Anything Goes...
Not going to waste a lot of time or space writing. This page will just show what I'm up to artisticly. Enjoy and let me know what you think in the 'yak shack'.
The Conversation Board hangs in the woodstove room.
Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom, I'm adding new stuff all the time.
My favorite.
Second favorite
Nelson plays accordian,
And his wife plays guitar.
Sean listens intently as his wife does a duet with Fay.
My landlord and his woman.
Laura and her hubby
Paul.
Gypsy
This is Roy Weir (Buddy), Pearces brother.
This is Gord who is married to Pearce's sister
Rose...
Collin Rice is now on the board..
This doesn't really qualify as a head shot but I added
it here anyway. I didn't do justice to Nikita and her
mom but it was a first effort on my small sketch pad and
it's the best I could come up with for now..
They started out mounted like this..
And ended up like this...
Room left for more..
Ran out of small canvases so this is what I did...
Breakfast anyone?
Got bored and did this nuthatch..
Hope the pictures are showing up for you, my screen has some blocked out because of missing plug ins. Downloading another free version to see if that helps.
Cardinal
And a little Chicadee...
Here's a couple of shots of my owl
And he's still sitting there and staring at me...
This little guy is called a 'common redpoll' and we have lots of them here where I live.
I never seem to get tired of drawing birds.
I've added a touch of color to these last two but
there's no mistaking the bluejay with or without it.
At the moment I'm out of the cheap small canvas boards so I have to wait to do any more headshots. I've taken up a bit of sketching in the meantime so I'll throw them in as I do them.
Hope you enjoyed the new page. Please come back again..
The Conversation Board hangs in the woodstove room.
Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom, I'm adding new stuff all the time.
My favorite.
Second favorite
Nelson plays accordian,And his wife plays guitar.
Sean listens intently as his wife does a duet with Fay.My landlord and his woman.
Laura and her hubby
Paul.
Gypsy
This is Roy Weir (Buddy), Pearces brother.This is Gord who is married to Pearce's sisterRose...
Collin Rice is now on the board..This doesn't really qualify as a head shot but I added
it here anyway. I didn't do justice to Nikita and her
mom but it was a first effort on my small sketch pad and
it's the best I could come up with for now..
They started out mounted like this..
And ended up like this...
Room left for more..
Ran out of small canvases so this is what I did...
Breakfast anyone?
Got bored and did this nuthatch..Hope the pictures are showing up for you, my screen has some blocked out because of missing plug ins. Downloading another free version to see if that helps.
CardinalAnd a little Chicadee...
Here's a couple of shots of my owl
And he's still sitting there and staring at me...This little guy is called a 'common redpoll' and we have lots of them here where I live.I never seem to get tired of drawing birds.I've added a touch of color to these last two but
there's no mistaking the bluejay with or without it.
At the moment I'm out of the cheap small canvas boards so I have to wait to do any more headshots. I've taken up a bit of sketching in the meantime so I'll throw them in as I do them.
Hope you enjoyed the new page. Please come back again..
fat bottom cat
Had some fun with this sketch! Her highness, sitting on the back of a chair looking very arrogant and wide across the beam. If you saw the little movie in the Yak Shack you will recognize her as my kitten/cat, Spencer.
Did this sketch, then edited as a cartoon.I think it looks good both ways.
Gotta love working with pictures.............
Surprisingly, this sketch looksmuch better in real life. I'll leave
it anyway, what the heck.
Getting away from Spencer for a bit here are a couple that are completely different for me.
This is called, 'Look up, look way up'It's not hard to see the forest for these trees..
I thought this sketch was romantic enough to put on a rock. I'll show the rock separately when it's done.
Here it is trimmed in silver and boxed. Quite a pretty piece if you could see it up close.
Another rock with a Valentine theme..Off the rocks now for a couple. I've been wanting to work on doing hands for some time now. I sat with Pearce's picture up on the computer screen while I sketched. These next two pictures are actually one and the same. I just used the editing feature to crop the first one.
This actually is all I wanted to do. It's what I started out to do.But I needed to fill in more of the page.
And so this is the end result. Not a flattering shot of Pearce but still pretty true to the picture. He was of course impressing me with his knowledge of wabbit snares..More stuff...
Here's a little sketch I did of Giz while he slept beside me. This was not done off a picture!
He loves to be under a blanket..
As Laura would say ' another hand job'
Practise practise practise, is my motto when it
comes to sketching...
One of the hardest things in the world to do,
is draw yourself, and do it honestly. I think, (as much
as I hate it) that this is an honest likeness...
You are probably thinking these are praying hands, well in fact these
hands belong to Pearce who was
making bread and actually had a gob
of bread dough between his palms which
I omitted from the sketch. What his hands
are really saying is "please let my bread
turn out". Not really a religious moment but
as close as Pearce might get when making
bread.
And you thought there'd be another sketch? This is an oil
that I've named ' You just think you're alone'. It's a re-worked
canvas but I still like the feel of the picture.
