Cobourg Waterfront Festival

Today is the first day of the Lions Club Art Show which is a part of the Cobourg Waterfront Festival














The show is held on the shores of Lake Ontario which on any warm summer day attracts a large crowd to the sandy beaches and today was no exception.


















With the bright sunshine it was nice that we had a breeze to keep the high heat and humidity away. Many of the people who came out to the beach for the day also come to visit the art show.

Waves

Today we hung the paintings at the Cobourg Waterfront Festival.

I just hope that this show won't be as hot and humid as the Signs of Spring show in May.

While having lunch on the beach I did this little sketch of the waves on Lake Ontario.

This original 3" x 7" pen and ink drawing is available matted and shrink wrapped for $25.00.

Last Day of Unfolding Show

Today I am sitting the last day of the Unfolding Show at KAGS. The show was well attended with a number of paintings sold.















While at the Gallery I worked on this painting of a seagull taking off from a rock on the shore of a lake. I was still remembering the seagulls taking flight from yesterday. I changed the time of day to the afternoon using French ultramarine blue for the sky and added a little burnt sienna for the rocks.










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

Morning Flight

I was up early this morning and went for a walk along the lake. The sunrise had turned the sky shades of pink and blue.

During the course of my walk I spooked a number of seagulls that had been resting on one of the docks. I watched them as they took flight and noticed how the white of their under bodies stood out against the morning sky.










When I returned home I thought it fitting to do try and capture what I could remember of their morning flight.

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

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

Red Hot Pokers

I was sitting the Figuratively Speaking Show at KAGS today and while at the front desk I was working on a number of small floral paintings.

This one is of Kniphofia 'Shenandoah'  also called Tritoma, Red hot poker, Torch lily or Poker plant and is from a family of plants that includes over 70 species native to Africa.

These tall, dramatic plants produce thick, leafless stems topped with spikes of upright, tubular flowers that are set among sword shape leaves. The brilliantly colored flowers are red on top changing through orange to yellow at bottom; which is why they are given names such as "torch" and "red hot poker".

The flowers when they appear in early summer produce nectar which will attract hummingbirds and butterflies into the garden.

This original 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" framed watercolour is available for $125.00.

Moonlit Waves

This is one of three paintings I started a while ago (see posting on 23 Jan 2011).









I added in the sky with a darker mixture of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna. The foreground was then brushed in with a slightly lighter mixture of the sky colour as wet beach sand.

This 4" x 10-1/4" original watercolour painting when framed will be available for $125.00.

Autumn Maple

I pulled out a number of paintings that I had started a while ago (see posting on 16 January 2011) and decided that I would work on this one.

I painted in the main trunk of the tree first with mixtures of browns and greys and set it aside to dry.

Then I wet the area where I wanted to place the rest of the autumn leaves and using a sponge and various mixtures of new gamboge, aureolin, alizarin crimson, cadmium red and cadmium yellow added the colour.

This original 10" x 11" watercolour painting when framed will be available for $245.00.