Durham Backroads

Woodlands

This photo does not do this painting justice so I will repost again later. This is painted with a muddy palette. It made for a real challenge. Hard to simplify a busy woodland scene. Looked forward to the challenge. I have been working so small this larger size is a real pleasure and being on canvas it is like returning home.

11.Hillside Farm

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I am enjoying experimenting with my knife. Always good to play outside the sandbox and the lines. The layering of colours and textures adds another component to the process of painting and of the final outcome.

10.Ocean Light

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This is my first knife panting in a long time. It is great to express with just colour, form and shape.

9.Humber River

#8- Toronto Rowhouse

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#7.Algonquin Evening

I am having withdrawl from being up north and this is my response.

6.Quebec Streetscape #1

A little sketch showing the roofs and architecture of this small Quebec town.

5.Seasons End

On Driving to drop off Studio tour brochures in Durham I noticed this field painting and tried a quick sketch.

#4-Summer Shoreline

Due to the amount of detail this sketch took much longer to create and conceive.

#3 Muskoka Dreamtime

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2.Muskoka Sunset

1.Toronto Skyline Ashbridges Bay

At the foot of Ashbridges Bay is a great view of toronto each and every evening. Here is one version of it's many moods!

#26 Toronto Tug.

#25 Chinese Market -Toronto Ontario.

It is fun to to paint complicated scenes of colourful shapes and images.Since I am not drawing it makes a great challenge to make subjects and form with shape painting alone.

Painting in the Market holds endless fascinating opportunities!Enjoy!

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#24 Leuty Lifeguard Station -Beach Toronto.

Little sketch of the beach lifestation as spring begins to beckon.Many paintings to be found down at the beach area of Toronto.

#23 Rivers Edge-Algonquin Park-

Here is what the mantle is starting to look like.It is getting busy aroung here.

Recent last snow fall was two weeks ago and in some areas it snowed 23 centimetres.It Gave me an opportunity to paint my favourite march subject -Snow shadows.

#22 Radiance-Canoe Lake

Pretty tired today after teaching a workshop in Richmond hill on Painting Like the Group of seven.Thought I would come home and put what I was teaching into practice.Hope you enjoy this colourful one!

#21 Evening at Canoe Lake -Algonquin Park-Plein Aire Canada painting

Light effects have been a particular interest and this is reflected here.Constable was known for his sky studies and I am looking forward to my own in depth study of these phenomenons.

#20 Evening Glow-Canoe Lake -Algonquin Park-Ontario Canada

The radiant Glow and the endless change that unfolds every ten minutes is a challenge to capture.Just wanted to leave you with a colourful one tonight.

#19- Winter's Blanket-Stouffville Ontario Canada

This image was done for those who feel that I do too many bright paintings and you know who you are.This project is to explore many facets of the landscape as well as anything that captures my fancy.It also allows me to keep my painting skills sharp while I am busy teaching and not producing.
Winters Blanket is the images that i see daily on the way to work.

While driving to work you see a hundred paintings ,you are doing the wrong work!
Andrew Hamilton
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#18 Presquile Lighthouse-

This image is a little bigger and a little more involved.The reference was taken from the water to create a more dynamic image.Presquile is a beautiful park here in Southern Ontario and i have grown to love it's various moods. A number of North American forests converge here in the park. It is an incredible spot to see migratory birds and various types of wildlife.This Park is A Jewel in Ontario!

#17 Pine Sunset-Algonquin Park

# 16-Spring Field

Just because it snowed two days ago doesn't mean I can't get ready for some of my spring and summer subjects.This is a scene from the Stouffville area that i pass quite frequently as I hunt for painting subjects.

Leonardo was quoted as saying that you are a real artist if you can take two steps out your front door and find a painting subject.For me it is a little further afield!

#15 Fire Sunset-Canoe Lake Algonquin Park

This was a study done to create light depth and space.The underglow on clouds is the reflected light of the waning sun.

How many sunsets I have seen and pondered over the painting of them.I have been enjoying painting these and pushing as far as I can go to capture my rememberances.

#14 Snow Beach Toronto -

The computer has been down and and then the internet was giving me trouble so I will now publish the rest of the images.Didn't like how this one turned out so i tidied it up.Artists perogative!

#13 Toronto Beach Backyards

# 12 Snow Hillside.Plein Aire Canada paintings

I love the patterns found in the forest at any time of year but for me winter holds the most interest.I hear winter could be sneaking back upon us and I hope to take advantage with the opportunity in paint.

#11 Tom Thomson Lake -Algonquin Park

I sometimes find the small format of 6 x 8 inches small to create within.This was a challenging piece and took a little longer than expected.An artist has never painted everything in the world so his/her journey is an ever evolving learning process.

This painting is a little more vibrant than is seen here.

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Plein Aire Canada Paintings- #10 Horses at Riverdale Farm

Sunday afternoon sketch hunting.Riverdale farm is an oasis of colours ,forms and life in Toronto.Many subject matter can be found there and is an old farm steeped in history.

I like to create using a very limited palette and mix all my own colours.I use three colours plus white to create all my paintings.This is a challenge but an exciting one!

Last of the Winter Snow - #9 Algonquin Park

Sunny days and cool nights as march goes out with a roar!The paint can freeze so you must paint quickly !

Canada Plein Aire --#8 Island Sunset-Canoe Lake

Canada Plein Aire-Northern Lights over Canoe Lake

A credit card paining from a series of works created in Acrylic on paper, to work more expressively and creatively.Hopefully not many blackflies present in the paint!

