click, click, sip, sip, click, click... hmm.

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Today at a coffee shop.

5"x7" painting and 8"x10" matt. Ready to frame!

Fellow Artist Fellas

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I was thinking about line, design, colour spots, and achieving darks... and the next thing I knew, I made Derek (right) look like Harry Potter in 30 years!!!

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Seated Dude

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 ground) with the students (as the background). I really like the added foreground element, however it means I have to sit in the back...  I may need to buy some binoculars before next session!
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cozy up clementines

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

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portrait day at the studio

5"x7" - SOLD

6"x6" - AVAILABLE

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Yesterday I decided to focus on the portrait while at my Life Drawing Session.

$40 - 6"x6" painting 

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spin the bottle

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

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polish it off

I couldn't resist another nail polish painting.

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Tangerine mani and a Tango pedi

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

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as evening draws without close

A life drawing session from a different side of the room.

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POM

The Daily Paintworks Challenge this week is to paint your breakfast, which for me is a smoothie that includes strawberries, bananas, protein powder and my favourite ingredient, Pom pomegranate juice.

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as evening draws to a pose

Painting is such a pleasurable challenge!

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red stripes

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 fabric draped behind the model which can be just as intimidating as the figure.

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cardinal

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

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bluejay

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

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as evening draws to a close

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

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two way street

I really enjoyed painting this! 

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8"x8" watercolour painting.

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gimme all the details

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

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2012 CALENDAR

Here are sample pages of how it looks...

And here are thumbnails of all 12 months.

Click on image to enlarge.

This 11"x17" glossy calendar includes my watercolours, oils, walking while drawing and paint swatch drawings.

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G'mornin'

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.

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Today's Train

Holiday fun is over and it's time to get back to work filling up my sketchbook.
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bowlful

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

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gettin' into the swing of things

Santa's coming to town!! 

This stuffed Santa hangs in my kitchen doorway.

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Somersaulting Santa

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 years.

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absorption

This guy sat nice and still. 

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2 more for a set of 4

still walkin' while drawin'.

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Walkin' and Drawin' and Watercolourin'

I drew these while walking down the street, literally. (They are 4"x6" so people passing by just figure I'm on my iPhone!!) Added watercolour at home.

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A Day at the Museum

I spent the day at the Royal Ontario Museum where I drew this gorgeous giant panda. Today I decided ALL sketches will be on watercolour paper, no more cheap sketchbooks or newsprint... just in case it turns out 'watercolour worthy'!

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the bowl

Here's my version for the painting challenge from Rookie Painter. It's on artist's quality Yuppo paper, which is 'slippery' like finger paint paper or vellum.

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Good Sport!

The model was late today, so Adrianna (a fellow artist) got up there and did some 3 minute poses for us. She was awesome!

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Niko

Here's this week's entry to the Daily Paintworks Challenge.

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coffee with a friend

New York City was fantastic! Amazing city. And yet... I'm always happy to come home again.  Back to work with a cafe paintings.

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Knitting for New York

I drew this one with a charcoal pencil. I like that the watercolour doesn't hide the line as much as it can with a 2B pencil. I'm really trying to keep my watercolour paintings 'about line'.

Meanwhile, I'm off to New York!! Super excited about it. Should go more often since it's only an hour flight!

See you next week.

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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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