The Future is Now

Today I was sitting at Art on Kent for the last day of "The Future is Now" exhibition.











I had seven paintings in this show representing toys, agriculture, lakes and transportation.













It was a fairly busy day today with a large number of people coming in to see the exhibit before it is gone. So busy in fact, that I didn't have time to work on a painting as I normally would.













I decided to leave the three paintings with rubber duck in them for the "Wall of Small".  I also brought in two painting for the next show "Feast for the Eyes".

Fence Posts 2-4 - Three Works in Progress

I decided I wanted to work on these three pieces that I had started earlier this year (see posts on 17 and 26 July 2016) while out on location.

Working on all three paintings at the same time I wet the sky and with French ultramarine blue I reworked the sky to remove the white paper where the tape lines were.

Once the sky was dry I lifted the paint from the fence posts with water.

I will post each of these paintings at a later date as more work on them has been completed.

Fence Posts 2



















Fence Posts 3



















Fence Posts 4

Indian Corn - A Work in Progress

Today was going to be a very busy day for me. It started off with the still life class first thing in the morning at the Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio.

The theme for the class was "Harvest Time" featuring various fruits and vegetables with an autumn theme.

I decided to do the brightly coloured Indian corn with a couple of maple leaves to add some orange and red tones to the piece.

After drawing the image I started by putting a pale wash of raw sienna over all the corn husks. I darkened the mix slightly and started to add the next layer but ran out of time before getting very far.

I will post this painting at a later date once I have completed more work on the corn husks.














From there I was at the 12:30p.m. Information meeting for new members, where we had three people choosing to become KAGS members.

At 1:30p.m. I attended the meeting for KAGS's inclusion in next year's SPARK Photo Festival as one of our exhibitions.

After that meeting was over, I left KAGS to attend a 3:00p.m. meeting of the President's Council going over current business arising from emails received to the Gallery and discussion about the upcoming AGM next month.

Finally I was able to head home and bring in the horses and start the barn chores.

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

ACEO - Industry 1

This is one of three pieces I started earlier this year (see post on 22 August 2016) that I wanted to finish. I started by using various muddy colours to paint in the smoke stacks on the factories and the different buildings.

I finished the lower toxic sky with aureolin, cadmium yellow and a green of Antwerp blue and new gamboge. The upper sky was put in with Antwerp blue.

With burnt sienna and Antwerp blue I painted in the smoke emitted from the larger, closer smoke stacks.














Using cadmium red and cadmium yellow, I put the various warning lights on the smoke stacks and buildings.

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 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $20.00 and sold unframed.

Pastel Colours 1 and 2 - Two Works in Progress

Today I picked these two pieces that I drew onto watercolour paper earlier this year (see post on 14 April 2016).

On this one I brushed the sky in starting at the top with a small amount of aureolin in the upper left corner.

Using a pale wash of alizarin crimson I started with the colour in the upper right corner and gradually darkened the colour as I went down the painting leaving the bottom of the paper white.

I set this painting aside to let the sky dry.

Pastel Colors 2

I started on the next painting using alizarin crimson in the sky gradually darkening the paint toward the bottom.














Pastel Colours 1

Once again I left the bottom of the paper white.

I will post each of these paintings at a later date once they have been completed

Pink Sky 2-5 Four Works in Progress

Today I just wanted to play with some morning skies.

I like using French ultramarine blue and alizarin crimson for an early morning pink sky.

But I have found that these lovely pastel colours are usually found in the western sky as the sun is rising in the east.

I thought I would work on all four pieces at the same time and started by mixing a large puddle of the two colours and then wet the paper.

Pink Sky 2

I put down a base wash on the first piece and then added a small amount of the blue in a couple of areas in the sky before setting it aside to dry.

On the next one after putting down the base colour I added a lot more of the blue into the sky before I set it aside to dry.

On the third one, the paper had dried in some areas.

Pink Sky 3

I left these areas white as though they were clouds in the sky.

Once more I added blue into various areas into the sky until a little more than half of the sky had the blue tint.

I set this aside to dry and started to work on the last piece.

This one had a larger dry area that was left as a white cloud.

Pink Sky 4

On this painting I added a little of the blue into the sky near the cloud and then left most of the sky the base colour.

Lastly, I added the blue to the bottom quarter of the paper with horizontal strokes.

This piece was set aside with the others to dry.

I will post each of these paintings again once they are completed.

Pink Sky 5

Long Lake VII - A Work in Progress

I picked this sketch, that I started a long time ago (see post on 14 September 2013) when Ron and I were canoeing on Long Lake.

I started with the bark on the fallen branch on which the heron is standing, followed by the water ripples below the branch.

A small bush was placed into the background to the left side of the heron.














Next I added the reeds into the background to the right of the fallen branch.

I will post this sketch at a later date once I have added more details to the drawing of the heron on the branch.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.