NORA MacPHAIL - ARTIST

(see the cat?!) These are the latest oil sketches I've done... all on Zoom with my awesome Portrait Pals. : ) I call them sketches becau...

Hey, I thought I'd share this watercolour painting that a friend did of me. I just love it! I sat last Sunday at our portrait paintin...

This portrait sketching exercise is about drawing fast, using as few lines as possible (I tried to stick to 20...) and using ...

  Prismacolor Coloured Pencil Portraits. Hmm... despite having fun with coloured pencils recently, they just aren't for me. They...

Some fellow artist and I from, the Toronto Plein-Air Group, met at the awesome Riverdale Farm to do some sketching. In order to take colou...

I looooove to draw so, even when there isn't time to paint, I always find time to draw. These are 6B pencil studies from my sk...

  Today, with my 8x10" sketchbook, I finished a page of little pencil portraits. And over the holidays, I had fun sketching some ele...

Here's my Antelope study page from my sketchbook, done in mechanical and 6B pencils. The rings on their horns are quite fascinating...

Sketchbook page of rabbits!  I used two pencils for this page. I just discovered the Faber-Castell Jumbo 9000 6B pencil which is quite ...

Thanks to my two favourite animal drawing books, I've got my horse anatomy figured out. It's been a few weeks of hard wo...

$100 - 8x10"original watercolour painting I love drawing and painting people in cafes. I thought the lights hanging from the cei...

Here are a few recent sketches. Two are drawn with 6B pencil and the middle one is a watercolour with no drawing first. Just went for...

My March sketchbook is filling up nicely. I love to draw draw draw, but it doesn't leave much time to paint paint paint! ; )

Here are a few pages from my March sketchbook.  I use 6B pencil or .07mm mechanical pencil, depending on my mood that day...

I've posted 4 quick videos (about 1 minute each) of me sketching on my YouTube Channel. Click here to see the others! This is one of...

I had a great time at the Toronto Watercolour Society meeting last night. The awesome and hilarious Brian Smith did a portrait demo for u...

Recently, while at a cafe, I made a little video of myself sketching with a 6B pencil. I can't seem to get the video to upload here.....

This piece is from my first session back in portraits. Took a while to find my way again! I'm excited to see where my pursuit of port...

A few long overdue tree studies.

$40 - 5x7"painting with 8x10"mat I drew this while enjoying a tea with cinnamon myself.  close ups-