Background 15 - A Work in Progress

As usual in acrylic workshops I use the left over acrylic paint at the end of a class as a background on a canvas for future use. This one is from the Lucy Manley class held at KAGS (see post on 09 February 2015).















I will post the piece at a later date once I have decided what I will paint.

Early Spring Sunset - A Work in Progress

Today is the first day of the Lucy Manley workshop at KAGS for the month of February. It had to be postponed for a week due to a snow storm that caused most of the schools in the area to be closed and many of the people in the class have to travel long distances to get to the Gallery.

This painting was started with an under paint of raw sienna to have a layer of warm colour as a base.

Next using pure cadmium red the darkest colours were indicated and the basic outline of the main trees were indicated.














Cadmium yellow was added to the cadmium red for an orange to indicate the trees in the background.

Then the sky was brushed in using pure cadmium yellow as the base colour for a sunset.

A dark was mixed using French ultramarine blue and alizarin crimson this was colour was used to indicate the darkest areas in the trees, the reflections and the foreground.















A little white was added to the cadmium red and yellow mix and the high lit tops of the background trees were indicated.

A dark green of French ultramarine blue and raw sienna was used for the middle tone of the cedar trees; a little cadmium yellow was added to the mixture and the sunlit sides of the cedars were painted.

To the orange mix of cadmium red and yellow a small amount of French ultramarine blue was added and vertical lines were put in to indicate the trunks of the distant trees.















Next Titanium white with a small amount of cadmium yellow added was used to paint the sunlit areas of the snow.

The darkest snow shadows were painted in with a mixture of Titanium white and French ultramarine blue and a touch of alizarin crimson was added to some of the areas to warm the shadows.

Cerulean blue was added to the shadow colour and was painted into a few areas in the foreground.














Adding a little more alizarin crimson to the warm snow mixture the ice was painted into the pond leaving a few areas of open water with the reflections showing through.

A little of the ice colour was put into some of the tops of the background trees to indicate frost.

More of the foreground snow was painted in leaving a few areas untouched as though the sun during the day had melted the snow leaving the water covered ground bare.














I will post this painting later this month after more work on it has been completed.

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

Bath Time - A Work in Progress

The temperature has dropped significantly from yesterday to 2F (-16.7C) and with the strong wind out of the east making it feel like -18F (-27C).

This is a painting I had started last year (see posts on 11 and 16 July and 28 December 2014 and 21 January 2015) and wanted to do some more work on the painting.

The towel was painted using various mixtures of Cobalt blue and French ultramarine blue.












Next I wanted to do more work on the duck and started by putting the shadows and giving shape to the toy with mixes of raw sienna and burnt sienna.

Once the paint had dried I applied a wash of new gamboge over the entire duck body and head.

I will post this painting again once I have completed the duck.

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

Can. Ch. Shanbro's Charisma

It is another snowy day but is a lot milder 23F (-5C).

The bad news came this morning when my daughter called to let us know her dog Sully (Can. Ch. Shanbro's Charisma) would have to be put down today due to health reasons.

We all knew it was just a matter of time; but at age 12 even though his strong and fun loving spirit wanted to stay with us, unfortunately his body was no longer willing.














Sully is now resting peacefully beside She-Ra (see post on 04 August 2014) under the elm tree at the back of the barn with all the other family pets in this sheltered place.

He is another of the noble and loving souls whose time among us is far too short. He will be sorely missed.

The Walk and Trot - Three Works in Progress

I wanted to do a couple sketches of horses moving and since I was watching Black Beauty on television I thought it would work out fairly well.














The Walk

I started with the horse walking and when the program changed to horses trotting I started work on another sketch and gradually ended up working back and forth between three drawings.














The Trot II

There were many more scenes in the movie with horses walking and trotting through the streets and countryside, with only a few sections of the horses cantering or galloping which is why I stayed with just the three sketches.














The Trot I

I also worked a little larger with these sketches than I normally do with most of the sketches I do from life.

At a later date I will post each of these sketches once they have been completed as outline drawings.

Enamelware - A Work in Progress

For the still life class at KAGS today our theme was Enamelware. There were a number of items to work from including a caldron, two bowls, two plates, an earthenware jug, two ceramic mugs and a tea pot.

I chose to do the tea pot with the two mugs and one of the plates.














I will post the painting at a later date once I finish the drawing and put in the background.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.

Buckhorn Artists' Group Blog - Show Updates

I have updated the Buckhorn Artists' Group blog with a listing of shows some of the various artists in the Group are exhibiting their work in during the month of February.

If you get a chance come out and visit them at one or all of the shows.