This weekend I will be a vendor at the Autumn at Andrews market at Andrews Scenic Acres. As well as my autumn trees, landscapes, toads, bats, and pumpkins, I will be bringing these new acrylic paintings framed in reclaimed wood. I have been making the most of some gorgeous little pumpkins I picked up there…
Painting Autumn : trees
We are right in the middle of autumn here in Ontario, and I’ve enjoyed making the most of painting local trees changing colour. Have been taking time-lapse videos of a few of them, here are some quick links to them on my YouTube channel, as well as a longer watercolour tutorial (pls forgive the audio…
Art at Andrews : Dahlias in Autumn
This past weekend I was one of the vendors at Autumn at Andrews market, organized by The Mom Market Collective and located at the beautiful Andrews Scenic Acres. Was WINDY and COLD to say the least, which made it exciting… but made it a little challenging to do my painting demo! Even with my easel…
bats in flight
This was a lot of fun studying bats in flight… they are so different than birds, flying sideways and upside down! This one is a watercolour, 8×10. Bit of fun for Halloween, am working on some bigger silhouettes of bats but not quite there yet. So… I’ve been on Instagram properly for a few weeks…
autumn toad
So… having a little break from landscapes! I love, love LOVE toads! This illustration was painted from a photo of my pet toad Gimli, who I had for two years. Best pet, he loved crickets! More to come… I photographed a gorgeous, spotty enormous toad this past weekend I’m eager to paint, too! This is…
Painting Autumn : Under the Umbrella
This is a little painting I did in the early afternoon en plein air at Groom Lake, Kearney, ON… partway through it started to rain, and my husband held an umbrella up for me until I finished working. Really pleased with this one, and it was a nice memory working on it together… though it’s…
Painting Autumn : Across the Lake
After the early morning painting, I had time to do another from a slightly different view. Felt authentically autumn with leaves falling into my water bucket and on my canvas as I worked. I was very pleased with this little acrylic painting… and then disaster struck! It was threatening to rain, so when finished I…
Painting Autumn : Early Morning
This past weekend my hubby & I went away camping for the weekend to enjoy autumn painting & fishing. Was a bit of a disaster weather wise, with it being rainy most of the time… but had a few dry patches to get out on the lake and do both. (Discovered it isn’t so easy…
Art at Andrews : A Gathering of Pumpkins
This is a second little acrylic on canvas I painted en plein air at Andrews Farm & Winery. I brought a picnic blanket to sit on and paint from, so parked myself beside a beautiful bunch of big pumpkins. I painted it on a canvas I had primed with yellow-orange, as you can see from the…
Art at Andrews : Dahlias
This is a little acrylic on canvas I painted en plein air at Andrews Farm & Winery. It was an overcast day, cool and wet… I brought a picnic blanket to sit on and paint from, but quickly realized the best view was from a standing position. So I basically held my little canvas &…
Heather Castles Illustration 