Glass Bottles 1 and 2 - Two Works in Progress

Last month I worked on a painting of bottles (see posting on 09 December 2012) from the Still Life class at KAGS.

I had also started a couple of sketches of some of the various bottles and these are two of those sketches that I have recently finished and are ready for me to start painting.


Glass Bottles 1

The first is of pale coloured glass bottles, one a pale pink, one a pale blue and the last is of clear glass with a very slight yellow tint.

The second sketch is of clear glass, an old milk bottle, and antique canning jar and a cut class decanter. It will be interesting to see how the background cloths transfer through the glass containers.

I will post each of these paintings again at a later date once I have completed some of the bottles.


Glass Bottles 2

A Moment in Time - A Work in Progress

The theme for the Still life class at KAGS today was time pieces.

A number of old clocks were brought in by various members of the group and I brought in my Grandfather's pocket watch. The only thing we were missing was a Cuckoo clock.

I chose one small section of the display that had a lovely reflection of the red mug on an ornate wooden table.













The box the pocket watch is resting on needs to be corrected as the perspective is off. I will post this painting at a later date when more of it is completed.

In the afternoon I sat upstairs at the gallery and sold two paintings that were on display; one of which as mine.

I would like to thank new collector Mrs. Janet Skrepnek of Lakefield, Ontario on her purchase of Winter Breeze (see post 04 June 2012).

Silent Cedars - A Work in Progress

This is a scene I often see in the winter when I am able to go out for a walk through the fields before the snow becomes too deep and I need to put on snow shoes if I want to stay on top of the snow instead of breaking through it.

I masked out the fence rails and a few tree branches and leaves with liquid friskit and while I was waiting for it to dry I mixed the paint for the sky.

Since this painting is on a full sheet of watercolour paper a fair amount of paint needed to be mixed in order to paint the sky.  In one saucer I mixed a large pool of pure French ultramarine blue and then did the same for Antwerp blue in another saucer.














First I wet the paper with water and then painted in the top of the sky with ultramarine blue being careful to leave a few areas of the white of the paper to show for clouds, as I moved down through the sky I mixed Antwerp blue with the ultramarine blue and allowed the colours to mix together on the paper for a soft transition between the colours.

I still have a lot more work to do on this painting and I will post it at a later date.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.

Galloping Pair - A Work in Progress

Today I was just doodling on some small pieces of paper while I watched the horses through the studio window bucking and kicking around the paddock.











I ended up with this little drawing and I will post it at a later date once I have it painted.

Rock Beauty - A Work in Progress

Now that the sponges ate completed I wanted to add the plants and soft coral that grow on the rock faces of the reef.














Most of the soft corals are in various shades of soft greens, yellow and buff. It seems that the sponges and harder corals are the ones that are more brightly coloured.














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

Autumn Forest 1 - A Work in Progress

I wanted to do some painting today even though I didn't have a lot of time to do much work, so I pulled this painting out that I had started a while ago (see posts on 16 October 2011 and 18 December 2012).

I added a little more yellow and orange into the tree tops in the painting and first and from there started at the bottom give some definition to the rocks.

The last thing I did before I ran out of time was to start painting in the trunk of one of the foreground maple trees.

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

Execuspective Show at KAGS

This is the poster for the Execuspective Show at KAGS which features one of my paintings (see post on 04 June 2012). The show opens tomorrow from 1-4pm.






















Everyone is welcome to come out and join us and enjoy the show.