Blue Mountain Pottery - A Work in Progress

I woke up today to the first snow of the year. It is a good thing that I already had my snow tires put on all the vehicles and just had to watch out for the people on the road who weren't prepared for the road conditions.

Today at KAGS our theme was "Cool" Colours and we had Blue Mountain Pottery, pastel yellow, green and bowls, purple and soft pink stuffed animals.














I chose to do a number of pieces of the Blue Mountain pottery and made my own arrangement of them which was a lot different than how things were set up there.

I brushed in the background using vertical strokes with mixtures of alizarin crimson, Antwerp blue and  French ultramarine blue.

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

Dominican Republic Street - A Work in Progress

This is another of the scenes with buildings that I started yesterday in the class with Gail Hawkins.

What I liked about this scene was the way the tin was slapped onto the roof and starting to lift in various places.














The rough pieces of wood haphazardly thrown together for the walls and the way the debris from parts of the building had fallen and remained where they fell in the street.

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

Uncle Alfred's Farm - A Work in Progress

This is a sketch I started in the third class with Gail Hawkins of her Uncle's farm.

I liked the way the buildings were leaning and how sheets of plywood had been nailed onto the walls where the boards had been torn off by the wind.














A few more chickens need to be added into the foreground and a couple of draft horses to the other side of the fence.

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

Green Eyes - A Work in Progress

Today is the second part of the Victoria Wallace workshop on grisaille at the Kawartha Artists' Gallery that was started earlier this month (see posting on 07 October 2013).

In the first class the image was executed entirely in shades of grey to produce a three dimensional effect; this painting technique was used by 15th century Flemish painters and in the late 18th century imitate sculptures in both wall and ceiling decorations.

It could have been left that way but today it will be used as a monotone under painting for an acrylic painting and we will be glazing layers of translucent acrylic colours over it.

I will post his painting at a later date after more layers of colours have been applied.

Autumn Trees 1 and 2 - Two Works in Progress

These are two sketches I did from the porch in my cabin while I was at the Knoepfli Inn in Magnetawan earlier this month.

With the first one there were a couple of white birch trees beside a large maple tree. With the morning sunlit filtering through the bright maple leaves which created a strong contrast against the birches and cast lovely blue grey shadows across the white bark.

Autumn Trees 1

The second one was of maple and oak trees and their brilliant multi coloured leaves standing out against the rough grey bark and the greens of pine tree branches behind them.

The sunlight provided a warm golden glow of colour to the multitude of fallen leaves on the ground.

I will post both of these once paint has been applied to the sketches.

Autumn Trees 2

Cedar Fence Posts - A Work in Progress

This is a sketch that I started in the second of four drawing workshops with Gail Hawkins. I did a little more work on it today before we had to leave to go to Toronto.

I thought I would show the details of the work on the post.

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

Today we took Ron's parents out to Niagara Falls for the day and visited the floral clock and the botanical gardens as well as seeing the Falls.

We passed by the ship wreck at Jordan Station on the way there and I know I will have to do a painting of it at some point in the future.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.

Knoepfli Inn - A Work in Progress

Today I did a little more work on this painting of the Knoepfli Inn that I had started while in Magnetawan earlier this month (see posting on 03 October 2013).

Using burnt sienna I washed in the base colour of the tile roof on the Inn.

Adding a little French ultramarine blue to the burnt sienna wash the roadway was indicated.














Then using various mixtures of Antwerp blue and raw sienna the sunlit and shadowed grass on the lawn was painted.

Some of the dried and dead grass around the base of the foreground tree was painted using raw sienna and burnt sienna.

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