Owner: Sarah Lynch - Daily Paintings and Drawings URL:http://www.splynch.blogspot.com Join Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:05:13 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: I use this blog exclusively for my daily paintings and drawings. This might be sketches, watercolours or oils, sometimes they won't be very good. They will of necessity be small (between 2.5" X 3.5" {ACEO size} and 8"X 10") and th Site statistics:Click here
Fort George - battlements 2008-04-14 21:45:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
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in the rain. Growing up in England, these early North-American forts seemed incredibly exotic to me.
Lonely Daffodil 2008-04-16 22:09:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
A couple of years ago I planted a couple of hundred daffodils, I doubt that two dozen remain. I am not sure why this is, the tulips and crocii do just fine, despite the predations of the squirrels.
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April Morning 2008-04-15 20:56:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
Almost exactly the same place as Morning
on the River, but already the sun is a little higher in the sky at 8:55 am
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Forsythia 2 2008-04-18 11:35:00
5"X7" Oil on panel
I managed to paint outside today at last. Although I have painted plein air with watercolours, it is something that I have rarely (never?) done with oils, so I am back on the learning curve. Painting in natural light always has its challenges, today perhaps more than most because the actual subject was the quickly changing shadows. Of necessity this one was a pretty quick, impressionistic study, painted in under an hour. Even so, by the end I was painting from memory and imagination.
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Down the steps 2008-04-17 20:40:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
Between two stores on St. Paul Street in St. Catharines, there is a passage which leads down to the lower level parking lot. I have wanted to find a way to capture its eerie mystery for some time, I am no quite there yet. One day soon I will paint the place where the steps
come out although I kinda have already, because it is right under here. It is also included in this painting which is part of a triptych I made of the Lower-level parking lot. To see the rest you can visit my web site.
Yellow Tulip 2008-04-20 10:35:00
5"X7" Oil on panel
Another plein-air study in morning light. It doesn't look bad from a distance or as a very tiny thumbnail. These tulips are rather fun, they open right out in the sun and close again at night. This one has eight petals, all the rest, and most tulips, only have six.
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Lustreware 2008-04-19 19:28:00
5"X7" Oil on panel
I tried to paint outside again, it was a beautiful day, but I just couldn't settle on anything. The light was wrong, there was nowhere to sit, there was too much else to do!
I have had this jug for many years, the handle has been broken and mended, I can't use it for anything, I don't know why I keep it really, except perhaps for this. This isn't a very good reproduction, sometimes it just seems to be impossible to get the colour balance right and get rid of the shine. This is part of the problem with posting them the same day, I guess. I know some people get up to a week ahead and are then able to wait until their paintings are much dryer before photographing.
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Maple 2008-04-22 21:28:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
I am spoiled for choice now. Every day I see half a dozen things I want to paint. I love the light coming through the trees. This season is so short, before we know it the weather will be hot and too humid to move.
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Almost Lilac 2008-04-21 21:32:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
This weekend the lilac went from tiny little green flecks to big fat purple knobs in 24 hours. This time of year is very exciting, everything is moving so fast. It is a little like living with a baby, your afraid that if you don't pay attention all the time you might miss some major stage of development.
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Little House, Big Trees 2 2008-04-23 19:43:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
These daily paintings and drawings serve a dual purpose for me. They are partly to provide exercises in still-life that will ultimately improve my technique. The other purpose though is to work out compositions and ideas, with a view to one day creating larger works. Most of my weekday pencil studies fall into the latter category. For years I have been driving around the Region seeing things that I think might make a good painting, but I rarely do anything about it. Now I have dozens of thumbnails which I can study on the computer and decide which ones work best. All I have to is find some time to do some larger paintings!
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Chèvre contre jour 2008-04-24 22:41:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
I see this chap (or one of his brothers) most days now that the weather is warmer, he sits out on top of his shed, basking in the sun. Goats have always fascinated me. How animals with hooves can climb like a cat, it still something of a mystery to me.
Two Peppers 2008-04-27 13:40:00
5"X7" Oil on panel
Well I couldn't find anything to paint outside today, not in the back anyway, and I am still too self-conscious to sit and paint out front (it is bad enough when I am house painting, I get everyone telling me what I should be doing differently and how they have a cousin who could do it better etc.), but these luscious peppers caught my eye. I haven't painted a pepper since January, I think it was one of my first oil studies for this blog.
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Hibiscus 2 2008-04-26 15:51:00
5"X7" Oil on panel
The hibiscus is flowering again, so here is another indoor study. I may try to paint outside tomorrw.
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Another Morning on the River 2008-04-25 22:02:00
5"X7" Watercolour on paper
Same spot as the other two, looking slightly north-east this time. It made a change to work with watercolour, instead of watercolour pencils, today although I did resort to pencil again for some of the finer lines.
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April Sky 2008-04-29 20:34:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
I was drawing this while waiting to connect to the CCRA website. This is tax-filing day and, having left it to the last minute as usual, I am having to compete with everyone else trying to do the same. It was very cold today, disheartening after all the lovely weather we have been having. But at least my grass seed is sprouting, so some of the mange in my "lawn" is filling in.
