Hoturo - A Work in Progress

With this painting being very close to completion (see posts on 10, 12, 17, 21 and 24 December 2015 and 02, 05, 08 and 12 January 2016) I wanted to add some of the final details to the boat and water.

One of the first things I had to change was the position of the two wind indicators on the top of the mast as I had placed them on the wrong sides of the mast.

Fortunately it is a small area, so I had to go in and cover up the original placement with titanium white, then rework the cloud before I could paint them back in where they belonged.

Using titanium white I thinly painted some of the sail reflections into the water below the red reflections and extended it down through a couple of the waves.














With black I placed the HIN (Hull Identification Numbers) on the front of the boat.

Next I thinned the rails on the bow pulpit as they were slightly too thick. I will set is aside and what else needs to be changed.

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

Affordableism Art Show

Today I am sitting at Art on Kent in Lindsay and it is the last day of the Christmas show called 'Affordableism'.

This time for the show they placed all the paintings submitted by each artist together in a grouping on the wall so the public could view the style of the artist.














It was a fairly busy day with a number of people coming in to see the art exhibition as well as students bringing in their art pieces for the new show coming in which is for the best of high school art.

I had planned on doing a lot more work on this painting that I had started last year (see posts on 29 August and 22 October 2015), but all I managed to do was mask out the boats with a liquid masking fluid.













I will post this painting at a later date once the background is completed.

Through the Canyon I - A Work in Progress

Today I was watching a program on Utah's five National Parks which are associated with distinct geographical features. It showed Arches with its arches carved out of the sandstone by the elements, to Bryce Canyon with its hoodoos, Canyonlands which is divided into three different areas: Island in the Sky, The Needles and The Maze, Capitol Reef with its Waterpocket Fold and Zion with its many narrow canyons and towering walls.














While it was on I started doing a few quick sketches of the canyons and rock cliffs. In this sketch I added a few horses.

I will post this drawing at a later date once more of the details have been added.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.

Long Shadows - A Work in Progress

Today is a very busy day, starting with going to the Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio for the Still Life class in the morning, then going to the bank afterward to change the signing authority for the new vice president to be able to sign the cheques for KAGS and to return again to the Gallery to sit in the afternoon and evening.

I wanted to get this piece completed today that I had started a number of years ago (see post on 20 August 2010) especially since I was going to be at KAGS until 7:00 p.m. tonight.

During the afternoon the gallery was very busy and all I was able to do was use a pencil to indicate the small trees in the background and then put in the skeletons of the three larger trees in the foreground.















When the second sitter arrived at 4:00 p.m. I took a break and had supper downstairs before returning to the upper level to resume my duties at the front desk.

Using various greens made of various combinations of Antwerp blue, French ultramarine blue, raw sienna and burnt sienna I painted the trees into the background; this was in between looking after some of the people who came in to view the Christmas Show which closes tomorrow.

As I had time I was able to put in the trunks and main branches on the foreground trees using some of the green mixes and a little more burnt sienna.

I will post this painting once, more work on it has been completed.

Background 69 - A Work in Progress

Not too much has changed from yesterday in that the temperature remains at 6F (-14.4C) and with the wind chill it feels like -11F (-23.9C).

This is the background made with yesterday's remaining paint.















The colours used on this painting are ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, black, white, Hansa yellow, alizarin crimson and cadmium red.

I will post this piece at a later date once more work on it has been completed.

Hoturo - A Work in Progress

It is another day of snow, but the temperature was milder in the morning at 16F (8.9C) and not very much wind; but as the day progressed the wind started up and the temperature dropped to 6F (-14.4C) and with the wind chill it felt like -11F (-23.9C).

After leaving it for a couple of days to look at the painting that I have been working on for a while (see posts on 10, 12, 17, 21 and 24 December 2015 and 02, 05 and 08 January 2016) I realized that there were a few things that had to be changed.

The major one was that the bow was at too low an angle and it had to be changed before I could add the splashing water by the bow.

The other two were much more minor in that the spreader was too dark and a little too thick.

Lastly the pipe on the deck was also much too thick as well.

Once these changes were made I started to by adding the red area below the white line with a mixture of alizarin crimson and cadmium red.

I added a little of the water splashing up from the bow with titanium white.

Now I will start painting the many pieces of equipment that are on the front of the boat.

First I increased the height of the stanchion on the top of the cabin. Then I added the base and the housing for the lines running to the spreader bars on the mast.

Next I cleaned up the white areas on the deck then added ultramarine blue and burnt sienna to the paint and put in the details on the window and curtains.

With various mixtures of white, blue grey, and black I painted the bow pulpit (the guardrail and support on the bow for the lifelines).

Now I can add the stem fitting (the fitting at the bow where the forestay is fastened).

With a grey mix I added in the spring line (a dock line usually used to prevent fore and aft motion of the boat).

I added the cleat (a metal object to which various lines  can be fastened) onto the deck with white paint and then added the lower part of one of the spreader lines before adding a little ultramarine blue to take it the rest of the way to the spreader.

Using the pale blue paint I put in the second line for the spreader, ran the lifelines, and the rigging line shadows on the foresail including the shadow of the far side of the bow pulpit and lastly the shadows cast on the deck.

Using a dark mix of ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and alizarin crimson I put in the dark part of the waves from the bow to the stern.














Next I added some of the splashing water from the bow of the boat and along the length of the hull some of the small white caps caused by the passage of the boat and the ripples at the stern.

With a thin mix of cadmium red and alizarin crimson I added some of the reflection of the boat into the water.

I will post this painting again at a later date once I add the reflection of the sails into the water.

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

ACEO - Morning Sky 1

With it raining throughout the night there is very little snow left on the ground. It will continue to rain for the rest of the day and it is to change to snow later this evening.

With the 25mph (40km) winds that started in the afternoon the temperature is dropping rapidly from the 48F (8.9C) of the morning and should reach 23F (-6C) and they are calling for flash freezing on the roads and the snow to start in the evening.













I pulled out this painting that I started a couple of years ago (see posts on 21 June 2014 and 22 August 2015) and lightly sketched in a tree and added a little bit of shoreline.

I mixed a dark of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna and painted in the tree at the left side and darkened the mix slightly and put in the shoreline.














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