Autumn Woodland 1 - A Work in Progress

Today I am painting with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painting Group at St. Matthews Church. Even though it is cold 6F (-14C) it is also a brilliant sunny day with long, beautiful shadows racing across the snow.

 It took a while to decide what I would work on today and I chose this painting (see posting on 18 March 2012) that I had started a couple of years ago.













I added needles to the branches on some of the pine trees and then added the trunk on the main pine tree in the foreground.

Next I added a few maple tree trunks that will need to have some orange and yellow leaves put on it at a later date.

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

The Drawing Show Poster

I just found out that one of my paintings "1950 Ford Custom V8 Convertible" (see post on 10 February 2010), that I had submitted for the Drawing Show with KAN held at Art on Kent in Lindsay.

It is a new promotional poster with a collage of paintings submitted for the exhibition that they started this year beginning with last month's show.

It was a pleasant surprise to have my artwork selected for one of their posters.

Winter Day 2 - A Work in Progress

Today I had a little bit of time to paint so I pulled out this piece that I had started last month (see post on 20 January 2014).














The painting is about half finished and I wanted to add the trees that were casting the shadows on the snow in the foreground as well as a couple of deciduous tree into the background.

I will post this painting at a later date as more work on the trees has been completed.

Cabin Memories I - A Work in Progress

This is a fairly simple sketch of a log cabin on the edge of a lake.

The basic pieces have been inked in and I have to decide on the light source and what more it needs in the foreground.













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

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

Windy Day 1 - A Work in Progress

Using Antwerp blue, French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna I brushed the sky into the painting trying to capture movement.









I have to decide where I will place some windswept trees.

I will post this painting at a later date.

Porcelain and Brass - Three Works in Progress

This morning I had to shovel my vehicle out from yesterday's snow storm which gave us another five inches (13cm) of snow on top of everything else that we have received so far this winter before I could go to the still life class at KAGS this morning.

We had a lovely display of Oriental porcelain, pottery, brass items and a sculpture of a five headed dragon. With such a multitude of interesting subject matter I decided to break it down into three separate pieces.

The first was of Oriental porcelain, a clay tea pot and a fan set on a red and gold patterned cloth.

Oriental Pottery

The next sketch was of the section with the two brass bowls with a black lacquered porcelain vase that was inlaid with ivory.

I didn't like the position of the vase so I took artist's licence and moved it over.

I look forward to painting the reflected red from the cloth into the brass.

Brass and Porcelain

The final sketch that I started but didn't have time to finish was of a pewter plate, the small brass bowl and the dragon sculpture.














Brass, Pewter and Dragons

After lunch I sat the Abstracting from Life show at the Gallery in the afternoon before returning home.

I will post these pieces after the drawings are completed and I have started to apply paint.

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 February

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