Barista Dude

Rattle Rattle

Blueberry Muffin Top

The barista dude in the green apron, in the background of both of these paintings, was the only one who knew what I was up to!

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Bette's Portrait in Watercolour

Still working 6"x12" for my watercolour portraits.

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An apple a day

These three paintings, done about 6 years ago, were designed to go together, with the bottom one (with me) being the centre piece and the other two facing in towards it. Recently, the centre piece sold on it's own. I used a glazing technique with about 5 layers of watercolour from light to dark. I paint very differently now!

I stumbled across An Apple A Day art blog. They are collecting 365 paintings of apples, so I entered the top painting. IF YOU'VE GOT AN APPLE PAINTING, JOIN IN ON THE FUN!

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Samantha's Red Shoes

Well... it's very very close to what I wanted to achieve.
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toast with Honeybear

I couldn't resist adding honey bear to this week's Daily Paintworks Challenge, which was to paint your toaster.

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rosy apple, apple rose

I enjoyed painting this for The RookiePainter's monthly challenge. There's no need to set up a still life because they supply the photo, so I can immediately concentrate on painting.

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Border Collies

My main objective here was to get colour in the darks while keeping them transparent. I worked from a photo reference, which is not the way I usually paint, but I'm happy with the results.
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Alex

I went for a 6"x12" paper size on this portrait, which I think I like. I'll have to try some more this size before I decide.

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Life Drawing Watercolours

Another session of Life Drawing at TSA, with short poses that are 1-20 minutes each, these 3 being 20's. The results are hit and miss when I work this fast, but I always learn a lot.

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"Psst..."

I thought I was done my candlelight series however, while I was grocery shopping this weekend, this little bear of honey called out to me. He said, "Psst... Look how cute I am... paint me by candlelight!".

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Drawing on Paint Swatch Cards - Rainy Day

I almost gave up on these paint swatch cards because they are thinly coated with something that causes pencils to smudge and pens to smear. However, I've found a great artist quality pen that works beautifully. Now, I can start thinking about them in groups of 3, matt them, and frame them.

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traipse

One more by candlelight.

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BJ's red hat

Another Tuesday night portrait session. I'm very happy with the likeness to BJ in this one. I usually paint on an 8"x10" paper, but last night I used 14"x18" and a big brush, which was way more fun.

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orange blossoms

I loved painting these. I painted with watercolour for 12 years before deciding to concentrate on oil a few years back. It's so different. Lately I've been back at it, trying to stay more active in both.

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candlelit lemons - Happy 100th!

My painting by candlelight series continues... as I reach my 100th post!

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reflecting back

I enjoyed painting by candlelight so much last week (when I painted my halloween pumpkin) that I thought I'd try it again.

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Watercolour Portrait

Now that fall is here, all the art groups have started up again! : )

I'm very happy with this watercolour portrait since my main goal was to get rich darks in the hat and jacket. I came home last night and promised myself to get to the Tuesday night painting sessions often this year!

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what happened at lunch...

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wait in line...

make a decision...

add milk and sugar...

and enjoy!

mmm, that's yummy

conversation with friends

or a moment to yourself

and talk about dinner plans...

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Menacing Mice

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Halloween's almost here!

This is the first time I've painted by candlelight (well, tea light) and it was quite tricky, but a treat!

$100 - 6"x6" oil

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fast friends

I've been wanting to paint this dark vase with white flowers for some time now. When I set them up on their own, I quickly realized they needed some friends to accompany them.

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there's something fishy going on here...

This is my 2nd online painting challenge this week. 
I had a lot of fun doing this Daily Paintworks Challenge which was to paint the same object from many perspectives with a time limit of 10 minutes each.

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Red Bicycle

I thought I'd spend this week doing a few online painting challenges.  This first one is from The Green Palette which posted bicycles as this week's subject. This lovely red bicycle lives around the corner from me.

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fry 'till golden

I've joined Daily Paintworks!  Now, I have an online gallery where you can see all my paintings on one page. Love it!

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$100 plus s/h

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Great Show!

Steady stream of people through the day

Reverse Angle of Showroom

Another wonderful show! I received lots of positive feedback and made a few more sales. I'm reinvigorated! Now, back to my easel.

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Art Show - Opening Night!

I spent the whole day preparing for our group art show tonight at St.Barnabas Church here in Toronto.  I've been in the show for the last 9 out of 23 years that it's been running!  Here's my table with all my little goodies on it.  Super happy to say that 2 of them sold! Back tomorrow for the final day - suppose to be a warm one.  Yippee!

p.s.

we put 4 chairs (top row) on top of a table (middle row) and 4 chairs in front of it (bottom row), then toss a couple of sheets over it.  Works perfectly!
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walking along

I painted this from a sketch I drew while walking down the street. I loved my drawing series "walking while drawing", which is exactly what it sounds like, draw, walk, don't lift the pencil and watch your step! Perhaps I'll get back to it.

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waltzing carnations

This lovely bunch of flowers were carried home in the cold and rain, but they stayed cheerful!

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Drawing on Paint Swatch Cards

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Peach Swirl

Rose Angora

Lime Twist

Pink Parfait

Skier's Trail

Sketching on the subway. I'm especially happy with Lime Twist since I had to draw it in the short time the subway doors open!
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we're jammin'... and I hope you like jammin' too

The Pomegranates are having a few friends over... liven things up a bit.

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elbow room

A few more "apples with many seeds"!

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Yellow Vespa

This Vespa lives down the street from me.  It's sooo cute!

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muddled up

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Old French from pome 'apple' + grenate 'having many seeds'

Pomegranate season!!

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