Background 72 - A Work in Progress

This background was made with the remaining paint from yesterday.















The colours used on this canvas are alizarin crimson, cadmium red, black and titanium white.

Once I decide what I will paint into this background I will post it at a later date.

Hoturo

Today I wanted to finish this painting that I have been working on for a little while (see posts on 10, 12, 17, 21 and 24 December 2015 and 02, 05, 08, 12 and 17 January 2016).

After looking at this painting for about a week I feel it just needs one more change.

The white line on the bottom of the hull is a little too thick and needs to be thinned along the center part to give the boat a little more shape.

Using pure cadmium red I painted my change line over the white paint.

Next I mixed the darker red colour which was against the white line of cadmium red, alizarin crimson and a touch of ultramarine blue.

Once this base colour was put on I blended it upward on the hull gradually adding more cadmium red to the mix.

Using pure titanium white I removed any of the minor "wiggle" lines of red.

At point I added more white to some of the sail reflections closer to the boat to make them stand out a little more.

Once the paint was totally dry I applied three coats of acrylic gloss medium to the painting to seal and protect it as well as bring up the colour.














I would like to thank returning collector Mr. Jiri Spirk of Lakefield, Ontario for commissioning me to do this painting of their yacht as a gift for his wife Janna.

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

Just Bobbing - A Work in Progress

Today at KAGS the theme for the Still Life class was wood.

We had two different displays set up. The first one was of various carved decoys, some painted and some plain. The second one was of various wooden carvings, bowls and buckets.

I chose to do the one with the carved decoys. I liked the two that were unpainted of a goose and a duck. I added the small painted mallard to the drawing a little later.

When the drawing was completed I used liquid friskit to mask out the decoys.














Once that was dry I used various mixes of cadmium yellow, raw sienna, Antwerp blue and French ultramarine blue to put in the background behind the decoys.

With a pale wash of both blues I indicated the water at the base of the birds.

Using raw sienna I started painting the goose first, gradually building up layers of colour to give the decoy shape.

I will post this painting at a later date once I have completed the goose decoy.

ACEO - Snow Beauty 1

While going through a binder filled with small pieces of watercolour paper that I used when I was experimenting with different colour combinations on my palette.

This one was when I was using some of the different blues (see post on 27 December 2015), in this case French ultramarine blue and Antwerp blue.

I lightly drew in three large deciduous trees on the left side of the painting and indicated some trees in the background on a hill.

Using a mix of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna I painted in the trees on the left side.

This was followed by painting a mix of hardwood and soft wood trees on the hill.

I completed the piece by adding grasses and growies using burnt and raw sienna.

If you would like more information about ACEO please go to my post on 11 March 2010.

The ACEO shown 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.

Background 70 and 71 - Two Works in Progress

As usual I put the remaining paint onto canvases from yesterday's painting.














Background 70

For the first one the colours used were Hansa yellow, ultramarine blue, titanium white and black,














Background 71

The colours used on the second canvas are titanium white, with small amounts of ultramarine blue and black.

I will post each of these pieces once I decide what I am going to paint.

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.