Jeanette Jobson Fine Art

This is the halfway point of this new painting. It needs a couple of days for the surface to dry before adding more layers.

I love the long rectangular shape for water. It seems to pull in the viewer.

Looking for a larger painting? Spring is on the Horizon, 24" x 60", oil on canvas. Find this and more at The Baccalieu Gallery i beautiful Heart's Content NL.

Another tondo is underway.

Sunshine on the Edge
12" diameter, 2" deep
oil on cradled wood

I love a cliff top view over the ocean with a stiff breeze blowing, the sound of waves against the shoreline, the scent of seaweed in the air and a wash of yellow flowers adorning the peaks. All senses are touched.

The next piece is ready for some colour. I'm trying a new support of deep cradled Canadian maple from Rustic Burl & Co.

I love the deep sides but want to do something more interesting that just paint them or wrap the painting around the sides. What do you do with your edges?

Just hung in the The Baccalieu Gallery

Spring is on the Horizon
24" x 60"
oil on canvas

This piece took a little persuasion but got there in the end. I love the challenge of coaxing a painting into life, even if it can be frustrating at times.

Just about ready for wiring, these puffins will soon hang in the gallery. Unnamed as of yet, but that will come later.

20" x 20" x 1.5"
oil on canvas

Finally, an update on the wave that's on the canvas. It's nearing completion and then I can move on to one of the many pieces sitting, waiting in my head.

Right now I'm working on adding colour touches and completing the foreground.

oil on canvas
24" x 60"

Looking for something small and abstract to fill a space? Find this piece and more at The Baccalieu Gallery, Heart's Content. Open daily from 11 - 5:30, including holidays.

Bullseye, 9" x 12", oil on panel Jeanette Jobson

Happy Victoria Day weekend! It's promising to be a beautiful day to explore the Baccalieu Coastal Drive.

Here's a preview of some of the art that will be available at the gallery this year.

We open on May 18th, not long now!

Thanks to everyone who took part in yesterday's palette knife workshop at the Arts & Culture Centre. Amazing work from people who hadn't used a knife to paint with before!

Find this beauty at The Baccalieu Gallery starting May 18th

Fit to be Tied
20" x 20" oil on canvas

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Starting the morning with a layering exercise on paper. It's a great way to loosen up, ready for a painting session.

This is where abstraction can go one of two ways. Good or bad.

I like where it is right now, but feel like it needs more, but I'm scared to push it in case it all goes downhill. Hmmm, I think it will have to sit awhile and let me stare at it in the studio for a few days.

It's one of a pair of 12" panels that are companions with similar colourways. Both have the same current dilemma.

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A peek at what’s currently on the easel.

With little painting time lately as I prep for a new gallery season, I squeeze in time here and there. See the finished piece in the Baccalieu Gallery in May.

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I love this colour swatch exercise for workshops. Just grab some paint cards from the hardware store and try to match a colour.

The first image was matched using acrylic paints and the second image shows how much acrylics can darken when dry. The paint on the knife matched well when wet, but look at how much darker it was when dry in the second photo.

The mix was alizarin crimson, cadmium yellow medium and titanium white. The top swatch was adjusted using a little more titanium white and the dry paint a much more accurate colour. the two images were taken under different lighting so not perfect.

From small studies come larger paintings.

This is the start of an oval of water. Simple but complex. I also turn into a Smurf when using dark blues!

I created this sketch to celebrate my grandaughter's 17th birthday, which is today, January 27th. She's also an amazing artist who will go far in life.

The drawing is graphite on translucent vellum, a wonderful, but sensitive support.





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Day 11 hosted by . Still a little behind but only by one day now! Turning Point was the prompt.

I don’t know if I can pinpoint a specific turning point in my art career, as there are several from early days to where I am at the present. This story from the past when I lived in the UK became one of the turning points.

I was contacted one day by an art store owner where I had some paintings hung. He tracked me down at lunchtime in the pub to say that there was a gentleman from London who was interested in one of my paintings and wanted to meet me. I went back to the art store and had a long conversation with the man who wanted to buy the painting and asked if I was interested in accepting brushes in exchange for the work.

Being a young artist and parent with the usual lack of cash that accompanies that status, I hesitated. The money that the painting represented were already being spent in my head, but the man went out to his car and came back with a small case. Inside were an assortment of Kolinsky sable brushes. Part of this person's job was selling artist's brushes and he was offering me two of these sable brushes in exchange for my painting.

I couldn't resist the offer, realizing that the brushes were worth even more than the painting was worth and that they would last a long time, producing many more paintings, so I accepted and the deal was done. We celebrated in the pub with a drink while dressing the brushes in a glass of water on the bar.

The paint is gone from the handle on this and the ferrule's shine is diminished considerably, the hairs are bit thinner and ragged but it still holds its function after 40+ years. A bit like me!

I'm late so playing catch up with a few posts in the challenge, hosted by . This is the Selfie from Day 10.

I'll add another couple of posts to bring me up to date later today.

Putting myself in front of the camera isn't in my comfort zone, but I need to do it now and then just to prove I exist. :)

I'm rarely this sombre looking, but find grinning at a mechanical device just weird, so here I am. Nice to meet you!

Today is Day9 of the challenge, hosted by . Today's prompt is Where the Art Happens

This space is where I paint in winter. I have a constant studio companion, Pip who likes to watch me paint and luckily with short legs can't get into too much trouble!

There are two easels in this space, lots of wall hanging space but never enough storage, I try and keep that in a basement art storage area.

I also paint in the summer at my gallery I have a small footprint there with a large easel behind the counter and space for my palette on the side. I don't need much space to paint, it's storing everything that goes along with the process that takes up space.

It's Day 8 of the challenge, hosted by . Today's prompt is Inspiration.

Living on an island, inspiration is around me at every turn with views of water, boats and coastal landscapes. I don't live far from the sea, in fact at my gallery in rural Newfoundland I'm literally less than a minute from the ocean!

Boats and water feature in most of my work and the play of light on both is what grabs my attention. I love the colour of submerged rocks, the shadows on boats and how the landscape and rockscape is different in every cove and inlet.

This image was taken in Admiral's Cove. There are so many unique place names in Newfoundland I'll never run out of titles!

It's Day 7 of the challenge, hosted by . Life took over yesterday so I forgot Day 6 ooops! Today's prompt is Colour Palette.

I use a split primary palette that consists of warm and cool versions of primaries red, yellow and blue, with an earth colour and titanium white. With this palette I can mix any colour I need.

Yes, I have some convenience colours that I use a lot of in some paintings. They are colours that can be used straight from the tube without a lot of mixing to achieve the right tone. On this palette that I've shown I had included Permanent Rose, a cool red with violet leanings. It looks similar to Permanent Alizarin Crimson but is pinker and makes the most luscious pinks and purples.

Here are the specific colours that I use on my palette

Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Lemon
Cadmium Red Light
Permanent Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Pthalo Blue
Burnt Sienna
Titanium White

Day 5 of the , hosted by . Today's prompt is Favourite Tool.

I don't know if I can pinpoint a specific favourite as I use a wide range of painting knives and have lots of different sizes, just as in using brushes.

I tend to have a couple of go-to sizes - a large trowel for covering large areas and two smaller pointed ones for details.

I invested in a set of Gamblin painting knives earlier this year and the larger handles are comfortable for using over a long painting session.