ACEO - Morning Sky 7

I wanted to finish this piece I started last month (see post on 28 February 2017).

With French ultramarine blue and raw sienna, I painted the pine trees in the foreground, just behind the large rocks on the shore.

Lightening the colour with water I put in the distant trees on top of the rocks on the far shoreline.















Lastly, I used various combinations of cadmium red, cadmium yellow, burnt sienna and new gamboge to put in the reflections of the sky colours in the water.

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.

Clear Lake VIII - A Work in Progress

Today I go for my first physiotherapy appointment since the Zimmer splint has been replaced with the hinged splint.

I am sure after the assessment that I will have a whole new range of exercises to strengthen the leg and help me regain some of the motion in my knee.












Before Christine arrives to take me to my appointment I thought I would do a little work on this sketch that I stated a while ago (see posts on 09 June 2013 and 13 February 2017).

Unfortunately I only had time to add a pine tree and start the main trunks on a couple of deciduous trees before it was time to leave.

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

Early Morning 2 - A Work in Progress

It was fairly cold this morning 3F (-16) with the wind chill making it feel like -13F (-25C) and a strong wind blowing as I headed down to do the barn chores.

I decided that I would work on a painting and pulled out this drawing that I did quite some time ago (see post on 26 April 2013).

I wanted to start by putting a little bit of colour into the sky, so I lightly wet the paper.















Using new gamboge I brushed in the area just above the horizon line in first and this was followed with a mixture of alizarin crimson blending it slightly where the two colours touched.

Into the top of the sky I used a blend of Antwerp blue and French ultramarine blue and set the painting aside to dry.

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

Dusk 11 and 12 - Two Works in Progress

I decided to do a couple more pieces but I changed them into the landscape direction as opposed to the portrait direction as in the two days previous.















Dusk 11

These are the probably the last two I am going to do with the opaque paint for a little while and I will see how they turn out as paintings.















Dusk 12

I will post each of these pieces once they have been completed.

Dusk 7-10 - Four Works in Progress

Today I am continuing to play with the opaque watercolours and will probably do a few more tomorrow.

Once I have decided what to do with each of them I will post each one at a later date.








Dusk 7




















Dusk 8



















Dusk 9



















Dusk 10

Dusk 3-6 - Four Works in Progress

I am still not convinced that I am going to keep using the opaque watercolor paint, but I will give it a fair chance before making a final decision.

Over the next couple of days I am going to just play with the various colours individually to see what they can do and then find out about the full range of colour combinations that can be made.

Dusk 3

I will do streaks of colours across small pieces of paper and then add layers of different colour combinations to see which ones work well together and which ones end up turning muddy.

At the end of it I will have a number of pieces that I can either make into abstracts or small paintings depending on the results, some may be trash.

Dusk 4

I will post my experiments over the next couple of days and then at a later date post the end result.













Dusk 5



















Dusk 6

Granite Cliffs 1 - A Work in Progress

I wanted to work on something with rocks and I brought out this piece that I worked on earlier this year (see posts on 05 November 2016 and 05 February 2017).

Using various mixtures of burnt sienna, raw sienna, alizarin crimson and French ultramarine blue I painted the granite cliffs and the various rocks and boulders in the water.















I will post this painting at a later date once I have painted the in the lake and rock reflections.