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Tiny House Ontario
Painting Process: Tulip Farming
For the last couple of days I was looking around the internet for images of the tulip fields in Holland because I was reminded how lovely they are. I thought with too with having spring early, that it might be sort of interesting to paint one of those fields. I also thought it might be a fun painting to show to the people who read my blog (or who just look at the photos and paintings) what they look like when they are underway.
So if you read my posts, you will know what I am up to and if you just look at the pictures then hopefully you will see that there is more added later.
Anyway, I will post today where I take the image from, along with the first draft of my painting. It is just a tiny little 6×6 gallery matted canvas.
First I painted the entire canvas blue – which I regret now because blue is very hard to cover – so on the first good coat of colour the piece is totally dull when compared to the original image. As I paint more I will post more. March 31.
Development of colour depth. April 1 morning.
Some more background colour in and the beginning of the three farmers. 6:00 pm April 1.
Babysitting my friend’s dog. His name is Bailey and wanted to see what I was painting. Poor Bailey Blue, isn’t he cute though? He has beautiful eyes, like the singer Björk, I think.
A little more work on the details this evening. April 2
Turns out that this is the fiddliest painting ever! Looks so simple – a few stripes on a canvas. Am I right? Oi Veh!
Finally here it is!
Tulip Farming 6×6
Tiny Tiny
Yesterday, when I went to the art store (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), they had a sale on. If you purchased $100 worth of stuff, you got $15% off. My total came to $97 so I decided to pick up a few TINY items. I wanted to get a TINY chisel brush for those little lines that I like so well, but I also thought it might be fun to try tiny canvases. I picked up a 4 pack of 2 &3/4 by 3&1/2 inch canvases… The total was $98 dollars when I was done with my tiny shopping spree, so this painting does not have much in the way of materials into it! Either will the other 3 when I do them.
I don’t think that I like painting quite this tiny – even though it is quick. Here is one of them…
Do you think that something this small needs a name?
Here is another one…
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At Home
This painting is of a place that is very special to me. It belongs to people who I love, very much. It is 24×24 – SOLD
Grandma Moses Children
When you arrive on Wolfe Island, and turn left off the ferry, not too far down the road sits this lovely Tiny House which is actually a child’s play house, I assume.
Having grown up in the country, I could never understand people’s reluctance to move kids to the country because there is “nothing to do”. Nonsense!
In this little image alone, the little girl in me can find at least a hundred things to do. The grown up me too.
I hope that the owners of this beautiful place did not mind my laying on my tummy in their lawn to get this angle? No one yelled at me anyway.
The bench faces out toward Kingston to Lake Ontario.
What I am after in this painting, is the simplicity of Anna Mary Robertson, the solitude of Lawren Harris, the movement of Emily Carr and the light of the Dutch Masters, the mood of the impressionists and the story telling of Douglas Coupland… not asking much of myself, am I?
8×10
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