Spring on Manitoulin - Landscape Oil Painting

Spring on Manitoulin - 24 x 24" Landscape Oil Painting on Panel

I've attempted to use a more colours than I normally do to create more interest in this painting. The painting technique I'm using for trees is evolving and I'm quite pleased with the result.

Green is a hard colour to work with because if there is too much, it's often too intense, so the trick it to use less, tone it down and still have it read as grass.

Barn in Autumn - Landscape Oil Painting

Barn in Autumn 6x6" Landscape Oil Painting

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This barn is in the Beaver Valley and has a unique roof. I like the colouring of the trees and the asters growing in the field. I'm working on some paintings for fall shows that are coming up.

Barn in Early Evening - Landscape Oil Painting

Barn in Early Evening 6x6" landscape oil painting on panel

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I'm getting ready for The Art Map Open Studio Weekend event at my studio coming up September 30, Oct 1 & Oct 2 from 10-5 pm. I'm painting a bunch of new work for the event. I'll have small pieces and large pieces. There are 22 studios and galleries participating in this event. Visit the event web page for maps and addresses. I'll also be at the Art Crawl event on Sept 24 from 6-10 pm. I'll be in front of Graphic Wear House on Hurontario Street in Collingwood.

The lighting on this barn makes it even more interesting. The shadow on the barn comes from a large tree on the right which is for the most part is not in the painting.

Village Barn - Landscape Oil Painting

Village Barn - 6 x 6" Landscape Oil Painting

This is a painting of a small barn near a village close to where I live. I love barns, especially small barns. This one turned out well. I'm quite happy with it.

Aura of Autumn - Landscape Oil Painting

Aura of Autumn 48 x 24" Landscape Oil Painting

Sometimes when I choose a subject and begin painting, I wish I hadn't picked the subject. This one was worrying to me, I thought I wouldn't be able to execute the trees in a way that I would be happy with. There were a lot of trees. I'm quite pleased with the way this painting turned out. The trees look good and they are faded back just a bit to show that they are in the background. I like the colours too. They look bright and interesting, close to the actual scene.

Canola Field - Landscape Oil Painting

Canola Field - 6x6" Oil on cradled wood panel

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Painting is providing me with a much needed break from work at the moment.

The setting sun is lighting up the side of the barn and small sheds in this painting. I love canola fields. They provide an opportunity for more more colourful paintings. I find that I enjoy painting these small 6x6' panels. They can be completed fairly quickly, which is a good thing right now.

Sometimes the photograph doesn't show the true qualities of the painting. This one is very close.

These wood cradled panels are first sealed, then primed with 2 coats of gesso, then 2 coats of burnt sienna. This one is .75" deep.

Standing Tall - Landscape Oil Painting

Standing Tall - Oil on 10 x 8" panel

I'm getting ready for several art shows this summer and fall. I need to get a lot of painting done.

Birches are fascinating trees and look great in a painting. Many people like birch trees. These birch trees are near Big Bay looking toward the other side of the bay. I love the fact that the trunks are so high and the leaves are concentrated at the top, like lollypops.

Autumn Clouds - Landscape Oil Painting

Autumn Clouds - 10 x 8" Landscape oil painting on panel

Clouds are fascinating to me, especially the big clouds with dark billowy sections. They really add to the overall composition of the painting. Clouds are a challenge to paint, and I keep being drawn to paint them.

The sides of this panel are painted raw sienna, and look like unpainted wood. It looks like a block of wood on the sides. It gives the painting an interesting unique look. 

This is a view from the road from Scenic Caves Road to Ravenna, in Grey County. This is a road that I've travelled on often in recent times. There's always wonderful views to see. 

I'm enjoying my time on this road.

Old Barn with a View - Landscape Oil Painting

Old Barn with a View 12x12 Oil on Panel

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This is the third painting of this barn that I have done. Each time I've painted it from a different angle and in a different season.

I'm drawn to this barn because it sits on a hill with a wonderful array of colour in the background. Layer upon layer and hints of different types of landscape. There are bushes, fields and more tree rows and fields. Each layer is different and each is a different colour. I find that fascinating. Autumn provides  a variety of colour in the rural landscape which I find interesting.

This painting is at the Hanover Saugeen Artist Store currently.

