In the Shade - A Work in Progress

Today I thought I would continue with this drawing that I had worked on earlier this year (see posts on 04 August 2013 and 28 March 2015).

I started by working on the mares and foals on the right side of the main tree.













Next I added the grass beneath the horses' hooves to ground them.

I decided to add a barn into the background and put it in behind my original horse.

I will post this drawing again once I have completed the rest of the horses.

Buckhorn Artists' Group Blog - Shades of Summer Art Show and Sale

If you go to the Buckhorn Artists' Group blog you can see the daily results about what happened during the Shades of Summer Art Show and Sale as well as some of the paintings that were exhibited in the show.

Upper Buckhorn Lake VI-X - Five Works in Progress

These are more sketches of Upper Buckhorn Lake that I did while walking along Highway 23 (formerly called Highway 507) and also called Buckhorn Road.

I started at the Post Office and took my time as I walked across the bridge stopping to make a sketch of the shoreline.

Then a sketch of one of the interesting trees that are on the islands that are just below the dam.

I slowly continued across the bridge and stopped to do a sketch of the small inlet.

Upper Buckhorn Lake VI

I will return another day to make sketches of some of the cottages that are right on the lake and can be seen from the Highway.

Coming off the bridge I turned onto Highway 36 and did another sketch from the shoreline of a couple of pine trees, rocks and distant shore.

My final sketch, before I turned around and headed back to my car was of a section of the shoreline which had a number of large pine trees and a view of the far shore.


Upper Buckhorn Lake VII

I will post these at a later date as they are developed into paintings.





















Upper Buckhorn Lake IX

















Upper Buckhorn Lake X












Upper Buckhorn Lake VIII

Snow Man 1 - A Work in Progress

This is a painting I have been working on for a while (see posts on 23 February 2013, 12 February and 18 August 2014).

I made a mixture of Antwerp blue and raw sienna and worked back into the scarf.

Adding a little more blue to the mix the shadow colour in the creases and folds of the scarf was applied. Then almost pure Antwerp blue was used for the fringe.

Cadmium red and new gamboge was used to paint in the carrot nose.

I thought the colour of the top hat was a little wishy washy so I mixed a rich black using French ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and alizarin crimson.

I repainted over the existing colour leaving some highlights on the sunlit edge of the hat.

Using the same colour I added the eyes, mouth and buttons onto the snowman.

Now was the time to add shadows onto the body of the Snowman to give him some shape.

I used various mixes of French ultramarine blue, cobalt blue and burnt sienna to add the shadows and the slightly darker shadows cast by the scarf.

I will post this painting at a later date once I have added the arms and a few growies into the foreground.

Upper Stoney Lake I and II -Two Works in Progress

It was a fairly busy day today with the take in for the Faces and Figures Show at KAGS this morning.

Afterward since it was a nice day with a breeze and we decided to go to Quarry Bay Beach to have a picnic and go swimming.











Upper Stoney Lake I

This is the only public beach on Stoney lake and it is located in Upper Stoney Lake off of Northey's Bay Road.

This is a beautiful small, sandy unsupervised (no lifeguard) beach with a roped off swim area. It has lovely tall pines slightly back from the beach which provide shade and a lovely picnic area.














Upper Stoney Lake II

After lunch I did a couple of sketches of one of the islands out in the lake close to the beach.

I will post each of these sketches once I have completed them with pen and ink.

Last Day of the Shades of Summer Art Show and Sale

Today I decided that since it is the last day of the show that I was going to play hooky from my sitting at the show and painting. Instead I would go canoeing on Big Cedar Lake and come back to the show in time for the tear down.

The hours for our show are:
23 Aug 15 - 12:30pm - 4:00pm

We hope some of you will be able to come out and visit our show.












Big Cedar Lake I

Big Cedar Lake is a land locked lake on the north west side of Highway 28 and approximately 2-1/2 miles (4km) from Burleigh Falls and there are a number of ways you can go to get to the lake.

If you want a full day out on a couple of lakes and don't mind portaging, launch in Coon Lake and go to the far end and portage about 1/2 mile (0.8km) into Big Cedar Lake. The trail is fairly well marked.














Big Cedar Lake II

You can do what we did this time and go past the launch at Coon Lake and follow the road until you can see the lake and there is a small launch site, but the parking is very limited.

The other option is to follow Highway 28 and turn onto Julian Road and go to the public boat launch where there is more parking available.















Big Cedar Lake III

There are several canoe routes that use Big Cedar Lake to the reach more northern land locked lakes or to go onto Eels Creek and to Stoney Lake.

The lake has an irregular shoreline with a number of bays which help to provide protected areas for canoeing and kayaking. The local cottagers are also courteous to small craft as well, which I must say is a very pleasant surprise.













Big Cedar Lake IV

The lake is known for its cleanliness and clarity. I said to Ron that it would probably be a wonderful lake for diving with an average depth of 19' (5.8m) and the maximum depth reaching 60' (18.3m).

Rock piles and close to the surface rocks are well marked and in many places the shallow areas are adjacent to deep drop offs and submerged logs can be found in most of the shallower bays.














Big Cedar Lake V

The lake has a large variety of fish including rock bass, small mouth and large mouth bass, black crappie, walleye, muskie, sunfish, bream and bluegill.

Ron was very happy as he caught five large mouth bass and one small muskie, all of which we live released back into the lake










Big Cedar Lake VI

As usual while Ron fished I took photographs and worked on a number of sketches that I will post at a later date once I have completed them using pen and ink.

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

It wasn't long before we had to return to the art show at St. Matthews Church in Buckhorn to take down the show.

Pottery was purchased from JoAnne Connell Northey and small items were sold by Diane Collins.

Shades of Summer Art Show and Sale

It is a wonderful change not having the humid weather with a lovely sunny day at 76F (24.4C) and a cooling breeze.

Today they are holding Rock the Locks right across the street from the Church which is attracting a large crowd, with many people coming through to see our art show as well.

Needless to say I didn't have a lot of time to paint on this piece that I started last year (see post on 21 January 2014), but at least I did put the far shore into this painting, which I will post at a later date once it has been completed.














Morning Sky 1

A painting was purchased from Penny Little and small items were sold by Pat Harvey.

The hours for our show are:
22 Aug 15 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
23 Aug 15 - 12:30pm - 4:00pm

We hope you will be able to come out and visit the show either today or before it closes tomorrow