Painting progression 4
March 15, 2015
MORE TREES needed adding. The suggestion of rocky outcrop is introduced. The aging building is blocked in. Shadowing completes this phase…..
Painting progression 3
March 14, 2015
THE MOON and schoolhouse roof were masked, then a wash applied in the sky areas.
Once done, a decision was made to next eliminate the horse, it becoming an unintended focal point if left in. (A lone horse standing at night in front of an abandoned school in bitter cold would be incongruous).
Painting Progression 2
March 13, 2015
TREES are painted in very dark and the watercolour pigment tempered a bit in order to have it resist being completely taken away by an overlay of secondary wash.
High Country
January 9, 2012
Within the Kamloops city limits lies The Lac du Bois Grasslands Protected Area, dedicated to preserving native grasslands and the sweeping vistas of this special region. Old time ranching and a culture of horses and cattle survives.
This is a region of British Columbia with wide open spaces, with sagebrush and cactus and Ponderosa Pines. It’s a land of Eagles, Hawks, Owls and Ospreys. Through it winds the North and South Thompson Rivers and above their winding, watery ribbons is high country.
'High Country"
Egg Art
January 4, 2012
I first experimented with painting eggs in the late ’70’s by using the Ukrainian method of alternating vegetable dyes with finely applied bees wax. Not a great fan of geometric patterns, my goal was to take the same technique and compose actual scenes. I produced a series of Christmas tree egg ornaments of villages in the snow and moonlit landscapes until I discovered how well eggs received watercolour. Since then I have confined my efforts to the use of watercolours on blown eggs.
By far the best eggs for watercolour are duck eggs. The surface is creamy white and satiny, and the eggs themselves can be very large indeed. Goose eggs are even larger, but not quite as lovely to paint on. My least favourite surface is a chicken egg due to its chalky white quality.
Here are some examples of egg watercolour art:
Hand-painted egg display
This egg was painted as a Christmas Tree ornament, depicting one of the Twelve Days of Christmas:
Christmas Tree Ornament Egg
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