Spruce View, Finished!

The finial touches of this painting were finished tonight... though the paper did give me problems, I am pretty happy with the way this one turned out. I have another painting in-progress cut from the same paper that this one was cut from and it is co-operating much more. A weird spot on the paper I suppose.



"Spruce View"
4" x 6" watercolour
© 2009

Unnamed Marine Landscape

No chickadee update tonight, I spent my day working on a ol'boat painting that I started many moons ago. I've been working on my colours and premixing them a bit more than I used to. The result is much closer colours in real life and a more pleasant painting experience. I'll have to remember that as I go onto other painting projects....



a Work in Progress
11" x 14" oil on stretched canvas
© 2008

Almost There, Chickadee WIP

I'm so close to finishing this one... it will definitely be done tomorrow. Just a little bit more work on the branches, cone, and other spruce-y details. Still having some troubles with the paper, but I am managing. There is not as much detail as I would have liked in the branches and the colour is too difficult to lift in the bird for any details to be added their.


"Spruce View"
work in progress
4" x 6" watercolour
© 2009

I spent most of the day painting on my of my 'almost' forgotten oil paintings. By almost forgotten I mean I hung it in a temporary frame some time ago to see how it looks and completely forgot about it. I'll post a picture of that one tomorrow when I have a bit better light to photograph it by.

Sunlight Pear

Another favourite summer/fall fruit of mine... one that I have been sketching for a while now and finally have (finished) a painting of it. These little sketch-paintings have been great fun playing with colours and trying to increase the contrast between lights and darks in my paintings. It will be back to birds tomorrow with another update on my latest chickadee painting.



Sunlight Pear
2.5" x 3.5" watercolour
© 2009