This is a listing of confirmed shows that I will be exhibiting my artwork at this year. I will update the list as more shows are added.
Peterborough Theatre Guild, 364 Rogers St., Peterborough, Ont.
Theatre
11 Feb 15 - 07 Mar 15
Township of Douro-Dummer Library Art Gallery, Warsaw, Ont.
17 Feb - 31 Mar 15 Countryside Art Group
Opening Reception 20 Feb 15 from 7-8pm.
08 Sep - 24 Oct 15 Three Good Friends
Opening Reception 11 Sep 15 from 7-8pm.
Kawartha Artists’ Gallery, Peterborough, Ont.
KAGS
18 Feb - 15 Mar 15 Motion in Stillness
Opening Reception 21 Feb 15 from 1-4pm.
18-29 Mar 15 Small Treasures
Opening Reception 21 Mar 15 from 1-4pm.
Closing Reception 28 Mar 15 from 1-4pm.
08-30 Apr 15 Emerging
Opening Reception 11 Apr 15 from 1-4pm.
10 Jun - 05 Jul 15 Warm and Cool
Opening Reception 13 Jun 15 from 1-4pm.
26 Aug - 27 Sep 15 Faces and Figures
Opening Reception 29 Aug 15 from 1-4pm.
11-29 Nov 15 Outdoor Painters' Show - Elements of Nature
Opening Reception 14 Nov 15 from 1-4pm.
02-20 Dec 15 and 06-17 Jan 16 Winter Show
Opening Reception 05 Dec 15 from 1-4pm..
The Evinrude Centre, 911 Monaghan Road, Peterborough Ont.
02-04 Apr 15 The 15th Annual Peterborough Garden Show
Kawartha Arts Network - Art on Kent, Lindsay, Ont.
KAN
09 Apr - 02 May 15 Local Floral
Opening Reception 11 Apr 15 from 1-3pm.
02 Jul - 01 Aug 15 Annual All Members' Show
Opening Reception 04 Jul 15 from 1-3pm.
03-31 Dec 15 and 07 Jan-16 Jan 16 Affordableism
Opening Reception 05 Dec 15 from 1-3pm.
Norwood Skillet, 4247 Highway 7, Norwood Ont.
25 Mar - 27 May 15
MacKelvie Gallery, Keene, Ont.
PioneerVillage
28 May - 25 Jun Lang Pioneer Village Museum, Keene, Ont.
The Lindsay Gallery, Lindsay, Ont.
LindsayGallery
24 Jun 15 - 25 Jul 15 Motion in Stillness
Reception 25 Jul 15 from 2-4pm.
02 Dec 15 - 30 Jan 16 Annual Members' Show and Sale
Fenelon Falls Fair Grounds, Fenelon Falls, Ont.
Kawartha Arts Festival
05-06 Sep 15 Kawartha Arts Festival
Millennium Park, Peterborough, Ont.
Purple Onion Festival
20 Sep15 from 11am-4:00pm.
Dancing Blueberries, 360 George St. N., Peterborough, Ont.
02-28 Oct 15
Please come out and enjoy the artwork displayed at these shows.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Backgrounds 17 and 18 - Two Works in Progress
The temperature has dropped to -14F (-25.6C) but fortunately there is very little wind and it is going to be another bright and sunny day.
Which is wonderful, since I have to go to The Lindsay Gallery to pick up my paintings from the Then and Now All Members Christmas Show and Sale before heading to Art on Kent to sit the show for the afternoon.
I didn't have time to paint while sitting the show as we had a number of people come through the Gallery.
These two canvases are backgrounds created by using the leftover acrylic paint from the painting I was working on yesterday.
The first one was a mixture of alizarin crimson, cadmium red and cadmium yellow.
The second was made with a mixture of Titanium white, burnt sienna, raw sienna and a bit of alizarin crimson.
I will post each of these canvases at a later date once I have decided what to paint.
Which is wonderful, since I have to go to The Lindsay Gallery to pick up my paintings from the Then and Now All Members Christmas Show and Sale before heading to Art on Kent to sit the show for the afternoon.
I didn't have time to paint while sitting the show as we had a number of people come through the Gallery.
These two canvases are backgrounds created by using the leftover acrylic paint from the painting I was working on yesterday.
