Sand Patches

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I always want a painting I haven't quite seen before, both in motif and method. In this case, the steep hillside and unexpected patches of sand created an unusual design.

Acrylic on Arches 6.75 x 9.75 inches.

August Green, Watercolour Monotype

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 I'm looking forward to using more of this very seductive process this year. For someone like me, who works quickly, it pays to have a number of plates on the go at the same time, because you have to wait for the watercolour to dry completely before you add another layer, or before you print. This is the first print produced, from a single plate image.

2 plates were used for this one, and I think I may have worked back into it with watercolour. The techniques become seamless and after a while, it's even hard to tell what was printed, and what was added by brush later.

 

Evening Green

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A soy bean field in late August...fairly late in the evening. A few big pieces of collage went down first and then a fair bit of acrylic paintwork. Something about the handling of these last 2 collages seems different from my earlier ones.....perhaps more improvisation with the paint....

6.75 x 9.75 on heavy Arches paper.

Haliburton Sky, Early August

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It will often happen that I want to put the least amount possible into a picture...just enough to hint at some sensation that I want to make reference to. Collage is one of the methods that's very useful for this. In this case I painted first, then collaged, then painted a bit more.

There is also a long standing attraction to black...mixed blacks made from colour. I remember a colour similar to this that I used years ago in a number of paintings made at the Emma Lake Workshop in northern Saskatchewan. Recently I've been thinking of those blacks quite often...who knows why.

Trio

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An earlier collage painting that I was looking at again today. Collage and acrylic on pine panel.

Saturday Morning, Rice Lake

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On a beautiful Saturday morning I parked on a steep hill in Bewdley and looked down on the Rice Lake view to diagram this. The residents of a nearby house eyed me suspiciously, finding my behaviour unusual.

Toward the Forest

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Because a certain inevitabitity creeps into process (this follows this, follows this), I try to vary methods often. Yesterday I was on sunlit paths into the forest, places where I haven't spent much time this summer. The hilly paths were bright and inviting. I diagramed in my usual way, but used collage to put myself on new ground again.

August 15, 2012

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The greatest freedom is just stopping and looking at a motif.....perfect silence, watching an effect move slowly through nature. It was very dry and the grey sky was very welcoming on this day.

August 17, 2012

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...the gently skies of later August. August 17, mid afternoon......hints of autumn are appearing.  7.25 x 9, acrylic on unprimed Stonehenge.

August Cloud

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Watercolour on paper, 7 x 10 inches.

After the Rain, Haliburton

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The lake at Haliburton. Last Sunday it rained for most of the day, clearing in the evening. I painted this in my cabin as soon as I arrived.

August Haze

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Acrylic on unprimed Arches, 7.5 x 9.25. I was driving down a country road I hadn't tried yet and was impressed by this very steep hill rising into a hazy August sky.

Mono Mania

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I produced many monoprints, in a number of series. My faourites were a group of self portraits and a group of landscapes made from my customary quick diagrams. I kept over-running the road to the studio, ending up at the town dump, repeatedly. I love dumps so took the opportunity to diagram the scene above. It`s a 2 plate monotype. The self portrait is a one plate monotype but had watercolour painting over top.

Watercolor Monotypes

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Both of these little monotypes are the first printings. In each case I printed the plates a few more times. In the past, I often went back into the plates to made additions between printings, but I didn't in this case. There are always a great many things to try with monoprinting. The workspace shot is my little table at Haliburton. I miss that lovely studio already.

Haliburton Monotypes

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I have long done monoprints or montypes but forgot how wonderful they are. The advantages are the ease and freedom of the processes, and the opportunity to exploit surprise. In a recent workshop attended at Haliburton School of the Arts, I used watercolour on sanded heavy duty plastic plates which were run through the press. Most images were double plate images, meaning that one plate was used to print a unifying undercolour before the top image plate was run through the press. Some of the prints I keep without any further additions, but many have more watercolour added once the paper is dry....this is an example of that.

I will post more monoprints from this workshop over the next week.

I also fell in love with the Haliburton School of the Arts studio building...it is a roomy, wonderful place to work!

Early August, Back Acres.

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Yesterday while it was super hot, I wandered around in the the back acres. It's very dry again and everything was crunching underfoot. Some lovely clouds floating by....but nothing suggesting rain.....I dramatized what I saw here.

Boulder by the Pond.

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A little bit closer to home, painted on the last day of July......a big boulder by the pond, with the evergreens at the perimeter. Acrylic on unprimed Arches, 7.25 x 10 inches.

Toward Tommy's

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A view of County Rd 10 going north....just as the road turns to encircle a hill. I wanted to simplify more than usual here. There was a lot of drawing with blacks that I like to mix.....dark green, blues, with dark red browns mixed together.

Home Sky, Late July

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A beautiful, breezy, sunfilled day in late July. I stayed close to home and made 2 sky paintings. Acrylic on unprimed Arches paper.

Hill at Haliburton, Mid July

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I'll be in Haliburton making paintings and prints next week. This image was diagramed last Saturday at Haliburton, and painted last night.......a view across the lake at Haliburton School of the Arts.

7.25 x 10 inches, acrylic on umprimed Arches.

West Field

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I used to walk these fields at will....they were owned by someone far away who left the land fallow. The land was recently purchased and will be built upon, but this section will be a horse field.

7.25 x 10.5 inches, acrylic on umprimed Arches.

Peterborough Sky

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The day after a rain...much needed water for trees and crops, and very pleasant relief overall. Outside Peterborough, Ontario. Skies remain a large mystery.....I could paint them for years and not be done.

Strange Sky

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We waited patiently for rain and thought we would get some a few nights ago, but heavy clouds moved swiftly through, with corresponding dry lightning bursts. Everything moved through so quickly and there was no rain.  The formations were very odd afterwards....strange vertical clouds and little puffy clouds. Luckily, we had about 1/2 inch of heavy rain yesterday!

Acrylic on unprimed Arches, 6.25 x 8.5 inches.

Rain Wait in July

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Entering the latter part of July and the bean plants are not forming pods....although everything looks pleasant and summery, there is a serious lack of rain affecting both crops and trees.

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Walking home just as the light starts to fade in the evening....lovely, quiet, country lanes. 6 x 7.5 on unprimed Arches.

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Sky, Mid July

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Temperatures cooled gradually after the heatwave, but there was no rain.....just lovely big clouds that roamed off into the distance.

Little Green

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In this July heatwave, I sat down in a bit of shade on the edge of a graveled path, and looked at the little stray plants coming through crushed stone. The acrylic was used in a very washy manner. 

5.25 x 7.5 on unprimed Arches.

Cloud in Heat Wave

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It was barely tolerable in the heat yesterday and that continues today. I had to stay in the shade to diagram for this painting, even though it takes only minutes at most. I love these giant summer clouds that rise over tree lines. You can see what the scale of the picture is like.

Wishing

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A small thing.....5 x 7.5 inches. Habit can be a real killer....it is often the enemy. We get tired of doing the same thing. I often look for ways to change something up. In this case, the diagram was even briefer than usual.....anything that makes an impression is worth making note of, but in this case there was the briefest of scribbles. The painting was made in a very washy way, working into the acrylic while it was still very wet. I enjoyed drawing with a small long brush and also with the pencil. It doesn't take much to make some change.....but it's important to keep doing it almost continually.