"Winter, Camp Samac, Osh. ON"
Oil / Canvas
20" x 24"
This painting was painted outdoors with large brushes as a change.
The subject is part of Oshawa Creek which runs through the
Boy Scout Camp.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Finished Commission
This is a recently finished commissioned oil painting.
The subject is Georgian Bay.
If you are interested in commissioning a painting,
please e-mail me for details.
Thank you.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Palette Knife Painting # 3
"...Ringing In the New, Osh., Ck., ON"
Palette Knife Oil / Panel
10" x 12"
The first snow of 2011 gave my painting spot a fresh blanket of
snow. This is the same subject and stretch of creek as
"Ringing Out the Old..," - (Palette Knife Painting # 2)
Seen from a different angle and with fresh snow.
Like all things being made new! The new snow and
soft light of the day made for some delicate colour shifts,
beautiful nuances of
emerald green,
to turquoise blues,
to violets.
What a great way to start the New Year!
Detail One at 100 %
Painting with palette knife allows for a variety in technique.
Note that the snow is painted very broadly with "belly"
or the face of the knife, it was "troweled" on, yet the slender stocks
of grass, painted with the same 1" knife,
but using the knife's edge.
The partially snow covered leaves (upper right) are suggested
using the tip of the knife.
Detail Two at 100 %
On its own, this looks like an abstract painting. The positive
power of suggestion is seen and felt here with the myriad
of small branches and leaves. Suggested also are the
slender cedar bows weighted with snow.
Detail Three at 100 %
Swiftly moving water as it travels over the small rocks
and pebbles of the shallow sections of creek.
The "toe" or tip of the
knife is used here to create the "dappled" effect.
You can see through the water to the bottom of the creek,
the reflection of the tree and the reflected
colours of neighbouring objects - all at the same time!
The stocks of grass here have not been painted
as the ones in Detail One have been,
but have been scraped out using the tip of the knife.
Only one simple instrument - a
one inch knife - yet great versatility is possible. But more
importantly, the use of only one instrument allows for
greater spontaneity which births the emotive.
The emotive
is what makes
for great art!
Monday, January 3, 2011
Palette Knife Painting # 2
SOLD
"Ringing Out the Old..."
Palette Knife Oil / Panel
10" x 12
Detail at 100 %
On the last day of 2010 it was a balmy 9 degrees.
The snow and the ice on the creek was melting.
It is the subtleties of colours - the melting snow and
ice, the greys of the clay bottom creek bed
and the quality of light of the overcast day
- that make this painting. The use of
only the three primary colours
plus white allows for an infinite number
of colours and harmony of the same.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Palette Knife Painting # 1
SOLD
Palette Knife Painting #1 2010
Oil / Panel 10" x 12"
Detail at 100 %
This painting was painted using only a one inch palette knife and
the three primary colours (yellow, red and blue) plus white.
I hope to paint more of these small outdoor palette knife paintings.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Free Screen Saver
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
SOLD
"Wind and Reflections, Lake Oeasa, BC"
Oil/Panel 10" x 12"
Still Standing, Scarborough Bluffs, ON"
Oil/Panel 10" x 12"
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
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