Plein Aire Canada paintings from the canoe -Andrew Hamilton-from the Paint Canada Series-Sunset Canoe Lake

Tom Thomson used to paint colourful landscape paintings and then bring them back to the city.The critics and viewers always disagreed with him and felt that these colours were not real.His view was that even he did not do the scene enough justice and felt he fell short in achieving the scene.This sunset piece was done from his favourite camp site on Canoe Lake Algonquin Park Ontario Canada.This was retouched to achieve the brilliance of the scene i remember.
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Evening at Canoe Lake -Plein Aire Canada painting.

Canada Plein Aire -White Star Farm Markham Ontario

This drawing is inspired for my forthcoming drawing and painting trip in the summer retracing Tom Thomsons canoe route's.

I have just heard that the canoe has been donated and we are well on the way for this project.

Pleine Aire Canada ,Ontario painting -Chinatown toronto

This painting was painted from the car at the intersection in Chinatown Toronto.The street was busy and bustling and the light was constantly changing.Painting people as they move fast was a fun challenge.The head of one person,the body and pose of the next.Since i don't draw first and paint the shapes it was simple ,expressive and energizing.Hot coffee helps when the window is down.

AY Jackson was one of the most famous Canadian Plein Aire painters in Canada

A.Y. Jackson, A Painter's Country, 1958, pages 59 and 66The Group of Seven painters were known for their love of travel and exploration of the Canadian land. Of all of the members of the Group, Jackson was the most widely traveled. A constant painter au plein air, he set up his easel from Vancouver Island to the Arctic to Nova Scotia. He explored his beloved home province of Quebec the most thoroughly of any region, painting the landscape, people and villages in all their many seasons, colours and moods. Baie Saint-Paul, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River and north of Quebec City by some 62 miles, was a frequent destination. Several canvases resulted from his trips there, as well as numerous pencil drawings and a sketch-book, in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. In these, the characteristic buildings with their quaint rooflines and simple, functional architecture were most often the subjects of his work. It was the charming lines of the buildings that appealed to Jackson; the contrast of the structural shapes with the rolling hills in the distance was the essence of simplicity and serenity. It was a place he called "Christmas card country", where one scene after another awaited his brush. Many of these buildings would be replaced shortly after Jackson painted them, a fact he acknowledges in his autobiography. In reference to the picturesqueness of Quebec, he wrote to Clarence Gagnon, who was in Paris at the time: "Why don't you come home and paint Quebec.There should be fifty artists working to record its fast vanishing charms..." This Group period Jackson masterpiece takes us back to a time now gone, and we feel invited to join the simple scene by the freshly laid track in the snow which winds its way to the snow-covered buildings. Fence posts poke through the deep snow, and some wood - perhaps a sled and some skis - rests against one of the outbuildings, hinting at ways we might travel the same track. The foreground and its buildings are warmed by the sun, while the distant landscape is cooler and in slight shadow. The snow is deep and full of colour, a play of various shades of white, lit by the thin band of sky showing through the low afternoon cloud. The brushwork in the scene is classic 1920s Jackson, smooth, fluid and assured. The shadows in the snow are deft and subtle, perfect swatches of blue and pink. Jackson is at the peak of his career, and is clearly at his most comfortable in such rural landscapes, with their rolling vistas and small hints of humanity. Snow had great appeal to Jackson in Baie Saint-Paul, and it was there that he acquired the nickname Père Raquette - Father Snowshoes. Baie Saint-Paul is known as an artist's paradise, attracting many painters to its majestic landscape and quaint village life. Clarence Gagnon and Edwin Holgate worked there repeatedly, and both Jean Paul Lemieux and Marc-Aurèle Fortin were attracted to its visual offerings. Jackson mentions the impending arrival of Lilias Torrence Newton, Albert Robinson and Mabel May in a letter to J.E.H. MacDonald written in January of 1924 from Baie Saint-Paul. Jackson's love of the small Quebec village remained constant in his long career, and he stated, "I do not know how many Quebec canvases I have painted. I have worked in villages on both the north and south shores of the Saint Lawrence. In thirty years I missed only one season.I have happy memories of a great many places." This magnificent painting captures a bygone era, depicting a lost way of life that Jackson has preserved for our nation's memory.

synopsis courtesy of Heffel Fine art gallery

Loyalist College :Andrew Hamilton plein Aire painting workshop Ontario Canada 2009

Painting Like the
Masters
Code: PAIN 8053-7045
Instructor: Andrew Hamilton
Fee: $248.50 Sr. $142.00
Time: August 03 – 07; Mon – Fri,
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Have you ever wanted to learn to
paint like Van Gogh; simple shapes
and subjects like Matisse; masterful
and expressive pieces like Monet?
By learning to paint in acrylic or oil
using the three primary colours – red,
yellow and blue – plus white, you will
learn, without drawing, how to create
stunning, colourful works of art. This
course covers shape, colour, form and
composition for beginners and intermediates.
This is an on location painting
course. You will learn to paint such
diverse subject matter as landscapes,
farmlands, views from lake and many
other subjects in a highly creative
environment.
Andrew is an accomplished painter in
acrylic, oil and watercolour. Using a
highly imaginative palette of the three
primaries plus white, he has learned
that all the colours of the universe are
at hand. Traveling extensively and
painting mostly on location, Andrew
paints in all four seasons,
capturing the
beauty and natural
rhythms of each. He
studied in Victoria and
at OCAD and presently
teaches at St. Lawrence
College, as well as at
numerous galleries and
centres in Ontario

Landscape Plein Aire Painting Stouffville ,Ontario Canada by Andrew Hamilton-Winter Thaw

Plein Aire painting Ontario Canada -Snow River Algonquin Park-Andrew Hamilton

Plein Aire painting Ontario Canada -algonquin River by Andrew Hamilton

algonquin afternoon