Hooves - A Work in Progress

Today while waiting for the blacksmith to arrive to trim up my horses' feet I thought I may as well do some sketching of my horses in this case their hooves.










I will post these sketches at a later date once they have been completed.

Glass Bottles - A Work in Progress

In one of the Still Life classes at KAGS last month we had an amazing collection of glass bottles from which to choose.

I did a small section of the bottles which had at least one of every colour that was available. I also have reference sketches and photographs of the rest of the bottles and I may do a couple more paintings later.

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

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

OSWOA - Reeds 2

This is a piece I started during the summer (see post on 09 July 2012) and decided to work on today since I really didn't feel like going outside and playing in the cold.














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 Winsor & Newton paint on 300lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $30.00 and sold unframed.

ACEO - Christmas Snow 1

In less than three weeks it will be Christmas and I wanted to do a painting of snow falling on a pine tree forest.

I used masking fluid and splattered it across the paper and set it aside to dry.

Once it had dried I noticed that there was a large blob of masking fluid that was just too large to be a snowflake, so I removed it from the paper.














Using Antwerp blue, alizarin crimson and French ultramarine blue I brushed in the sky and added water to the sky colour to make it paler I brushed in some shadows onto the snow.

I added a little raw sienna to the sky colour and painted in the distant trees on the horizon.

Now it was time to paint in the trees.














Using a mixture of French ultramarine blue and raw sienna the main branches were painted.

Burnt sienna was added to the green mi and some darker branches and needles were added.

After setting it aside to dry before I could remove the masking fluid I decided that the painting needed a few more trees.














Using the same green mix and put in another large tree into the foreground, added two trees into the background on the left side and one more into the right side.

After it had dried I removed the masking from the painting to show the snowflakes. I added some growies into the base of the large trees using Antwerp blue and cadmium yellow.














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

Amarylis - A Work in Progress

Today is the second last still life class of the year at KAGS, and with only half of the class being able to be here we decided to use things that were in the building.

We used one of the pots of Amaryllis that were decorating the Gallery and found a number of bowls, cups and a copper kettle to place on a mirror for our display.

I couldn't decide if I wanted to do a vertical painting to include the Amaryllis or to do a horizontal one of just a few of the many items that were available. In the end I did a drawing of each one and I will post the other after I have put down at least some of the under painting.

I did a fair amount of the under painting on this vertical piece, but I am still not very happy with the results. Who knows, perhaps with a little more work on it and some correcting of things that I can see are wrong, I may change my mind.

I will post this painting at a later date once more of it is finished.

Buckhorn Artists' Group Blog - Show Updates

I have updated the Buckhorn Artists' Group blog with a listing of shows some of the various artists in the Group are exhibiting their work in during the month of December.

If you get a chance come out and visit them at one or all of the shows.

Sweet and Sour - A Work in Progress

This was an interesting exercise with cut crystal candy dishes, decanters, vases, glasses, fruit, foil wrapped chocolate, pine boughs, winter berries and poinsettia all reflected into a mirror.

I chose to do a small corner of the entire display, using the two candy dishes, some of the chocolate and the lemons and pears.

There is still a lot more work to do on this painting, especially all the details on the cut crystal which is going to take a lot of thought before I start working on that. I will post this at a later date once more of it has been completed.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.