Morning Skies and Misty Backgrounds - Three Works in Progress

These are some of the paintings I demonstrated at KAGS last month while teaching the "Basic Watercolour" class (see posting on13 November 2013)

For this class we changed our blue from French ultramarine blue to Antwerp blue for most of the paintings and added alizarin crimson for a red.













Pink Sky 1

After wetting the paper we washing in alizarin crimson into the sky leaving some areas of white and with horizontal strokes brushed it into the snow covered area.

Using a wash of Antwerp blue we brushed a little of it into the still wet pink of the sky and into the snow. 

Antwerp blue and a little burnt sienna were used for the background treeline which was painted in without a lot of detail.

Using a slightly darker mix of Antwerp blue and burnt sienna the closer foreground trees were indicated.












Dawn 2

For the second morning sky we painted in first a wash of alizarin crimson and then adding a little more colour painted in the darker red into the bottom of the sky.

Using Antwerp blue with a little burnt sienna to grey the colour slightly, the lighter clouds were brushed into the sky. As the paper was drying a little more burnt sienna was added to the pale grey wash and darker stronger coloured clouds were painted into the top of the sky having a little more substance than the lighter clouds.













Out of the Fog 1

For the final painting we changed the blue from Antwerp blue to Cobalt blue for a fog scene. The trees were drawn in lightly and eventually a very pale wash of cobalt blue will be brushed onto the paper.

I will post these paintings at a later date as they are completed.

Limited Palette Paintings - Three Works in Progress

These are some of the other examples I used for my first "Basic Watercolour" class at KAGS (see posting on 05 November 2013).

The three colours we used in that class were French ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and raw sienna.













Grey Day 1

The second painting was of sky distant shore and water using the blue with a little burnt sienna added to "grey" the colour and gives a lovely blue grey.













Grey Day 2

In the third painting more burnt sienna was added to the blue grey mixture to give a neutral grey and the sky and water were painted in and set aside to dry.













Cloudy Morning 1

In the fourth painting the paper was wet and a pale wash of burnt sienna was put in areas of the sky and snow, then the blue grey was added and finally the neutral grey. With each colour layered over the one before it, this created a whole range of colours on the paper.

I will post these paintings at a later date as they are completed.

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

Dockside 1 and 2 - Two Works in Progress

Today I am sitting the Winter Delights Art Show at KAGS.

It seems every time I try do some work on these two little pieces I have a lot of people come through a show that take me away from working on them (see postings on 16 October 2012, 09 February 2013, 20 May 2013 and 15 August 2013).

Fortunately that was not the case and I did get to do more work on these pieces and hopefully will get them completed shortly.

Dockside 1

On the first one I completed the two larger gulls; then drew in the rope onto the one post.

Next I worked back and forth between the paintings first putting the under paint on all of the posts.

The time consuming part was getting the more detailed top layers down and completing that part on two of the posts.

Dockside 2

I will post each of these paintings at a later date as they are completed.

Still Life - A Work in Progress

Since it is cold and snowing again today,  I did a little more work on the painting I started last Tuesday when I took my first of two workshops at KAGS with Margaret Tough in basic pastel.

It was a very informative class with a lot of information on the various types of chalk pastel, the different types of paper and ways of handling pastel.

It was interesting to see the differences between the sanded papers and the regular papers and how they held the pastel. The colours on the sanded papers seemed to have more of a glow to them.














I hadn't realized that many pastel artists use either water or alcohol on the under paint of pastel and "set" it on the paper before applying the "top" coat of pastel.

Another thing that many do is to use watercolour as the under paint and then apply the pastel on top.

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

Morning Lake 2 - A Work in Progress

Last night I heard that I had sold a painting and I would like to thank new purchaser Joan McBride of Peterborough, Ont. on her purchase of my painting Morning Flight (see posting on 27 June 2012).

So today I just felt like splashing a little bit of the colour pink around on a piece of paper and not doing anything serious.













Who knows, perhaps I will add a few seagulls into the painting when I post it at a later date.

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

Denim and Leather - A Work in Progress

This is the sketch I worked on for the Still Life class at KAGS on Thursday.

We had a nice assortment of clothing including, denim shirts and jeans, straw and felt Cowboy hats a pair of Cowboy boots and a bandana that were draped over a wooden chair.

There is a lot more work to do on it before I start painting and I will post it in the New Year once more work on it has been completed.

OSWOA - Mystical 1 revisited

I was looking at this painting that I did with a class last month (see post on 13 November 2013) there were a number of things I wanted to change.

Using the same two colours in the painting, which were Antwerp blue and burnt sienna I started by changing the trees on the background island.

I added a dead tree trunk into the closer area of land and worked on the tree on the right side.

Next I worked on the water in the foreground to get rid of the run back area and make it more uniform.

The foreground rock needed a little more colour as well and I added a wash of burnt sienna.

While the paint was drying I decided I didn't like the three branches on the largest tree that were too uniform so I went back and added another smaller tree on top to cover that part.

The OSWOA shown here is an original watercolour painting using Artist quality Winsor & Newton paint on 140lb. Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $40.00 and sold unframed.

If you would like more information about OSWOA please go to my post on 12 March 2010.