Uncle Bud's Art Colony

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Hay peeps Happy Thanksgiving! Everyone of our American friends will stuff their belly's and be with family today!

I know our Canadian friends have already enjoyed their Day of Thanks, and now it's our turn.

I am thankful for This little post and blog and all of you!

Check this little flower I caught this spring and check out the spider on the pedal on the left side.

I thought about a black canvas and blow this up to a very large 24 inch by 30 inch or larger, painting the flower only!

Well to everyone of you May god bless you and have a great day!!!!!

Thankful for Everything

9:22 AM

Kathy

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Wow I cannot believe that we have hit 3000 views. Thank you!

This is one of the first paintings I posted sometime back and hope you enjoy it again.

Lighthouse, dark clouds, and waves splashing! Love to paint this subject!

As I go forward with this post I would love to hear from you what you would like to hear about and see.

I know I will be going to some local museums and take some photos of important works of art coming up.

Well Thanks again keep looking and reading my stuff and I will try to bring some good content to you.

Mr. 3000 Views

9:51 AM

Kathy

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We eat at "Red Lobster" as much as we can afford. I loved their old signage, but some of the pictures of the ocean and water scenes are very cool too. www.redlobster.com

So the rules are thus: you can not copy anyone's art work and call it your own, but you can take Ideas, bits and pieces for example: The rocks, how the sunlight hits them as well as the shadows. Also you could use the shapes of the lighthouse and how the roundness of the walls are accented with light and shadow.

I have always loved the lighthouse, I saw them in Michigan and around the Great Lakes. They are iconic to the lakes.

One could take a variety of pictures and make a composite of several lighthouses for a completely new picture.

News Alert! I understand that the Cincinnati Museum of Art will have a display of Vincent Van Gogh paintings and drawings, www.cincinnatiartmuseum.com There will be 20 pieces of art work from around the world. So if you are near there stop in for a bit of education with the master!

Ideas - Lighthouses- News alert Van Gogh

9:41 AM

Kathy

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Here's the super moon again and this time I put a pine tree and snow with those long night shadows.

The fence leads back to the low trees behind the main subject hopefully to lead the eye around to the main focal point. This was one of those paintings that is truly a little experiment, or working "study" for another painting.

The lay of the land is also important in doing these style of paintings, giving the picture a look of real depth pushing back the other items in the painting.

This is like the one from yesterday its done in blues and Payne's gray with a little brown for the fence.

I understand it will be a long time before we will see a moon like this again, 30 years or so. But as far as snow I think we may see some soon around the Ohio Valley.

The Moon, and Trees in Snow

9:40 AM

Kathy

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The last few days in Northern Ohio and the Northeast United States we saw the Moon like never before.

The sun and moon have been a subject of many paintings even as far back as caveman times. The stars and other heavenly bodies have always fascinated artists as well as the average man and woman.

One of my favorite sky paintings of course is Van Gogh's "Stary Night".
This is a watercolor of the super moon we've been watching.

I could also see this as a winter scene or a Christmas card. I could add a pine tree or two and bam! I could have also made a northern light painting out of this with colors reflecting upward.

This was a fun wet on wet project I left the moon dry till the very end of the painting. I wanted it to be a Harvest type moon feeling.

Well lets keep looking up!

Super Moon

9:01 AM

Kathy

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This is from a picture of my grand daughters. This picture is perfect for a painting. there is movement, there is a cool sky, and a bridge!

The first painting I did was the one on the far right. The shadows and the colors of the girls dresses were very interesting, but as I looked even harder at the picture I noticed other things in the shapes and shadows. So I did the one on the left. I think the detail and colors hit the mark with that painting.

I like these paintings so much because the older girl is helping her little sister up the path. In life that is the way it should be, sisters helping one another thru life!

The little painting in the middle is just a slap-dash with color and form. I still tried to retain the feeling of the overall painting.

Well today's a great day to be indoors and work in the studio. Outside the wind is blowing and a little while ago we had strong snow flurries. Hello winter! ugh!

Going to the Beach

11:08 AM

Kathy

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This cloud has so much character. I like the way it curves back in the picture.

These dunes are amazing, I have painted them in several ways. With watercolor they are transparent and the dark bushes and reeds are a great accent!

When I paint sky and clouds with watercolors I try to just suggest the shapes with cobalt blue and then use ultramarine very wet as a shadow. This way you can build a cloud shape and again suggest what you are painting.

Some people tell me that clouds are hard to paint but I think it depends on the medium, oil, acrylic, or watercolor. With oil you can add it over your painted background sky, the same with acrylic. but watercolor you have to leave your paper more of a white or "Raw" state.

So today one more cloud. Keep looking up and check it out!