The first one was a mixture of alizarin crimson, cadmium red and cadmium yellow.
The second was made with a mixture of Titanium white, burnt sienna, raw sienna and a bit of alizarin crimson.
I will post each of these canvases at a later date once I have decided what to paint.
Friday, January 30, 2015
A Winter Sunset - A Work in Progress
The snow that started yesterday morning has finally stopped leaving us with 4" (10.2cm) of snow and much colder temperatures 2F (-16.7C) and a wind chill of -21F (-29.4C). The one nice thing is that we have a bright and sunny day.
I thought for today I should start on one of my paintings for the Small Treasures Show, which is a fund raiser being held this year to raise prize money for the Best of High School Art held at KAGS every May.
Since I see the sun rise and set on my property every day, weather permitting it made sense to do a painting of the sunset near the gate at the front of my property.
Working from the back forward, I completed the sky, the treeline from across the road, the under painting for the snow and some of the grasses and growies around the trees and in the foreground.
Next I started on the trees along the fence line and completed two of the pines and started the trunk of one of the large maple trees.
I will post this painting at a later date once I have completed more of the trees.
Thank you for looking at my artwork.
I thought for today I should start on one of my paintings for the Small Treasures Show, which is a fund raiser being held this year to raise prize money for the Best of High School Art held at KAGS every May.
Since I see the sun rise and set on my property every day, weather permitting it made sense to do a painting of the sunset near the gate at the front of my property.
Working from the back forward, I completed the sky, the treeline from across the road, the under painting for the snow and some of the grasses and growies around the trees and in the foreground.
Next I started on the trees along the fence line and completed two of the pines and started the trunk of one of the large maple trees.
I will post this painting at a later date once I have completed more of the trees.
Thank you for looking at my artwork.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Elli's African Violets - A Work in Progress
This morning in the Still Life class at KAGS our theme was Potted Plants.
There were two different displays; the first one was of house plants, two kinds of African violets, orchids and cyclamen placed on a quilt in various shades of blue.
The second display had mainly flowering bulbs in pots, white tulips, red and white tulips, yellow daffodils, miniature daffodils, crocus, hyacinths and a large container of various coloured African violets, resting on a throw with sunflowers on a blue background.
I decided to work on the large pot of African violets. Once the basic sketch was completed I brushed in the background with a mix of French ultramarine blue, Antwerp blue and raw sienna.
By then it was time for a break and when I returned the background was dry and I put in a base colour for the sunflower throw.
While waiting for the bottom of the painting to dry I put in the under paint on some of the African violet blooms using various mixes of French ultramarine blue, Cobalt blue and Antwerp blue combined with alizarin crimson.
I will post this painting at a later date once more work on it has been completed.
There were two different displays; the first one was of house plants, two kinds of African violets, orchids and cyclamen placed on a quilt in various shades of blue.
The second display had mainly flowering bulbs in pots, white tulips, red and white tulips, yellow daffodils, miniature daffodils, crocus, hyacinths and a large container of various coloured African violets, resting on a throw with sunflowers on a blue background.
I decided to work on the large pot of African violets. Once the basic sketch was completed I brushed in the background with a mix of French ultramarine blue, Antwerp blue and raw sienna.
By then it was time for a break and when I returned the background was dry and I put in a base colour for the sunflower throw.
While waiting for the bottom of the painting to dry I put in the under paint on some of the African violet blooms using various mixes of French ultramarine blue, Cobalt blue and Antwerp blue combined with alizarin crimson.
I will post this painting at a later date once more work on it has been completed.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Autumn Reflections I - A Work in Progress
Today is supposed to be the last day of the very cold weather -5F (-20.6C) with the wind chill at -17F (-27C) and it is going to get warmer over the next couple of days before the temperatures take a nose dive once again.
I wanted to do some work on one of the paintings I am donating to the Small Treasures Show at KAGS, so I pulled this one out that I had started last year (see post on 30 December 2014).
I started by first painting in the small section of the sky using Titanium white and French ultramarine blue.
Next I blocked in the areas of red, orange and yellow maple leaves.
For this I used various mixtures or cadmium red, cadmium yellow, lemon yellow, raw sienna and alizarin crimson and also left some areas with the background raw sienna wash showing. These colours were also brushed into the water.
