tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78920388288280721762024-02-18T22:17:20.187-08:00DEBORAH TILBY painterAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-15727293390603432012018-07-01T21:13:00.001-07:002019-03-15T09:03:54.622-07:00TUSCANY WORKSHOP 2018<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've just returned from teaching a workshop in Tuscany and I must say it was wonderful! I had a super group of students who were such fun, the villa was beautiful as was the Tuscan countryside and the organization of the workshop was outstanding. Thank you to Art Travel Italy who did such an amazing job. I'll post some pics here to give the flavour of the workshop:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Boldbrush </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Competition in August. Thank you to the judge, Tony Pro.High Oaks Farm is </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have two paintings in the show: The first is All Tied Up, an oil on panel, 18x24. As you will have figured out by now, I love painting old rowboats and was especially attracted to the arrangement these made tied up to the old dock in Ganges on Salt Spring Island.</span></div>
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I have been very very pleased to have received a number of awards in 2016 - thought I would post some of the pics:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bicycle and the Boat, oil, 24x24 received an Honourable Mention in the OPA Spring Showcase and an Award of Excellence at the OPA Western Regional Exhibition<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue Boat Reflected, oil, 24x24 received Second Place at the OPA Fall Showcase, Second Place Overall in Plein Air Salon April/May and Fourth Place for Impressionist Landscape in the AmerArt Awards and was a Finalist in the Sedona Art Prize for August.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Boats on a Beach, oil, 24x24 received an Honourable Mention at the Oil Painters of America Summer Showcase and a Juror's Choice Award at Sidney Fine Arts Exhibition.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished For the Day, oil, 24x18 was a Finalist in the Sedona Art Prize for December</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waves Coming In, oil, 12x24, received Best in Show in the Sedona Art Prize for October</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When the Tide Comes In, oil, 36x24 won Best Landscape in the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society Spring Showcase.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Falcon and Friendship, oil, 18x24, has been juried into the Oil Painters of America National Exhibition.</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-77074166656459184512016-12-11T22:04:00.002-08:002017-02-25T18:12:37.473-08:00LOCAL PAINTING SPOTS<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of the time I forget to take pics of my easel in the landscape when I'm out painting and I almost never think to ask someone to take any of me actually painting. I must try to remember in future.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I thought I would post the few that I do have showing just some of the spots my friends and I visited recently. Getting out to paint with these seven friends has become a much valued part of my week. I have come to really appreciate the fun and friendship I have with them; it is not only great to get out to paint in locations I might not have thought of, it is so good to be able to share my struggles, challenges and successes in a safe, caring and non judgemental group of painters. And we have such a laugh........</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ten Mile Point on a clear day. We painted here last year in thick fog when we couldn't even see that an island was out there. But this day was great painting weather. Ken Faulks chose to work in watercolour. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">High Oaks Farm off Granville and Hastings. There was so much here that I wanted to capture but I bit off a bit more than I could accomplish. We'll be back here again for sure.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This spot on Hallowell Road has become a favourite for us. We've painted here in summer and fall and will be sure to get there in winter and spring. There always seems to be good cloudscapes here and there is a super island an small marina to the right.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another day at Ten Mile Point. Just the guys with me that day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saxe Point is another spot we seem to get to fairly often. The dramatic clouds interested me so I painted them first before getting to the foreground.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hallowell Road again. Jim McFarland I painted together; the others wandered off to paint the view of the other side of the island.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were lucky this morning to find shelter from the rain. The beach is the place to paint on rainy days as it can still make interesting atmospheric pictures.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought this playground all in reds and yellows might make a painting. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gonzales Hill is another spot I return to quite often though not on windy days! I've painted here in wind so strong I've held the easel with one hand.</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-8061698160200254762016-08-01T22:18:00.001-07:002016-08-01T22:20:20.708-07:00THE MARINA PICS<div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 45px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oak Bay Marina is near my studio and I often head down there for a quick field study or to gather reference for future studio paintings. I recently realized just how many there are and thought I would post some of them here.<br /><br /> As you will see, many of them feature an old blue rowboat whose peeling paint and overall battered appearance really appealed to me. Imagine my dismay when I met the owner of 'my' old blue boat and he told me it had been lost at sea. And...he has replaced it with a newer, stubbier, less interesting boat. I told him that simply wouldn't do!