Background 90-92

Yesterday, after painting with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painting Group, I used the leftover acrylic paint on extra canvases that I always bring with me to use as background or under paint.















Background 90

For the first canvas I applied more of the manganese blue with the lighter greens made with the cadmium yellow.















Background 91

For the next one I used various combinations of the greens and yellows.















Background 91

On the last canvas I applied the remaining paint.

Moonlit Evening - A Work in Progress

Today I was painting with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painting Group at St. Matthews Church in Buckhorn, Ontario.

I decided to paint with acrylic paint for a change instead of watercolours as usual. I brought a couple of background canvases with me and started by using Background 51 (see post on 16 October 2015).

First I lightly indicated with a pencil, some trees in the distance on the right side of the painting.















This was followed by putting in the main pine tree on the left side of the painting.

I wanted to do the large pine tree first and put in the tree trunk with a mix of ultramarine blue and burnt sienna.

From there I started painting the needles onto the tree branches using various mixtures of ultramarine blue, manganese blue, cerulean blue, raw sienna and cadmium yellow.

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

ACEO - Pink Sky 2

Today I wanted to finish a painting and I picked this one that I had worked on for a few years (see posts on 16 October 2016, 14 May 2017 and 05 January 2018).

I started by mixing a variety of greens using French ultramarine blue, Antwerp blue, new gamboge, raw sienna and burnt sienna.

Beginning with the centre pine tree I applied a medium green for the first layer of needles and worked from the top of the tree to the branches at the bottom.

I repeated this process on the pine trees on either side of the first pine tree.

Using a darker green, I put in the shadows throughout the needles on each of the three pine trees this was followed by applying a light green on the ends of the pine needles on all the trees.

With a dark of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna, I put in the tree trunks and branches to the pine trees and added a couple of dead pine trees.

Grasses were added around the base of the tree trunks with raw sienna and lastly, with one of the greens reflections were put into the water below the island.

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.

2019 Spring Show at A Place for the Arts

Today I went to my first meeting with the A Place for the Arts Group who exhibit their work at 23 Bridge Street West, in Bancroft, Ontario.

It is also the first time I will see how my paintings were hung in the Gallery they are located.

Since I wasn't able to be there to hang my exhibit I had set them out in a horizontal format at home, not realizing that my space was vertical.

Jane did an excellent job of hanging the paintings in the space that I had available.

The meeting was quite interesting in that they are also a not-for-profit and a co-operative gallery, very much like the Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio.

They are a smaller group having around 40 members and each member is required to sit one day per month whether or not they display any artwork.

The Gallery is open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Wednesday through to Sunday and closed on Monday and Tuesday.

My first shift will be next month and I will have another member there with me at the beginning of my shift to show me the ropes. 

I think I am going to enjoy being a member of this art group.

Autumn Rapids

Today I saw my first Robin on the front lawn; although I have seen them a number of them at the bottom of the front field for almost a month.

I thought that I would work with acrylic paint today and pulled out this painting that I had started quite some time ago (see posts on 11 October 2010 and 21 February 2017).

The mass of trees in the distance was just too solid a colour and I decided to add a few more trees into the background.















Using ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and raw sienna I added a few trees into the background between the maple trees on the right side of the painting as well as a few dark colours into the background between the maples and the birches..

This original 16" x 20” acrylic painting when framed will be available for $425.00.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.

Stainless Steel Trio - A Work in Progress

This is another of the sketches I did in the Still Life class yesterday at KAGS.

I picked three of the pieces, in this case the percolator, the tea pot and the metal cup.















The drawing still needs more work and I will post it at a later date once it is completed.

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

Group of Seven 1 - A Work in Progress

Today I am at the Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio all day. In the morning I was in the Still Life class where the theme was Coffee or Tea?

There were two different displays. The first display featured a tea cup and saucer, a coffee mug, a creamer, small clay teapot, a stainless steel milk warmer, silver spoons and napkins.

The second display was mostly made up of various stainless steel mugs, cups, a tea pot, a coffee percolator and there was a china tea cup and a couple of clay mugs.














I started at the right side of the display and gradually worked my way drawing the various pieces as I progressed to the left side of the arrangement.

I left out some of the cups and mugs where only a small piece of them could be seen and would detract from the drawing by making it look very busy.

More work needs to be done to the drawing, before I am happy with it and I will post this piece at a later date once the drawing has been completed.