the contents opened before we headed off to bed. Sully thoroughly enjoyed his new, very large rawhide chew stick.

This is a little sketch of the candles that we had burning last night. I thought I would work with coloured inks for a change and have most of the red put down.

I will post this painting at a later date when more of it is completed.

Winter Trees 3-5 - Three Works in Progress

With this winter being so unseasonably warm and having very little snowfall I didn't think that we were going to have a white Christmas.

But the snow is falling and we will have at least a little bit of the white stuff on the ground. This helps put one in a Christmas mood.


Winter Trees 3

For these three pieces I masked out the areas I wanted to keep white with liquid frisket and let it dry.

I mixed up a green of French ultramarine blue and raw sienna and painted in the lighter green areas. Then I added a little burnt sienna and painted in the darker greens and indicated a few tree trunks.


Winter Trees 4

Once the paint was totally dry I removed the masking fluid to have my whites show against the dark tree boughs.

Christine and Trevor have arrived and I have to finish getting things ready for supper and tonight's festivities.

I will post these paintings at a later date once they are completed.

Winter Trees 5

Lazy River 1-3 - Three Works in Progress

I was sitting the show at KAGS today and decided to paint a strip of three paintings with a similar theme, in this case a river.

Using French ultramarine blue I washed in the sky on all three pieces and with the same colour ran the river through all of them.

The background hills were painted in using mixtures of raw sienna and burnt sienna.

The shore line on the far side of the river was washed in with raw sienna as was the under painting for foreground dried grasses of the foreground.

Lazy River 1

Against the water I added a little French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna and scattered a few rocks along the far shore.

Once the under paint was dry I mixed a green of French ultramarine blue and raw sienna then working between the  three paintings I added pine trees to the background in various areas.

Next I darkened the green by adding burnt sienna to the green mix. I painted in the foreground trees.

I darkened the water with the tree colour in one of the paintings.

Lazy River 2

With burnt sienna and blue I painted in a few tree trunks through the background hills.

I lightly sketched in some tree trunks where I wanted to have deciduous trees.

With a dark mixture of blue, alizarin crimson and burnt sienna I started to put in a few tree trunks in among the foreground pines.

By the time I started adding in a few leaves with raw sienna onto a couple of the foreground trees it was time to close the Gallery and head home.

Lazy River 3

It will post these paintings as they are completed.

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

Blue Skies - Three Works in Progress

It seems since they changed the show from buying space by the foot and hanging it yourself to a members' show where you are allowed a maximum of three pieces we cannot get enough sitters for the show.













Blue Sky 1

So today I am once again siting the Christmas show at KAGS. I felt I may as well be productive while I was there and decided to paint in different skies.













Blue Sky 2

For the first two paintings I used mixtures of French ultramarine blue and Antwerp blue on the last on I did a graduated was of pure French ultramarine blue.













Blue Sky 3

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

OSWOA - Peaceful Place 1

Today I am sitting the Christmas show at KAGS and working on finishing some small paintings.

I thought it fitting since KAGS is known for the red door at its entrance that I put a red door on the cottage in this painting.

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

The OSWOA shown here is an original watercolour painting using Artist quality Windsor & Newton paint on 300lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $30.00 and sold unframed.

ACEO - Snow Covered 1

It looks as though we are going to have a white Christmas after all.

With the unusually mild temperatures we have been having there was very little snow left on the ground. So hopefully it will stay, at least until after Christmas.

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

The ACEO shown here is an original watercolour painting using Artist quality Windsor & Newton paint on either 300lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $20.00 and sold unframed.

Sunset Silhouette 1

I decided to do something different from what I would normally do for my three paintings to be exhibited in the Miniature Squared Show which will open at KAGS on Saturday 15 January 12 and will run through to 02 February 12.














Lately we have had some spectacular sunsets with the dark tree trunks and branches silhouetted against them. I chose to use horses as the silhouettes instead.

This is the first of three original 4" x 4" acrylic paintings and is available for $65.00.