Uncle Bud's Art Colony

Sunday, April 30, 2017

This old barn is no more. They have torn it down. I drew it and took some pictures of it a long time ago because I loved the height and trees beside it.

This is pencil on gray paper and I used white charcoal and a little bit of regular charcoal. The colored pencil was to do the accents and build up the tones and values of the barn and tree.

This old Barn had so much character and drew me into it, because of the work a day feel it had. Some subjects are that way to an artist, you see something and just have to paint or draw it. I remember as a child I would just have to color a picture in a coloring book.

I added the knots and broken boards at the base of the lean to, again to add interest. I free handed this drawing if I was doing it for a real painting I would straighten every line on the edges, But as this was just a sketch for my own benefit I quickly dashed it off.

When you paint something like this I think you want to make it as professional and with all your lines as straight as possible. When it is a study or sketch get your color notes down and shapes in place.

So as I always say keep your brushes wet and now sharpen the pencil!.

The Old Barn is Gone!

10:30 AM

Kathy

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I saw this gray paper and wanted to try an experiment, like every good artist we try new things. The Gray tone paper is already your back ground, and it is a great way to have your middle tones already in your drawing. The sycamore tree is an old tree even spoke of in the bible.

I like the Ohio breed it gets huge and has this green and white bark and thousands of branches. It sprouts leaves later in the spring. I drew this one like a tree I saw near Ohio State University Hospital / The James- Wexner Cancer Center. I added the wooden fence just to see if it would add interest to the drawing. It did.

At the Rife Museum in down town Columbus a few years ago they had an Ohio artist on display who studied in France with some of the impressionist. He painted some pictures with obvious Ohio Sycamores and brought them back here to show and they were fantastic.

Near where I live there are many places I can go to study these magnificent trees! They usually grow very tall and spread their shade every easily. I like them near a farm scene.

Pick a tree near your home, work, or school, Draw it, paint it, or take a crayon and sketch it out. It is how we learn to see nature and what we want to see to draw and paint.

Well lets sharpen our pencils and get our brushes wet!

Sycamore Tree on Gray Paper

11:15 AM

Kathy

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This western painting is by Fredrick Remington.
He was a water-colorist and an oil painter from the east and exploded on the America art scene.

He did hundreds of pencil studies of cowboys and Indians, cavalry soldiers and old timers who inhabited the west. In early 1900's the west was changing and a few artist saw this and began to preserve it.

This painting is in the Cincinnati Museum of art and is one of our best museums to visit in the Mid-west with excellent displays everyday.

In this painting he did the rule of thirds, one third open on the left, one third with most of the subjects, and the last third on the right building on the far distant back ground.

The sand stone and scrub brush and far mountains keep this in the yellow tones and the blue sky accents the soldiers and Indians blue clothes and jewelry.

This is one of many great painting on display in Cincinnati go down an take a look.

Well let get our brushes wet and paint on.

Remington - Track in the Sand

8:39 AM

Kathy

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NEVER COPY OR BREAK COPY WRITE LAW! Gather ideas, look at pictures, take your own pictures, study shape and forms of things and such, but NEVER copy someone's work.

If you are painting something for you and you alone maybe, but why take a chance. If you do paint something always attribute it to that artist and use it as a study. We all have copied the old masters, but not for sale. Van Gogh painted many pictures from Delacroix and Millet, but always said it was a study.

This painting was one I did for the shape for the red birds, and the little sparrow. I was happy with the sparrow, but the red birds just got a way from me. I like the blocked out back ground and you can see where I left room for the other birds.

Christmas and greeting cards are a great inspiration for Ideas to paint. I find the more I practice the better at drawing or painting I get. The happier I am with the out come. So you can see why I always say keep your brushes wet and your pencils sharp.

So to be a repeater Keep them brushes wet and sharpen your pencils!

Some Idea Gathering

12:35 PM

Kathy

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I think every painting has a base color. So many paintings have a color like red, green, blue, and yellow ocher. Just like a play or a movie, even a house has a pallet or color scheme.

Some people just naturally have that good taste to pick those colors. It seems to me that they can pick the right colors and make their home more homey. Right now in home decor the blue grays and neutral colors are a big hit, sand-stones and bone.

By the way who is the person that names colors? "Off white, Tangerine, sombrero and moon glow." I want that job, but you know it is probably harder than we know. Anyway I notice that even if I don't conscientiously pick a color scheme many paintings come out with a primary color.

Look at my pallet you can see I have mixed a mostly blue stream of color with green and yellow as secondary colors.

So Kids keep your brushes wet and dip in.

My Pallet and Color Scheme

7:37 AM

Kathy

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There is a poem or a "saying" I've read on the internet. It sparked this warriors feather.

Fear said, "The Storm is coming."
The Warrior said, " I am not afraid, I am the Storm."

In life and so many other things we do, Fear will try to jump in and stop us. You can live in fear or you can live in spite of fear.

So many of us are afraid to paint or to do a certain subject, but I say do it afraid anyway! Jump in the water it is not that deep, swim or sink you can do it.

This is a black canvas and I took a dark green and blue with a touch of purple. This did my back ground then I used a gray blue for the feathers. The lower part of the feather is a Payne's Gray with gesso added to highlight the individual bit of feather.

The hair piece is painted as if it is fur and beads woven into a band to hold onto the head band. When I was in Canada at the Fort near Sault Ste. Marie I saw things like this. Native American Indians used trade beads from France and other parts of Europe for accents to their clothes and Moccasins.

Wet this was a case where I had my brushes wet and ready. And fight thru your fear!

A Warriors Feather

8:19 AM

Kathy

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This cabin was so much fun to paint! I used yellow and orange for the light in the windows, and red for the rusty metal roof. I also painted the foundation with a tan and umber. Then I made a dark brownish color for the fire wood I stacked outside.

The fence is just an add on to bring you back to the cabin. the dead tree is the eye stopper on this side and down by the water I added weeds and reeds for a further eye stopper.

All together I had loads of fun painting and detailing this little picture, Try it you may like it as well.

Soon I will have another picture to get ready for you all to enjoy and I hope you do enjoy them!

Well let keep our brushes wet!

Welcome Home Dan!!!!!