OSWOA - Ablaze with Colour

Today is another cold and wet rainy day, with the temperatures hovering in the mid 30's (2C). Hopefully there won't be any snow overnight.

This is a painting I had started last year see post on 16 August 11).

It didn't need a lot more work; a few more branches on some to the bare trees in the background and a little more colour into the background leaves.

I brightened the colour of the reflections in the water and darkened the foreground reflections slightly.

I felt more work was needed on the foreground tree so it was darkened and given a little more definition.

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 Winsor & Newton paint on 300lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $40.00 and sold unframed.

ACEO - Evening Sky 1

Today I hung my paintings at KAGS for the Outdoor Painters' Show.

If you would like to meet and visit with the artists please come out to the opening on Sunday 28 October 2012; or if you have a chance come out to see the show which continues until 15 November 2012.

When I returned home I wanted to do some painting and since the sun was setting I set up my paints on the kitchen table and painted as I watched the sun set through the window.














The sun was still visible in the sky even though it was hidden behind the clouds more often than not; but there was a wide variety of colours to be seen.

I decided to put this sunset on the lake with the many sky colours reflected back on the surface of the water.

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 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $20.00 and sold unframed. SOLD

Studying - A Work in Progress

Today I was at the still life class at KAGS and our theme was studying.

It was an interesting arrangement with old books, a candelabra, a human skull, some dried leaves and a trio of quince.

It took a long while to get the drawing put down on the paper as there were a lot of details to capture especially on the candelabra.

Rather than start one of the elements that I would not be able to finish, I worked on the quince.

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

Training Bridle - A Work in Progress

This is the start of a drawing of a Western training bridle that I did while at KAGS today at the Portrait class.

I just couldn't get into doing a portrait of the model while she sat wearing Western attire.

But I did like the Western bridle with the snaffle bit that was hanging from the back of the chair.

I will post this painting at a later date once I have more of it completed.

Autumn Leaves 1-3 - Three Works in Progress

Today I painted with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painters.

We had Sharon Taylor as our guest instructor, who did two demonstrations for us. One was of an autumn landscape with large maple trees and the images being reflected into water. The other was of leaves painted in the negative.

Autumn Leaves 1

These are the three I started for painting in the negative. I plan on doing one with oak leaves, another with maple leaves and the third one I still have to decide which kind of leaves I will use. Perhaps a different kind of maple leaf or oak leaf.

I still have to decide which blue to use as the base for painting the leaves in the negative.

Autumn Leaves 2

I know that at the moment it is hard to imagine these backgrounds as being masses of autumn leaves against a trunk with branches, but I will post all three at later dates when more work has been completed on them.

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


Autumn Leaves 3

Shapes in Colour and in Black and White

These are two of the exercises from the pastel demonstrations that were held at KAGS over the weekend (see postings on 20 October 2012 and 21 October 2012).

The first exercise was to use one colour to create a sphere and a cylinder to get the values in a picture, as well as using a light source for highlight, graduated tones, reflected light, shadow and cast shadow.


Black and Whites Shapes

The second exercise was to use four colours; a warm colour for the high lit areas, a mid tone colour for the main shape and a cool colour for the shadows with a neutral for the background.


Colour Shapes

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

Pastel Basics II

The pastel demonstrations continue today at KAGS (see post on 20 October 2012).

The fifth way of applying pastel is called "hatching" and it consists of applying diagonal lines in one direction to fill in an area. The lines can be either long, short or a mixture of long and short lines.

The hatching can be all of one colour of a mixture of colours which can create some interesting effects.

Hatching

A sixth way of applying pastel is called "cross hatching". As its name implies it consists of hatching lines crossing in the opposite direction one layer over top of another.

With enough layers of cross hatching eventually none of the paper surface will show through.


Cross Hatching

The seventh and final way of applying pastel that was demonstrated is called "stippling" which is when dots of one colour only is used to create a shape. If more than one colour is used to create the image it is called "pointillism".

There was a lot to learn and now it is up to me to try all the different methods and see what works best for how I paint.

Stippling and Pointillism