Lake Erie Boat

Here is a cute little boat I painted.   This one came to me from the site pmp-art.com.  It's a little boat on the shore of Lake Erie (Sorry, I don't know if its the American or Canadian side).
I took a quick painting class on my lunch hour today.  30 minutes for a lesson, 30 minutes to paint.  I could have painted the picture supplied, or brought my own.  I chose to bring my own.  And knowing that I wouldn't have much time, I had to find a painting that I could do in a reasonable amount of time.

The lesson was about perspective and distance.  Notice the trees in the back are much bluer than the ones in the front.  That pushes them back.  Also notice that the sand on the beach in the front is much more red than the sand in the back.  That red helps to bring it forward.  All of a sudden, I've got depth in my painting.  Yay.

At any rate, for a 30 minute painting, I don't think its half bad.   I might even decide to do a video of this one.

Lakeside Sunset

Its been a long time since I posted a video like this.  A quick to the point paintings.  It is what it is.  A sunset behind a lake with some trees in the foreground.  It looks spectacular, and its spectacularly easy to do.



I've made a video you can watch if you want to see how I did it.

Better one, or two, two or three

Three more attempts at the Heron and Egret theme.  I like bits and pieces of each.  Hope you all enjoy them.

Have we done this before?

Here we go again.  Trying to get a good Heron and Egret picture.  The hardes thing in this one is the HUGE amount of water.  It doesn't seem like it would be that tough but on a 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inch piece of paper, it just seems like an eternity of water.  I am hoping to do only one more of these and I am hoping that the water on my next one will be just a bit better.  I do like the stump that the egret is on, and I like the reeds in front of the Heron.  Perhaps on the next one, I'll push both of them back just a bit further into the picture.  BTW, you cant see the bottom inch of this picture because the paper size is larger than my scanner.

Castle on a Lake

This one took me two lunch times to complete.  Well, it took one, plus about 15 minutes, but who's counting.  I think it turned out pretty well.  I really like the reflections in the water.  Maybe this will be the start of some really good paintings for me.

Purple Sunset

Ahhh, sunsets,  who doesn't like a nice relaxing sunset.  Here we have a nice purple sky with a little mist over the lake and a couple of little islands.