Burns Fine Art

Oil, Painted with Large Brushes

2011-01-21T16:08:00.000-05:00

"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.

My Paint Box - an Old Friend

2011-01-13T11:07:00.000-05:00

All the paintings on this site are created using the primary palette.

Finished Commission

2011-01-11T10:25:00.005-05:00

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.

Palette Knife Painting # 3

2011-01-06T13:50:00.221-05:00

"...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!

Palette Knife Painting # 2

2011-01-03T15:07:00.103-05:00

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"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.

Palette Knife Painting # 1

2010-12-24T12:55:00.016-05:00

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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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Free Screen Saver

2010-08-28T19:54:00.011-04:00

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Slide Show with Music

2010-08-28T18:13:00.020-04:00

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PREVIEW

2010-08-12T12:45:00.003-04:00

"Back Lane, Calg., AB"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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"Cedars and Brook, Osh., ON"

Oil/Canvas 20" x 24"

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"Fence Pool, CB, NS"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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"Lake McArthur, BC"

Oil/Canvas 20" x 24"

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2010-08-08T17:59:00.000-04:00

"Last Light, CB, NS"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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"Morain, Lk. Oesa, BC"

Oil/Canvas 20" x 24"

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"Below Beaulacban, CB, NS"

Oil/Canvas 20" x 24"

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"Spring Green, Osh. Creek, ON"

Oil/Canvas 20" x 24"

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2010-08-06T12:33:00.000-04:00

"Elbow Falls, AB"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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"Blue Trailer, Calg., AB"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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"Sulpher Mountain, AB"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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"Thaw and Freeze, Calg., AB"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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2010-08-02T14:25:00.002-04:00

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"Spring at the Bluffs, Scarb., ON"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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"Marsh, Osh., Creek, ON"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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"Winter Shadows, Osh., ON"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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"Spring's Arival, Osh. Creek, ON"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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2010-08-02T14:13:00.004-04:00

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"Wind and Reflections, Lake Oeasa, BC"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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Still Standing, Scarborough Bluffs, ON"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"
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"Sun-dappled Cedars, Osh., ON"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"
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"Winter Thaw, Osh. Creek, ON"
Oil/Panel 10" x 12"
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2010-08-02T14:03:00.004-04:00

"Sun-lit Clearing, Osh. Creek, ON"
Oil/Panel 10" x 12"
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"Forest's Edge, Osh. Creek, ON"
Oil/Panel 10" x 12"
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"Path, Osh., ON"
Oil/Panel 10" x 12"
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"Sun-lit Cedar, Osh. Creek, ON"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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2010-08-02T12:59:00.006-04:00

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"Winter Brook, Osh., ON"
Oil/Canvas 20" x 24"
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"Scarborough Bluffs, ON"
Oil/Canvas 20" x 24"
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"Pownding Surph, CB, NS"
Oil/Canvas 20" x 24"
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"Last Dunes, Cavendish P.E.I."
Oil/Canvas 20" x 24"
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2010-08-02T12:49:00.000-04:00

"Rock of Ages, Lake Oeasa, BC"
Oil/Canvas 40" x 48"
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"Starting to Snow, Lake Oeasa, BC"
Oil/Canvas 36" x 40"
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"Cavendish Dunes, P.E.I."
Oil/Canvas 20" x 24"
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"Conlin Bridge, Osh., ON"
Oil/Canvas 20" x 24"
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Early Snow

2010-06-24T23:02:00.000-04:00

Gypsy Artists

2009-06-30T16:06:00.000-04:00

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Plein-air Workshops

2009-03-20T09:27:00.014-04:00

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"Cedar Overhang, Osh. Creek, ON"

Oil/Panel 10" x 12"

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Plein-Air Workshops– Oil, Acrylic and Watercolour

May Classes Offered on PEI

Destination/Holiday Landscape Painting Workshops with Bill Burns A.O.C.A.Tap into your creative self and discover tremendous self-confidence in your abilities as a painter! This easy method is great for the novice and advanced student alike. Learn to paint directly with great assurance and confidence as you discover the secret of simplifying your subject. This course teaches you how to see so as to render the principles of form, perspective, space, light, shade, plain, structure, proportion and texture by the use of two elements. YES, only TWO ELEMENTS; shape and light values! Discover principles of dynamic composition. Also, learn how to avoid muddy colours and use the light value scale and three primary colours to add vibrancy and vitality to your paintings. Discover the master artist within you!

A graduate of Ontario College of Art, Bill has been painting on-location landscape for over 25 years. Bill's approach to art is, simplistic - but intuitive - sensing the relationship between the intuitive and the emotive. "Art is emotive", he says, "and ones materials and approach must facilitate this". In his Workshops an emphasis is placed on a unique way of seeing and limited materials, which together, lend themselves to the emotive.

Bill will teach Plein-Air Workshops on PEI in May, on Cape Breton in June, in Ontario in July and in Alberta in August.