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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Quaking Aspen, 24 x 36 inches Acrylics on stretched canvas, finished this morning.
Northern Delights
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Northern Delights - Quaking Aspen - 24 x 36 inches Acrylics on stretched canvas, started this morning (left) - work in progress - above: after a few more hours. Will keep brushstrokes and colors fresh and uncomplicated in this one.
Eastern White Pine
Friday, February 1st, 2008
Eastern White Pine 18 x 24 inches Oil Pastels on paper, framed size 21 x 27 inches
Finished today, and the first drawing in a long time that I didn’t stop to document along the way…that breaks the momentum of work sometimes. This one kind of flew out for a change! It can be viewed in Arlington, Texas at AVAA’s 32nd Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibit, February 15 - March 28, 2008.
Salt Spring Island
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Salt Spring Island, B.C. early morning - 18 x 24 inches - pencil, eraser, dry pastels, colored pencils on paper, framed size 28.5 x 34.5 inches. Drawing details:
Credit to my Dad, Jim Drury for the photo references.
Salt Spring Island - WIP
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Salt Spring Island, B.C. - 16 x 22 inches pencil, eraser, dry pastels, colored pencils. Stages1 and 2 in progress:
Cedar, Stony Swamp
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Cedar, Stony Swamp, Ottawa, ON, Canada 12 x 9 inches graphite and watercolors on W/C paper
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Cedar, Stony Swamp, Ottawa, ON, Canada 12 x 9 inches graphite and watercolors on W/C paper | |
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Takkakaw Falls
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Takkakaw Falls, Yoho Valley, B.C. 830 feet high, said to be the most impressive waterfalls in North America.
12 x 9 inches pencil, watercolors, based on antique Vandyck photos of the Canadian Rockies.
New series of watercolor studies
Friday, January 11th, 2008
Mt. Assiniboine, about forty miles southwest of Banff, Alberta. 12 x 9 inch watercolor/pencil study.
I inherited some charming antique books of hand-colored Vandyck Photogravures of Canadian Rocky Mountains scenery as it was at the turn of the twentieth century.
The montone sepia and few other pale colors add such a warmth to the already beautiful scenery in the 1910 photographs, and since I haven’t tried watercolors for years I thought they would make perfect studies.
Polypore Fungi painting update
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Polypore Fungi finished - 58 x 41 x 1.5 inches,acrylics, modeling paste, plaster on canvas
One of the goals for this painting was to see if a composition could remain balanced with the main subject offset to the right. With Petra’s suggestion there is more contrast..also scrubbed some paint away for more background to show through.
Considered smoothing out and the fungi with more plaster and sanding, decided against, and painted illusion instead. I like the rougher hand-made look of the fungi, and think it can’t venture too far from the blurry background (style balance). Painting finished, but open to critique.
Polypore Fungi * are lesser appreciated life forms that help maintain the healthy life cycles of forests by aiding the decay and conversion of plant and animal matter into nutrient-rich soil. {*and mushrooms, bacteria, molds, lichen and other non-flowering plants}
Polypore Fungi (WIP)
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
The 3D fungi idea was fun to try. I ended up carving the modeling paste and plaster, because it was so goopy and hard to manage wet.
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