Autumn Oil Painting Progres

The painting is past it's half way mark, and I'm still loving how it's turning out. I have a lot more leaf work, the sky and the focal tree trunks left. I need to add some dimension to the orange leaves, they seem just a little too flat compared to the rest of the painting I think. The painting is also starting to build up some texture as well - I love textured paintings :)

For those wondering, the painting is 8x8" (just a small one), on 1.5" gallery canvas. I really enjoy working with the gallery canvas, because when it's all done it's not necessary to frame and to me things always look better with the nice thick edge. It also makes it easy to place in your house - you can hang it, or just set it on a shelf, since it's able to hold itself up!

Autumn Oil Painting

My painting is coming along nicely. It's wonderful working with such vibrant colours, and the brush work is very loose and relaxing.

Autumn Oils

With all the colourful inspiration around me, I had to paint some autumn trees with my oil paints. I was inspired by an image that I took while visiting my parents in Northern-ish Ontario:


I don't ever really paint the exact pictures, it's always just a guideline for the direction which I take. I always love closeup pictures of the brush doing it's work:

Road To Rain Progress

It's been a VERY long time since I've posted on here. But, in all fairness - my camera was having a slow death, and I can't take pictures of the oil paintings - they take forever to dry, and so my scanner is not an option.


For this painting update, it was mostly the hydro poles that I did. I added some more white to the whiter areas of the sky to get some more contrast. The last hydro pole and lines are still a little wrong. I tried to fix it, but didn't have luck. So I'll wait until it dries and then try again.

Road to Rain Progress

It's been awhile since I had posted a progress picture of my 'Road to Rain' painting. That's because number one, I was waiting on some more white oil paint (I didn't realize how quickly I would go through that one...but now I have a huge tube to last me a long time, or maybe at least a month). As well, I was on a watercolor painting binge...both commissions and autumn-themed pieces for my store.

Well, since my last post. I have added hydro poles - not sure if I like them though. I've been pondering them before I add the lines. Although really, it might be the lines that make them look at lot better. I've also added more yellows. I'm not sure about the ditch that runs along the hydro poles, but I'm 99.9% sure that it's working and that I like it.

My fellow artists, I'm sure you'll agree - it's so hard to be completely happy. And even when you are, the next time you look at it you see something else that you would like to change.

The remaining to-do's: hydro lines, fix that last poles (it's a little thick looking), adjust the colouring of the poles, add more colour to the lighter green field (it looks a little too transparent on the canvas)...not much, right?....

White Flowers Meadow

This is just a quick oil painting that I did. It has a lot of texture in it. I think that I should have made the tree line have more impressionism to it, since it seems a little out of place. But this was just a quick study painting :)

It is available for sale on Etsy, here.

Road to Rain progress

So I gave up on the 'dirt road' concept, and it is now a paved road. Which looks just as good. I think the gravel road would have been too warm of a colour, and the paved grey seems to work better with the sky, since it's a lot cooler.

So all that's left is the hydro poles / lines and touch-ups (nothing specific right now, just whatever I think might need a little adjustment as I look at it longer).

Eeee, almost done my first 'great' piece!!!