Sunday, October 24, 2010

"No Name Road" 20x30 Acrylic on canvas


This is my newest painting. I've been working on this for the last two weeks. Its very detailed and at this point, I'm not sure if adding more details to it would help it any further, but here it is. I took a photo of this old dirt road a few weeks ago, while out on a drive in the Foothills of the Rockies, just west of the city. I came upon this area by chance and noticed how beautiful this little tree lined road looked with its small crooked fence and grassy area on one side and large trees on the other, it looked perfect for a camera picture. It was a clear sunny autumn day and the foothills in the distance looked almost a bright blue with patches of trees with their leaves turning yellow. I really like this painting, as I hope you do as well. 

Monday, October 11, 2010

"Poppy Triptych" 12x16 each Acrylic on canvas




This is my newest work. My inspiration to paint these textured poppies came from seeing the art of a well known Artist from the Daily Painters website. I have been following her work in recent months and I admire her talent and creativity. Her willingness to share some of her techniques prompted me to try it myself. I decided on keeping it simple by not adding any leaves at the bottom and instead keeping the focus on the textured flowers. The flowers are quite large on the canvases and they appear a little top heavy but I think it adds to it's abstract quality. I painted a soft light blue background to cool the orange reds of the flowers and did a wash over them using Iridescent copper mixed with Burnt Umber. I like how they turned out in the end. 





Friday, October 01, 2010

"In The Middle of Nowhere" 20x28 Acrylic on canvas


I finally finished this painting that I had on my easel in my studio. The area that took the longest to complete was the grass. The inspiration for this painting came from a photo I took around April of this year, while driving out to the Town of Okotoks, just south of Calgary. I drove by a farmers field and in the distance was this small house, just out in the middle of nowhere. With the mountains in the background and the sun shining on the house, it made for a nice picture. I later found out that the house is actually a storage shed used by the farmers to store small farm equipment or bales of hay or anything else needed to work the fields. There are many of these dotting the Alberta Landscape. I hope you find this painting interesting as I do.