On the first of each month I will update the Countryside Art Group's blog with a listing of shows where the various artists in the Group are exhibiting their work.
If you get a chance, come out and visit them at one or all of the shows.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Friday, May 29, 2015
Swimming Pools and Seadragons
Another hot and humid day with the temperatures reaching 81F (27.2C) and with the humidity making it feel like 85F (29.4C), but there is a storm in the air and I know with tomorrow being even warmer with higher humidity we should have thunderstorms, which I always enjoy watching.
We had gotten a swimming pool for my dog, Kyora earlier this month and she was quite happy to take a nice long refreshing dip in her very own pool. An added benefit of this is at least it keeps her out of the horse trough in the barn yard.
Since we are on the subject of animals in water I thought I would share this live camera feed of Weedy Sea Dragons that I came across at the Aquariums of the Pacific website. The Aquarium is located at 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA 90802, USA; this is another of the many places I would like to visit.
The live cam feed is courtesy of the Explore website, I thought you may enjoy watching them and check out some of the other cam feeds and films on their site.
We had gotten a swimming pool for my dog, Kyora earlier this month and she was quite happy to take a nice long refreshing dip in her very own pool. An added benefit of this is at least it keeps her out of the horse trough in the barn yard.
Since we are on the subject of animals in water I thought I would share this live camera feed of Weedy Sea Dragons that I came across at the Aquariums of the Pacific website. The Aquarium is located at 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA 90802, USA; this is another of the many places I would like to visit.
The live cam feed is courtesy of the Explore website, I thought you may enjoy watching them and check out some of the other cam feeds and films on their site.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Art Show at the MacKelvie Gallery.
Today it is bright and sunny day with the temperature at 75F (23.9C) and a pleasant breeze which will help keep the mosquitoes away unlike yesterday with the same temperature but the lack of a breeze and the high humidity making it feel like 87F (30.7C). But I am not going to complain at all after the long and very cold winter we have just experienced.
For me it is going to be a very busy day.
My friends and fellow artists Cindy Allan and Norma MacEachern are taking my paintings to Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Keene, Ontario to hang in their MacKelvie Gallery.
The exhibit there by the KAGS Outdoor Painters' Group will run from the 28 May - 25 June.
Meanwhile I will head to Toronto to be with my daughter, Christine where she will undergo surgery at Princess Margaret Hospital.
For me it is going to be a very busy day.My friends and fellow artists Cindy Allan and Norma MacEachern are taking my paintings to Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Keene, Ontario to hang in their MacKelvie Gallery.
The exhibit there by the KAGS Outdoor Painters' Group will run from the 28 May - 25 June.
Meanwhile I will head to Toronto to be with my daughter, Christine where she will undergo surgery at Princess Margaret Hospital.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Norma's Peppers - A Work in Progress
I sort of miss the goslings but I know they will be well looked after at Shades of Hope Wildlife Refuge and integrated into another family of Canada Geese out in Pefferlaw, Ontario.
Today I worked on another still life painting for the upcoming show at The Lindsay Gallery later this month.
The background was painting in using a mixture of French ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and alizarin crimson.
Once the background was dry it was time to work on the peppers.
The stems were put in first using various mixtures of French ultramarine blue, Antwerp blue and raw sienna.
The red pepper was painted using different combinations of raw sienna, alizarin crimson, cadmium red and cadmium yellow. There are at least eight to nine layers of colour on the pepper to build the depth of colour.
For the yellow pepper I brushed in a base of new gamboge, aureolin, cadmium yellow and burnt sienna.
I set it aside to dry and I will post this painting at a later date once it is completed.
Today I worked on another still life painting for the upcoming show at The Lindsay Gallery later this month.
The background was painting in using a mixture of French ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and alizarin crimson.Once the background was dry it was time to work on the peppers.
The stems were put in first using various mixtures of French ultramarine blue, Antwerp blue and raw sienna.
The red pepper was painted using different combinations of raw sienna, alizarin crimson, cadmium red and cadmium yellow. There are at least eight to nine layers of colour on the pepper to build the depth of colour.
For the yellow pepper I brushed in a base of new gamboge, aureolin, cadmium yellow and burnt sienna.
I set it aside to dry and I will post this painting at a later date once it is completed.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Goslings
Last night we had a fair amount of excitement with Kyora having found a family of Canada geese at the top of the front field and chasing the parents away while scooping up a gosling in her mouth. She decided not to come when called and that it was great fun to have Ron chase after her until he finally caught her and took it out of her mouth. Needless to say she was scolded and sent to her bed for the night.
At first Ron didn't think the gosling would survive since it lay on the grass panting, but after I looked at it and found no puncture marks and the back wasn't broken I wrapped it in a piece of flannel and we went to look for the parents, which we could hear calling for their baby.
They were across the road in a farmer's field but as soon as I entered the field they flew off. We went along the road to where one of the pairs of Canada geese had nested hoping to find them, but they were nowhere to be found, so we decided to take the little one that was starting to perk up and calling softly for its parents back home.
Before we arrived home we saw walking across the road at the bottom of the hill another gosling. So I got out of the vehicle and picked it up so it wouldn't get hit by a car and set it on the seat with its sibling. Getting almost to the top of the hill what should run out in front of us, but two more goslings which I caught and it was a good thing too as I was putting the fourth one into the car another vehicle came speeding over the hill in the opposite direction and would probably have run them over.
