Coffee Pot - A Work in Progress

With today being Christmas Day I didn't have a lot of time to paint.

I seem to be on a camp fire theme and today I started a painting with the coffee pot sitting at the edge of the camp fire on one of the fire pit rocks keeping the coffee warm for the next person who would like a refill.

A lot of this scene you will just have to use your imagination on until I get back to doing more work on it. I will post it at a later date.

I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.

Campfire - A Work in Progress

It will be quite a while before it warms up enough to go out camping.

What I enjoy the most about camping is getting away from everyone and being able to just relax by the water or sit around a campfire without having to listen to people shouting, dogs barking and the whine of boat engines.

I will post this painting later once I decide how many people I want around the camp site.

Flickering Flames - A Work in Progress

I started this painting along with Water Lily Reflections (see posting on 06 September 10) and Yellow Water Lilies (see posting on 07 September 10).

I added darker colour to the left side of the fire near the bottom for more contrast against the red and yellow.

Using new gamboge and aureolin I brightened up some of the flames.

I have to decide where I am going to indicate some of the wood beneath the fire as well as how much detail I want to have in the flames.

I will post this painting again once it is completed.

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

Storm Command

Storm Command never made it as a race horse, but he did make a name for himself as an all around English horse and was often found in the dressage ring, in hunter/jumper classes or in the season out in the field following the hounds.

This is an original 5" x 7” framed pen and ink study of a Standardbred foal and is available for $85.00. SOLD

Tumbling Water - A Work in Progress

Today is the winter solstice and fittingly it is another cold day, but at least it isn't snowing.

I spent the afternoon sitting the Christmas Show at KAGS. As usual while I am there I am painting; today was no exception.

I lightly drew in where I wanted the paper left white for the waterfall.

For the rock faces I mixed different combinations of colour using Antwerp blue, French ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, raw sienna and alizarin crimson. These were put into various areas throughout the rest of the painting. Using a palette knife I scraped out the rock cliffs on each side of the waterfall.

I used a mixture of French ultramarine blue and Antwerp blue to indicate the motion of the water in the falls.

I started to paint trees into the background and while the paint was still wet scraped out some pale dead trees with the brush handle.

With a dark of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna I painted in a few dark tree trunks.

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

Quiet Place

Quiet Place is an original 9" x 13” framed watercolour.

This is the same fishing hole as Morning Light (see yesterday's posting), only in the late afternoon.

Now I have to head out to the LindsayGallery and take down my paintings from the Christmas art show.

Tonight I will spend the evening wrapping gifts for Christmas.

This painting is in the collection of Buckhorn Yacht Harbour Ltd. of Lakefield, Ontario.

Morning Light

This is an original 10" x 13-1/2” framed watercolour.

This is one of the best fishing holes for large and small mouth bass on Chemong Lake. It is near the channel marker for Pigeon Lake.

I have been there and seen it in all kinds of weather and at just about any time of day or night.

Congratulations to Mr. Bill Lowcock of Lakefield, Ontario on his selection of this painting for his collection.

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