OSWOA - Winter Trees 7

We haven't had a lot of snow this year and in some ways I miss the blanket of white covering the ground.

This is a painting of what winters are normally like with snow trapped in the branches of the trees.

The OSWOA shown here is an original watercolour painting using Artist quality Windsor & Newton paint on 300lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $30.00 and sold unframed.

If you would like more information about OSWOA please go to my post on 12 March 2010.

ACEO - Midsummer Day 1

This is one of the many inlets on Chemong Lake near the Selwyn Conservation Area.

It is a quiet and peaceful area and offers great fishing if you are relaxing on a boat or casting from shore.

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 Windsor & Newton paint on 300lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $20.00 and sold unframed.

Grey Skies - Two Works in Progress

Today I worked on preparing a couple of backgrounds for snow scenes, even though there hasn't been much snow on the ground this year to inspire them.













Grey Sky 1

For the first one I used a flat wash of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna.














Grey Sky 2

For the second one I used the same colours but slightly paler and added a little alizarin crimson to make it seem like an early morning sky.

These paintings will be posted at a later date.

Shades of Autumn - A Work in Progress

This is a painting I started a while ago and it seems that I take it out once a year to work on again (see posts on 12 December 10 and 13 January 11).

I decided that it was time to start working on some of the foreground trees. I managed to get one tree almost completed when I had unexpected company arrive.

Hopefully, this time it won't be next year before I can get back to working on this painting again. It just needs a little more detail on the rock face and another foreground tree or two to complete the painting.

I will post it at a later date.

Barron Canyon - A Work in Progress

I am gradually working on paintings for the show at the Visitors' Centre in Algonquin Park later this year. This one is a painting of a section of the Barron Canyon.

There are two ways to enjoy the Barron Canyon. If you enjoy hiking you can take the approximately 1 mile (1.5 km) loop called the Barron Canyon Trail that takes you along the top of the north rim of the breath taking, 328 foot (100m) high Barron Canyon before returning to the parking lot.

The other way is by canoe, which can be accessed from either the Bingham Lake Parking Lot and/or the Barron River Parking Lot. Viewing from the water and looking up the Barron Canyon walls takes on a whole new perspective.

Regardless whether one is standing and looking over the unfenced cliff's edge downward or those in canoes looking up, people will appear tiny against the magnificence of the Barron Canyon walls.

Once I have completed more work on this painting I will post it at a later date.

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

Queen Conch - A Work in Progress

With the theme for yesterday's Still Life class being things that could be found on a beach; I decided that I would like to work on one of the Queen Conch shells that I have in my collection.

I think it is fitting that I continue to do more work using items that could be found in the Caribbean, especially since I am in the process of making a submission to The Lindsay Art Gallery to have a show there next year with Carol Rutherford. The show will be called "Above and Below the Reef".

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

On the Beach - A Work in Progress

Today it was my turn to bring in the subject matter for the Still Life class at KAGS and the theme was the Beach.

With having visited various islands in the Caribbean I had many things to bring in that could be found on almost any beach. A wide variety of seashells, a sand crab, colourful beach cover ups, floppy brimmed sunhats, tanning oils, sunscreen, seagulls, a treasure chest filled with beach jewellery and even a bottle of rum.

It was a good thing that the display was set up to allow people to go completely around the table rather than putting up a backdrop and having the people crowded together with just one side being available.

Today we had the largest number of artists attend the Still Life class ever. It was nice to see more people taking an interest once they found that it was a lot of different themes rather than just traditional still life.

I did a sketch of one corner of the display complete with seagull, beach hat, cover up and of course a bottle of rum.

As I complete more of this painting I will post it at a later date.