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The Cellist 2008-04-28 21:37:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
I thought it was time to do some more figure studies and I haven't drawn my kids for a while. I love drawing them when they are playing, their instruments are so beautiful and the intense concentration with which they play is very appealing. Drawing and painting people from photographs is actually very hard, I try to do it only when I am painting people I know very well. Even then it is easy ro allow distortions to creep in.
Noon on the Common 2008-04-30 20:18:00
5"X7" Watercolour on paper
I did something that I don't often do today, I sketched outside and then tried to turn it into a painting at home, without the aid of a photograph. Usually I either paint directly in plein-air, or use either photographs alone or photographs and sketches to create a painting later. I have never had much luck painting just from sketches and this is no exception. Others seem to do it brilliantly. Still, it is probably something I should work on.
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Mayday 2008-05-01 21:38:00
5"X7" WC Pencil on paper
Living in the fruitbelt, I felt I must include fruit trees on the fist of May. These might be the same fruit trees as this post , what a difference a couple of months can make.
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On a Clear Day... 2008-05-02 21:44:00
5"X7" WC Pencil on paper
On a clear day you can see right across Lake Ontario to Toronto. In bygone days it would have been much clearer because, even so early in the year, there is a haze of pollution on the horizon. Of course they didn't have the CN Tower and the downtown office blocks, so there probably wasn't much to see! In reality it is about 50 kilometres (30 miles) so I have enlarged things a bit to make it more interesting.
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Pansies 2008-05-04 16:01:00
5"X7" Oil on panel
It was a lovely day, but still a little cold. Also windy, my painting had all sorts of bits stuck to it by the time I was finished. I have a feeling that I should have called this done about ten minutes earlier. Oh well.
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No title 2008-05-03 15:45:00 5"X7" Mixed media on panelIn an attempt to loosen up and give myself a challenge I did something new today. I used an oil pastel sketch as a starting point then thinner to spread the pastels and finished with just a little true oil paint. I tried this because Klein is skittish and I was afraid that if I tried to come and set myself up with my full oil painting rig on the bed with her, she would just take off. I am actually quite pleased with the overall effect, I may try it again.
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Throwing Stones 2008-05-05 22:15:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
I liked this image of a father and son enjoying a few minutes down by the canal. Bright sun, but still a little chilly.
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Navy Hall 2008-05-06 21:46:00
5"X7" WC Pencil on paper
Originally constructed in 1765, the current Navy Hall building stands on the edge on the Niagara River and is all that remains of several buildings collectively known as Navy Hall which were reconstructed after the war of 1812
Chestnut 2008-05-07 20:08:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
Horse chestnuts are so elegant. I will try to draw this one again when the candles are out, it should make an interesting contrast.
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Over the River again 2008-05-08 17:41:00 4"X6" Watercolour on paper
Lewiston, New York again, just a little south of Fort Niagara. I think these buildings are part of the Fort complex.
I finally managed to get out to paint at lunchtime today. It is still a little cold, but bright and clear.
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Pheasant's Eye 2008-05-11 10:44:00
5"X7" Oil on panel
This single flower was poking out through a pile of fencing lumber, I guess I had forgotten it was there when I moved the wood. I don't know why I torture myself with this sort of thing really, I don't do it very well. I don't seem to be able to achieve either photographic realism or truly loose impressionism. I land somewhere uncomfortably between the two. I always start out striving for a quick, loose study that just captures the essence of the flower, but I can never leave well enough alone, and end up overworking it. Still this is my cross, and one of the reasons I started doing these daily paintings in the hope that I could work through this.
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Lilacs 2008-05-10 19:35:00
5"X7" Oil on panel
All our lilacs were cut down when we built the fence two years ago, but they are back a again, with a vengence. Most of them are just boring lilac colour, but we have one rather handsome white one. I would like one of those really dark purple ones. I went to "Riverbrink Art Museum" today, I may post something about it on my other blog
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Old Apple Trees 2008-05-09 22:18:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
I spent far too much time fiddling around with some new php code that I might incorporate into my website. So here I am, getting close to midnight and having to bang something out in a hurry.
Most of the fruit trees around here are pretty young. Fashions change pretty fast and it isn't at all unusual to see whole orchards of apparently healthy trees ripped up and new trees planted in their place. A new variety may be more in demand than the old one, or maybe they just travel better, never mind the taste. So it is quite unusual to see a well-tended orchard of old trees like this one.This is a subject that would probably lend itself to treatment with oils much more readily than pencil or watercolour, but I seem to be setting myself a lot of challenges lately.
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Cottage 2008-05-12 21:43:00
5"X7" Pencil on paper
This little house on Princess Street in Queenston is almost unbearably quaint, all the way down to the white picket fence and the row of tulips in the front. It is redeemed by the fact that it really does seem to be the genuine article and is one of the remaining few that doesn't seem to have had lots of new money poured into it. It is slightly shabby but well-loved and
Noon on the Common 2 2008-05-13 19:43:00
4"X6" Watercolour on paper
This is a nice little spot and good for painting because it is relatively untravelled, I may go there again.
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