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ies to leap out at me this painting is on winsor and newton 140lb not paper half a sheet paints are all wn i have learned sooo much in the online course i followed with marney ward it and she are just excellent i shall go back over my notes and the little videos many times hoping to improve my work in stages as i go i am on the whole quite pleased with this piece in hindsight i would do the background differently but i think this works reasonably well it was very early spring so the original photo has lots of winter debris in it and it is quite busy i still wonder if i should not have tried for more variation in value in the bg to indicate the wonderful morning backlight guess i ll never know this took me a long time protecting all those stamens with masking fluid to keep them paint free eventually removing it all tidying it all up it was very raggedy on the stamen edges and then painting them all and then just for a giggle at the end painting all those spots this painting and i know each other very well now we are very good friends now and i am pleased that i have learned so much and that i have been able to put it into practice i would urge you all to look at marney ward s website her work is soo inspirational the thing with my painting is that technically i guess it is alright but to me it doesn t say too much i want to learn to make my painting speak sing communicate skill first esoterics to follow i hope i certainly intend to continue to strive for excellence i am on facebook if you can find me not sure how that works i cannot find me anyway icy cold bright wednesday here in ontario s banana belt i wish you all well and hope you are healthy and safe and creative on november 21 2018 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest facebook well i have finally succumbed and joined facebook i am total rubbish at it and have almost no idea what i am doing i am posting and i am getting some replies but i find it cluttered and confusing how long i will stay anyone s guess i have started my watercolour course and guess what i am stressing and uptight a bit not sure why except that there is a lot on my mind right now so i am soldiering on trying to learn as much as i can the course is excellent i am not but i am learning a ton our little pink colchicum is in bloom at the front door they are kind of gangly but soo pretty one of the common names for colchicum is naked ladies because they lack leaves the leaves come in the spring like grape hyacinth i am just shooting lots of photos at various stages these are ok but i think i have better ones on the camera from today if you can enlarge these look at the colours in the stamens sooo pretty anyway does anyone know how to id oneself as being on fb i have no idea i have tried googling myself and can t find me but i am there i am going to go and spend a bit of time right now putting masking fluid on mu stamens it s a hellebore there are lots on october 04 2018 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest too many irons in the fire there we are this is where i really am at the moment sorry it is fuzzy focus but you get the idea making great progress on the kale but it is on hold now for a bit i started my eight week online course on wednesday past and need to concentrate on it and on getting set up for this upcoming surgery adventure so far though still lots to paint at this stage this is where i was earlier in the week it took a goodly long time to get the rest of the first basic paint colours on and then over a day to get the masking off all of the frills and the veins it worked well for me though and i have stopped at this point i promise to get a better pic in decent light as this was a phone shot in artificial light the painting is not yellow horrid photo but you can see that i have almost finished the basic painting this at this stage i have all of the colours in place now and all of the masking off and will get a better pic shortly meanwhile i have started my course with marney ward online and have chosen and cropped this photo to work from this is my crop and i will be drawing from this version and painting from this version why two photos well the one i am drawing from is easier for me to see as the colours are lighter the second one is a bit richer in colour and i like that better it will be on a half sheet of 140 lb winsor and newton paper well slightly wider than half i may add more to this post eventually but dh is awaiting my assistance btw i am now finally on facebook if you are interested i am just running out of time three weeks and two days till surgery yikes soo much to do o on september 23 2018 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest and so it continues earlier this afternoon i have spent the afternoon painting waiting for paint to dry waiting for dh who s been at the dentist for a surprise root canal and enjoying back and forth imessage with an overseas relative all very enjoyable with the possible exception of the root canal i am starting to lay in some basic colours in the individual leaves of this little kale plant how exciting that almost every leaf is slightly different colours with an underlying grey greeny blue rounding the bend with the lighter coloured leaves it begins to look slightly kale y cabbage y i am getting excited to lay in some of the delicious dark shadowed areas here and there and especially in the centre that should make it pop i hope you all have a wonderful weekend talk soon on september 14 2018 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest some small progress is being made but i have lost the good light for tonight this house needs a few more light bulbs and a lamp or two repaired i have lost any light that would help me so i am blogging instead of painting here s the photo on the painting for reference actually this version of the photo is a bit wishy washy so i am using the ipad for better colour i have been working this afternoon mixing vein coloured paint and beginning to paint the veins i will do them and a few pale or white highlights as well and then use masking fluid to cover those bits so i can paint my background freely and not destroy the details this is so much fun i have just gotten my receipt for payment for the course with marney ward i am very excited and can t wait to get started unfortunately i will miss two days in the middle for a pre op and then surgery on 19 oct not to worry marney says all the material will be available so i am not worrying i feel like progress is being made on the kale the drawing for this one was hard because it is so big 22 x 30 i don t normally work that big it s killing my back when i put the masking fluid on it will lie flat on the diningroom table the easel is great for painting but i want the whole thing flat and easy to turn around so i don t drag my hand or anything over wet