Month: December 2013

Sketches / Drawings / Paintings

Four Barns :: Quatre granges

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I asked my Mom the other day which of my paintings that she preferred and she told me Memoirs of Hadrian. As I had painted it in a small sketchbook, I had to paint it again… and again… and again, as I could not tear off one of my pages in the sketchbook. Now suffice to say that this is the final version. It is funny how drawing on location is so different from painting from a photograph… alive compared to uni-dimensional. I painted this on Saunders Waterford HP (Hot Pressed) paper and it is a very smooth paper, compared to all of the bumps that we encounter with CP (Cold Pressed).

J’ai demandé à ma mère quelle peinture qu’elle préférait de toutes les peintures que j’ai faites… et elle a indiqué Memoirs of Hadrian. Étant donné que je ne voulais pas défaire mon cahier à croquis en enlevant une page, j’ai décidé de lui repeindre les quatre granges… encore… encore… et encore. C’est vraiment drôle comment différent l’acte de peindre en plein-air et peindre d’une photo. Peindre en plein-air est vivant… d’une photo, quasiment mort… unidimensionnel. J’ai peint cette photo sur du papier Saunders Waterford HP qui est sublime! 

Paper: Saunders Waterford 140 lbs HP 12″ x 9″
Pen: Sailor EF Fountain Pen
Ink: Black Carbon Ink
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Sketches / Drawings / Paintings

Kamouraska Lighthouse :: Le phare de Kamouraska

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I have painted this lighthouse twice now because I love it… I love the calmness of Kamouraska with the St. Lawrence Estuary as the background. I painted it using Marc Taro Holmes‘ technique of 3 watercolour passes of tea, milk and honey.

J’ai peint ce phare deux fois car j’aime cet endroit appelé Kamouraska avec le vaste fleuve St-Laurent comme toile de fond. J’ai peint en utilisant la technique que Marc Taro Holmes nous a montrée dans son cours qui consiste de faire 3 passes/lavis de thé, lait et miel. 

Paper: Arches CP 140 lbs
Colours: Cobalt Blue, Raw Sienna, Sap Green, Burnt Umber and a mix of Q. Burnt Orange, Winsor Red and Alizarin Crimson

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Sketches / Drawings / Paintings

21 days :: 21 jours

by Jane HannahLeave a Comment on 21 days :: 21 jours

Today is the first day of December and my hopes of seeing the days grow longer are getting closer… the winter solstice, or Midwinter, is on December 21! For those of you who do not live in the northern hemisphere, we are a weather oriented people. Every day we look outside, we turn on the TV to the weather channel, listen to the predictions… at the moment, our brooke is frozen solid, a sure sign of winter. The winter solstice is the time at which the Sun is at its southernmost point in the sky. This means that at noon, the shadows are at their longest in the year -) If the sun is out, I will be painting the shadows as they are gorgeous —  I will be there!!!

Usually I paint “live”, and usually sitting in my car. However, for these past few weekends, where my job requires me to correct and prepare for most of the weekend, I have not had the time to paint “live”. So if you are wondering where this is, I have no clue, except that it is somewhere on the East Coast in North America (a note to myself: when I find photographs on the web, I should note where they were taken, if the info is available).

En cette première journée de décembre, mes esprits se réveillent car les journées vont recommencer à allonger à partir du 21 décembre, le solstice d’hiver. C’est à ce moemnt que les ombres sont le plus long à midi, donc à leurs plus beaux. Je vais être au rendez-vous! Oui!!!

Habituellement je peins de mon automobile “live” et j’évite de peindre de photos. Mais les dernières semaines, prise dans le tourbillon de corrections et de préparation de cours, je n’avais que le temps de peindre de photos. Donc si vous vous demandez où est ce phare, je n’ai pas d’idée… autre que sur la côté est en Amérique du Nord.

Paper: Larolan Sketchbook #10

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