Moon Glow I

Today I didn't have a lot of time to work on my art and I came across this drawing that I had started a couple of years ago (see post on 05 March 2012).

I put the shadows beneath the gunnel on the inside of the boat, followed by darkening the stern and outside of the boat, being careful to leave the moonlit area of the bow untouched.















This original 3" x 4-1/4" pen and ink drawing when matted and shrink wrapped will be available for $30.00.

I would like to thank new collector Mr. Hiroshi Saito of London, Ontario on his purchase of Sunlit Poppies (see post on 06 June 2014).

Tied Up 3

While driving home along River Road I came across this scene of a boat tied up to a pier waiting to go out on the Otonabee River.

I stopped and did this little drawing of the boat gently bobbing on the water.














I can already see that this drawing at a later date can easily be turned into a painting.

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

Peaceful Morning 1

Today the weatherman says, is the last day we will have temperatures reach 70F (21C) until the spring next year. I can only hope that they will be wrong as usual. But the nice thing about today with the humidity making it feel like 84F (29C) was that we had a fabulous thunderstorm with lots of lightning.

I pulled out a piece of paper that already had some colour on it and decided to draw a lake scene with a few islands.

With the darker colour at the bottom of the paper for the reflected light in the water I drew in the closer island on the right side of the paper.

On the left side I put in a smaller island and the horizon line.

Lac Blanc 1

Today I was painting with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painting Group at St. Matthews Church in Buckhorn, Ontario.

I just couldn't get into painting and since I had brought along a number of photographs from my summers spent in Québec I did this drawing of Lac Blanc, which was walking distance from my aunt's cottage on the shores of Lac Sergent.














I have many fond memories of my summers in Lac-Sergent, which is in a community in the Portneuf Regional County Municipality in Québec where my uncle, François Desrochers was the mayor of Lac-Sergent from 1981-1985.

I may at a later date do more drawings and/or paintings of Lac Blanc, which had a number of charcoal huts near the lake which were moldering away, as well as some of Lac Sergent where we would sometimes go out on the lake in the canoe or on the catamaran.

Boat Sketches

Today went to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto to see the Canadian International Air Show which is held every year over the Labour Day weekend.

It features the Canadian Forces Snowbirds (431 Air Demonstration Squadron); an internationally known team of serving pilots that perform demonstrations throughout North America flying the easily recognized red and white Canadian built jets, the Canadair CT-114 Tutor.


















We found a nice place on the shores of Lake Ontario to sit and enjoy the show. While we were waiting for the show to begin I sat and sketched some of the boats sailing on the lake and tied up in the nearby harbour.

This original 7-1/2" x 7-1/2" graphite pencil drawing when matted and shrink wrapped will be available for $40.00.

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

OSWOA - What's New?

This morning I was at Art on Kent which is normally not open on Sunday, but they had the Doors Open Ontario Tour which was sponsored by the Ontario Heritage Trust where tours were conducted through many of the century or older buildings throughout the province.

Since I had a little time at the Gallery and wanted to finish this little piece that was started a while ago (see posts on 27 March 2014 and 07 July 2014) and would be ideal for a child's room.













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 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $40.00 and sold unframed.

ACEO - Tree Tops 8 and 9

I started with the backgrounds for these paintings earlier this year (see post on 19 February 2014) and called them Clouds for lack of a better name at the time.

Now that autumn is just around the corner and the trees will soon be dropping all their brilliantly coloured leaves I wanted to paint trees showing just the bare bones without the leaves hiding anything.

I took the first one that had been called Clouds 1 and painted in a single dark coloured tree with its branches showing starkly against the background sky.

Tree Tops 8

For the second one which had been called Clouds 2 I thought painting in some of the trees along the north fence line would be interesting and I have many pictures if them against the sky in every season with some stunning background colours.














Tree Tops 9

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 300lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. They are priced at $20.00 each and sold unframed.