Pyro/predator3 at My Door -Wolf

One day, during daylight hours, a wolf ran beside my van on the road by my house.  Abruptly he stopped and smugly smiled with a twinkle in his blue eyes.  He was no starving fellow and the bulk looked good on him. I'm still not sure why he ran beside the van but the knowing smile and blue eyes have stayed with me.
At dusk you can hear the wolves howling across the river, and sometimes it is as though they were in my yard near the pond.

Pyro/predator 2- Furtive Fox

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 

As part of the Pedator Series  I burnt lines in to set up the lines of theft.  Then I painted with fluid acrylic paints.  However, I did not strictly follow the burnt lines -this part of my technique is changing.

The fox has come onto our property a number of times -looking for?  They move most cautiously, looking about in nervous anticipation of impending doom.

Pyro/Predators at my door-Coyote

Out the front door you can hear the coyote's yip and carry on.  They chase the wild turkeys in the farm field next to our property.  As happens, they stop to survey me as I stop to watch them. A nod of understanding by both and we carry on with the day.

The burnt lines are becoming more and more absorbed int the painting with this series -as had begun to happen with the pyro/cat boxes from before.  Nevertheless, the lines are still used to define areas of the painting and contain the paint.

Small Pyrography/Fluid Acrylic Painting

I have moving between oil pastel work and my usual pyrographic/fluid acrylic works.

The rock, water and trees of the north create unique images.  Here I reduced it all down to a lone tree and the landscape about it.  The tree seems like a weathered, aged beacon in the landscape -alone fighting the elements.  The battle is in the tortured lines made more prominent by the pyrographic burn lines.  The lines are no longer around every colour/value separation but to emphasize.

9" x 12"

Punchneedle -the Sun and the Moon and the Stars

Manuela drew the Sun, the Moon and the Stars for a punch needle image for the cottage -or wherever.

It is interesting how you punch the threads in through the back of the canvas and the image is on the reverse side.

 The orange and yellow threads went through a number of changes to get the correct combination of colours that make up the image.

 As usual, Manuela added beads and crystals to the canvas.

The silver treads of the moon pick up coloration from the other colours in the image.

A Winter Oil Pastel at the River

From another walk by the river I made the drawing and then bak at the studio I used oil pastel.  First an undercoating of oil pastel, further layers ending with Sennelier oil pastels.

A Small Winter Oil Pastel

Well, I drew some simple compositions and inked them.  

 Then I added some oil pastels as undercoating.

 And, finished up with further layers of oil pastels and then Sennelier to finish.