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| Unfortunately, this painting was framed before I could take a photo, so the image is distorted, but ... |
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| Daylily framed with a beautiful dark wood image size 10 x 14 inches frame size 19.5 x 23.5 inches $560.00 I am having trouble figuring out how to change the paypal price for each post. If you would love to buy this, please leave me a note! Thank you very much!! |
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| White Hollyhock 11.5 x 7.25 inches $165.00 Cdn About once a week or so, I will be posting a painting, offering it for sale. This painting is unmatted and unframed, making it much more convenient to mail. The pigments are color-fast, and of the highest quality, and the paper is Arches 140 lb. cold press. The shipping is not included in the price - I imagine it would be about $20.00. |
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| Studio light |
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| Early morning light, pushing the cools |
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| Early morning, pushing the warms I've tried all different light settings, and I still can't get a true-to-life color with this painting. I think it must be the strong complementary colors of orange and violet. The values are a bit weak, too, because as soon as I increase the contrast, the colors look even more weird. Anyway ... I added some color to the ground and the goose peeking between the other's legs, to bring the focus more to the one with his wings outstretched. |
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| I darkened the entire background. |
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| And I intensified the shadow colors within the flowers. I also lifted some stem at the bottom. Again, it was difficult to get the actual values and colors, working with the complements of purples and greens. |
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| I deepened the background grass colors, as well as the shadows on the kid. I also deepened the pinks on his face. I thank you all for your input on these paintings. It really helps to have outside observations!!! I've been up since 6AM, with Bruno hollering for breakfast. So I finished up some odds and ends with these paintings, and tried to get some decent photos to put up here. Now, it's time for a work-out with the Big Guy, and then hopefully into Vancouver to pick up my niece, and head out to get some photos and sketches of some old Vancouver homes. I thank you for dropping by, and your comments are always welcome! |
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| It's quite a high key painting, and I'm not sure how dark I want to go ... 7 x 7 inch framable |
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| the model |
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| an intimate moment |
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| goat bliss |
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| more goat bliss A few weeks ago, I wandered off down the street with my camera to visit the goat farm. The owner graciously gave me permission to go in and mingle with them. Wow! They were so keen for attention. I had some trouble getting photos, with them milling around, trying to get a scratch. I've never been close to domestic goats for any length of time, and they do have a most distinctive and strong aroma. But the goats were very friendly and well-behaved, and I believe we all had a good time! :) Thank you for dropping by, and your comments are always welcome! |
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| The "hobbit house" on King Edward Avenue 8.5 x 10.25 inches It's not great art, but it is a cute architectural rendering. I surprised myself, and got in done inside of two days. This is truly an adorable little house on one of Vancouver's main streets. It was recently on the market, listed at $2.86 million. No, this is NOT the place to find reasonable homes. Vancouver experienced a huge housing sale boom, starting in the early 1990's. It was quite horrendous; where I was living at the time, houses were being torn down at a rate of one per square block per week. It has slowed down somewhat. But all of these beautiful old homes have been replaced by monstrous houses covering almost the entire property. Anyway, enough of my grump! A few facts about the home ... It was built eighty-three years ago, has 2416 square feet inside, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and sits on a 50 x 130 foot lot. You don't get much here for your housing money! I thought I'd like to do a series of older Vancouver homes. Most of them date from the early 20th c., so are quite Victorian in design. I thank you for dropping by, and your comments are always welcome! |
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| The spare stall is stacked to the ceiling with wonderful, soft hay. |
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| There are even bales stacked in the alleyway. |
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| Garden is still doing well. The snow-peas and lettuce are great [had some for dinner], and everything is growing. |
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| I have darkened the background. As I thought, the shadows and colors in the flowers need to be strengthened - they are just overpowered by the darks. |
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| I started the ink and wash as well. So far, so good ... I was up early this morning, as I knew the hay was being delivered. But I thought Andy would call first. NO ... I was in the bathroom, and had to call out to tell him I'd be a minute. Then I helped unload 120 bales of hay - my stash for the year. It is beautiful this year - soft and green - as we had more rain. It is SOOO nice, I am going to have to put His Imperial Chubbiness on a bit of a diet. He is ready to inhale as much as he can get. Probably a hay-net will be in order, to slow down his eating. So between unloading hay, going on a small cleaning rampage, and doing some painting, it has been a full day. As always, I thank you for dropping by, and welcome your comments! |
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| W/W drop-in-the-paint wash of aureolin yellow. |
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| Another variegated wash, this time of phthalo green [BS]. I allowed the hills and valleys of the wet paper to dictate where the pigment would settle. |
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| And a much darker variegated wash of the phthalo green with some quin. burnt orange. Then I did a bit of lifting with a barely damp brush while it was still wet. I LOVE the effect! For some reason, it brings to my mind visions of fairies in the garden [not that I am a believer, but just a dreamer]. |
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| I am also starting something new - ink and wash. I used a fine Faber-Castell PITT artist pen. This is an older home in Vancouver, known as the Hobbit Home. It really does look like something out of The Lord of the Rings - love it! Thank you for dropping by, and your comments are always welcome. |
