Compass in Watercolour

I needed to keep busy during the Truckfest so I practiced my watercolour painting. 

Pam

Face Photo Background for Smooth Truckfest

Rachel Therrien and I donated our time and painted a 4 x 8 ft plywood for the Smooth Truckfest next weekend.  Two holes will be cut out of the driver's seat to allow people to put their face inside to take a photo.  I have to paint the LOGO on the license plate Wed.

Here is the finished photo board they used at the Truckfest.

Getting set up in my new house.

The last month has been hectic and stressful for me.  A house move and family medical emergency means I have not painted for over 6 weeks.

I am setting up my new art studio and hope to be painting by next week.

Pam

Play or Prey?

I don't usually paint animals that aren't from Canada but we do see Tiger's in the zoo, so...

Here is "Play or Prey?"  18 x 24" Oil Painting on Board, step - by -step.

Finished:  

Step 13: A sneak peek.  :)

Step 12:  Adding details.

Step 11:  Finger painting (with gloves) mostly with Cad Yellow Deep and Burnt Umber.  You can see that with glazing, the painting is actually done 3 times, instead of just painting the picture once.  It's time to paint the details.  All the foliage too.

Step 10:  A glaze of Alizarin Crimson and one of Pthalo Blue.  Starting to add white in the face and will now have to start mixing colour.

Step 9:  The dead layer, a layer of Titanium White in the elements I want to have weight and not be transparent.

Step 8:  A Glaze of Ultramarine Blue, in selected areas.

Step 7:  A full glaze of Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber.

 

Step 6:  Adding Colour in Oil

Finally able to show the last step I finished before moving houses.  On to the next step.

Step 4:  Grisaille finished and ready to start the oil glazing.
I had a long delay between steps as I am in charge of the Community Garden and had to get that on track last month.  I'm not sure what I'm doing about the background above the tiger so that will be decided as I go along.

Step 3:  Tiger Reflection

Step 2:  Acrylic Underpainting (Grisaille)
A very quick splash of paint after supper to start the grisaille.
Finding the light and dark.
Details:

 Full View:

Step 1:  The drawing.  This tiger is about to enter the water to either stalk prey or play with something in the water.  It has dramatic lighting (light and dark) which I love.
The drawing has been laid out in pencil, over an acrylic gesso to seal the board.
The grisaille (or grey underpainting) will be done in acrylics to speed the process.  All the details will go into this underpainting.
The next stage will be glazing oil colours, one over the other until I am satisfied with the work.
The painting will take 6 months to dry and then be varnished.

The Layout: It's difficult to photograph at this stage.

Details of the tiger.

Pam

Oil Portrait

One session, three steps, of the oil portrait demo for the Boot Camp in June.

You'll have to wait a couple of weeks for an update.

Step 3:  Refining the clothes shapes.

Step 2: Starting the clothes shapes.

Step 1: Background.

Pastel Portrait

I need a portrait demo completed in oil and pastel for the "1st Annual SRF Visual Arts Boot Camp", June 22nd to June 24th.

This demo is being drawn on a 16 x 20" masonite board, primed and on the wrong side so I have the roughness of the surface to hold the pastel.

I'm having fun doing the pastel demo quickly.

Step 1:  Basic drawing to start.  Really quickly rubbed some soft charcoal on the board to create the dark value.

Step 2:  Brushed the charcoal across the white surface to tone the skin to gray.

Step 3:  Corrected the background colour by adding orange pastel.  (It works to make brown.) 



















Step 4:  Didn't like the left hand side.  It was full of pastel so instead of adding more I used varsol and a brush to paint the colour into one dark value, pushing it into the tooth of the board which allows me to apply more on top.  Similar to a trick in colour pencils.

 It looks more 3 dimensional now.  :)

Step 5:  Laying in colour.

More to come...

Pam

My weekend Oil Painting Workshop

I had a great weekend spent with fellow artists in Timmins, Ont. I gave a workshop on oil painting for the beginner painter in oil. It wasn't a class for beginners in painting, just in oils.

The class had to paint a monotone grayscale painting in acrylics before coming to class. They learned how to apply glazes and then switched to wet on wet painting because there was no time to let the glazes dry.

Some Photos from the weekend:

Students hard at work. More pictures can be seen on the "Friends of the Porcupine Art Club" FACEBOOK page.
















Pam

Ship and Tulips finished!

After waiting so long for the painting to dry, I put a final yellow glaze over the whole painting to unify the warm sunlight. I also put highlights and shadows in cloth. There is a reflection from the wet oil paint in the photograph. I'll take another when it's dry.

Ship and Tulips:

16 x 20" on canvas



I still have to frame it when it is dry.

Pam

DONATION to SRF Heritage Centre Museum

I'm doing a donation for the SRF Heritage Centre/ Museum.

I will be doing multiples of this same painting, so I am donating the first one.

If you donate to the museum, your name will be put in a draw for the end of the year. (Canada and USA addresses only.) See the details on their BLOG.

"The Orange Basket" 16 x 20" Oil Painting on Canvas with painted edges.

Step 12:  The Orange Basket is finished and you can see it at the SRF Heritage Centre.  I forgot to photograph it last weekend.

Step 11:  Getting closer to the finish.

 Seeing double?  No, just the beginnings of the second painting done as a demonstration.  You can see that each painting has it's own look.  No two paintings are the same.  :)

Step 10: Did a short session on the leaves, jar and tulips. Just starting on the basket handle.



Step 9: Opaque painting while giving instruction, just starting on the tulips and haven't started the basket yet.


Step 8: Another session of glazing, gradually transitioning to mixed oil colours.



Step 7: Second session of glazing. Updated photo.



Step 6: First session of transparent oil glazes. Letting this dry.



Step 5: Finished the Grisaille.


Step 4: Thick paint. I decided to put away the photo reference and concentrate on my own style of painting, which involves paint thick enough to see brushstrokes. I can't make it too thick at this stage because there will be transparent glazes applied.



Step 3: Modelling (making 3D) the bottom half of the painting.



Step 2: Grayscale continued...


Step 1: Black and White grayscale.


Pam

Strawberries

Another Pastel: Strawberries

Step 2: Modelling the form of the strawberries.



Step 1: Pastel wash. Yes, I painted the pastel with clear water to create a smooth underpainting.



Pam

Moove Over

Now... I'm not a watercolourist, but I never back down from a challenge.

Here is a herd of Jersey cows painted in bold watercolour washes.

I'm not done yet.

Step 4: The Jersey's are looking better. Each layer will improve now.



Step 3:

My cows are purple. :(


Step 2:

My cows are red. :)



Step 1:

Shadows on the cows.


Pam