Cottage Reflections

It won't be long before the locks are open again and there will be more boat traffic on the lakes and rivers as the cottagers come up to open their cottages and spend the weekends until the summer when many stay until they close their cottages in September.












I started this painting yesterday when I was with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painting Group in the morning before I had to go to KAGS to teach my watercolour class in the afternoon. It is of the cottages on Buckhorn Lake behind the lock.

I made the painting as it would look in the summer, rather than show the trees that are barely starting to have leaves on their branches.

This framed original 7" x 13" watercolour is available for $185.00.

Long Hair on Cat

Today I taught my last watercolour class at KAGS for this year. My students wanted to do hair texture and chose as the subject a long haired cat and wanted it to be ginger coloured.

It seems appropriate to be painting a ginger cat today since this morning was the first time that I was able to touch the wild ginger tom cat that has been in my barn since November of last year. He is still extremely wild but with time he may stop being afraid.















This is as far as I was able to take the class with this painting in the three hour lesson.

Thank you to Mrs. June Wismer of Peterborough, Ontario wanted the painting for reference material and it is now in her collection.

Undisturbed Beauty

Nothing like waking up on a spring day to find a hard frost on the ground the the temperature at 26F (-3C) and by late afternoon it is a wonderful 60F (15.5C).

It is fitting that I work on a winter scene this morning.

This is a scene on the infield at the north east corner of the track beside the house on a bright clear winter day. I see it often when I am out walking, provided of course that the show isn't too deep.














This 7" x 9" original, framed watercolour is available for $225.00.

After the Executive meeting at KAGS it was great to be able to get outside and work in my garden for a while.

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

Winter Snow 1

Today I am sitting the Buckhorn Artists' Group show at KAGS.

While I was there I worked on a drawing of a farm house on a hill. Since it was in the distance I didn't need to put in a lot of detail.

In the foreground I put in a fence line along the crest of the hill to divide the fields.














To balance the drawing I did a couple of large pines to on the right side behind the fence.

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I hope you will return often to see the postings.

Kind Eye

Today started off below freezing again 30F (-1C) and even though it was overcast most of the day we were fortunate that we had rain instead of snow, because our high was 38F (3C).

I was getting a number of things finished around the house but I also wanted to do some art today.













I started doodling and the finished drawing ended up being the eye of a horse.

This original 3" x 4" graphite pencil drawing when matted and shrink wrapped will be available for $20.00.

Self and Others Show

Today I took my three paintings What? (see posts on 25 February and 04 April 2014),  Winter Trail I (see posts on 07 and 10 March 2014) and Winter Creek I (see posts on 17 and 24 March 2014) for the Canvas Confidential Fund Raiser to The Lindsay Gallery.

Afterward I stopped at Art on Kent to see the new show Self and Others where I have three of my paintings with figures on display.

From there I returned home in time to start the evening barn chores.

Acrylic Medium Trio 1

Another cold start to the morning with the temperature below the freezing 30F (-1C) when I set off to go to KAGS for the still life class in the morning and to paint with the Outdoor Painters' Group in the afternoon.

Our theme for the still life class was art supplies.

I chose to do the three containers of acrylic art medium.

The one on the left was airbrush medium, the next one was acrylic glass varnish, and the small container on the right was regular matte gel.

Before I could work on other drawings of pieces in the display I was interrupted to do my duty as Treasurer and sign some cheques.

In the afternoon with the Outdoor Painters' Group I worked on a number of drawings, but didn't get any of them finished.

By the time I was on my way home the temperature rose to a nice 52F (11C).