Dawn Mist - A Work in Progress

Today is the first day of a three day workshop with Gary Chapman. The morning painting was of a sunrise on the lake with the mist rising.













Three colours were used in this painting; Antwerp blue, raw sienna and cadmium red. The under painting is in place and I will have to do more work on it before it is finished.

I will post this painting at a later date.

Lazy River 1-3 - Three Works in Progress

Today I am painting with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painting Group at St. Matthews Church.

I pulled out these three paintings that I had started quite a while ago (see post on 23 December 2011).

The background was a little on the wishy washy side so I decided I would try and have at least that completely finished today.

Using pure raw sienna, I applied a layer over the background trees.

Lazy River 1

This was done to each of the three paintings, being careful to leave the grass below the treeline untouched.

By the time the last painting had the raw sienna applied to the background hills the first painting was dry.

I mixed and orange of raw sienna, burnt sienna and a little alizarin crimson and painted in the slightly closer trees, being careful to allow some of the raw sienna to show at the top and in a few places throughout the background hills.

Lazy River 2

This was repeated on each of the paintings. Once again the first painting was dry and I was ready to add the next layer of colour onto the first painting.

I used the orange mix and added some cadmium red and added it into the background. 

The first panting had only a small amount of this colour leaving a lot of the background showing through.

In the second painting the background was closer so a little more of the last bright orange was added.

Lazy River 3

In the last painting I wanted more of the orange and placing it much like leaves on a tree.

I will post each of these paintings at a later date once more work on them has been completed.

Beauty on the Beach - A Work in Progress

This is another sketch of two conch shells on a beach, which was done last month (see post on 05 May 2013 for the first) in the still life class at KAGS.















I will post this at a later date once I started painting the shells.

Beauty on the Shore - A Work in Progress

This is the first of three sketches of seashells that was started last month during the still life at KAGS.















I will post this piece once I have finished the sketch and started to apply paint.

Bottles and Daffodils - A Work in Progress

This is a painting that was started last month in one of the Still Life classes at KAGS. It was an interesting display with a large assortment of bottles to choose from.

I started this small section with the three oil filled bottles and the daffodil in the background with the colour of the bright yellow pot showing through the glass.

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

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

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 May.

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

Clothing - A Work in Progress

Today at KAGS the theme for the Still Life class was clothing.

We had an assortment of clothes, a denim shirt hanging off the end of a wooden chair with a crocheted hat hanging off the opposite end of the same chair and a plaid work jacket lying on the floor.

In the background there was a camouflage jumpsuit, hanging beside the brightly coloured beach wrap and top. There was also a simple grey sleeveless dress beside a leather biker jacket.

The folds created interesting shadows across the materials.

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

Thank you for looking at my artwork.