ACEO Autumn Paintings

Autumn 2.5 x 3.5" ACEO acrylic

Autumn Storm  2.5 x 3.5" acrylic ACEO

Even though the days are still hot hot hot, and we are running the a/c steady, the nights have started cooling off and you can feel that "hint" of fall in the air.  Got me thinking of all the fall colours that will soon be popping up everywhere.  As usual will find my paintings listed on Ebay here  Free shipping within Canada :)

March Theme Week is "signs of Spring" Pussy Willows

Pussy Willows 2.5" x 3.5" acrylic/Ink

March Theme Week at the ACEO group on Ebay is "Signs of Spring".  I decided to go out of my comfort zone a bit and do something a little different from what I usually do.  Here is my rendtion of the first signs of Spring.  what else????  Pussy Willows of course :)  You will find this piece listed on Ebay here:  Pussy Willows

Barrel Racing - graphite pencil aceo

Barrel racing work in progress. I was doing these last summer. I finally finished the last one of them that I was going to work on. I had previously did steer wrestling, bucking broncos, rodeo clowns and now this last one.

Finished the piece.

You will find the finished piece listed on Ebay here

Mischief in the Tulips

EBSQart's flower of the month show for April is Tulips. I wanted something a little different so I painted "mischief". Do you think she'll eat them? Or just smell them.......my bets on eating them.

Painted with acrylics this 3.5" x 2.5" aceo can be found at the EBSQart show here
but I also have it listed already on Ebay here

WIP (work in progress) The Potter

This was the start of my new painting "The Potter" today. Just the basic rough shadows in this photo. I wasn't sure how to proceed. I knew how I wanted her to look, but didn't really know how to get it on the canvas.

"The Potter" 2.5" x 3.5" acrylic finished

I finished her this afternoon. I wanted some colour in an otherwise very muted piece. In keeping with the series I'm doing of women working at everyday tasks she is painting some jugs. I wanted her to be working alone. One person told me today that she imagined my woman working into the late hours of the night while the family was sleeping, getting her wares ready to sell at the market. I like that notion. You will find this piece listed on Ebay here

Grouse Hunter - ACEO

"Grouse Hunter" 2.5 x 3.5" aceo

Fellow artist "Char" (amarillo-choctaw)suggested while I was painting figures, to paint a Native American figure. I want to get the earth tones needed to portray plains people. So have been experimenting. This is how "Grouse Hunter" came to be. He has to blend into the prairie in order to get close to the prairie chicken.

Northern Ligthts - Falling star paintings

It's in the -30s today. It is going to be in the -40s tomorrow with the windchill, so what better time to paint a cold crisp winter night. "Shooting Star" is an acrylic aceo (2.5" x 3.5") painted on paper canvas. It has a bit of "glitter" to give it that frosty starlit look.

"Northern Lights" is a 4" x 4" acrylic painting. I find it wierd that square seemed to be harder to paint than rectangle? I have no idea why. This one also has glitter, but I added just the slightest hint of blue and green in the northern lights to add to the magic :)

You will find them both listed on Ebay here

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Swans - Valentine painting - Work in progress

This is just a fun little ditty in time for Valentines Day. It wasn't going to be a work in progress, but I photographed each stage so I thought I would put it on the blog as one. I did the background first and then the outline of the swans. You can't tell at this point even what they are going to be.

Put in some details. It's not a perfect mirror image (that would be pretty much impossible unless you were doing digital art. But I think it's pretty darn close.

Some finishing touches to the water, and there you go.....Love's Reflection. Swans mate for life and when posed such as they are, their necks make a beautiful heart. The heart shape is reflected in the water. An 8" x 10" acrylic that I will list somewhere. Just not sure if it will be local or on Ebay.

I also painted a similar aceo that will be listed on Ebay. You will find the aceo (art card editions and originals 2.5" x 3.5") listed here

Meteorite at Buzzard Coulee, Sk - Northern Lights

I painted two new aceo (art card editions & originals) today. Both winter scenes, but the first one depicts a strange event that took place over Saskatchewan and Alberta November 20. A large meteorite burned through earth's atmosphere and was seen by both provinces. My daughter saw it and said the scene was spectacular!!! Pieces were found in and around a pond near the Buzzard Coulee region in Saskatchewan

So I named the first painting "Meteorite and Buzzard Coulee"

The bottom aceo is a winter night scene with Northern Lights shining down on a lone snowman.

Both are listed on Ebay here.

Lightning Storm painting with horse

Here is a new painting tonight. I don't usually paint animals and certainly not a horse running, but I thought "what the heck" I'll give it a try. So here is an aceo titled "Running with the Storm" or if the horse had a brain he would be running away from the storm! Painted with acrylics, it is aceo size (2.5" x 3.5") I have listed it on Ebay here