Progress

So instead of packing I was painting. I started putting some opaque colour into the water and on the rock ledge.

Glazing Started

This morning I added a glaze of various blues with touches of red and yellow. By adding this first glaze the painting's depth increases. The crow was not glazed and therefore stands out. At this stage the painting looks like an old tin-type photo. I will let this glaze layer dry.

Frizzle Chickens

I just finished these 2 little paintings for a birthday gift. They are on 6x6 cradle panels using jo sonja acrylic paints. A cockerel and a hen frizzle chicken.

Slow progress

The underpainting took 3 days to dry. Complete canvas was toned with Oxide Red and oms. Painting will start in earnest when it is dry. I am travelling to see my son in Princeton BC, this weekend to enjoy Canada Day and see the play he is in, so I will be painting next week.

Morning Drink

This is the start. I drew directly on the canvas. I used graphite which I know is a no no with oils but I figured i would be doing an underpainting and layers so am not worried. Also the framework of a piece of art is necessary in its finished form so if it visible it adds depth to the image and statement.

Every painting/drawing I do I worry and fret about not being up to the task or starting right. So yet again I said shut up and just start stupid and let it come as it may.

This is the start, I painted a very preliminary underpainting. This will work as a map for structure and for value. I will let this dry a then give the whole paint a wash.

Cheers

A bigger project

I have not been painting as much as I have wanted. I have been busy with end ofyear preschool stuff and sewing costumes for theatre. I warmed up with my quick painting of Pathway Puzzle. I am now ready for a larger and more in depth challenge. The same morning I took the puzzle painting reference shot, I saw a crow having a morning drink in the little man made creek in the park. Long morning shadows and sunshine. I had to take a picture and now I want to paint it on a long and skinny canvas, 48x24. I know crows have been done and done again but this crow needs to be painted. I want to work big scale and with detail. I will be posting my progress.

Cheers

This is a quick paining I did this week. I had taken the photo in Beacon Hill Park one morning. This pruned and trimmed shrub very interesting. It created a puzzle affect on the scene behind. I was not trying to be too realistic. Once again I was using Cobra WMO. I find the colours to be of high chroma. A fun painting but non too serious.

Painting Again

After nearly a 2 months absence I finally put brush to canvas. This doesn't mean I haven't been creating. I have spent these months sewing for theatre and learning all sorts of new stuff. Elizabethan costuming. And as school was wrapping up life has been kind of crazy. But after the preschool's year end BBQ I put brush to canvas. It feels so good.

I am trying to venture away from the photorealism I have always done. Abstraction based on reality seems to be my focus. I have a lot of ideas and ways I want to paint. Some will work some will flop. But what fun!