Posts by: Vanessa
Mill Woods Artists Collective Art Show March – April
Take a look at the great show that the Mill Woods Artists Collective has put together at the Koffee Café on 6120 28 Ave NW. In 2011, I took a drawing 400 class instructed by Caitlin Wells, where we were encouraged to do a series about some sort of mechanical…
Post Date your Sketchbook
And the countdown begins! The moleskin that I received this summer have 32 pages to fill. How many have I filled so far? 3/32. That’s right. 29 paintings must be completed before January 15th. This sketch took about 40 minutes. No big deal. That’s about 29 hours if I really drag this…
Keeping an Artist Logbook
The thought of keeping record of what I do each day has been in the back of my mind for a week now, as I have been blogging the progress of my paintings. Against my own advice, I took a glace through some of the art books I have purchased…
An Edmonton Urbanscape V
Today I had to take a look at the contrast of the paintings. If the correct color is there but the contrast is not…the painting will look terrible. The solution I go towards is printing off a black and white copy of the image and compare it to the reference. …
The Sketchbook Project Limited Edition 2012: Create and Capture
Received the long anticipated book from the Sketchbook Project yesterday evening. Haven’t had the time to look through it at the moment, but from what I flipped through there are some brilliant sketches. Some have a well deserved page for their own work like Kathryn Kirby Mcdonnald from Roswell, GA. I also…
Travelling through Crowsnest Pass by Train
Counting the hours…shouldn’t be doing it, but it gives me a good gauge where I am time wise. I won’t linger in the details when I need to simply paint without over thinking it. This painting definitely has a different feel to it compared to the bridge. Much more organic….
An Edmonton Urbanscape IV
Painting from yesterday Painting after today. Detail of the bridge. Trying to figure out how I will do the pillars and if I am happy with the river before I do all four of them. Another detail on the left side of the painting. I think this part is…
An Edmonton Urbanscape III
6am-10am Woke up at 5 this morning in attempts to complete the painting before I go off to work. Didn’t happen. There are many exciting things happening in the painting though that is for sure. I realized that the image that I got printed out is much more purple than…
An Edmonton Urbanscape II
After looking through my paints, I realized that I should pick up some purple. I suppose I could have mixed some but I thought it would be best to get the closest pigment. I understand that I have an artistic license to do whichever with the painting…but sometimes I get…
An Edmonton Urbanscape
The beginnings of a 60 x 20 painting. To say that I am excited would be an understatement. Is it h x w or w x h? The easel was made this year in a construction summer class completely solid oak! It took about 16-18 hours to build and the…
