ACEO - Peach Sky 5

Last year I started a number of paintings using opaque watercolour paint (see post on 07 December 2016) and today I wanted to finish this piece.

I liked the sky and wanted to keep most of it untouched so I decided to use some of the green at the bottom of the painting as the background for a row of trees. 

Using a mix of burnt sienna and French ultramarine blue I painted in the tree trunks and main branches; this was followed by adding the foliage with a green of lemon yellow and Antwerp blue. 














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

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.

Shades of Grey - A Work in Progress

I had started this piece by doing a demonstration of clouds for someone who needed some help with them and it sat for quite a while, until recently when I drew in a line of winter trees along a fence line.

It is going to be a winter scene with some grasses poking through the snow and perhaps a few scattered leaves on top of the snow.













I have to decide if I am going to use masking fluid or salt to create the snowflakes.

I will post this painting again after more work on the sky and background has been completed.

West Barn I - A Work in Progress

I want to keep trying to do some art each day, although sometimes I find it to be very tiring even after a short time.

I picked this sketch that I started a number of years ago (see post on 13 June 2013) when I had a paint out at my farm.

I wanted to get the front of the barn balanced and at the right angle.














After a couple of tries and things not coming together I decided to stop before I wreck the sketch.

It does get very frustrating when things don't go as planned, but tomorrow is another day and things should be better.

I will post this drawing at a later date once I get the correct perspective on the barn.

Snow Storm 1 - A Work in Progress

Today I wanted to get more of this painting closer to completion (see post on 23 Oct 2016).

First I wet the top third of the painting with water and using a mixture of cobalt blue and burnt sienna I indicated a few trees in the background of the left side of the paper.















While the paper was drying I brushed a small amount of water across the centre of the paper and with a slightly darker mix of the same colours I put in the closer trees adding a little more detail than those in the background.

I will post this painting at a later date once I have finished the foreground.

Moonlight Island - A Work in Progress

Today as I continue to work in acrylic paint I wanted to get this canvas that I had started a couple of years ago (see post on 19 October 2015) a little closer to finally being finished.

I started by using titanium white and brushed in a few thin clouds into the dark sky.

Adding a small amount of ultramarine blue and burnt sienna to the white I painted in the tree trunks and put down a base coat for the rocks of the island and the rock reflections in the water.

From there I added the needles onto the branches of the trees using various combinations of ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, raw sienna and Hansa yellow.

I kept the brighter colours on the moonlit side of the pines and brushed a mid-tone green into the water for the tree reflections.

Using the white I touched a few highlights into the water and on the tops of the rocks.

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

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

September - A Work in Progress

It was going to be a miserable, with the temperature at 14F (-10C) and just under 1/2" (10mm) of ice accretion to accumulate over the course of the day I decided that I would like to work on some of my acrylic paintings which had been started a number of years ago (see post on 03 October 2010).

First I mixed some of the background greens with ultramarine blue and raw sienna and covered the areas where the tape had lifted the background.

I darkened the colour with burnt sienna and more of the blue and added in a couple more pine trees to the right of the large one.

Next I added a small amount of titanium white to lighten the colour slightly and added a few more pines on the right side of the painting.

With burnt sienna I put in the middle area where a path runs through the forest.

Using raw sienna I put in some dead grasses below the trees and into the foreground on the left side.

Using various mixtures of Hansa yellow and cadmium red I scattered some leaves across the ground.

Using the white I added a couple of birch trees in front of the pines and the dark mix to add the markings onto the trunks.

Lastly, I used Hansa yellow and raw sienna for the leaves on the birches.

I am not happy with this piece and I will post this painting again at a later date once I have made a number of changes.

Sunset Lake 1 - A Work in Progrerss

With the morning temperatures starting off at 9F (-13C) and the wind chill making it feel like -8F (-22C) I didn't envy Christine doing the barn chores.

While looking out the patio doors in the living room, I was pleased to see my North American Kestrels for the first time this year. It is nice to know that they will once again be nesting in the box we made and put on the south side of the house for them.

I wanted to do some painting and pulled out this one that I had started a couple of years ago (see post on 27 April 2015), and drew in an island into the foreground with a few pine trees.

I started by using cobalt blue into the top of the sky and then brushed it into the bottom of the painting for the reflected colour in the lake. This was followed by alizarin crimson into the middle area of the sky and into the middle of the lake lastly I brushed aureolin into the remaining areas of sky and lake.















Next I used a mix of burnt sienna and new gamboge and painted the trees along the horizon line on the far shore.

I mixed a dark grey using French ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson and burnt sienna and painted in the rocks of the island followed by the reflections into the water beneath them.

As I was starting to paint the pine trees onto the island in the foreground some of my friends dropped by to see how I was doing and we had an enjoyable time discussing various places the outdoor painters could visit for their paint outs later this year.

Once my company left I didn't have a lot of time to do any work on this painting, so I put it away and will post it at a later date once it has been completed.