Trio - A Work in Progress

This painting I did the basic drawing in a still life class at KAGS (see post on 06 December 2012).

In this painting I took three of the elements I liked and drew them. Today I had a little time and put the under painting on them.

I will post this painting at a later date once each piece is completed.

Snow Shoes - A Work in Progress

There were many different components in today's still life display at KAGS. It had may long horizontals and verticals due to the set of ski jumping skis and cross country skis with poles. There were also many interesting shapes with  a pair of beaded Woodland moccasins, downhill boots, cross country boots and  two different kinds of snow shoes .

I did a drawing of the entire display as well as one of just the snow shoes and the beaded leather boots. It was the latter one chose to start painting on within the time I had left.

I will post this painting at a later date one more of it has been completed.

Seasonal Delights - A Work in Progress

We had a Christmas theme for one of the earlier still life classes during the month of November.

This was arranged so some of the class members could submit a still life painting for the "Seasonal Delights" show at KAGS which opened on 02 December and runs through to 22 December 12, closes for the Christmas holiday and reopens on 05 January until 10 January 2013.

There were many seasonal items to choose from in the still life display including wrapped gifts, candles, Christmas trees, poinsettia, dolls, candy canes, bells, deer, Santa hats, tinsel and Christmas ornaments.

I decided to focus on the snow woman doll which was sitting on top of one of the wrapped gift boxes. I also wanted to do the stained glass candle which as lit and its light glowed on the base of the little Christmas tree.

I will post this painting at a later date once more of the elements in the painting have been completed.

Thank you for looking at my artwork.

Coral Garden - A Work in Progress

I had taken V. Gail Hawkins class earlier this month (see post on 01 Dec 12) for a different way of painting backgrounds and putting an image over top to create an interesting painting.

She did two demonstrations for the Buckhorn Artists’ Group one of a street scene in Italy by using a pen and ink drawing in sepia and putting water colour washes over it. The other one was of poinsettias using acrylic puff paint for the outline of the leaves and stems and putting watercolour washes for the colour and the background.

After doing the first demonstration she showed me how to apply colour to a canvas to create movement for an underwater painting close to the surface to capture the sunlight with the yellows and let the colour blend down through the greens to the blue base mixing the colours on the canvas. She also took the time to show me how to create fast and easy coral.

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

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

Hooves - A Work in Progress

Today while waiting for the blacksmith to arrive to trim up my horses' feet I thought I may as well do some sketching of my horses in this case their hooves.










I will post these sketches at a later date once they have been completed.

Glass Bottles - A Work in Progress

In one of the Still Life classes at KAGS last month we had an amazing collection of glass bottles from which to choose.

I did a small section of the bottles which had at least one of every colour that was available. I also have reference sketches and photographs of the rest of the bottles and I may do a couple more paintings later.

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

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

OSWOA - Reeds 2

This is a piece I started during the summer (see post on 09 July 2012) and decided to work on today since I really didn't feel like going outside and playing in the cold.














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 $30.00 and sold unframed.