Take Time To... - A Work in Progress

I had started the drawing for this painting last year (see post on 17 February 2012).

Using a mix of French ultramarine blue and Antwerp blue I painted in the sky.

The background trees were painted first using greens made from French ultramarine blue, raw sienna and Antwerp blue.






















Then the pasture was brushed in and some areas where I would put more defined grasses in the foreground were indicated.

Once the paint was dry I removed the masking fluid.

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

Morning Lake - A Work in Progress

Today is the last day of the Gary Chapman workshop.

This is another early morning scene but in a long horizontal format. Once again we used a limited palette of three colours, in this instance Prussian blue, Cadmium red and raw sienna.








There are a lot more things to be added to this painting before it is complete and I will post it again at a later date.

Cascade - A Work in Progress

Today is the second day of the Gary Chapman workshop held out at Six Foot Bay in Buckhorn, Ontario.

Rather than working on the traditional watercolour paper this morning's piece was worked on watercolour canvas.















Again we worked with a limited palette of three colours; Antwerp blue, permanent rose, and Windsor yellow.

There are still a number of things to do before this painting is completed and I will post this piece at a later date.

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.