Wednesday, January 26, 2011

So Inviting

I loved this doorway in Charleston, S.C. The terra cotta flower pots, the wrought iron, the stucco and the red door was so pleasant and inviting. I could have moved right in!


 8x10" Oil on gessoboard
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Treed!

Kerry Blue Terrier Griffin is sure she will be able to entice the squirrel out of the tree!

 8x10" Oil on gessoboard
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Moody Beach

I am trying to do more figures, and children present more of a challenge since their proportions are so different than adults. This is from a photo taken by my father of me as a child at Moody Beach in Maine. The photo is black and white, so I had to imagine the colors.

 8x10" Oil on gessoboard
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Jade in High Park

This is my dog Jade in Toronto's largest park, High Park. I edited out the fences that prevent her from chasing squirrels! 
We are having a serious winter this year! 
5x7" Oil on cradled panel
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Dark Bay Thoroughbred

I love horses, and painting them. I find people more difficult, and it is my plan to focus on figures and faces. This took me ages to do, and I must have wiped the girl off the canvas half a dozen times before I was happy with her. Since attending the Karin Jurick workshop in November, I have been working on the lovely smooth surface of Ampersand Gessoboard, and transitioning back to canvas was tricky. I got used to it again after a while, but it is very different to work on in comparison to the gessoboard. There is a give to it, and it grabs the paint in a different way, and I had to use bristle brushes instead of softer brushes. It was  definitely slower.
This is from the Royal Winter Fair 2010 in Toronto.

 8x8" oil on canvas
$95 + s&h

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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Shore Birds


At last, back to some painting again. My flu is more or less gone, and I have some energy.
These little shore birds I saw at Hilton Head in November were fascinating to watch. They didn't keep still for a moment! 



 6x6" Oil on gessoboard
$70 + s&h

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