Autumn River 1

Today I was in Peterborough by the Otonabee River and I stopped to feed the ducks, geese and seagulls.

It was so peaceful in the small park on Water Street, that while I sat at the picnic table surrounded by the water fowl, I did a little sketch of the river.

I thought I would like to have this scene of the trees as it would be in autumn rather than the summer.

I may turn this drawing into a painting at a later date.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.

Confirmed Shows for 2015 - June

This is a listing of confirmed shows that I will be exhibiting my artwork at this year. I will update the list as more shows are added.

MacKelvie Gallery, Keene, Ont.
PioneerVillage
28 May - 25 Jun Lang Pioneer Village Museum, Keene, Ont.

Kawartha Artists’ Gallery, Peterborough, Ont.
KAGS
10 Jun - 05 Jul 15 Warm and Cool
Opening Reception 13 Jun 15 from 1-4pm.
26 Aug - 27 Sep 15 Faces and Figures
Opening Reception 29 Aug 15 from 1-4pm.
11-29 Nov 15 Outdoor Painters' Show - Elements of Nature
Opening Reception 14 Nov 15 from 1-4pm.
02-20 Dec 15 and 06-17 Jan 16 Christmas Show
Opening Reception 05 Dec 15 from 1-4pm.

The Lindsay Gallery, Lindsay, Ont.
LindsayGallery
24 Jun - 25 Jul 15 Motion in Stillness
Reception 25 Jul 15 from 2-4pm.


St. John the Baptist Anglican Church, Lakefield, Ont.
27 Jun 15 Artists in Bloom II 2-4pm.

Kawartha Arts Network - Art on Kent, Lindsay, Ont.
KAN
02 Jul - 01 Aug 15 Annual All Members' Show
Opening Reception 04 Jul 15 from 1-3pm.
03-31 Dec 15 and 07 Jan-16 Jan 16 Affordibleism
Opening Reception 05 Dec 15 from 1-3pm.

Lockside Trading Company, 2805 River Ave, Youngs Point, Ont.
18-19 Jul 15 3rd Annual Art @ the Locks from 9am-6pm.
15-16 Aug 15 4th Annual Art @ the Locks from 9am-6pm.

St. Matthews Church, Buckhorn, Ont.
BuckhornArtistsGroup
15-23 Aug 15 25th Annual Shades of Summer Art Show

Fenelon Falls Fair Grounds, Fenelon Falls, Ont.
KawarthaArtsFestival
05-06 Sep 15 Kawartha Arts Festival

Township of Douro-Dummer Library Art Gallery, Warsaw, Ont.
08 Sep - 24 Oct 15 Three Good Friends
Opening Reception 11 Sep 15 from 7-8pm.

Millennium Park, Peterborough, Ont.
5th Annual Purple Onion Festival
20 Sep 15 from 11am-4:00pm.

Dancing Blueberries, 360 George St. N., Peterborough, Ont.
02-28 Oct 15

Please come out and enjoy the artwork displayed at these shows.

Selwyn Beach - A Work in Progress

The temperature certainly has dropped from yesterday's hot and humid temperatures. In fact the high for today was 40F (4.4C) with a strong wind and rain for most of the day,

When there was a break in the rain I decided to take a quick trip over to Selwyn Beach and see if I could get a couple more quick sketches of the trail leading from the parking lot to the beach.

I managed to do this sketch and before I could start on another one the rain came pouring down and after getting soaked I decided to be happy with just the one sketch.

Fortunately the beach isn't very far away and I will just have to pick another day to go back to do more sketching. It would probably be best to go early in the morning before all the picnickers arrive.

One nice thing was that the sun did come out for s short time before it set bringing with it a completed double rainbow which makes up for the fact that the furnace came on during the night.

Thank you for looking at my artwork.

Countryside Art Group Blog - Show Updates

On the first of each month I will update the Countryside Art Group's blog with a listing of shows where the various artists in the Group are exhibiting their work.

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

Swimming Pools and Seadragons

Another hot and humid day with the temperatures reaching 81F (27.2C) and with the humidity making it feel like 85F (29.4C), but there is a storm in the air and I know with tomorrow being even warmer with higher humidity we should have thunderstorms, which I always enjoy watching.














We had gotten a swimming pool for my dog, Kyora earlier this month and she was quite happy to take a nice long refreshing dip in her very own pool. An added benefit of this is at least it keeps her out of the horse trough in the barn yard.














Since we are on the subject of animals in water I thought I would share this live camera feed of Weedy Sea Dragons that I came across at the Aquariums of the Pacific website.  The Aquarium is located at 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA 90802, USA; this is another of the many places I would like to visit.

The live cam feed is courtesy of the Explore website, I thought you may enjoy watching them and check out some of the other cam feeds and films on their site.

Art Show at the MacKelvie Gallery.

Today it is bright and sunny day with the temperature at 75F (23.9C) and a pleasant breeze which will help keep the mosquitoes away unlike yesterday with the same temperature but the lack of a breeze and the high humidity making it feel like 87F (30.7C). But I am not going to complain at all after the long and very cold winter we have just experienced.

For me it is going to be a very busy day.

My friends and fellow artists Cindy Allan and Norma MacEachern are taking my paintings to Lang Pioneer Village Museum in Keene, Ontario to hang in their MacKelvie Gallery.

The exhibit there by the KAGS Outdoor Painters' Group will run from the 28 May - 25 June.

Meanwhile I will head to Toronto to be with my daughter, Christine where she will undergo surgery at Princess Margaret Hospital.

Norma's Peppers - A Work in Progress

I sort of miss the goslings but I know they will be well looked after at Shades of Hope Wildlife Refuge and integrated into another family of Canada Geese out in Pefferlaw, Ontario.

Today I worked on another still life painting for the upcoming show at The Lindsay Gallery later this month.

The background was painting in using a mixture of French ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and alizarin crimson.

Once the background was dry it was time to work on the peppers.

The stems were put in first using various mixtures of French ultramarine blue, Antwerp blue and raw sienna.

The red pepper was painted using different combinations of raw sienna, alizarin crimson, cadmium red and cadmium yellow. There are at least eight to nine layers of colour on the pepper to build the depth of colour.

For the yellow pepper I brushed in a base of new gamboge, aureolin, cadmium yellow and burnt sienna.

I set it aside to dry and I will post this painting at a later date once it is completed.