Bark Lake

Last weekend I went to Bark Lake Leadership Centre with East Central Ontario Artists Association. Very cold but certainly beautiful. Loads of inspiration to paint and good times with creative friends. I’ve managed a couple of small paintings from the weekend.

Both if these are  done in acrylics on 8x10” Masonite using only a palette knife

Snow Tires

I managed to finish this watercolour today. It started off as a demo for a class I taught last winter. As with most demos it never got all the love it deserved because I had only shown the basics of the snow. It seemed the perfect thing to paint this weekend while stuck inside during a January snow storm.

Snow Tires

10x14” watercolour

Arches 140lb cold press paper

DaVinci watercolours

Reflections Of The Past

Finally finished this one. There were a lot of details to sort out but I enjoyed working on it and am happy with the result. I'm also happy to report that this painting has made it into the Burlington Fine Arts annual juried show and will be on display until January 27th at the Burlington Centre (formerly Burlington Mall). Artists will be at the Hub to answer questions and provide live demonstrations throughout the show. Vote for viewers choice and win a chance at $100 gift card for the mall.

Reflections Of The Past

14x21” watercolour

Arches 140lb cold press paper

DaVinci watercolours

Baby portrait done!

While I’m still working away on other projects, I needed to get this small portrait done for a friend. I love her innocent expression and the strong light. The fuzzy hat with floppy green ears and the chubby cheeks just push the cuteness level over the top. There are a lot of interesting textures here ... smooth skin, fuzzy hat, folds in the shirt and abstract salt-textured background. I enjoyed working on this one. 

8x10” watercolour on Arches 140lb cp paper and DaVinci watercolour paints. 

And now back to my glass painting 😊

Happy New Year 2019! 🎉

Well the holiday excitement is done and it’s finally time to focus on painting again. The winter months are a great time to settle into some quality studio time. First on the agenda is to complete all of the unfinished paintings of 2018. So many were near completion but pushed to the back burner as other priorities took precedence. .
Currently on my palette is a glass and silver project done in watercolour. I’m looking forward to adding the final touches to this one. I love the interesting patterns that the shadows create. 15x22” on Arches 140lb cold press paper with DaVinci watercolours.

February 3rd drawing class

Here are pencil drawings done by my students from Feb. 3rd class.

Pencil Portrait Class

This one was on coloured paper.

Here are the results from my most recent pencil portrait class. There's still another image to add to these but the student has a bit more left to do (she has 2 subjects within one portrait so it took more time). It'll be added soon.