To create the shadows a dark was made using French ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and alizarin crimson.
Cerulean blue and Titanium white was added to the shadow colour and the tree trunks were indicated as well as the rocks.
The greens were painted in next using various mixtures of both blues, raw sienna and both yellows.
I will post this piece at a later date once the painting is completed.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and enjoy the artwork. I hope you will return often.
I wanted to do some work on one of the paintings I am donating to the Small Treasures Show at KAGS, so I pulled this one out that I had started last year (see post on 30 December 2014).
I started by first painting in the small section of the sky using Titanium white and French ultramarine blue.
Next I blocked in the areas of red, orange and yellow maple leaves.For this I used various mixtures or cadmium red, cadmium yellow, lemon yellow, raw sienna and alizarin crimson and also left some areas with the background raw sienna wash showing. These colours were also brushed into the water.
To create the shadows a dark was made using French ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and alizarin crimson.
Cerulean blue and Titanium white was added to the shadow colour and the tree trunks were indicated as well as the rocks.
The greens were painted in next using various mixtures of both blues, raw sienna and both yellows.
I will post this piece at a later date once the painting is completed.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and enjoy the artwork. I hope you will return often.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Study in Blue I - A Work in Progress
Today was another cold day 3F (-16C), with the wind chill it feels like -16F (-26.7C) and tomorrow it is to be more of the same. The bright side is that I will not receive the massive amounts of snow that is hitting the east coast today.
I painted with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painting Group and one of our members, Tom Young had an exercise for us to try.
He had printed out copies of a painting by Ron Hedrick and asked that we pick a colour and do a value scale at the top of the paper and then paint the entire piece using just the one colour.
It was an interesting exercise and although I didn't complete the figures it is good to keep it as a reference piece.
I painted with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painting Group and one of our members, Tom Young had an exercise for us to try.He had printed out copies of a painting by Ron Hedrick and asked that we pick a colour and do a value scale at the top of the paper and then paint the entire piece using just the one colour.
It was an interesting exercise and although I didn't complete the figures it is good to keep it as a reference piece.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
ACEO - Foggy Forest 1
We had snow overnight, but then the wind came up out of the west and swept the driveway clear right down to the ice. It was a colder day 16F (-9C) and the wind chill made it feel like 5F (-15C) and we can expect it to be colder tomorrow, oh joy.
I thought I would spend the day painting and I pulled out this piece that I had started a couple of years ago (30 September 2013).
First I put in the background with a pale wash of Antwerp blue and burnt sienna.
While the background was drying I made a pale mixture of burnt sienna and French ultramarine blue for the furthest back tree trunks.
Using the pale greyed brown I put in the furthest back tree trunks with very little detail. While these tree trunks were drying I darkened the colour slightly with the brown.
Changing the colour slightly with the blue I put in the next layer of trees and started indicating a few branches.
Again I darkened the colour adding in a little more brown to the mixture and put in the closer trees, adding the branches and giving more detail to the tree trunks.
Again I darkened the tree colour mixture with a little more blue and did the three trees in the foreground adding more detail to them and more distinct branches.
Lastly, I used a slightly darker mix of the background colour and painted in the grasses and growies.
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 Winsor & Newton paint on 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $20.00 and sold unframed.
I thought I would spend the day painting and I pulled out this piece that I had started a couple of years ago (30 September 2013).
First I put in the background with a pale wash of Antwerp blue and burnt sienna.
While the background was drying I made a pale mixture of burnt sienna and French ultramarine blue for the furthest back tree trunks.
Using the pale greyed brown I put in the furthest back tree trunks with very little detail. While these tree trunks were drying I darkened the colour slightly with the brown.
Changing the colour slightly with the blue I put in the next layer of trees and started indicating a few branches.
Again I darkened the colour adding in a little more brown to the mixture and put in the closer trees, adding the branches and giving more detail to the tree trunks.
Again I darkened the tree colour mixture with a little more blue and did the three trees in the foreground adding more detail to them and more distinct branches.
Lastly, I used a slightly darker mix of the background colour and painted in the grasses and growies.
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 Winsor & Newton paint on 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $20.00 and sold unframed.
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