Richard McNaughton's Art

100 1 Square Foot Paintings Painting number 16

Richard McNaughton — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:14:48 +0000

We get a lot of winter here so I like to do a few winter paintings.

100 1 Square Foot Paintings, Painting Number 15

Richard McNaughton — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:54:28 +0000

Aspen Trees

A Square painting that is 24X24″ my fiist larger square painting.

Richard McNaughton — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:09:34 +0000

I was convinced by the Loft gallery to try larger paintings and I thought it would be an idea to document the different stages of the painting.

This is a 2 ft. by 2 ft. stretched gallery type canvas.

The image is of a bridge near my home and I have done several paintings of this subject and likely will paint several more.

As you can see I roughed in the bridge and water along with the sky.

I then added the trees to each side of the river.

Then I worked on adding paint to the old concrete bridge.

Next I wanted to work on the water. I wanted bits of ice floating on the water. I also wanted to capture the reflection of the bridge.

Then I wanted to flesh out the trees and add the snow.

For a focal point I painted someone walking across the bridge. I added the umbrella to give the painting some colour.

Then I tried something scary! I wanted to add snow by splattering white paint over the canvas. It worked!

This is the final result. Hope you enjoyed the process. I plan to do several more of this size, and then get back to the square foot paintings.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Richard McNaughton — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:15:41 +0000

First off I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This is a very busy time for me and my family as we have a plaque mounting business and every one wants their pictures plagued before Christmas. We have been working 10hrs a day to keep up. It’s been exhausting, needless to say I have not been painting.

I have also am going to step it up as they say by doing a 24″X24″ painting. This is a little daunting for me as I like to do the smaller squares. However I have be approached by the Loft Gallery to do larger paintings for them as I have sold all the small square foots.

So now I am looking at this huge blank canvas and thinking how am I going to do this. I will probably wait until after the New Year.

OMG

My Studio Art show and sale in Priceville

Richard McNaughton — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:37:55 +0000

I have been very busy getting ready for my open house at my studio mostly cleaning the place. This is also a very busy time for our plaque mounting business as we get closer to Christmas. Priceville is having it’s Santa parade this weekend and I am also having the studio open house. We have had some snow this month but it did not stay hope to have some for the parade.

Here is a photo of my studio when it snowed last week. plus some interior shots

100 1 Square foot Paintings Painting number 14

Richard McNaughton — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:59:13 +0000

There is still a lot of fall paintings I would like to do before the snow flies. We have already had a goo snow fall last week but it is gone now. Its only a matter of time before it begins in earnest.

This painting is of the Saugeen River which is a large part of the area I’m living in.

Rivers Edge

100 1 square foot paintings Painting number 13

Richard McNaughton — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:41:44 +0000

This is a back lane in a small village called Markdale I have painted this before but thought it would suit the square foot format.

Back Alley

100 1 square foot paintings – painting number 12

Richard McNaughton — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:45:11 +0000

Late Foal

100 1 Square foot Paintings – Painting number 11

Richard McNaughton — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:06:29 +0000

I love the fall , the weather has been fabulous. We had one of the warmest and sunniest Thanksgivings (Canadian) in recent memory. This painting was done from one of several walks we did that weekend. I hope to have several more paintings from Thanksgiving weekend

Back Woods Stream

100 1 Square Foot Paintings Paintng number 10

Richard McNaughton — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:16:07 +0000

I should have put this in at the start of this crazy idea of 100 paintings. Here it is now