Sailboats

Sailboats is another 'on site' painting. This painting was done entirely on site with only some minor adjustments done in the studio. I am very pleased with this painting.

Billings Estate Ottawa

This is an on site mixed-media painting using water colour and ink. It had been a while since I had done any water colour painting so this was a fun change.

Barn Shovels

The weekly summer paint outs that I attend with the Manotick Art Association have started up again. This year I have decided to do mainly acrylic paintings on a prepared piece of thin plywood.
Our first session was held at the hobby farm of one of our members in Heckston, Ontario. It poured that day so I decided to paint in the barn - hence the shovels. This was my first 'on site' acrylic painting and I really struggled with the paints. In hindsight I think I was struggling because of the amount of humidity in the air. I also struggled with the colours for two reasons: the lighting was less than desirable and I was not able to mix the colours that I wanted. As a result of my difficulties I did not get too much of the painting done on site. The full view of the shovels (my 'on site' painting) became mostly a studio painting.
The view of the shovel handles detail is a small (6 X 6 inch) studio painting that I did from my photo after playing around with my cropping tool and texture tool on my photo editing program. I do really like my detail painting.

Workshop Paintings

Back in November I took a weekend acrylic painting workshop with Charlie Spratt , a member of Manotick Art Association and a very good painter. His goal was to teach us the process of doing a painting from start (thumbnails) to finish. The workshop was on a Saturday and a Sunday and each day we 'completed' a painting ... well almost.

Another goal was to keep the painting loose with minimal detail ... this is what really attracted me to the workshop since I tend to be very detail-oriented in my painting. Everyone did the same scenes but it was amazing how different the paintings were!

I really felt that I learned a lot in the workshop especially since up until that point I had been learning how to use acrylic paints by trial and error.