<br /><br />The first painting I'm posting is called Over the Rocks, a 6x8 study. Looking through my files I found that I had photographed this one part way through, something that I always intend to do but usually forget.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first two of the next 6x8's were painted with my little pochade box balanced on my knee while sitting on an overturned rowboat or a log. I tidied up the masts back in the studio as I find it isn't always easy to get them in cleanly out in the field.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Several years ago I did several larger 24x24 paintings of the blue rowboat and have just recently completed two more. I had a lot of fun with the first one, imaginatively called Blue Rowboat, playing with a looser treatment and simple colour scheme. I kept the background marina very uncomplicated really using only two colours. I repeated the blues and violets of the background in the rocks and in the boat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think the attraction for me in The Bicycle and the Boat, 24x24, was twofold. The textures on the boat, especially the back area, and the bike up on the bank. I pushed the bicycle back a bit to increase the sense of space and to allow the boat to really dominate. As in almost all my paintings, the painting knives were used throughout. I think this is particularly evident in the work on the sides of the boat and the rocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next blue rowboat painting is Blue Boat Reflected, 24x24. This one is divided into three horizontal bands which could be problematic but varying the width and value of the bands allows it to work. I like to have areas of thin, even scratchy, paint along with thicker brush or knife work. I make use of the painting knife in various ways - in the bushes I alternated between laying in colour with a brush and 'messing' it up with the knife and applying paint with the knife and cutting back in with the brush. I also used a knife to scrape paint away to create textures and to thinly apply paint in a scratchy way as on the boats and the grasses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the last one in the blue boat series is called White Boats on a Beach, 18x24. The central boat is the one that replaced my dear old blue rowboat. In reality it is bright blue and very bright yellow, has a snub nose and is rather squat in appearance. But its position on the beach in relation to the others and the lighting appealed to me so I decided to use it but change its appearance. I elongated it, added the pointy front making it more like my old blue rowboat and put some oars and 'stuff' inside it. My first intention was to make it blue but I felt it worked better in this instance to keep all the boats white.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-51134318602354733442016-02-02T21:12:00.001-08:002016-02-02T21:12:20.488-08:00THE REJECT CUPBOARD<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Well, the last two months have been unusual for me; some family issues cropped up and my painting time became very disjointed. I found it difficult to concentrate and to plan and execute any new larger work so I turned to my 'might be salvageable' cupboard where I keep a stack of paintings that didn't work for one reason or another. I like to play about with them when I have an odd hour here or there. Sometimes adjustments to the colour or values is all that is needed or the brushwork can be cleaned up or the painting is too tight and some bolder brush or knife work might liven it up. Or, at the time, I didn't have a clear idea how to handle a new subject but later I can see my through it. Of course there are those pictures that just shouldn't have been started in the first place - the ones where I scratch my head and wonder what ever was I thinking!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The painting below was done from some reference I gathered when visiting with a friend on his boat at a marina in Sidney. It started life as a 24x18 with a fairly faithful representation of the boats in the background, a lot of rocks and water in the foreground and some geese in the middle bit. It didn't work. It was boring and it ended up in the reject cupboard. Recently, I hauled it out and tackled it again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll post the new version first followed by the 'reject'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I invite you to play 'spot the difference'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What did I do?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sorted through my reference files and found another group of boats with the same lighting and, without planning or drawing anything, I started on the right and worked across to the left. First I broke up that dull wall of green with some sky and a suggestion of buildings and added some rocks and beach and then the boats and reflections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided that the large rock upon which the two geese are standing was too large and dull so I flattened it. And the row of sleeping geese which I had once thought made an interesting shape, had to go. I started replacing them with water and reflections and some more mud but stopped before eliminating all of them. I probably went to make a cup of tea. I'm glad I did because I think the two that I left are fine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then tried a number of approaches to the bottom third but nothing worked so I stuck a piece of masking tape across it at the 18" mark. Better. I took out most of the rocks and mud I had painted and went back to a larger area of water to lead into the painting. This time I kept it simpler allowing the top third to draw the eye.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Better still.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think this one can stay out of the cupboard........