Shadows I - A Work in Progress

Unbelievable, it is snowing yet again. This morning the temperature when I got up to do the barn chores was 33F (.5C) and raining, but in a few hours the temperature has dropped to 28F (-2C) and now we have rain and snow mixed.

I decided I wanted to think about summer so I pulled this drawing that started a couple of years ago (see post on 26 May 2013), but the more I looked at it the more I knew that it needed a background put in behind the rock.



















With a pencil I lightly drew in some water behind the rock and then indicated a rock on the shoreline; which was followed by adding in some small bushes and growies on top and behind the rocks.

It was at this point that I was told I would be able to go home this afternoon and I will post this drawing at a later time.

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

Grass Huts I - A Work in Progress

This was one of a number of sketches that was in one of the pads of paper Ron and Christine brought in for me the other night.

These sketches were all from when I was in Cuba a few years ago for two weeks, staying at the Tryp in Cayo CoCo and the Iberostar in Cayo Guillermo.

I started on the first grass hut by putting in the wooden uprights, followed by the cross members and then the face boards.















Next I put the palm fronds onto the roof to get most of this open air building finished.

I wanted to do more on this drawing but I was tired and had to put this sketch away before finishing the first hut.

I will post this drawing at a later date once more of it has been completed.

Horse Sketches XIV - A Work in Progress

I finally had my surgery yesterday and hopefully I will soon be back home.

I started with a horse head first, as they are what I am most familiar with and can achieve a reasonable likeness without reference material, but it wasn't long before lunch came.

After lunch I started on a second horse head but quickly became tired and set the sketch aside. I will do more work on it later.

Clear Lake VIII - A Work in Progress

Today is Christine's birthday and I am here and cannot take her out for our Mother and Daughter supper at the restaurant of her choice. But I will do that once I am out of here and upwardly mobile.

I couldn't get into drawing but I needed to do something while I waited, so I looked through some of the sketches I had in one of the sketch books and settled on this one that I had started a number of years ago (see post on 09 June 2013).

I started with some of the pine and cedar trees but, decided to stop before I ruined the sketch.













I will post this drawing at a later date once more work on the trees is completed.

Thank goodness the surgeon got me in for surgery today; it means that I will get to leave the hospital soon and go back home.

Still Waters I

It was a long night in the hospital, but this morning I met the surgeon who would operate and set the bone. Fortunately for me it is a clean break.

Depending on scheduling and how many emergencies happen I will either have my surgery this afternoon or sometime tomorrow.

Fortunately for me, last night when Ron and Christine came to visit they brought me some pencils, fineliners and a couple of sketch books to help me past the time while I am here.

I did this little 3" x 3-1/2” pen and ink drawing which when and shrink wrapped will be available for $25.00.

Accidents Do Happen.....

Today I spent most of the day in the hospital with a broken femur.

Evening Lighthouse 1 - A Work in Progress

I wanted to do a little work on a panting and I chose this one that I started last year (see posts on 18 April and 24 May 2016).

Using a mixture of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna I put in the windows on the lighthouse, the edge of the lantern room, the roof on the lighthouse keeper's home and the concrete foundation for the lighthouse.

With a mix of cadmium red and alizarin crimson I added the roof on the top of the lighthouse and the base around the lantern room.














With cadmium yellow I put in the lantern and a thin line of the reflected light from the sunset on the left side of the lighthouse.

I will post this painting at a later date once I paint in the water and the crashing surf at the base of the rocks.

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