Artist- Oil on Canvas
Janet Simmons Sweet, CFS
Latest Artworks
December 2, 2024
Getting some painting time now with the Solo Exhibit now running itself.
One Finished and one Started!
Start:
Fall Drive on Mountainview
36 x 36
Composition and light getting set. What beautiful light on that road! More to come!
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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December 17, 2023
Morning Mist on the Pond
36 x 24 Oil on Canvas
From the morning walk to the pond. This one you really need to see in person. No photo I have taken even closely resembles the colours or the softness that mist can create! _________________________________________
From my favourite road. Mountainview. This paitning was started in 2021, and finally got to where I wanted the light this week! You could just feel the cool of the day that was hidden deep in those trees, even on the hottest day.
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July 17, 2023
Moon Shadow
30" x 40" Oil on Canvas
New piece from a Moonscape last Fall. It was conceived at the same time as "Cloud Waves", and finally taking shape on a canvas. Right canvas the start with composition and shapes, and left finished in Oil. I think......
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April 2 , 2023
Snow on the Wetland - Progress
24" x 20" Oil on Canvas
Finally some measurable snow this year! The Wetland across from our property was pristine following the storm. Right sets the darks, lights and composition, and the left builds that cold winter blue with details and colour! First in the series using pathways, with the water being this pathway.
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November 15, 2022
"Standing Alone/Fenced In" - More details
Oil on Canvas 40 x 30
From a field close to the Mill after a winter storm. Building the snow on the limbs and branches on the tree. More layers to come. The tree seemed so dominant and confident, dominating its surroundings. Quite an inspiration in an uncertain world.
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September 24, 2022 - Final February 2023!
"Henry/ Henrietta Light Waves"
30 x 30 Oil on Canvas
From the same day as Cloud Waves, now at Sunset. One specific day can absolutely have the most defined lighting!
Right photo, first layers, with more finishing layers building the waves in the light , Left photo, the Tree in my initial reference finally makes it to the canvas. Henry. From Charleston Sideroad! Final touches with the building of flight, and the definition of Henrietta, who appears in a dance with Henry behind her. What a show Henry and Henrietta enjoyed!
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July 30, 2022
"Cloud Waves" - Update September 5, 2022- Accepted CFS Juried Exhibition
48 x 36 Oil in Canvas
Unbelievable cloud formation from a storm in June.
Top image is the first stage of blocking in shapes with darks and lights, the bottom is the current progression with refinements and softening of the light
September 2021
Guelph Lake
60 x 32
Guelph Lake at Sunset in July 2021
August 1 ,2021
"The Crest"
30 x 40 Oil on Canvas- Update Oct 2023- Juror's Award- First Prize, Assembly Hall, Toronto
Companion to the Fall of 2020. This is an entirely different sideroad. It was from my first drive home from the Studio when were allowed to reopen in the Summer of 2020.
Accepted to the Beaux-Arts Brampton Fine Art Juried Exhibiton- January 2022
February 22, 2021
"The Fall of 2020" 36 x 60
After quite a long pause, I am back at the Studio for the sole purpose of creating artwork. This piece is coming along nicely, almost done?? It is from the most perfect Fall day last October on Kennedy Road in Caledon.
September 11, 2023
The Laneway 20 x 20
August 15th Left Painting.The beginning. I plan my artworks with a paintbrush, no drawing with charcoal or a pencil. In this case I have started straight off with oil. I use a background colour that will be in the finished artwork, in this case the sky, and then begin finding the composition and shapes by either taking off the paint, or accentuating edges with stronger colour. In the end, it is similar to a drawing done in charcoal, but no residue that would be left behind from that medium. Now the trick is to keep all that lovely lighting in actual colours without ruining the composition! Keep you posted with progress as it comes along.
September 2nd. Middle Painting. Progress. Colour, lighting, details begin to define the artwork. Where to go from here???
September 11, 2023. Right painting. Might be there! And hard to believe, but that session took the longest of all three.
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September 7, 2023
Summer Dance
40 x 20