Now we had four goslings to look after for the night, so we put them in a large cardboard box lined with a bath towel, filled a dish with water and put some chopped grass and bread into the water for them and left them on the porch for the night.
In the morning they were all doing well and had eaten some of the food and almost all of the water was gone and even the smallest one seemed much better after its experience of being carried around in the dog's mouth. So I put them out into the child's pool that we have for the dog and added more grass and bits of bread.
We called the Peterborough Humane Society to see who would take in the goslings if we couldn't get them adopted by a pair of Canada geese that had goslings of about the same age and they gave us the phone number for Shades of Hope Wildlife Refuge in Pefferlaw, Ontario.
After going through the Snelgrove Brook, over to Chemong Lake and then to the Peterborough Riverview Park and Zoo where you can almost always find geese (in fact they even have signs posted "DO NOT FEED THE GEESE") we managed to find one lone Canada goose, but no pairs or goslings.
So we made the trip to Shades of Hope and they felt that in another week or so that there would be many more families of geese and that they could successfully be adopted by another family.
At first Ron didn't think the gosling would survive since it lay on the grass panting, but after I looked at it and found no puncture marks and the back wasn't broken I wrapped it in a piece of flannel and we went to look for the parents, which we could hear calling for their baby.
They were across the road in a farmer's field but as soon as I entered the field they flew off. We went along the road to where one of the pairs of Canada geese had nested hoping to find them, but they were nowhere to be found, so we decided to take the little one that was starting to perk up and calling softly for its parents back home.
Before we arrived home we saw walking across the road at the bottom of the hill another gosling. So I got out of the vehicle and picked it up so it wouldn't get hit by a car and set it on the seat with its sibling. Getting almost to the top of the hill what should run out in front of us, but two more goslings which I caught and it was a good thing too as I was putting the fourth one into the car another vehicle came speeding over the hill in the opposite direction and would probably have run them over.
Now we had four goslings to look after for the night, so we put them in a large cardboard box lined with a bath towel, filled a dish with water and put some chopped grass and bread into the water for them and left them on the porch for the night.
In the morning they were all doing well and had eaten some of the food and almost all of the water was gone and even the smallest one seemed much better after its experience of being carried around in the dog's mouth. So I put them out into the child's pool that we have for the dog and added more grass and bits of bread.
We called the Peterborough Humane Society to see who would take in the goslings if we couldn't get them adopted by a pair of Canada geese that had goslings of about the same age and they gave us the phone number for Shades of Hope Wildlife Refuge in Pefferlaw, Ontario.
After going through the Snelgrove Brook, over to Chemong Lake and then to the Peterborough Riverview Park and Zoo where you can almost always find geese (in fact they even have signs posted "DO NOT FEED THE GEESE") we managed to find one lone Canada goose, but no pairs or goslings.
So we made the trip to Shades of Hope and they felt that in another week or so that there would be many more families of geese and that they could successfully be adopted by another family.
Monday, May 25, 2015
Morning Shadows I - A Works in Progress
It is a nice warm 78F (28.5C) sunny day with a wonderful breeze; great weather to be out working in the gardening, unfortunately I will be at the Executive meeting at the KAGS this afternoon.
I was not going to let that stop me from doing some drawing and in the fields behind the barns with the early morning sun the trees cast long beautiful shadow causing beautiful dancing patterns on the waving grasses.
I took a number of photographs to capture the beautiful colours and the stunning contrasts.
I will post this piece at a later date once I have transferred the sketch to paper and started adding colour.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and enjoy the artwork. I hope you will return often.
I was not going to let that stop me from doing some drawing and in the fields behind the barns with the early morning sun the trees cast long beautiful shadow causing beautiful dancing patterns on the waving grasses.
I took a number of photographs to capture the beautiful colours and the stunning contrasts.
I will post this piece at a later date once I have transferred the sketch to paper and started adding colour.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and enjoy the artwork. I hope you will return often.
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Bath Time - A Work in Progress
I wanted to do a little more work on this painting that I have been working on for a while (see posts on 11 and 16 July and 28 December 2014, 21 January and 08 February 2015) and hopefully have it completed in time to take to the Motion in Stillness show at the The Lindsay Gallery next month.
After painting the bill with mixes of cadmium red, alizarin crimson and cadmium yellow I finally completed the rubber ducky.
Next I worked on the bottle of bath oil. The yellow from the duck had already been put in and I added the blue from the towel once it had dried I washed over the bottle with raw sienna.
The label on the bottle was put in with a pale wash of alizarin crimson.
I will post this painting at a later date once I have painted the bars of soap.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and look at the artwork.
After painting the bill with mixes of cadmium red, alizarin crimson and cadmium yellow I finally completed the rubber ducky.
Next I worked on the bottle of bath oil. The yellow from the duck had already been put in and I added the blue from the towel once it had dried I washed over the bottle with raw sienna.
The label on the bottle was put in with a pale wash of alizarin crimson.
I will post this painting at a later date once I have painted the bars of soap.
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and look at the artwork.
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