Winter Stream - A Work in Progress

This is another painting I had started quite a while ago and I recently found while going through some old boxes.

I think I will have to go through more of these boxes that I have stored in a number of places throughout the house and I will probably find all the other paintings that I have been looking for they were put them in a safe place.

There are at least a dozen more of these early acrylic paintings and I would like to finish.

The background on this one is complete as are the larger trees. More work will need to be done to the evergreens behind the trees as well as adding a few growies to the far bank.

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

OSWOA - Prairie Storm 1

Today I thought I would complete this painting that I had started last year (see post on 17 July 2012).

Using various mixtures of burnt sienna and raw sienna I added the stalks and leaves of the grain crop into the field.

While the foreground was drying I lightly pulled out the lightning in the sky with an exacto knife.














With a mixture of burnt sienna and raw sienna and using a flat bristle brush, I dry brushed distant wheat stalks into the background below the horizon line.

With burnt sienna I put the head on some of the closer wheat stalks. I highlighted some of the kernels of wheat with various mixtures of lemon yellow, new gamboge, cadmium yellow and raw sienna.

On others I used a base of burnt sienna and raw sienna and highlighted them with the different yellows.














Lastly, I scraped a little more of the lightning bolt into the sky.

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 Windsor & Newton paint on 140 lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $40.00 and sold unframed.

ACEO - Afterglow 1

Using various mixtures of new gamboge and alizarin crimson  put in the sky and foreground and set it aside to dry.

Once it was completely dry I lightly drew in a fence line and some trees along the fence.















With a wash of alizarin crimson and French ultramarine blue I put in the distant trees.

Next I darkened the mixture with burnt sienna and I painted in the snake fence and the tree trunks.














I added raw sienna to the mix and put in the coniferous trees along the fence line.

Lastly I used various mixtures of burnt sienna, raw sienna, new gamboge and alizarin crimson to paint in the grasses and growies along the fence line.















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 Windsor & Newton paint on 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $20.00 and sold unframed.

Therese's Oven - A Work in Progress

This is a pencil sketch I did of the oven when we were at a pot luck paint out last month (see postings on 13 and 14 July 2013).

Therese still used this old stone oven for baking bread and cooking many other things during the summer so she didn't heat up her house.












I will post this drawing at a later date once it has been inked and is completed.

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

Garden Shed I - A Work in Progress

So far we have put 24 gallons of the pale green and 3 gallons of the white for the trim on the house. It is slowly getting closer to being finished.














It was nice being able to get the one part of the east side finished today before it started to rain.














A little more work to the trim on one part of the south side and finishing the main colour on the other part. Then we have to strip the final east wall and paint it and the trim. I will be happy when it is finally finished.

While looking for something to work on tonight I came across a number of sketches we did at a pot luck paint out (see posts on 13 and 14 July 2013) this one is of Therese's garden shed.

I did a little more work on the drawing and will post it at a later date once more of it has been completed.

Rocky Shore 1 - A Work in Progress

It is another bright and sunny day and while the weather holds we decided to get the higher parts of the walls completed so during the week I could work on the lower ones were I wouldn't have to use the extension ladder.














I started on the east wall first and got the top area painted, before moving around to the south side of the building.

Ron worked on the peak while I worked on the east side of the south wall until we met in the middle section.














By then it was time to have a late lunch before going out and mowing the lawn.

After supper I wanted to work on a painting and I pulled this little piece out that I had started last month (see posts on 17 July and 17 August 2013).

I added the cedar trees behind the birches and put in the markings on the birch trunks.

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

Evening Sky 2 - A Work in Progress

Today I was at my friend Heather's house on Chemong Lake and captured this sky as the sun was setting.

I brushed in the sky using aureolin at the base and gradually added raw sienna as to the middle and toward the top before adding a little bit of burnt sienna to the left side of the sky.

Using burnt sienna I washed in the far shore and the reflection into the water adding then added raw sienna and aureolin to the middle and front of the water.

The painting was given a little time to dry before I lightly sketched in the island the large trees on the spit which is close to shore.

I painted the far island and its reflections using various combinations of French ultramarine blue, raw sienna and burnt sienna.

I will post this painting at a later date once I finish the foreground trees.

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