Clear Lake IV - Sitting Ducks I

I wanted to complete this drawing that I worked on last month (see posts on 09 June 2013 and 05 August 2016).

First I added in the rest of the cattails to the right of the large rock and the more I looked at the drawing the more I felt that something was missing.

Using a pencil, I lightly sketched in a pair of ducks sitting on the large rock near the cattails; it was at this point that I decided to change the name of the drawing to Sitting Ducks.











I carefully inked them in and then added some cast shadow onto the rock and put in some of their reflections into the water.

This original 4-1/2" x 9” pen and ink drawing when matted and shrink wrapped with be available for $40.00.

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

Moonlight 7

While on my way home from the Uncommon Marketplace exhibit I did this little drawing of the moon rising over the Otonabee River.

When I finally arrived at home after stopping to pick up pizza and salad for supper, along with cheese cake for dessert, this is what greeted me when I walked into the living room.

The wall had been torn apart in preparation for the new sliding glass doors, leaving a lot of rubble on the floor, dust covering everything, the furniture moved around and tools scattered all over the place.

There is still a lot more work that needs to be done, but I am sure I can survive the mess.

Hopefully, we will have good weather for next weekend and by then the doors should be set in place and I won't have everything in chaos for very much longer.

I have to say that I am looking forward to being able to see the view from my living room, especially with the autumn colours showing throughout the over 200 acres (80 hectares) in the trees at the bottom of the hill.

I will post photographs of the completed door and the view at a later date.

The Uncommon Marketplace

Today we took our paintings in for the Uncommon Marketplace show at the Canadian Canoe Museum, 910 Monaghan Road, Peterborough, Ontario.

We were fairly busy all day starting with bringing the grids from KAGS to the show site first thing in the morning and getting them set up in our space before the paintings started to arrive.

The artists could bring their art in starting at 10am with the last piece being accepted at 1pm.

Then it was time for the hanging crew to get busy with the task of hanging all the paintings onto the grids and having them arranged in a pleasing display to show each piece at its best.

It certainly isn't an easy thing to do when you have sixty two paintings from twenty three different artists in a wide variety of media and styles.

Then all the lighting had to be checked and final changes were made to the exhibit.

Next the tables was set up with the artists' business cards, brochures about KAGS and an information box for the sitters with receipt books, pens, sitting schedule, an artist contact list and a list of procedures.

Lastly the demonstration areas were set up for the artists that are going to be painting throughout the weekend.

The hours for the show are:
17 Sep 16 from 10am-5pm
18 Sep 16 from 12pm-5pm

I hope that some of you will be able to come out and enjoy the art show and the canoe exhibits at the Museum.

Rivers 1-3

Today I was at KAGS and did a few small landscape drawings with rivers, creeks or streams.

On the first one I did was of what I could remember of a winter scene in Buckhorn, Ontario that I came across last winter when on a rare day that I forget to take my camera with me.

The center area of the river was dark, open water which contrasted strongly against the snow covered ice along the banks.

River 1

The pine trees had snow clinging to their branches and grasses and growies poked out of the snow.














River 2

The second one had a stream meandering through a farmer's field with a barn in the background.














River 3

The third one was an autumn scene with a stream running beneath a wooden bridge.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.

Beached 1-3

Today I was watching a program on television about how many small ships and fishing vessels in the Caribbean are often lost during hurricane season.

It wasn't long before I got went and got my sketch book and a pencil and did a few sketches of some of the fishing boats which landed up on the beach, inland as well as a those that were underwater.

Beached 1

The design of the fishing boats were similar, though some were smaller and others larger.

Each boat cabin was painted white for the most part with the rest of the boats painted in different colours.

I will have to decide which drawing I want to have under the water and which ones I want to have beached on land.

Beached 2















Beached 3

Big Cedar Lake III

Today I painted with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painting Group and worked on this drawing that I sketched last year (see post on 23 August 2015).

I started with the background first by indicating the furthest back trees with vertical strokes.

From there I put in the water line for the distant shore and then started putting in the rocks and the shadows on the rocks.

Finally, on the far shore I added pine trees and growies above the rocks.

In the foreground I put in the outline of the rocks on the island as a base for the trees and bushes.

Next I started on the pine trees, beginning with indicating the main trunks and branches and then adding the pine needles onto the branches.















The bark was added to the main trunks on all of the pine trees.

Dead pine trees, broken trunks and branches were added to give interest.

I put the bushes in above the rocks and added some of the stems and branches.

Next I put the shadows onto the rocks.

Lastly, I put in the water ripples below the rocks and added some reflections into the water.

This original 8-1/2" x 9” pen and ink drawing when matted and shrink wrapped will be available for $50.00.

OSWOA - Forest Stream 1

Today I am painting with the St. John's Art Group in Lakefield.

I wanted to complete this painting that I have been working on (see posts on 13 February 2011, 13 March, 13 August and 25 August 2016).

With a mix of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna I painted in the frozen stream running through the forest, darker in the front of the painting leaving some areas white for ice and snow.

Using various mixtures of alizarin crimson, new gamboge, raw sienna, burnt sienna, French ultramarine blue and cadmium yellow I put in the grasses and growies at the base of the trees and at the edge of the stream.













With French ultramarine blue and a touch of burnt sienna, I painted shows into the base of the growies.

Lastly I added a few more leaves into some of the trees with burnt sienna and alizarin crimson.

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

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.