</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-75429774701948059672015-10-17T20:50:00.002-07:002015-10-17T20:50:42.973-07:00SIDNEY SHOW<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Sidney Show is a large exhibition that takes place annually on Vancouver Island, BC.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was pleased to have the two paintings I submitted for adjudication accepted and even more so when each went on to win an award. Below are the two paintings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first was painted from a field study done on the Saanich Peninsula and reference photos. It is a favourite view of mine looking across the valley over the Lochside Trail and various horse farms to the sea and islands beyond. I love it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second is also a subject that I love. These are fishing boats in the town of Rye in East Sussex, England. I spent several weeks painting in and around Rye during a 3 month painting trip a few years ago. A tidal river runs through the town which makes for endless interesting subjects and views. At low tide the boats are left on the muddy river bottom, at high tide the scene is transformed. Grassy banks and fields adjoin the river and sheep are all over the place. They were often very nosey when I was working.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't have a formula but this is a fairly typical start to a painting. I've blocked in most of the areas with the exception of the roof of the building. I started by placing the main shapes on the panel with diluted warm reddish brown and then scumbled in the darks in the shadow of the boat shed, the boat on the bank and the undersides of the docks and foreground boats. I laid in the red sail as it is the focal area followed by the greens. It is basically a composition made up of horizontals (the greens and the blue-greys of the sky and water) broken by the verticals of the masts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not the best photo - it came out a bit dark but it gives a suggestion of the finished painting. I wish I had photographed it in between the two stages. I think I would have liked it better one stage before this one......</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-85730533766823981472015-04-06T21:11:00.001-07:002015-04-06T21:24:35.249-07:00TWO STAGES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is fairly typical of the way I block in a painting. I usually start with a bit of line done with a bristle brush and diluted Transparent Oxide Red. Then I scumble in the dark areas. With this painting, I laid in the foreground in broad washes hoping to leave a lot of it showing in the final version.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The finished painting - as usual I find I prefer much of the loose block in with it's vigorous energy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-87261542585377628872015-02-26T20:27:00.000-08:002015-09-27T17:43:48.486-07:00PIC FOR THE OPA SHOW<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I entered the Oil Painters of America Exhibition this year for the first time. I only joined last January and missed the deadline for 2014 but I made sure to enter this year. And I'm really pleased to learn that I had a painting accepted. They allow two submissions from each painter but only one will be accepted. This is the one they chose. This painting also was awarded FIRST PLACEin the OPA Spring Showcase. It is available at the West End Gallery in Victoria http://www.westendgalleryltd.com/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I often think I will take photos of a painting at various stages along the way but get so involved in what I'm doing that I forget to take more than one or two. With this painting, I did take one shot right after the layout stage when I had just started to block in the darks and shadows. Later on I made a few compositional changes so you can play 'spot the difference'. And you can decide if I might have been well advised to leave the composition as I had it in the initial block in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also took a close up of some of the small boats showing the sort of brushwork I used:</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-2782036504753374202014-11-23T16:21:00.000-08:002015-09-27T17:46:22.522-07:00LANDSCAPE COMPETITION<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Finalist in the International Artist Magazine Landscape Competition and now featured in a one page article in the Dec/Jan issue of the magazine. It is available at the West End Gallery in Victoria http://www.westendgalleryltd.com/</span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-17399395791855715312014-11-18T09:19:00.004-08:002015-09-27T17:48:04.750-07:00RAYMAR COMPETITION<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am pleased to learn that my painting, Spring is Coming, is a finalist in the Raymar Competition: <a href="http://raymarartcontest.com/winner/75475">http://raymarartcontest.com/winner/75475</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I first painted this subject in watercolour and wanted to see what I could do with it in oil. It has been</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> through several stages. At first I had decided to leave out the hedge and fence which were in the original watercolour</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and just allow the road to lead the eye into the painting but after awhile I felt it really did </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">need the stronger foreground. I also had much more red in the mud but toned it down feeling it was</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> fighting with the reds in the focal area. Available at Gallery 8, Salt Spring Island </span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-40524889399218591232014-10-15T20:31:00.002-07:002015-04-06T21:13:15.501-07:00FROM WATER TO OIL<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I painted in watercolour for over 30 years and once in awhile I decide that one of my old watercolour compositions might work well in oil. The original watercolour for the oil below was painted in the mid 1980's. The subject is a group of rowboats pulled up on the beach in St. Ives, Cornwall. I have always loved painting old boats and enjoyed trying to capture the transition between dry and wet sand. It worked very well in watercolour and I think I managed to get the same effect with oil. </span><br />
