Veggie-Fruit Juice

Acrylic, 8X10"


Another I was working on, just to show I do know how to paint better than that horrible wc thing I just did this afternoon.

I really need to learn how to paint glass. Anybody good at it in acrylics or oil?

My Backyard

Now you all know why I don't paint with watercolours. This is a view from my kitchen window and it was supposed to show the bottles sitting on the wiondow sill. No need to say it ladies, I'm a terrible painter with watercolours.

Moreton Bay Fig trunk. (plein air sketch)

I went to Minipipi Parklands this afternoon. I drew/sketched from quarter to 4pm until 1/4 to 6 pm. Not without incident either. I was accosted by a couple of weird parents, who didn't like the fact I asked the little boy 3 times not to ride his scooter in front of me when I was drawing. Long story short, I told them I was going to ring the police, they were that bad.. sigh.

For today...Gypsy Again

This is another "Gypsy" drawing...I am thinking of writing a children's story...(one day)

Ribbon Gum Tree (sketch)

The drawing looks a heap better than the scan. Darnit......

Future Juice

Hi ladies, I have been away and am not very perky of late, but I tried my own challenge on WC and posted this. Boy do I need practice. Acrylic on canvas, 8X10"

Gum Trees

Acrylic. 5"x7" using Ree's gum tree challenge reference picture.

Gypsy

 

My drawing for today of our old dog Gypsy...
I used some colour..she had a beautiful coat.

Landscape with a figure .....

This is crap!!
I will say that before anyone else says it!
This is what I did at a workshop today ....the theme was a landscape with figure/s.
The artist taking the workshop, Ray Elwood, was excellent. He is mainly a watercolour artist and that was what he did in his demonstrations. He did two demos ....I could have watched him all day .....
He had lots of ref pics of landscapes and figures and we had to pick a landscape and paint it adding a figure. I couldn't find one that I really liked and so I was only half hearted in painting it...... it shows ....
I could have done my own thing as he did say that at the start of the class ....maybe that's what I will do next time.
Sorry JJ ....I didn't take notes .....

Tissue? anyone.. Aaaaachoooooooo!

While Ree was talking to me on the phone, adn playing with her facebook account, I drew my tissue box. See! I am committed..;-)) Sorry the scan has wiped out the bottom of the box though darn it..

Long black with caramel.............please.

It isn't good, it is bad, even if the scan hadn't lightened out the saucer it is still bad, but I did sketch today. Did you? ;-))

Mount Warning from Beechmont

I posted this painting a couple of days ago, before I posted it on wc, so I don't know why it hasn't shown up here. Phantom post stealer is at work again.

14"x10.5" acrylic on paper

Still Life

This is a still life painting I have done for a thread on Wetcanvas.
8" X 10" acrylic on board
C&C welcome

Blowing the snow with a golf club ....for Bruce .... :)

.....well I don't even know what a snow blower looks like ......

Tomatoes

 

Hi folks...this is my second attempt to post this image this morning.Sorry if I have confused anyone ...I have certainly confused myself!!
JJ has reminded me that it is my turn to post an image for the challenge...I hope you like my choice!
The challenge begins this Thursday 26th Feb and concludes on Thursday 5th March...please post your paintings by thursday March 5th.
Have fun!!

Shack in the Woods

See what happens whenyou try to paint an 18-inch wide picture on an 8X10 canvas? I scrunched up this and it became a mess. I posted this on WC and I said I have terrible trees. I have such a bad time with trees.

I asked JJ to show me how to paint tomatoes and got cherries, so I dare not ask for help with trees lest I get green celery trees, lol....

I painted this tonite while waiting for my wife to get home form her trip. I hope you all don't laugh too much...

My try. I edited out a fair bit of vegetation.

Cherries that started out life as tomatoes..

I actually thought they looked more like persimmons, but Colleen and her husband convinced me they were cherries rotflol.
A lesson learned. Be careful painting at night with reds. I painted with napthol red over cad yellow to start with, adn it was a gorgeous tomato colour. Then I added magenta and cad red for the shadows, so then I had this brilliant idea of adding a little quin rose where I had lost the lights a little. It all looked reasonably ok that night. When I went down tot he studio the next morning, man did I not, I repeat NOT have 3 juicy tomatoes on my board. I added the centres, and they really did and still do btw look like persimmons with cherry stalk to me. What a hoot. Gives new meaning to cherry-tomatoes..

Nova Puppy

This is a quick study sketch I did in acrylics on a 3X4" card to experiment with minatures and see if I can paint my wife's dog in acrylics. I tried in watercolours but all I got was mud on a piece of card stock. So I am trying to live up to the name of teh group, at least initially. This isn't a great rendidition, but it is some painting of yesterday. Today I start on the mountain cabin pic.

Some rock practice .....

I am trying to improve my rock painting ....and I have a long way to go ..... here are 2 I did last night. One with brushes and one with knives .....

Knock Knock

Hello ladies, my name is Bruce MacKinnon, or Mackb on all my forum sites.

I have been invited by JJ to join your esteemed group of happy painters. I feel like I have joined the infamous "Group of Seven" painters of the early 20th century in Canada.

I hope I don't cramp your style. I was looking at all your posts, well some of them anyway, and I didn't see any cat fights or foul language, so I think I can fit in. But I feel like a puppy dog in a house full of felines, so put away your claws.

I have been painting for 10 years off and on, mostly off, once I moved to Timminsin 200 to get married and to get a new career in journalism after painting houses for 25 years. I have a damaged heart from a virus that hit me a decade ago, and was put out to pasture in 2004. So I am now Mr. Mom, taking care of my two little boys and the house while my wife Carol works full time as the administrator of a retirement home.

I started off in oils but now am in acrylics since Sept of 08. I am still learning so I hope I don't embarras you or me. I noticed a few of you use knives to paint which is my preferred way to paint, so I wil be following you all with interest.

Thank you for allowing me to join you.

bm

Anne, in the interests of "one sketch a day", here it is.

Colleen'a photograph challenge

I did this knife painting quickly tonight and enjoyed it a lot until I mucked up the greenery on the right hand side ....maybe tomorrow I will give it another go .....

On the rocks!

Update on the boots ....I worked on them at my artgroup today .....
They are now on a rock with the sea in the background.
I am really pleased with myself .....
C&C most welcome of course ......