My Little Star

This is a quick painting of my dog Star. She was sleeping beside me so I decided to try and paint her quickly. This piece is about ten minutes worth of work. But then Star decided to roll over and that was that, I had to call the painting done. But I still kinda like it. :)

This was created with an iPad2, a program called Brushes (iPad edition) and a Nomad Brush. 

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Undiscerning

Today my husband and I were walking down our outside cement stairway. He stopped to observe the stairs and then asked me if I had ever truly looked at them before. In all honesty, I had not. I did not realise that they were hollow. Or how they had a beauty of their own if you looked closely enough. I had never noted how the stairs were not sitting squarely against the cement base or how the sunlight was shinning though the gaps of the other side.

The first image is where the stairway buts up against the wall. The sun is shinning through the cracks were the stairway and wall don't meet. The second image is the same, except with the focus on the outside of the stairway gap. You can still see the light peeking through. 

I am no photographer, but I felt this was an important lesson in observation that I wanted to share. I was taking my own stairway for granted because I had never truly looked at it before. I am also proud of my ability to get the camera to do such a close up shot.

These photos were taken with an Olympus 6.0 mega pixel camera, FE-120. 

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Seagram Lofts

This is the biggest en plein air painting that I have ever done (30"x40") and it is SOLD! :D

This building is one of the original Seagram Distillery buildings (in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) which was converted to residential condominiums. I used to walk by this building every day to visit my boyfriend (that boyfriend is now my husband). I have always admired the beauty and charm of this building. There is something so striking about those cute blue shutters against the yellow brick. :)

This was painted with Golden Acrylics on canvas. 

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Guess Who 2

I had so much fun painting this!

My model sat on the sofa while I painted her and we just talked. She was a good sport about it and the fact that she was not staying perfectly still added a whole new and fun element to trying to paint her.

If you can guess who the lovely lady in this painting is, you will win an Internet cookie! :P

Let me give you a hint, this is not a self portrait, although people often think she looks a lot like me.

This was create using an iPad2, a program called Brushes (iPad edition) and a Nomad Brush.

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