View from within, New Pastel for the Timmins Museum show 2025

Here is a new pastel for the December 2025 Timmins Museum show. 

“View from within.” 8 x 12 inches 

Note, there are a few white dot reflections in the glass. I forgot to photograph the pastel before framing. 

Peony pastel with Linseed Oil

I'm trying a new medium that I tested a while ago, using pastels with Linseed Oil.

I'm just at the drawing stage before adding a riot of colour.

Pam

Adobe After Effects - water

Learning Adobe After Effects:

A quick test to move water from a still image.

Pam

Closeup of Lianne's eyes.

Just needed to put a closeup of my Lianne drawing so I can link it to other sites.

Bubbles

Just a quick painting of "Bubbles" from Kitten Academy.  It was a Paint Bubbles challenge that took 3 hours.

Maggie

Maggie is a mom-cat available for adoption through https://kitten.academy/ and I have permission to paint her.

More coming soon...

Quiche Lorraine

This is my painting of Quiche Lorraine. She was a cat that was us for adoption  through https://kitten.academy/  and they gave me permission to use her photo for painting.  She has been adopted since this painting was done.

The Impossible Dream

Oil Painting on canvas. (Poor resolution and colours; phone camera.)

Blackie the crow and his parents on Christmas morning.

Approx. 4 x 5 feet.

Drying for the PAC annual exhibition at the Timmins Museum in Nov 2013.

Pam

2013 SRF Visual Arts Boot Camp results.

Last weekend I taught a silk painting workshop (a 60" scarf painted with silk dyes) at the 2013 Smooth Rock Falls Visual Arts Boot Camp. 

Here is a pic of the group of 17 (2 missing from photo) with their finished scarves.

And the drying scarves lined up for a photo.

We had a great time.

Pam

Tea Pot

Step 1 & 2 of a realistic tea pot painting in oils.

Step 3 & 4:

Step 5:

Step 6:

Final step

Pam

Compass in Watercolour

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

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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