ANTIQUE DELIVERY TRUCK - WATERCOLOUR WORK IN PROGRESS

Photo I took a few years ago at the Country Celebration at Campbell Valley Park [a nearby large pedestrian and equestrian park, sadly threatened with "improvements" by the parks board]

Did a detailed drawing first, but forgot to include it here.
I started with the roof - an aureolin wash, followed [after dry] by new gamboge wash. Shadows on tires done wet in wet  with indanthrone and a bit of quin. violet and quin. burnt orange.

The same primarily indanthrone mixture was used for the car body shadows.

I made up a green with indanthrone and quin. gold for the body colour, and my favourite mix of indanthrone, violet and burnt orange for black [grille and tires].

... carrying on ... more of the same ...

... and still more ...

I am at this stage now, and must admit I am very pleased with it! I still have the interior to do and the lettering  [you can see the pencil marks]. I am at an impasse - trying to figure out exactly what shapes and colours to use for the background. I think it will be scrumbled with more bulk behind the rear of the truck, fading to a finer, smaller area at the front of the car. TO BE CONTINUED ...

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SAGA OF NEWFOUNDLAND LANDSCAPE - PART 2

Again, I started with the sky, playing it a bit safer by dropping in the pink and blue, not the orange as well.

 ... then added the orange and more blue, all done wet in wet ...

same procedure and colours  for the land masses ...

... started developing some shadows over the snow, using pink and indanthrone ...

... start the buildings ...

This was the stage I was dreading - doing a soggy wet in wet application on a partly finished painting, to simulate the appearance of distant trees in snow on the far right.

Actually, it didn't turn out badly, and looked much better after the second w/w wash. I also worked more on the ground shadows.

I am here now. It's looking not too bad. Em came out from Vancouver a few days  ago, and gave it a big seal of approval, with the proviso that I add more rocks to the foreground. [Newfoundland is a very rough, rocky, and I would say, bleak part of Canada, but then I live on the cushy west coast].

I almost always put a make-shift mat around the painting to see how it's coming along.

So that is the saga, so far, of the Newfoundland landscape.  While Em was visiting, she told me a few stories about the area - it always makes the painting much more meaningful to me. And I will finish the first attempt as well, and Em can take both of them - one for her brother, and one for her.

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MY SAGA OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND LANDSCAPE - PART 1

This was the photo that inspired the painting. It was taken by Em's niece, I believe, and was a wintery view of Dunville,  Newfoundland [Em's birthplace, and home to her family for over two hundred years]. Em wanted me to do a painting for her brother for his birthday.

I also made use of this photo of an Atlantic sunset - for colour only - as  I found the colours in the original photo just not right.

And I was off ... first a wet in wet wash of phthalo  blue, quin. sienna and permanent  rose for the sky ...

 ... some masking out for snow on local hills, then did several glazes of  the pink with some indanthrone and quin. burnt orange...

...started the inlet with pink and sienna ...

... more colour with phthalo blue and indanthrone in the water, and  pink, quin. burnt  orange and indanthrone for the land masses ...

For some reason, at this point, I did not like what I'd done so far. The above image was of the painting as far as I got,  with an earlier colour study on top. I took this photo to send to Em for critique. She loved my colours in the study, but wanted less sky.  I did so, but didn't like the sky in my first attempt. It was a largish painting, and I wasn't keen to start again, but you know me ...

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