ACEO - Fenced Field 1

When driving along the highway out in the country often all you will see is open land with a simple wire fence marking the boundary line.

I may do a series of fence line scenes with the different things found behind a fence; pastureland, farmland, marsh, forest, etc.

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

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

Thank you for looking at my artwork.

Snow Flurries 1 and 2 - Two Works in Progress

Today is going to be a fairly busy day. I have the Executive meeting at KAGS today and afterward Christine and I are taking our respective husbands out for their birthday supper.


Snow Flurries 1

I also wanted to paint today; so using Antwerp blue and alizarin crimson I streaked in some colour on two pieces of paper and sprinkled salt into them before I had to leave.


Snow Flurries 2

When I returned home this was the result. Now I just have to decide what I would like to paint into them.

Colour and Composition 5-7 - Three Works in Progress

Last year Neil Broadfoot taught a class in colour and composition. Each day he gave us exercises to help us develop our skills using the primary colours.


Colour and Composition 5

Then we made the secondary colours using various combinations of the primary colours; and to develop compositions using colour, size and shapes.


Colour and Composition 6

The last one was to help us develop our creative skills.

It consisted of making seven similar pieces and create different paintings from each of them.

Colour and Composition 7

Taking a Bribe - A Work in Progress

This is a sketch that I have been working on about one of the many ways to catch a horse out in a large field.

I was always fortunate that with any of my horses all I had to do was call their names and they came to me. But it certainly doesn't hurt to offer a bribe for good behaviour.














I will post this painting at a later date once I have transferred the drawing to the watercolour paper.

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

Mailbox I

Mailboxes are often found along country roads and they can be in many different shapes and sizes.

Depending how close the houses are together you may see only one at the end of each driveway, or where there are a number of homes on a Fire Route or on a private road there could be a lot of them sitting one beside the other.
















Mailbox 1 is an original 3" x 5" matted and shrink wrapped pen and ink drawing available for $30.00.

Sunrise Seagulls - A Work in Progress

While going through some canvases that had been started I came across this painting called Sunrise on the Lake (see posting on 25 Jul 2010).















I have decided to change the name to Sunrise Seagulls and turn it into a painting of the Caribbean, namely the eastern shore of Aruba.

I have indicated where I will change the shape of the rocks to look like the cliffs and have drawn in where I will have the waves coming in toward the shore.

I will post this painting once I have painted in the water and then will figure out where I will place the seagulls.

Tassy and Tracker

At this point I look for any slight smudges that may have occurred during the course of layering in all the details and remove them with a white eraser.

After signing the painting I like to spray a final light layer of fixative over the surface to prevent any of the graphite moving from where it has been placed.



I hope you have enjoyed seeing the way I work on dog head studies from the original sketch through to the completed drawing.

I would like to thank Ms. Mary Ellen Lomax of Bowmanville, Ontario for commissioning me to do this original 11" x 14" framed graphite pencil drawing.

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