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-16349305356381698742014-10-15T20:14:00.002-07:002015-04-06T21:14:01.164-07:00OUT OF THE MIST<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week I met with friends to paint at a local beach. A lovely sunny autumn morning. Or so we thought. A few hundred yards from the sea, we hit a wall of fog. Not quite what we expected but it was very beautiful. The friend who picked the spot insisted that there were several islands and a shoreline with houses out there in the mist but we couldn't see a thing when we first arrived. </span><br />
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-65468499572670586722014-09-11T19:29:00.000-07:002015-04-06T21:14:27.860-07:00POCHADE BOX<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few years </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ago I came across an old book by Trevor Chamberlain in which he talks about, and shows photos of, a pochade box he inherited. I love boxes, especially wooden ones, and I fell in love with it. When I showed the book to my friend Sig he was so enthusiastic about it he decided to make one for me. And one for himself..... and another for his daughter.... by the time the other members of our painting group, the Al Frescoes, saw </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the box I reckon he could have gone into business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This box is perfect for painting in the car - I keep it loaded with small tubes of my primary colours, several chopped off brushes and some 6x8 1/8" panels. Sometimes I use it outdoors for a quick study, resting it on my knee.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-15801615912738037802014-08-15T21:39:00.001-07:002015-04-06T21:16:42.154-07:00QUICK SKETCHES......<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm posting a few examples of some drawings and thumbnails and the paintings that followed. I do a lot of these. Sometimes just a quick sketch, sometimes a whole pile of thumbnails that often are so scribbly I am the only one who can tell what is happening. I'm just working out a design trying to decide if the idea will work. They often don't but sometimes I make a painting.....</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-80232193359477275082014-07-24T22:00:00.000-07:002015-04-06T21:17:52.134-07:00ENJOYING THE SPRING AND SUMMER<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have had some really great weather here in Victoria and I have been out painting a fair bit, sometimes by myself but often with friends. I can't think of a more enjoyable way to spend a day! I'm posting some random photos of me - well, actually pics of my easel as I rarely remember to ask someone to get a shot of me painting - and friends and a few of the lovely locations around here.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deborah Czernecky and I decide to paint Esquimalt<br />
Lagoon one late afternoon. The wind came up and<br />
nearly blew us away. Just did a quick 6x8</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One morning down at Oak Bay Marina</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Ken Faulks at Willows Beach looking towards Oak Bay Marina</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A grey day out on the Peninsula at the top of Martindale Road.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One glorious Sunday morning I went down to Dallas Road <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Out at High Oaks Farm with the Al Frescoes plein air group. </td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-85429239181060354002014-07-01T20:41:00.001-07:002015-04-06T21:18:17.932-07:00A FUN DAY OUT<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A week or so ago, Keith Hiscock invited us up to his new place near Crofton for a morning out painting. Ken Faulks, Desiree Bond, Jim McFarland and I had a tour of Keith's fantastic new studio and then we all headed to a nearby spot Keith had earmarked for us to paint. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lovely countryside, reasonable weather and good company:</span><br />
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-29353834844212873322014-06-14T12:52:00.000-07:002015-04-06T21:18:42.043-07:00 4TH ANNUAL PLEIN AIR SALON COMPETITION<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My painting, Calm Before the Storm, has just won first place in the landscape category in the April/May Plein Air Salon Competition. <a href="http://deborahtilby.blogspot.ca/">http://deborahtilby.blogspot.ca/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This painting was done from a study I started on the spot while on a three month painting trip to Ireland and England. I just finished blocking it in when the sky turned black and I barely managed to get everything packed up before the torrential rain started. I finished it later in the studio. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Old
boats have always interested me much more than new ones. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weathered boards and peeling paint and odd
bits of rope and cable one often finds around old boats attract me especially
in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> where even large fishing boats are
left to tilt over on the sands when the tide goes out making them wonderful
painting subjects. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rowboats
left on beaches are particularly interesting but not easy to find around <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Victoria</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">BC</st1:state></st1:place>.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most small boats have been dragged
safely away from the water and overturned to keep out the rain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why this one, at Oak Bay Marina, is a
favourite because it’s owner leaves it sitting on the beach just like this.</span></div>
