Northern Winter

Yesterday I painted with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painters Group and on the way home ran into freezing rain and today the overcast weather has given us hail and sleet.

I thought it fitting to do a winter scene with a hawk flying; especially since my little Sparrow Hawks that nest under the eaves of the house have returned.










This original, 4-1/2" x 9-1/4" framed watercolour is available for $225.00.

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

Winter Scene 3

It seems that even though it is spring, winter just doesn't want to let go and continues to either snow, sleet or hail.

Today I painted with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painters Group and finished this little pen and ink scene of birches in winter.

This original 4" x 4" painting when framed will be available for $65.00.

Logging I

Even though we have had a very mild winter draft horses in many places are still used to skid logs out of the forest.















This is a drawing of my father and two of the logging horses he worked with back in the early 1940's in the logging camps of Quebec.

Once framed this original 5" x 6" pen and ink drawing will be available for $125.00.

Cloud Layers

I am trying to finish a lot of paintings that I have partially finished and then have just new works. This is a painting I had started last year (see post on 29 May 11).

I darkened the sky down a little to make the clouds stand out a little more.

Trying to keep it fairly simple I added a lone pine tree into the foreground.

This original 4" x 5-1/4" watercolour painting when framed will be available for $95.00.

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

Autumn Forest

This is another painting I had started last year while in Magnetawan and wanted to finish (see post on 02 October 2011).

Most of the work needed to be in the background. I added a few tree trunks and some orange leaves to break up the sky and the solid mass of green on the left side.

The foreground pine needed to have a little more work done on its branches.

This original 3-1/4" x 4" when framed will be available for $95.00.

Autumn Colours

I decided to work on something new today but wanted to keep with the autumn theme.

I chose an early morning sky when the yellows and golds of the sky add more colours to the autumn leaves and make the coniferous trees seem a little darker.

Once the background trees had been painted in, the foreground was much too dark so I went in with a little bit of China white and painted in the birch tree trunks.

Then using opaque colours such as lemon yellow, cadmium yellow light, cadmium yellow deep and cadmium red light I painted in the brightly coloured yellows and oranges of the leaves.

This original 5" x 6" watercolour when framed will be available for $130.00.

Autumn Reflections

Today I have to go and help set up the Peterborough Garden Show at the Evinrude Centre, 911 Monaghan Road, Peterborough Ontario.

The show will run from this evening through to Saturday at 4pm.

I had started this one late last year (see post on 08 December 11). I thought it a little bland with no strong contrasts to create interest.

I added the darker tress and placed some of the stronger colour behind a few of the birch trees to make them stand out a little more.

I then added the darker colour into the reflections in the water and added a wash of burnt sienna over some areas of the water for a little more interest.

When framed, this original watercolour painting will be available for $130.00.