Up coming sale

Well just a few days to get stuff ready for the ReginArt sale at the Delta on April 30, May 1.  Each of the 8 participants are allowed to show ten works of art and there are some bueatiful pieces to be set up.  Move in will begin Mon. evening and the show opens at 11 am untill 9 pm so drop in early to see the best of the best in ReginArt.

Now to some new pieces or rather a new piece, I have been a little slow in my production over the last few weeks.  Had to sit the grand kids for a week and then recover you know.  At an rate, this is a 12x16 in. painting of a rapids on the Grass River between Wekusko Lake and Reed Lake in Northern Manitoba.  It is mounted in a floater frame, which means on close inspection you can see some of the canvas sides an so the painting wraps around the edges abit.  It is titled 'High Water".

Now that the warm weather has finally arrived I hope none of our local streams look like this.

If you get a chance be sure and drop in to the Delta, April 30 or May 1 and see some of my work up close and personal.

There are times that it is neat to look at different stages of a painting as it developes.  As is my usual I don't quite achieve what I want because I get to involved in the doing.  So here  I am doing a painting with some goldleaf background. The first shows the paintingwith the background colour and the goldleaf applied to about half of the canvas.

Then the subsequent layers of colour trying to get the sunset light lighting the weeds in a bright burning look to the edges of the weed and background.  finally the foreground of grass, etc.  There is also a spiderweb that exists on the right side of the canvas behind the white flowers.  You do not see this until the angle of light hits the fine gold etched lines

 

                                         The  next pic is of storm clouds over the prairie.  Sort of two different cloud fronts at sunrise.