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often paint at the </span><st1:city style="font-family: arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Marina</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial";">
but this painting was done in the studio. I rearranged the scene a fair bit to
suit my composition; the background boats are from another part of the </span><st1:city style="font-family: arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Marina</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial";"> and the rock has
been resized and moved over.</span><br />
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wise I took the violets and blue greys of the foreground and repeated them in a
simplified value pattern in the background boats. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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painting was selected for third prize in the January BoldBrush Competition and
has just been juried into the Oil Painters of America Western Regional
Exhibition to be held in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Carmel</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-14424556757453605472014-04-29T20:05:00.001-07:002016-08-04T07:29:12.029-07:00A FEW MORE.....<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Several more of the little ones. Some of these are on the Daily Paintworks auction:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/218621">http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/218621</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I have walked by this field many times in all seasons</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This is a composite of several watercolours </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">painted in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"> St Ives and Padstow in Cornwall, </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">two of my favourite places.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I believe this is the narrowest pub in Britain. I love </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">winter trees and long shadows.</span></td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-70864577606674071042014-04-27T12:01:00.001-07:002016-08-04T07:31:19.407-07:00PAINTING THE LITTLE PICS<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love painting the<strong> </strong>little ones, the 6x8's and 6x6's. So much freedom and fun in them where one brush stroke can represent so much. Love them. These below are some that I have/had in auctions on Daily Paintworks.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.dailypaintworks.com/allartists/#/artist=tilby">http://www.dailypaintworks.com/allartists/#/artist=tilby</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I was attracted by the colour combination of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">orange, blue and violet. The touches of yellow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">and red really set it off.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">To paint this I had to stand equal distance from the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">paddock on either side otherwise a nosy horse</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Rowboats are one of my favourite subjects</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"> and </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">something about this one in St Ives is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"> especially </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">appealing. </span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In England boats are left on the sand or mud</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">when the tide goes out. They are so appealing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">as subjects with all the ropes and cables and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">shadows on wet sand. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-76791682412774177002014-04-18T12:20:00.002-07:002017-02-25T18:09:52.021-08:00WATERCOLOUR DAYS<div class="MsoNormal">
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interesting textures of old stone, brick peeling paint and plaster. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15228684948159900627noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7892038828828072176.post-75589448328563659752014-04-17T16:48:00.000-07:002015-04-06T21:21:57.268-07:00INTRO TO MY BLOG<div class="MsoNormal">
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thought I might start this blogging thing with a brief note about my artistic
beginnings but I don’t intend to continue in any sort of chronological order. I think I will jump around all over the place
with short snippets from the lessons I teach, thoughts about recent and older
paintings, experiences painting outdoors, bits of collected ‘wisdom’ and, of
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">So.... to begin.....I
didn’t start drawing seriously until about the age of 14 or 15 when I became obsessed
with horses. I drew them constantly.
Many summer afternoons went by with me in a stack of hay bales drawing the
horses in the neighbour’s field. I
remember I had trouble with hooves and muzzles so many of the horses in my
early drawings were standing in long grass and had grass or hay in their
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running shoes, kitchen utensils, my sister’s ragdolls, my hands and feet - anything and everything. Starting with pencil (I still have the pencil
my father gave me; it is held together with layers of masking tape) and then
pen and ink using a bottle of ink and a selection of nibs. (Still have those too). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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flowers set up in my room and a few portraits from magazine photos. At 17, a
school assignment to paint a watercolour landscape introduced me to the medium
and I was totally hooked. I loved it and continued with watercolour for 30 years. I still use it at times and I
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