Happy New Year
This is my first painting for 2009, as we are only into 2009 by a couple of days i'm hoping this means i'm going to have a productive painting year. This is another from the WetCanvas weekend drawing event. This week was hosted and all reference photos are by Chaos.

Air Plant Sculpture
16" x 20" Acrylic on canvas.

It's not to often you will see me doing a landscape as I seem to have a fear of them but I actually had fun doing this one it flowed so easily. Maybe i've just been so inspired by all the glorious colors this fall, plus the reference photo for this was stunning in itself.

Ref photo supplied by Cyndi for the October 24, 2008 WDE

Aspen Gold
11" x 18" Pastels on sanded paper.

 

One from the October 17, 2008 WDE hosted by Gail aka (RubyRedDog2)
Painting in this Pop Art style reminded me of doing paint by numbers when I was a child, I loved doing them. I'm certainly having lots of fun trying out these different styles and mediums.

Riding With the Windows Down
8" x 10" Acrylic

 

Turtle & Koi
2nd stage
The second stage is the scary stage as I will soak the painting in water and scrub off the gum arabic. I really like it at this point and would hate to ruin it. After I wash it, the painting will need to dry for a couple of days.

 

Turtle & Koi
1st stage
Batiking with Pastels on watercolor paper 30" x 22.5"

 

Turtle & Koi came about from the Weekend Drawing Event on Wet Canvas hosted by EP. Every weekend on Wet Canvas the host person posts 16 pictures, we then have 30 mins to select an image then 2 hours to sketch, paint, digitize or basically do what ever we want to the picture then post it at the two hour mark. It's a time to just relax and have fun and sometimes to push yourself to try something different.

I thought this would be a perfect painting to start off the month of October. I took this picture last October at the Apple Barn in Abbotsford. This little fellow looked so cute clambering over the pumpkins.

Pastel 7" x 10" approx

 

This one has been one of those ones that took me ages to finish but finally it is off the easel. The original photo was taken during a short boat cruise in celebration of my good friends 25th anniversaryfrom Seattle Washington to Vancouver BC. It was early october and we were all sitting outside on the boat deck enjoying the sun, good company, and beer. The sun shining thru the beer and green bucket completely caught my eye and I knew I had to paint it.


Bucket of Beer
Soft Pastel 10" x 14"

 

Sorry for the delay in posting, I have been painting and drawing but haven't had anything worthwhile posting (or completed, the procrastination bug hit me).

I've had this idea in my head for quite some time now to do a series of paintings based on Martini names, this is No.1 of the series. This will also be one of the paintings I will be submitting in the upcoming FV Graphic Guild Show "Something Red" Hope you like it!

Candy Apple Martini
10" x 13" unframed

 

Batiking with pastels, I find that I don't spend enough time just playing and experimenting so i've decided to play more. This piece was done for the Weekend Drawing Event on Wetcanvas. I loved doing this technique and will play some more with it.

7" x 7" pastel on watercolor paper

 

I wasn't happy with the previous photo I took of my painting "Inferno", this one is truer to the actual colors used in the painting.