There will be more sketches, more head shots and maybe
even a rock or two. Keep checking.
Personally, I love this particular oil painting. I had to take this photo on an
angle to avoid too much glare. Originally, it was very white looking (even for
a winter scene) so then I darkened up some of the rocks and found Mr. Seagull on
the internet and thought he would be the perfect accent. This is at Spencer's Dock
one of my most favorite spots in the world..
This is Gypsy on a chunk of driftwood. Up in the headshots he's the one with the red touque on. This is his birthday present from me. He turns 72 this month, not sure which day, but am sure it's this month. He's going to love it because he's been bugging me since Christmas to do him one just like the headshot above. This one is a million times better...
He loves to be under a blanket..
As Laura would say ' another hand job'Practise practise practise, is my motto when it
comes to sketching...
One of the hardest things in the world to do,
is draw yourself, and do it honestly. I think, (as much
as I hate it) that this is an honest likeness...
You are probably thinking these are praying hands, well in fact these hands belong to Pearce who was
making bread and actually had a gob
of bread dough between his palms which
I omitted from the sketch. What his hands
are really saying is "please let my bread
turn out". Not really a religious moment but
as close as Pearce might get when making
bread.
And you thought there'd be another sketch? This is an oil
that I've named ' You just think you're alone'. It's a re-worked
canvas but I still like the feel of the picture.
There will be more sketches, more head shots and maybe
even a rock or two. Keep checking.
Personally, I love this particular oil painting. I had to take this photo on anangle to avoid too much glare. Originally, it was very white looking (even for
a winter scene) so then I darkened up some of the rocks and found Mr. Seagull on
the internet and thought he would be the perfect accent. This is at Spencer's Dock
one of my most favorite spots in the world..
This is Gypsy on a chunk of driftwood. Up in the headshots he's the one with the red touque on. This is his birthday present from me. He turns 72 this month, not sure which day, but am sure it's this month. He's going to love it because he's been bugging me since Christmas to do him one just like the headshot above. This one is a million times better...
Valentine Day Edition
This page is getting really really long....
I read a book just recently, and I read it cover to cover in one afternoon. A lot of people will know this book, a lot will have read it and everyone in Newfoundland knows the story. Tragedies happen all over the world, every day of the week and probably every minute of the day, the biggest shock to me was that it could happen in a community not unlike the one where I live. Where people can still to this day walk away from their homes without worrying about locking their doors.. It's not the only horror story in Newfoundland and not likely to be the last, but 'Into the Night' ' The Samantha Walsh Story' had me and my box of kleenex parked on the sofa until it was done. I was so moved by the story I felt compelled to have Samantha's picture in my sketch book. We borrowed the book and it has to be returned, but the picture is mine to keep....
Too beautiful, too innocent...
Will the flowers ever grow in Fleur de Lys again?
I think I'll leave this paragraph as it is...
I read a book just recently, and I read it cover to cover in one afternoon. A lot of people will know this book, a lot will have read it and everyone in Newfoundland knows the story. Tragedies happen all over the world, every day of the week and probably every minute of the day, the biggest shock to me was that it could happen in a community not unlike the one where I live. Where people can still to this day walk away from their homes without worrying about locking their doors.. It's not the only horror story in Newfoundland and not likely to be the last, but 'Into the Night' ' The Samantha Walsh Story' had me and my box of kleenex parked on the sofa until it was done. I was so moved by the story I felt compelled to have Samantha's picture in my sketch book. We borrowed the book and it has to be returned, but the picture is mine to keep....
Too beautiful, too innocent...Will the flowers ever grow in Fleur de Lys again?
I think I'll leave this paragraph as it is...
Last Paragraph of the page I think...
I'm still messing around with sketches, did this one of Dean's store for a joke. I may do another with a funky face lift to point out how inviting the store would look with a few cosmetic touch ups...
After I finished I beat myself in the head for not having a moose
walking through the parking lot... lol
This little cupid was suppose to be on the Yak Shack page but since the web site never got my emails I had to upload these last few one by one and I already had the blog posted... So she's here instead...
Another angle of Spencer's Dock in oil...
These two sketches are pencil and charcoal laminated..This one's called, ' A bit of the Bite'. Bumblebee Bite that is...
They are hard to see on the web site but they're rather large for sketches and I couldn't get good close up's without ending up all blurry. This sketch is what Spencer's Dock looked like in the early 1900's. I finally got it done Laura. lol.
After I finished I beat myself in the head for not having a moose walking through the parking lot... lol
This little cupid was suppose to be on the Yak Shack page but since the web site never got my emails I had to upload these last few one by one and I already had the blog posted... So she's here instead...Another angle of Spencer's Dock in oil...
These two sketches are pencil and charcoal laminated..This one's called, ' A bit of the Bite'. Bumblebee Bite that is... They are hard to see on the web site but they're rather large for sketches and I couldn't get good close up's without ending up all blurry. This sketch is what Spencer's Dock looked like in the early 1900's. I finally got it done Laura. lol.