Sofie Moderator
Posts : 713 Join date : 2009-11-27 Location : Courtenay, BC, Canada
| Subject: Comox Valley Exhibition Fair Paint out Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:59 pm | |
| This past weekend I was one of three artists painting on site at the Comox Valley Exhibition Fair - sort of like a country fair or fall fair with all sorts of vendors booths, animals for show and competition, quilting, jam, baking, flowers, and veggies, hay rides, antique tractor parade, chainsaw sculptures, logger competitions. and a midway with games and rides. We artists painting on site were just part of the entertainment. I was given a 22"x28" canvas and told to go for it, so I looked around and this was the best view of the fair I could find from our location: People wandered through to the midway and I managed to catch a few of them. My favourite were the twin toddles that I scribbled in as they toddled awkwardly up the hill. I just wanted to get the overall impression of colour and gaiety that the scene evoked. Here's the completed painting: | |
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Sofie Moderator
Posts : 713 Join date : 2009-11-27 Location : Courtenay, BC, Canada
| Subject: Re: Comox Valley Exhibition Fair Paint out Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:07 pm | |
| On the Sunday I was given two 10"x12" canvas boards. I don't like painting on canvas boards but it was all I had so I made the best of it. I decided to challenge myself and paint a tractor, because machinery is not something I'd ever really paint by choice. Here's what the antique orange tractor really looks like: And here's what I did to it: I still have to paint the name on but one passerby actually recognised it and was able to tell me the correct make! | |
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Sofie Moderator
Posts : 713 Join date : 2009-11-27 Location : Courtenay, BC, Canada
| Subject: Re: Comox Valley Exhibition Fair Paint out Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:11 pm | |
| After that there wasn't much left to paint but the sunflowers, so I gave them a go: I changed them up a bit for the painting: | |
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Crystal1
Posts : 639 Join date : 2010-02-05 Location : Ft Worth, TX
| Subject: Re: Comox Valley Exhibition Fair Paint out Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:28 pm | |
| You sure did a great job painting all of that in one weekend! I think I like the sunflowers best, but you can tell you put a lot of work into the other 2. Great job. Dayle | |
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judyfilarecki Moderator
Posts : 2685 Join date : 2009-11-16 Location : Northern NY and Southern Arizona
| Subject: Re: Comox Valley Exhibition Fair Paint out Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:08 pm | |
| I like the two toddlers. You can just see them waddling along with that wide stance and weight shifting from side to side. Nice job, Judy | |
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Janet Moderator
Posts : 2050 Join date : 2009-11-15 Location : North Bay, Ontario Canada
| Subject: Re: Comox Valley Exhibition Fair Paint out Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:20 pm | |
| All wonderful paintings! I love the toddlers too. | |
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Dale
Posts : 573 Join date : 2009-11-17 Location : Near Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
| Subject: Re: Comox Valley Exhibition Fair Paint out Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:49 pm | |
| Amazing - you achieved so much light and interest in such a short time. Congrats! | |
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