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se only one subject and draw stay tuned btw i hope and trust that you are all cheering spring on if not why not cheers for the moment be creative on april 02 2019 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest getting old blogging and painting i had my 76th birthday a week ago no problem but i am ready to start a new painting now and there is a problem here is what i want to paint colchicum with lady s mantle dying hosta and fallen magnolia leaf background btw the big black triangle on the left about half way down is a screaming still very green hosta leaf i did not want so out it goes this is a colchicum autumn crocus at our front door when it was in bloom late october early november they are soo pretty such delicate looking blooms for the time of year and the gorgeous mottled fuchsia pink is to die for i have some closeups of the stamens for my detail work you cannot believe how beautiful they are i shall post them eventually but let s get over these little hurdles first as i am getting old my eyes are giving me grief so it is very hard to see the details i love to draw and to paint if you look closely at this photo you will see that i have outlined all the parts i have trouble distinguishing using a fine microperm pen i love those pens then in preparation for drawing my bloom and sketching in leaves stems interesting bits from my background i have drawn a 1 grid on an 8 5 x11 paper this crop of the painting is 7 25 x 10 25 so enlarged it will nicely fit my half sheet of watercolour paper 15 x22 now here s the trick i can draw anything i really want to draw lucky me but as i cannot see the details well i put a sheet of clear acetate over my photo and trace over the nice clear little black lines i drew over the photo then i tape my original photo to a piece of heavy card for colour reference and the acetate tracing to the gridded paper like this gridded paper with the acetate tracing taped onto it so i can see clearly to draw onto the wc paper see how clear this is now i do not trace the drawing onto the enlarged grid on my wc paper i will draw it myself just as i would draw from the photo if i could see the darned thing clearly so ya see you can work around developing cataracts if you are determined enough i have not started my drawing yet but have gridded my wc paper 2 squares like this a half sheet of winsor and newton 140 lb not paper with a two inch grid drawn onto it i am excited to get at this painting i have had a bit of a hiatus having finished the kale a couple of weeks ago it took me a while to decide which of my many photos to work from the colchicum won out nb i am using a half sheet this time it was fun working on a full sheet but my back got pretty tired see the reference to my advanced age i ll post steps as i continue working on this painting and will also post sone details of the stamens they are gorgeous i am going to try to post this to facebook too cheerio for now on january 19 2019 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest new year greetings all and very best wishes to you for a wonderful creative and healthy new year i have been very slack on my blog lately partly as i am not quilting partly that i am very lazy having had a lot of major health problems to deal with in my family it wears me out but we are coping and getting along with things now so hopefully i ll be more regular i keep thinking i should close this blog as it is sort of false advertising now but it is likely where people know to look so perhaps just think of it as rtpainter now instead i am in the middle of divesting myself and my laundry room studio of all of my quilting and dyeing stuff my goodness gracious i have a lot of stuff down there i have one possibly two friends coming next week to pick over the piles and see what would be helpful to them i want no money for this stuff just the space and the peace of mind knowing that there is one small corner of the house where there is some semblance of order we are getting older and as we have only one child thinking of her having to clean up this place after we have shuffled off is keeping me awake nights these pics represent a fraction of my stuff i do hope someone can use it some of it at least same stuff from the other end of the table i have finished my kale painting it is on arches 140 lb cold press paper a full sheet 22 x30 it was really quite a huge job started before my watercolour course and finished after it was done i think on the whole that i am fairly pleased with it it has been such a long time since i painted seriously and it feels really good painting drawing for me is a great retreat into peace and sanity i always enjoyed the fibre arts but my true love has always been painting this photo is unfortunately kind of woolly i really need to shoot pics of my paintings with the big nikon camera and proper lighting these are all just phone pics ok but not beautiful i recently submitted a dna sample to ancestry com dh gave it to me for christmas as he knows how hard i find it knowing only one side of my family my dad born in 1919 was adopted by two maiden english sisters who worked for a while in hamilton on as matron and asst matron of the wctu nursery where dad was left as an infant i have the official adoption papers from 1925 when the whole thing was finalized his birth name was james davidson but grandma and aunty officially changed it to theo hamilton morris i have agonized over learning more about dad s family forever i may have a tiny crack opening in the secrecy as a result of the dna test but no answers and maybe never any answers anyway i have subscribed again for six mo to anc com so we shall see between that trying to shed all this ballast and looking for my next subject to paint i am pretty busy oh and the health issues and their attendant appointments continue too we are well booked up into mid august so dear friends i solemnly promise to try to do better here on my blog and hope to hear from you happy new year all and god bless on january 10 2019 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest to whom it may concern i am sad to say that i have just added security to my blog sorry folks but i have just been over an hour deleting a lot of comments i think in arabic if you are a friend or family member please comment in english as i will not read or reply to something i cannot understand i am sorry but we live in funny times thanks on december 04 2018 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest backlit spotted pink hellebore finished but as yet untitled i believe that my spotted pink backlit hellebore is finished i am at the staring place you know where i prop it up and catch fleeting glances or longer so i can see it in different lights and watch for little uglies 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 ...