NORA MacPHAIL - ARTIST

I added a water-soluble pen to my usual pencil drawing for this tiger painting. It creates a lovely gray, which is a bit unpredictable when...

SOLD I drew this while walking down the street enjoying the wonderfully mild winter we're having. $30 - 4"x6" paintin...

My rose for the Painting Challenge from the blog A Nos Pinceaux. SOLD   5"x7" painting includes 8"x10" matt. Ready to f...

SOLD Drawing is way better than shopping!! $60 -   8x10 drawing

I went out to a Tuesday Portrait Painting Session last night and painted the lovely Louie. $35 5"x7" painting includes 8...

I love polka dots! SOLD  5"x7" painting includes 8"x10" matt. Ready to frame. 156

Snack time. SOLD  5"x7" painting includes 8"x10" matt.   155

SOLD I've been going through the drawing exercises in an amazing book called Drawing Projects: an exploration of the language of d...

Hey, who ate two of those hearts before the painting was done! Happy Valentine's Day. SOLD 153

My set up for life drawing with watercolours. You can see the model's platform in the middle of the room, with a heater to the right. ...

I'm getting lots of questions about life drawing, so next session I'll take some pictures of my set up and the studio!  This painti...

Every class is a new set of challenges... 150

I am very happy with the likeness I managed to get in this double portrait of my life drawing pals! 149

Today I used just 2 colours for my 3 minute sketches, Cadmium Orange and Ultramarine Violet. 148

SOLD While drawing this content couple, I felt they were very at ease, relaxed and happy with each other. I was also thinking abou...

SOLD  Today at a coffee shop. 5"x7" painting and 8"x10" matt. Ready to frame!

click on image to see it nice and big! I was thinking about line, design, colour spots, and achieving darks... and the next thing I kne...

I thought I'd add students to the foreground of today's Life Drawing Session. Lately I've been drawing the model (as a middle g...

Cold rain today. I stayed inside, nice and cozy, and painted these guys. SOLD 143

5"x7" - SOLD 6"x6" - AVAILABLE SOLD Yesterday I decided to focus on the portrait while at my Life Drawin...

I was curious to see what these little guys would look like in oil. SOLD 141

I couldn't resist another nail polish painting. SOLD 140

The Daily Paintworks Challenge this week is to use the colour Tangerine Tango. I'm not sure how this painting evolved in my brain... bu...

A life drawing session from a different side of the room. CLICK HERE  for the ZOOM IN feature! SOLD 138

The Daily Paintworks Challenge this week is to paint your breakfast, which for me is a smoothie that includes strawberries, bananas, pr...

Painting is such a pleasurable challenge! SOLD 136

One of my New Year's Drawing Resolutions is to do some fabric studies. I need the practice since, at life drawing there is always fabri...

And this little friend is the second half of my sister's present. 134

This little guy is the first half of my sister's Birthday present... 133

Holidays are over and it's back to my Tuesday evening figure drawing session for a three hour pose. SOLD 132

I really enjoyed painting this!  SOLD 8"x8" watercolour painting. 131

I thought I'd start the new year by zooming right in and capturing the details. SOLD 130

Here are sample pages of how it looks... And here are thumbnails of all 12 months. Click on image to enlarge. This 11"x17" g...

It snowed this morning and the light coming into the studio was just lovely. I didn't even set up my spot light for this one. SOLD 128

Holiday fun is over and it's time to get back to work filling up my sketchbook. Click images to enlarge. 127

Here's my version of the Rookie Painter Challenge, from a lovely photo they provide. It's always interesting to paint someone e...

Santa's coming to town!!  This stuffed Santa hangs in my kitchen doorway. SOLD 125

This little porcelain Santa is my favourite X-mas decoration. He was a stocking stuffer from my sister and he has made me smile for many ye...