Peony - Watercolour version

Its been many years since I painted in watercolour and i really enjoyed it, tried the peony in this medium, boy do i need some practise. The my friend Shirley moved to Westlock, I changed my medium , now that must be twenty years ago.

peony

I took photos of the peonies outside of the the Airdrie Legion about 10 years ago. Finally I get a chance to work on something this big, started it outside using Acrylics as its 24 x18. The paint was drying way to quickly.

international mail in art fca competition Vancouver

https://federationgallery.com/show/annual_international_mail_in_art_exhibition/0

Here is the link hope you can spot mine before you read the names

pets and friends commission

Painting of AKram

Since it will be until Sunday when the Portrait artist of the year will reveal a new model I decided to try my hand at the first two that were live. I did not partake at 3 am (broadcast here in Canada) but they have the photo posted and so I will try the first one, AKRAM Here is the drawing and underpainting.

1. The computer captured photo                2. The drawing                                     3. The under painting 

After three hours

Blend and Refine, Add highlights

Painting Process for Rankin

30 Minutes into the video:

A basic drawing

One hour into the video;

Adding dynamic flesh tone colours 

Two hours into the video

Filling in the spaces with lighter values

 slight changes which take the longest

I thought the face looked too wide so I cut off the left side and had to change the position of the nose and left eye, he had a slight tilt to the head which I decided to change also.

It looks different with the new changes; since this I have also fixed the mouth! I am pleased.

Please go to Artist of the year https://www.skyartsartistoftheyear.tv/portrait-profiles/ where you can view literally thousands of artists portraying the model. Better yet participate and post your art using instagram

Changed hair at top and mouth, took photo outside  

Portrait Artist of the Year Interactive Broadcast

One of my favorite shows is Portrait Artist of the year, It can be viewed on the MAKEFUL channel. It has been postponed because of the corona virus and they have decided to make the video of the artist available to the viewers for painting. I was really excited about this. The telecast goes on Sundays and is four hours, so we get a full four hours to paint the live model on the telecast.  I just found out about it and was worried I wouldn't be able to be up at 3 am to paint for 4 hours. This week they extended the podcast for viewing all week and our model is photographer "Rankin" You can submit your artwork and join in all the fun on the instagram. So yes I did this in four hours.

A CAT FOR KYLE

FOR BIRTHDAYS THIS YEAR I PAINTED THEIR LOVING CATS, THIS IS KYLE'S CAT FIDDLE; I CALL HIM FLUFFY

I added whiskers later

Happy Easter

My grandson and Bunny

PROCESS

fca 8x10

This is my raw submission for the FCA 8x10 (tweaking to be done later) as there is a bubble to add and i think ill remove the right forehead and add hair it will look less like fingers 

ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MAIL-IN ART EXHIBITION (AIMAE)

A painting in the making

This pastel I did for the upcoming FCA Social Distancing online exhibition, . so here's a preview of how all came together.

Covid protection

Workshop With Deborah Tilby

I attended an oil painting workshop with the FCA with art instruction by Deborah Tilby.  I chose something entirely different but a subject i knew i could learn from.  Here are the results...

TWISTED HAT painting from a blue drawing

 I don't know where the original picture went but I surprised myself painting from a two tone line drawing i had, adding colour as i pleased. 

This rendition of a self portrait painted on a piece of canvas.

Cactus Painting

I  Completed this Commission in just one day, using acrylics. Not the paint I like but I needed this one to dry quickly to take to Mexico.
36 x 36 painting on rag canvas.

Oops, its a little darker in the photograph

Paint night with Tami

My daughter Alysia arranged a winter scene paint night on Dec First, It was the first time I have done one of these.

These are the results; some paintings were finished after the photo and i will try to post them.  Everyones painting was so different and that was so wonderful to see. There are some hidden talents here, love the way these all turned out, Great Job ladies!

Nov 14th Paint night with Ingrid Christensen 7pm

I will host Another Paint In with Ingrid Christensen at Kensington Art Supply.  All members of the FCA are welcome and non members as well please see the Federation of Canadian Artists  Calgary page for payment options, thanks Tami

Thursday Paint night with the Calgary Sketch Club

Calgary Sketch club paint night 

At 8pm  I started this rendition of the girl on the beach. It was about 40 minutes but I attempted to paint the figure in the method Ingrid explained to me on Wednesday.  I can't wait to get practising a few more of these, I entitled this one SUN KISSED

Paint-In with Ingrid Christensen

Volunteering is always rewarding!

 Today was a very lucky and rewarding day for me. (after the snow storm all day Tuesday it was just Ingrid and Myself that showed up for the FCA painting class).  She demoed her apple in 4 still life paintings showing the effect of the warm/cool backgrounds.  Then Ingrid answered all my questions for the rest of the class demonstrating her talents and explaining each colour and stroke as she created the painting of the girl on the beach photo I brought to work on.  The painting turned out amazing, and just exactly how I would have imagined. First off - Loose, colours that were in the shade, the movement and how to capture that,  change the bright turquoise sky, how to suggest clothes and features. Lost edges, subtle colour married into each other but maintaining their own value/hue.  I loved every stroke that she applied.  This is the lesson I have been anticipating forever. The building of the paint quality was of special interest to me as she uses such small transparent paint that sticks to its precessor, this; a skill that paint be perfectly mixed and then consistently practised to achieve the right soft touch colour application; I admit I am not there yet. There was enough information in the mini painting that when i asked my granddaughters tonight what that was a painting of they both yelled MIA MIA, and they didn't see the photo it was from!  Thank you Ingrid for answering my entourage of questions and explaining every single stroke of paint you applied to me teach this very personal lesson. 

Whats on the easel, working on these two paintings.

This is entitled on the upswing, Face in shadow, highlighted from behind, a great challenge. 

This one is entitled  In Movie star mode
still unfinished here