FIGURE  DRAWING

 

 

Our art group did some figure drawing the previous

week. These are some of the sketches I made of our

model that night. We made sketches in 1, 3 and 5

minute intervals. It was good practice and I enjoyed

the exercises very much. We plan to do it again soon.

 

A Mountain Range At Sunset

14" x 48" Acrylic on Hardboard

I am happy with the soft and smooth affect that I have created

in the clouds above my mountain range here. I have had to play

with the pressure on my compressor in order to get the fine spray

that I wanted from my airbrush. It is not as easy as I thought it

would be. I enjoy using it though and feel that it will be of great

value for larger paintings such as this one.

Preparing to Airbrush

 

 

I  have started to block in colours on a 14" x 48" hardboard.

I have a series of photos that I snapped of a beautiful sunset

over Fisher Peak and the Steeples. I enlarged my photos

at Staples and have them right above my board for reference.

As you can see, I have placed my squares to help me map

out this long picture. I am going to use my airbrush to give the

clouds a very soft and blended look.

 

 



KEEP YOUR CHIN UP!

I met a very friendly horse recently who was also very photogenic. This sign was a convenient scratching post and number 19 is my brother-in-law's favourite number. I couldn't pass this up. Cheers! 

Off the cuff!

 

This is the second watercolour painting that I created

last week, after years of not touching my watercolour

paints and brushes! We all began painting the same

picture but each person's rendition evolved much

 differently. It was interesting to see how we are all so

unique.



Watercolour Fun

On Wednesday, March 6th, the Headwater's Art

Society met for an evening of watercolours led by

Paula Cravens. It has been years since I have played

with watercolours.  It was a nice change to be free

and loose with my brushes. This is one of two paintings

that I created that evening.

 

I snapped this photo of the sunrise on my way to a hockey

tournament with my son a couple of weeks ago.  The photo

has not done the sunrise justice though, it was spectacular!