stuff here is the overview with no distractions it is coming along and i hope to finish this part and let it dry tomorrow ready for the masking my homework for ms ward s course is to either take a floral photo or find one to use as a reference photo for my painting for the course do ya think i have enough floral photos i made an album on my flickr of potential candidates i have soooo many that could work just have to settle one the one that moves me the most at the moment that ll keep me out of trouble for a while hope you are all well and gainfully employed we have had are having rain today which is a true blessing it is pretty darned cool too another blessing ok i am off take care everyone and stay tuned on september 10 2018 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest moving right along if you want a treat some time look up elizabeth tyler s paintings she works in acrylic and watercolour and she has become one of my muses she s an amazing woman just a tad younger than i widowed fairly recently and sailing solo for six months a year in the waters around greece i will not be doing that but her painting particularly watercolour and her methods graciously shared on you tube and also an ebook 19 95 usd that i have purchased are teaching me a lot elizabeth really inspired me with a watercolour of a big red cabbage google it some day someone needs to teach me to make links as i had recently bought a little ornamental kale for my front door urn i have decided to try to paint it here is my reference photo i just love this little kale plant there are soo many glorious colours in it i hope i can manage to do it i am very motivated i have gridded the photo in one inch squares and transcribed the drawing to a full sheet 22 x30 of arches cold pressed 140 lb paper hope i do not regret not using the winsor and newton paper so now i have my drawing all done except for tidying up and making a few spots clearer this is hard to see but here s a quick pic from my phone sorry it is so wispy but i need the drawing and don t want the pencil lines too obvious i could not do this one without pencil guidelines the next job will be to paint then mask the veins and some of the leaf edges i have not had great success with masking to this point but in this case a i am very motivated and b i have pens nibs a ruling pen good masking fluid w n and a number of different brushes i can use wish me luck and remember me in your prayers please i think that if i can get the veins and edges painted and nicely masked the rest should be easier and actually fun i love colours and look how many there are in the ref pic glorious i have also started working on choosing a palette the vein colours and that very deep shadow colour are my biggest concerns at the moment very exciting experimenting though did i mention at all how much i am enjoying this a really wretched pic but elizabeth tyler s palette is down the left side and my auditioned colours and mixes are starting along the top a bit clearer view i am liking some of the very darks and et s palette i will play with these colours and try some mixes although elizabeth s final outcome is quite different colours than my little plant and my reference pic so i may be on my own i plan on visiting fibre content on tuesday coming with my aunty from the catalogue it seems like a nice show if you are in the vicinity do drop in it is at the art gallery of burlington runs every day until 16 september see you there perhaps on september 09 2018 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest the end and the beginning good morning all it is a brutally hot humid morning here today i m just getting ready to take my three quilts to the art gallery of burlington for the saqa show fibre content 2018 i submitted and had juried into the show three quilts ruby dangles bug lunch and unloved that beech will gather brown almost 250 pieces were submitted by 123 artists and 90 pieces were juried into the show representing 60 artists i feel fortunate to have had all of my pieces accepted the show runs from 06 sept to 16 sept drop in if you are in the vicinity if i can find pics of my pieces i ll post them the daylily finished but not signed here it is now this was a lot of work but i learned a ton and know a lot of things i d do differently another time i had a hard time with background this was just too high and busy so i washed as much of it away as i could and tried this and i found this just too dark though it doesn t look badly here eventually i washed some of the dark away and added three overglazes of yellow to sunny it up a bit here s the final look i like this a lot better the yellow picked up the glowy centre and it made the greenish pistil more obvious too i was having a hard time working as i have lost my good lamp in the diningroom where i used to work i moved to a small table in front of a big northfacing bay window in the livingroom and it is much better i searched for and found a great little compact table easel so now i am set fyi the easel is called a ravenna sketchbox easel and i found it on amazon ca there are lots of versions of the same thing love the drawer but dh is going to put a wee knob on it so it is easier to pull out other than that it is fabulous and really makes a comfortable place to work there we are mildred mitchell done dusted and in situ in the window on the easel i shall look for pics of the three quilts and post them later but have to get ready to deliver them now tirra all more later well i found them here are my quilts and the cover of the catalogue ruby dangles it is a bit brighter than it looks here my beech leaves it is much bigger than bug lunch in reality bug lunch and i got my own personalised copy of this year s catalogue so there you are dates for the show and some of the work nice to be a cover girl now i need to make lunch and then shop the larder is almost bare tirra once again on september 04 2018 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me rtquilter ontario canada i am a passionate creator i work at it almost every day often all day and well into the night i am a relatively solitary soul and so is my husband we are not anti social we just do not need people around all the time i live on the edge of a lovely wood full of birds and wildlife i love the woods and my garden all fodder for creative work i am a colour junkie and i love embellishing things i have recently rediscovered the joy of hand embroidery nicely addictive i am now also a passionate photographer and love macro photography recently i have returned to my watercolours and paintbrushes view my complete profile liebster award 2013 blogs i follow watercolourswithlife blogspot com followers blogs i follow aventures textiles feutre fibres de soie broderies 8 years ago carolyn saxby mixed media textile art cornwall colours and textures we 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