Still Life with Blue Bottle (Update)

This one is nearing completion. Just a few more tweaks and hi-lites to do.

High Realism Still Life Project (Update)

Further progress. The wash technique is working well to create the subtle translucency needed to replicate a clear bottle. Some dry brushing along the edges of the blue bottles edge behind the clear bottle helps to add the subtlety required in achieving the right balance of hard and soft edges.

High Realism Still Life Project

I started a night course with the fabulous realist painter Ian Bodnaryk at Station Gallery this month. Here is my project thus far. Ian utilizes acrylics in thin washes to obtain pristine images, and he works very large as well, which makes this method challenging. Instead of flat brushes, Ian uses round brushes to cross-hatch washes until he obtains the texture that he's after. It's an exercise in patience, even at this 12 x 16 size for my project. I do like how it's turning out so far though.

Art Feature on In2motorsports

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Precious Memories

I came across these images tonight and just had to post them because it becomes more apparent as we get older how fast time passes. These images are of my parents and older brothers. The top picture shows my mum with my older brothers Peter and Eric in 1962 while she worked at CFTO in Toronto. The picture of my mum (on the left) with her best friend Veronica was taken in 1946 or 1947 I would guess, and an image of my mum modelling a dress, still in Vienna. The bottom images show my mum after she moved to Canada in 1954, and my parents on their wedding day in 1953.