Hard to decide.

    It's time to start some new oils.  I've got several panels and canvases ready.  Do I start 3 different landscapes?  Northern ones?  Local ones?  Bottles or fruit or other still lifes?  Should I start another barn wall painting, I'm so attracted to those.  Anyways, these are the things I'm always thinking about.  Stay tuned for some more progress shots soon.

In the mean time, here is a small oil study of the edges of a harvested cornfield right here in Ontario.

 Corn field and sky, Oil on panel



Oil Painting Progress Shots



I like to paint broken pieces of glass in the sunlight and I'll keep trying it in lots of different compositions and colours.

 

Some progress shots on a recent oil painting.  I didn't start with a preliminary drawing on this one, just started with the basic forms and blocking it in.

 

 

Starting to lay in the background.  I didn't want to get too detailed with the glass before having to paint around all of the little pieces.

I went all over the place trying to decide what to do with this concrete background.  At one point I started painting the individual grains of sand in the concrete before I realized that wasn't working...

 

Close up of some of the texture.

 

Pretty much finished with it.  Like most of my oil pieces, after I put it away for a few weeks I inevitably see a few things I'd still like to change!

 

Sweetpeas

 

Are these too girly to put in my boy's rooms?  They might get some anyways :)

Still doing watercolours in between oil painting layers. 

 

Cherry Blueberry Popsicle Painting, Watercolor 8x10

 

 I just keep painting these because they are so very summery and so much fun.  All of the pictures link to Artfire where you can find these for sale.

 

Sweetpeas for my Sweetpea, Watercolor 8x10"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Oil Painting Bottles

Broken Glass, Oil on Panel, 11x14"

 

 

Framed on my back deck beside some lavender.

 

 

Finished up this oil painting.  I really like making the reference photos for these pieces.  Smashing bottles and photographing them is very cathartic!  The play of light and the translucent qualities are amazing.  This piece comes with the frame because I am not happy with how the edges of the panel turned out.  Luckily I found a frame that I love and it fits in very securely. 



Sweet Peas, Watercolor Painting

Sweet Peas in Blue Mason Jar, Original Watercolor, 8x10

 

I've been having a lot of positive feed back on my small flower watercolors.  Thanks so much to everyone who's been telling me how they love them!  The most recent ones that I sold just made it safely to Texas last week :)

SweetPeas Wildflowers in Blue Glass, Watercolours

Teal and fuschia sweetpea watercolor.  Blue Mason Jar Vase

Sweet Peas, 8x10 Watercolor on Paper

 

 

They're such a delicate flower, I think I may need to buy a small watercolor brush for the stems.

I will link the pictures to where they are available to purchase on Artfire or Etsy.

 

 



Wheat Field Oil Painting

Wheat Field and Sky, 8x6 inches Oil on Panel

 

This is a quicker oil study that I painted of the fall wheat down the road from me.  I'm really happy with how the sky turned out.  It's on a one inch deep wood cradled panel.  I wish I had time to try a little study like this every day!  Click on the picture to view it in my etsy shop.

 

Josephine Czech



Popsicles

Tie-Dye Popsicles, Watercolor Painting 8x10

 

Cherry Lime Popsicles! Watercolor Painting, 8x19

 

These are so bright and summery.  I want to get some framed for the kid's rooms.  In the mean time I bought some beautiful stock photography and figured out how to insert my watercolors into a frame digitally.

 

 

 

Watercolor Popsicles, 8x10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Summer

In the mood to paint some summer style watercolors!  Playing around with popsicle paintings in watercolor.



Cherry Orange Popsicles, Watercolor, 8x10

Watercolors

Sweetpeas, Watercolor 8x10

 

 

I've been having fun with some small watercolors.  It's a nice change of pace to mix in with oil painting.  Something that I can work on much more easily during nap time, since they dry so fast.  And clean-up is about 100x easier!  So many things are growing in my garden right now that I started painting them.  Like these radishes,

 

 

Radishes, Watercolor 8x10

 

 

Then I tried a few with writing...little inspirational watercolors.

 

 

Watercolor field, crops in rows.

 

 

It's lots of fun so I put some up on ArtFire.com under the shop name FourGreenAcres.  It's nice to have another venue besides Etsy, and for now I think I'll keep oils on etsy and watercolors on ArtFire.  Even have a few sales there already!  I'm interested in any opinions of the different online art selling venues. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Rock Shelf, Georgian Bay

Rock Shelf, oil painting, 16x20"

Work in Progress

Oil Painting, Rocks, 16x20"

Working away, changing my studio lighting around, trying to get better pictures that show some brushwork.  Work in progress of Geogian Bay

Pickled Hot Pepper Painting

Picled Hot Peppers, Oil on Panel, 8x10"

Pretty much done, might go back into the highlights a bit.  I will definitely need to take a better picture if the December sun ever comes out again!  Impossible not to get the glare on the background when you scan a painting.  Now I will let my husband open this jar of peppers that my Aunt and Uncle gave us months ago.  It was just so pretty I had to paint it first.

Cherry Sketch

Some Sketching

I told myself that if I don't have time to paint on any particular day, I have to at least do a quick drawing.  All of the figure poses are courtesy of the awesome website http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/ that sets up the poses like you are at a life drawing class.

Smooth Stones

Smooth Stones, Oil on Canvas, 14"x16"

Another piece that I've worked on intermittently.  Sometimes it's harder to go back and finish a half done painting than it is to just start something new, but I've always loved these shiny smooth stones.  I know the colours look unreal, but I have pictures from a beach in Newfoundland to prove it.

Landscape

Cumulus Clouds, Oil Painting 11x14"

Rocky Shore Painting

Rocky Shore, Oil painting on panel, 10x10"

Unlike my previous post, I've been working on this painting off and on for at least a year.  I'm still not

Honey Jar Painting

Honey Jar, Oil on Panel, 7x9"

Really nice sometimes to paint something quicker and more simple.  Compared to

Old Barn Painting

Old Barn, Oil on Panel, 10x12"

This is the old foundation of my in-law's barn.  A few weeks after I started this painting some of

Stormy Field Painting

Stormy Field 7x9" Oil on panel

  This little painting is of a field in late summer, bit of a stormy moody day.  I need to re-photograph without the date stamp.  I need to paint new things to put up in the Etsy shop!  It's gotten pretty sparse since I made 8 sales.  I know that's not a lot compared to some of those power house Etsy shops.  But I actually really love that people in Ontario, Germany, America, Alberta all bought my paintings and I got to package them up and send them all over :)