After the Harvest - Landscape Oil Painting

After the Harvest 10 x 8" oil on gallery depth cradled panel

I couldn't resist painting this scene in Grey County, the golden cut grain field was calling my name.

I will be open Friday Aug 9, Saturday Aug 10 and Sunday Aug 11 for The Art Map Open Studio Weekend. I will be here from 10-5 pm.

This painting which is my latest will be on display and for sale. I personally love the texture and colour. I'm hoping one of my visitors will see it, fall in love with it and make it their own. It looks great hanging beside my previous painting Long Shadows.

Long Shadows - Landscape Oil Painting

Long Shadows 8x10 oil on gallery depth cradled panel

I love texture especially when it becomes part of the image.

I enjoy taking photographs from the car as my husband is driving. I like the random images that result from trying to capture something in an accidental manner. Occasionally I get images that appeal to me as painting subjects and most of the time not. This image appealed to me because of the long shadows on the farmer's field, the colour of the shadows and shed combined with the soft green of the grain growing there.

Storm Clouds - Landscape Oil Painting

Storm Clouds, 10 x 8" Oil on Cradled Board 

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I enjoy painting clouds and like the texture that they add to a landscape painting. This is rural Ontario in August. I enjoy painting small landscapes where I can finish a painting and then learn from the experience quickly. Large landscapes take time to create so the lesson it provides is a long time coming.  My hope is that each painting gets better with experience.

On this painting I toned down the greens which I seem to have trouble with each time. They tend to look too intense. I think I've got the green looking more natural here.

This painting is now at the Saugeen Artists' Store in Hanover.

White Lily - Floral Oil Painting

White Lily, 4 x4" oil on panel

It is on panel which is 1-1/2" deep and the image wraps around the panel.  I painted this from a photograph that I took of a lily that grows in my garden.

Red Lily Close Up - Floral Oil Painting

Red Lily Close Up 4x4 oil painting on panel

I am taken with painting red lilies lately. I'm quite happy with this one. The shadows and highlights turned out well. I also have painted some white lilies. I find white flowers are much more difficult to paint.

I will be at the Saugeen Artists Co-op Show and Sale, July 27 - 29, 2012. That's next weekend in Hanover. Let me know if you've seen my blog. Here's the website for the show  www.saugeenartists.ca

Red Lily - Floral Oil Painting on Panel

Red Lily, 4 x 4" oil on cradled panel 1.5" deep.

Getting ready for a show at the end of July and I've been very busy. I enjoy painting flowers... sometimes. This one turned out well. Flowers can be difficult to paint, especially in oils. I find it much easier in watercolour. This was about challenges. If we don't challenge ourselves we don't get better as artists. Lessons were learned painting this flower.

This is a small panel, I got these expecting to enter another show about small paintings but I was too busy to get the entry form done and take the paintings in. It will just appear in another show. This lily grows in my garden here in Grey County. I painted it using a photograph as a reference.

Cloud Illusions - Landscape Oil Painting

Cloud Illusions  6x6" oil on panel

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I'm fascinated by clouds.

I will be in Thornbury at the Cottage Country Show, at the arena, with quite a few of my paintings this weekend April 14 & 15th. Maybe I'll see you there. I'm bringing this cloud painting along too.

My goal with this painting was to lay on the paint thick with lots of texture and not to overwork the painting. I'm happy with the result. Although the photograph doesn't show the greens as they really are.

Peony - Original Oil Painting

Peony - 8 x 6" oil on panel

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August 6 and 7
My studio will be open for The Art Map Open Studio Weekend.
11-5 pm, daily
Stop by to say hello and see some new work. See The Art Map website for maps and location information.

Lily - Original Oil Painting

Lily 6 x 8" on hard panel.

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I am participating in the Bruce Peninsula Art Show this weekend in Lion's Head. I've always enjoyed visiting this show and seeing the many artist's work there.

Since my last post I have been working on a large piece that took a long time to complete.

I just completed a couple of smaller paintings on hard panels. The lily is my latest painting. I have to say that I love the result. I like the texture of the brush strokes and the colour. I'm learning that the colour of paintings don't have to be accurate to life. I broke away from the actual background colour in this painting. It's hanging in Lion's Head this weekend.