Pottery 5 - A Work in Progress

Today I was at the Still Life class at KAGS and I wanted to do more work on this painting that I had started a number of years ago (see post on 26 March 2013).

The first thing I had to do was straighten out the sides of the pottery bottle so it no longer looked like the leaning Tower of Pisa.

Next I had to balance out both sides of the top and lid as well as the shoulders of the bottle.

From there I evened out the decorative ridges on the bottle.

I mixed a large quantity of a dark blue black from French ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and a touch of alizarin crimson.

I started on the left side of the bottle with the darkest value and gradually lightened it to the right side to make it look rounded.

Next I used the lighter colour and put in the ridges making the right side a little lighter.

Using cadmium yellow I put in a little reflected light on the left side of the pottery.

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

KAGS Outdoor Painters' Group Show - Sunny Ways

Today is the first day of the KAGS Outdoor Painters' Show called "Sunny Ways".

To enter this show each artist must have painted with the Outdoor Painters' Group three times during the course of the year.

Unlike the regular shows at KAGS where each artist can submit up to three paintings and the placement of the artwork on the walls is designed by the convenor and is then hung by the show committee.

It differs here in that each artist purchases wall space, beginning with a minimum of two feet and in increments of two feet up to a maximum of eight feet of space.

Each artist is responsible for not only designing how their paintings will be hung in their space, but must also hang them on the wall themselves.
















Also this is one of two exhibits that allow art cards and one of three shows that allow shrink wrapped originals to be offered for sale.

The show continues through to 13 November 2016 with the opening on 30 October 2016 from 1:00p.m. to 4:00p.m.













If you have the chance please come out and meet the artists at the opening or come and enjoy the exhibit before it closes next month.

Autumn's End I - A Work in Progress

Today I was painting with the Buckhorn Tuesday Painting Group and decided I would sketch the trees around St. Matthew's Church which had almost shed all their leaves.

After putting in the three largest trees first, I then added some grasses and growies to the base of them and created some rolling ground.

With a pencil, I lightly sketched in some smaller trees into the background with a few slightly larger ones and a number of smaller trees.















Next I inked in the larger background trees first.

Again I added in some grasses and growies to the base of the trees creating a small hill in the background.

I will post this drawing at a later date once more of the background trees have been completed.

Snow Storm 1 - A Work in Progress

I wanted to do something easy today so I thought I would do a snow scene.

I wet the paper and with a mix of cobalt blue and burnt sienna I brushed in some of the background trees.















Unfortunately, before I could do any more work on this painting I had unexpected company drop by for a visit,

I will post this piece at a later date once more work on it has been completed.

The Future is Now

Today I was sitting at Art on Kent for the last day of "The Future is Now" exhibition.











I had seven paintings in this show representing toys, agriculture, lakes and transportation.













It was a fairly busy day today with a large number of people coming in to see the exhibit before it is gone. So busy in fact, that I didn't have time to work on a painting as I normally would.













I decided to leave the three paintings with rubber duck in them for the "Wall of Small".  I also brought in two painting for the next show "Feast for the Eyes".

Fence Posts 2-4 - Three Works in Progress

I decided I wanted to work on these three pieces that I had started earlier this year (see posts on 17 and 26 July 2016) while out on location.

Working on all three paintings at the same time I wet the sky and with French ultramarine blue I reworked the sky to remove the white paper where the tape lines were.

Once the sky was dry I lifted the paint from the fence posts with water.

I will post each of these paintings at a later date as more work on them has been completed.

Fence Posts 2



















Fence Posts 3



















Fence Posts 4

Indian Corn - A Work in Progress

Today was going to be a very busy day for me. It started off with the still life class first thing in the morning at the Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio.

The theme for the class was "Harvest Time" featuring various fruits and vegetables with an autumn theme.

I decided to do the brightly coloured Indian corn with a couple of maple leaves to add some orange and red tones to the piece.

After drawing the image I started by putting a pale wash of raw sienna over all the corn husks. I darkened the mix slightly and started to add the next layer but ran out of time before getting very far.

I will post this painting at a later date once I have completed more work on the corn husks.














From there I was at the 12:30p.m. Information meeting for new members, where we had three people choosing to become KAGS members.

At 1:30p.m. I attended the meeting for KAGS's inclusion in next year's SPARK Photo Festival as one of our exhibitions.

After that meeting was over, I left KAGS to attend a 3:00p.m. meeting of the President's Council going over current business arising from emails received to the Gallery and discussion about the upcoming AGM next month.

Finally I was able to head home and bring in the horses and start the barn chores.

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