whats on the palette? Well, Calgary Stampede is coning up...

These paintings are on the easel, I have almost completed one. Be sure to check in frequently to see which ones are complete or stop in at Smitty's in Airdrie to purchase your artwork. 

Rocky Mountains of Alberta

Beginning these underpainting backgrounds in Nov I finally finished teaching classes and here is the finished rendition

Live Love Laugh Lessons at the Legion

Federation of Canadian Artists Go Figure Exhibition

This is the artwork I submitted for the GO FIGURE exhibition in Vancouver May 15 - 27th
"Happiness is the Wind in My Hair"

More 8 x 10 paintings for the Aimae Vancouver FCA Exhibition on Granville Island May 29 - June 10

Twirling in the Wind & Dancing in the Wind

The Live Love Laugh Group painting Vintage

Artwork accepted into the Vancouver FCA Aimae Show May 29th - June 10th

In Conversation

Paintings from March with my Calgary class: Live Life Laugh Group

Painting of Chantal at the Elena Bushan Workshop

FCA Show

These two paintings were juried into the FCA Calgary Strathcona Show

C'Mon bunny

Kananaskis Winter

My Funky Still Life Art

I attended a workshop held by The Federation of Canadian Artists in Calgary With Angus Wilson.
Here are the processes and finished art pieces I created. I really enjoyed the simplicity of the workshop created from still life. The finished artworks with black outlines are so bright and happy.

The still life set up                                                                                     The Sketch

The colour combinations, none that I actually chose, I even painted over few of these minis to see more results. We downloaded a program called Art Rage  (Instructor uses PROcreate) to help us with configuring the colours on our drawings. I didn't bring a computer device to do this on the first day so resulted in painting little examples. I  went with the  complimentary colours of yellow and purple (of course purple!) rather than any of the colour choices I created. Another element was to refractor an element and so I chose the vase, I was very pleased with my result.

The plate with the pieces left over from creating the still life set ups was beside me so my first painting was inspired from this. The knife just took me out of the picture in the first drawing so Angus suggested i place it coming into the artwork form the left. This is the painting, I love the pomegranate!

This is the quick still life i created from another set up. Just experimenting with colour. Green against red, orange against blue, the front was going to be purple against yellow but with the flowers in that colour I think it would have been too much. Perhaps the way to settle the colours would be to try out the program or to create the mini colour paintings to find the best colour that would COMPLIMENT each other

Two shows and call for 8 paintings for CSC and 4 for FCA

Autumn is certainly the season for art shows, I will be participating in two of them Oct 21st. I am member of FCA and CSC, The federation of canadian artists and Calgary sketch club. Here are pieces I am working on for these upcoming events.

First Catch  6x8

Sunflowers in an Ice Bucket 14x14

Just Tulips 12x16

A Bench in Italy  10x8

Chef's Special 10x8

12X12

 12x12

Painting of a young girl without photograph

Working with out a colour or black and white photo, using a psychedelic combo colour picture has really been testing my artistic abilities to paint a phot realistic picture of this young girl,

Still working on this one....

Last classes with the seniors of L3

Live Love Laugh Group Paintings for June