Grazing 1 - A Work in Progress

We are starting to turn the horses out for a short while each day into the pasture to get them used to the new grass.

Today I was experimenting with making grasses using the side of my round brush on dry paper.

The effect is interesting and I will post this painting at a later date once I have more of it completed.

Roses 1 - A Work in Progress

This is a painting of one of the red orange hybrid tea roses that I started last year while I was at the Garden Routes Tour.

The first layer of paint was put on the two smaller petals and on the underside of the centre bloom and into the base of the centre of the bloom.

The first wash of green was put on the calyx and stem of the rose bud. Then the second layer of colour was put into the base of the centre of the bloom and on the underside of the centre bloom.

A second layer of paint was put on the stem and the shadows on the calyx. I put the first layer of under painting on the two large petals.

Then the third layer was put on the underside of the centre bloom and the dark shadows were added onto the large petal beneath it.

The next layer of colour was put on the underside of the bloom's far large petal and once dry the third layer of paint was put on the petal.

I will post this painting at a later date once more if it has been completed.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.

Monkey Shines - A Work in Progress

Today I was painting with the Creative Arts Guild in Lakefield (see postings on 27 March 2012 and 08 May 2012).

I finished the few brushes in the jar I had missed painting last week when I was with the Buckhorn Group and started on the brushes that were lying on the block of watercolour paper.

Much of the time today at class was for discussion about the upcoming "Artists in Bloom Show" which will be held at St. John the Baptist Anglican Church in Lakefield, Ontario on 02 June 2012.

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

OSWOA - European Evening I

This is another piece I started in the Doug Mays Workshop earlier this month.

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

The OSWOA shown here is an original watercolour painting using Artist quality Windsor & Newton paint on 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $40.00 and sold unframed.

ACEO - Pond 1

This is a worm's eye view of a pond filled with koi on a farm not very far away from me.

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 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $20.00 and sold unframed.

Horse Sketches VIII - A Work in Progress

I took a sketch book down to the barn with me today and did a couple of sketches of the horses.

Unfortunately the cats were very interested in what I was doing and insisted on trying to help me draw.















I will try again another day and will post this sketch when I feel it is finished.

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

Guitar - A Work in Progress

Today was the last of the Still Life classes at KAGS until we start back up on 13 September 2012 and our theme will be musical instruments again.

We had a guitar, a mandolin and a tambourine as our musical instruments today along with sheet music, and the mandolin case.

I tried sketching the still life composition a number of times and wasn't successful with getting the angles correct; so I chose to work on one section of the guitar, at least that way I would have something to show for my time.

I liked the strong contrast of the dark opening with the light strings picking up the light and the white highlights cutting across the polished wood of the guitar.

It is a little part of the entire still life composition but once finished I think it will be an interesting little painting.