Cherries on Top

This piece was painted during my Modern Masters class at the Dundas Valley School of Art. My teacher, Jody Joseph was teaching the class to have one section of our painting be the lightest light.  I think that I did well with that concept in this painting and I am pleased with how it turned out.

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6"x8" Acrylic on Canvas Board/ $65 (includes free shipping world wide).

Graffiti Wall

So here is my latest digital finger painting using the iPad and a program called Brushes. This piece was painted outside at the Grand River Conservation Area near Homer Watson House and Gallery. The Graffiti under the Old Mill Road bridge is spectacular.

This is my first digital painting done outside. It was difficult to see the colours of the iPad screen even though the day was overcast. Oh well.

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Yellow Rose

Here is yet another painting that was created using my iPad and the program, Brushes-iPad Edition. This beautiful rose was given to me by Forbes Waterloo Toyota after they repaired the tire on my car. :)

I need to paint quicker. I started this digital finger painting, took a break to make dinner and eat. When I returned to the painting, the petals of the rose had shifted. It was most frustrating.

I am also shocked at how different this looks on my home computer monitor than on my iPad.

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8"x10" print on canvas paper available.  Limited editions of ten, numbered and signed. $30 (includes free shipping worldwide).

Tea Cup Party

Today was my painting class with my incredible painting teacher Laurie Wonfor Nolan.

We went on a class field trip to Southworks Antique Mall in Cambridge Ontario. I decided to try painting with my iPad using a program called Brushes-iPad Edition. I am still learning this program but I am very happy with the results.

The Antique Mall was full of amazing and strange items. The colour of these cups caught my eye, so I decided to try and paint them. I would have kept going with this painting but Laurie warned me that the painting would soon be finished.  I realized that I was not necessarily making the painting any better so I stopped and decided to leave it as is.

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8"x10" print on canvas paper available.  Limited editions of ten, numbered and signed. $30 (includes free shipping worldwide).

Flowers for a friend

I recently listened to a fascinating interview with David Hockney and Jian Ghomeshi on CBC radio. You can listen to it here

David Hockney talked about his current exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum where he would paint flowers on his iPhone and send them to his friends via email as gifts.

A friend of mine has been going threw a stressful time so I decided to make her a bouquet of flowers using my Wacom Bamboo Graphics Tablet and GIMP 2.6. It is like a traditional painting but I used different tools to create it.

I painted this from observation and am very impressed with how it turned out. It only took me an hour and a half. If it were not for all my painting lessons this year, I would not have been able to pull this off so well.

I hope to do more pieces like this.

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