ACEO - Flower Bed 4-6

With these paintings I sprinkled water onto the paper and dropped various colours of paint onto the paper and let the paint move on the paper.














Flower Bed 4

As the paper dries I went back into the paintings adding a few more details to the flowers and leaves.

When the paintings were almost dry I went in with a fine brush and some green and painted in a few more detailed flower stems and growies.

Later I have to go to The Lindsay Gallery and pick up my artwork from the Juried Show and then go and sit at the Kawartha Artists' Gallery for the People, Places and Things Show from 1-4pm today.


Flower Bed 5 SOLD

If you would like more information about ACEO please go to my post on 11 March 2010.













Flower Bed 6

The ACEO shown here are all original watercolour paintings using Artist quality Winsor & Newton paint on 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. They are priced at $20.00 each and sold unframed.

Free Flow

Today was a day that I felt like experimenting with combining various different media and seeing what they would do when mixed together.

I was using combinations of chalk pastel, watercolour and acrylic paint on 7" x 10” Arches 140 lb. watercolour paper.














This is one of six mixed media paintings I was working on today and is available framed for $185.00. I will post the others as I finish them.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.

Buckhorn Artists' Group Blog - JoAnne Connell Northey

I have posted the biography of another member of the Buckhorn Artists' Group,JoAnne Connell Northey to the blog as well as an example of her artwork.

Open Fields

Occasionally I have had the opportunity to go with my husband, Ron in his transport and I was able to make sketches and take pictures of various places throughout North America.

I am always amazed by the differences in the landscape a few hundred miles will make as we go across Ontario.









From here in the Kawarthas, with its rolling landscape and many lakes, as you head west and the land flattens out to where it seems almost as though you are going through the prairies of western Canada.

This is an original 4-1/2" x 10-1/2” framed, watercolour for $225.00.

Thank you for looking at my artwork.

Spray - A Work in Progress

This is one of three paintings I started with the surf crashing against rock.

The main rock shape was lightly sketched in and the white surf crashing against the rock was masked out. Some of the masking fluid was splattered over the paper to keep areas of spray white.

The sky was painted using a mixture of French ultramarine blue, and Antwerp blue. The shadows on the undersides of the clouds are both blues with a touch of burnt sienna added to grey the colour slightly.















The ocean was painted in using various mixtures of both blues and burnt sienna to create the waves. Then the painting was set aside to dry completely.

The masking fluid was removed. The base colour of the rocks was painted and colour was lifted using a palette knife. I will have to go back in and do more work on the rocks as I am not satisfied with them.

I will post this painting again as more work on it is completed.

Sunrise on the Lake - A Work in Progress

This is a painting I had started back in April (see post on 20 April 10) when I was working on my submission for the "Art of the Turtle" which was a fund raiser for the Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre.

This is the first painting I started which looked more like a lake than a pond for the turtle so I restarted that painting and set this one aside.

I have added more colour into the sky and worked on the rocks and water. I haven't decided whether I am going to add a sailboat into the painting or some reeds and a heron. So it is back to the drawing board and making the sketches to see which would look better.

I will post this painting once I have added the main figures into the painting.















The dog show is proving to be very interesting and I have many sketches for working on during the winter months. I also have a number of commissions for dog portraits resulting from the Eastern Ontario Labrador Breeders Association 10th Anniversary Specialty Show and the Limestone Kennel Club Show.

I would like to thank new collector Marita A. Boyd of Ottawa, Ont. on her purchase of Run Appaloosa Run (see post on 04 February 2010).

Also congratulations to Al and Joanne Fernall of Norwood, Ont. for selecting The Hunter (see post on 26 April 2010) as an addition to their art collection. If you would like to see some of their wonderful Labs follow the link to Devonsleigh Kennels. That is where my daughter got her dog Can. Ch. Shanbro's Charisma affectionately known as "Sully".

Home - A Work in Progress

Everything is set up here in Kingston and I have been enjoying the Eastern Ontario Labrador Breeders Association 10th Anniversary Specialty Show and the Limestone Kennel Club Dog Show.

It seems everywhere I look there are images which would be ideal as paintings, so I am doing many rough sketches before I lose the idea as well as taking a lot of photographs of the different breeds of dogs.

This is a painting of my farm very early in the morning just as the sun is starting to come up over the distant hills on the other side of the Snelgrove Brook. Nothing has disturbed the freshly fallen snow from the night before.








The painting is about half finished. I have to paint the house and have to decide whether I would like to have a light on in the kitchen window. Then there are a few more details that need to be added to the barns.

Not a lot of the track shows with all the snow covering the ground when you look at the house from the far turn on the track. There are still a number of trees along the edge of the track that have to be added which will give a little more depth to the painting as well as adding the growies that are in the infield and tall enough to stick up out of the snow.

I will post this later after doing more work on this piece.