Artist- Oil on Canvas
Janet Simmons Sweet, CFS
Latest Artworks
August 10, 2025
Summer Rain/Green, Mountainview Rd
36 x 36
A new piece now started from early summer on Mountainview Rd .... at that golden moment when the rain had stopped and the sun was just coming out. Yup. I am back painting yet another section of my favourite road. The challenge as always to get that light to deliver the atmospheric instant when rain becomes sun.
June 28, 2025 - First layers on the right to set the horizon line, and provide a backdrop to the trees and leaves.
August 9, 2025 - Second layer in the middle using only two brushes, one large 1/2", and the other a small flat size 6 to pull through the trees and limbs in the wet paint. And a little mineral spirits on a paper towel to smoosh and remove various shades of a mixed green, leaning the shades from dark to light using blues and yellows. I am using a completely different approach to achieve the misty effect created from the heat on the road. No idea what comes next!
August 31, 2025 - Evolution 3. Introducing a little orange/burnt sienna for the tree definition, then applying broken light on the trunks to give that feel of filtered light. The road still being a bit out of focus gives the feel of the passing rain. ....the atmospheric feel of rain is really pretty good at this stage. Have I achieved that golden moment yet???
Best think on that before another painting session.
Sept 21, 2025
Fourth evolution with foliage better reflecting that early summer green. Now more "mood" with mist will be the next evolution.
Oct 13, 2025
Still working on the final version!
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June 29, 2025
A Little Stumped
24 x 24
When you are "stumped" on one piece....move on to another! From this past month with the last visit of winter on.... Mountainview Rd!
Right now getting the lighting and defining details....More to come......
Not there yet.......................
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July 17, 2025
Guardian of the Pond
48 x 36
April 10, 2025
Finally got a feel for this piece. It has been reinvented at least FOUR times, originally started in the Fall. Light is always my goal, and as the years go by I do choose more complicated versions of it to capture. The balance in both the composition and the depth of colour finding harmony will always keep me painting.
Guess the location? Yup Mountainview Rd.
More to come....
May 11, 2025
The Weeping Willow has found its spot near the edge of the pond. Shape and height to be refined, and the actual weeping branches of Spring to be incorporated. More to come........
June 10, 2025
Leaves started and shape begins to form. More to come....
June 17, 2025
Final work on the leaves. Heading for the framers if I can "leave" it alone.
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July 20, 2025
Mountainview Fall 2024
Final progression- July 20, 2025
"Where the Heart Is" , Mountainview Rd
36 x 36
Composition established and light getting set. Week 18 on the left. What beautiful light on that road!
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December 2, 2024
Getting some painting time now with the Solo Exhibit now running itself.
Done!
Snowing on Mountainview II
12 x 12
This lovely soft light just as the snow is ending, with the blue sky making its return. Boy do I LOVE the drive on that road.
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July 17,2024
Twillingate, The Perfect Day
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas
This one has been a long time coming!
From our trip to Newfoundland, staying in a B&B in Twillingate just outside town. It was just such a perfect day, seemingly impossible to ever repeat, and I have had this in my "waiting" list ever since. The first layers on the right, and the finished piece to the left.
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August 13, 2024
Rock and Roll, Clythe Falls
30 x 40 Oil on Canvas
Waterfall from a morning walk begins!
First build the composition. Second, build the rocks. With a Waterfall, the most important part is those rocks. They "break" the fall of the water and create the interest, acoustically and visually! And in this case, they also encase the water from the beginning to the end. Far left, almost there, if not there!
Clythe Falls is on York Rd in Guelph. It is part of the site of the old Penitentiary from the late 1800's. It was quite famous for the property, and the fact that the inmates built many of the features, and also managed a farm growing food for the area. This fall was built by them.
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April 29, 2024
Morning Has Broken
30 x 40 Oil on Canvas
*Accepted Headwaters Arts 28th Annual Fall Festival Juried Art Show and Sale , September 2024.
On the right the beginning layer, and then in the middle the composition and light development begins. Finally the light is softened and cast above and below the source, as it sets the tops of the grassy field on fire. Near home as the sun rises. The process took about 2 months from start to finish.
The next in my mini series of paintings where pathways are found in clouds.. and channeling a little Cat Stevens!
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February 11, 2024
Snowing on Mountainview
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas
It just never gets old going up and down Mountainview Rd!! Even in a bit of a blizzard. The next in the pathways series using the road as the pathway.
SOLD July 2024
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