29th Annual Kawartha Arts Festival

Today is the first day of the Kawartha Arts Festival, held in Fenelon Falls, Ontario at the Fenelon Fair Grounds.

The Festival Organizer, Maud Skoog, wanted me to exhibit a few of my nudes and this year I decided to finally bring in and display a couple of my sketches of nudes that I did while in the Life drawing classes at the Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio.

During the course of the day a number of people remarked on the sketches and were pleased to see something exhibited other than the usual landscapes, floral and abstracts.

With this kind of response, next year I will probably bring in either a couple more sketches, or some of my paintings in watercolour, or my drawings in either  pastel or conte.

The hours for the show are:
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. today and
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. tomorrow.

The exhibit is well worth the drive out to Fenelon Falls; and I hope to see some of you at the show either today or tomorrow.

Faces and Figures Art Show

This year with last month and this month being very busy with a number of different shows I only entered one painting in the Faces and Figures Show at the Kawartha Artists' Gallery and Studio.

















Opening Reception will be held on 29 Aug 2015 from 1-4pm. I hope you will be able to come out and enjoy the art show before it closes on 27 September 15.

Body Parts II - Jeremy

Today I was at KAGS for the Life Drawing class and we had Jeremy as our model.

I did a couple of sketches of him and for the long pose I liked the way the light, shadows and reflected light played across his shoulder and arm so I did this drawing.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.

Katherine 3

Katherine is another model that is often used for the life drawing classes at KAGS (see posting on 05 July 2011).

I like the pose and I may develop this sketch into a full colour painting at a later date.

This is a 9" x 12” original graphite pencil drawing and is available matted and shrink wrapped for $50.00.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and look at the artwork.

Katherine 1 and 2

I enjoy doing the one minute gesture drawings. They force you to look for the movement or tension in a pose and to capture what most appeals to you in a short amount of time.

I find I often only glance at the model once or twice more after I have decided what lines to start with on my sketch.

These are a couple of ten minute poses. With that amount of time you can add more detail in the form of muscle mass, fingers, facial features and capture some of the light and shadow.

I may develop Katherine 1 into a colour painting later. I like the simplicity and the light and shadow.

Katherine 1

For the second sketch I tried to capture the tension in the pose as she was not lying back resting on the pillow but supporting herself with her arms.

The pictures shown here are all 9" x 12” original graphite pencil drawings and are available matted and shrink wrapped for $50.00 each.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork.

Katherine 2

Julie 1 and 2

This is the first time I have been at KAGS when they had Julie as their model.

I thoroughly enjoyed drawing Julie as she moved through the gesture poses with a wide variety of different and interesting positions.

I have a number of sketches of her that I still have to complete and will post them at a later date.


Julie 1

In the future I will probably develop this drawing of Julie into a larger painting.

I like the pose and think it has a lot of possibilities and could easily end up as a very nice beach scene.

The pictures shown here are all 9" x 12” original graphite pencil drawings and are available matted and shrink wrapped for $50.00 each.

Julie 2

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and look at the artwork.