Glass Beauty

 

$100 - 8x10" original watercolour on paper

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I spent the day at the awesome Spadina Museum here in Toronto. They have many beautiful flowers and little buildings, this one being my favourite. The Greenhouse! I love everything about it - especially painting it. : ) Enjoy. 

Artist quality paints used for all handprinted original watercolours. Shipping included in US and Canada.

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summer days

 

$80 - 8x8" original watercolour painting

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Summer is almost over... but these flowers last a lifetime! Enjoy.

with a spring in your step!

 

ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR - $80

8x10" mat included. I recently touched up these little cuties and I'm much happier with them. Flowers always bring lots of colour and joy to a room. Loooove painting them.

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bloomin' babes

 

ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR - $125

As of July 1st, I'm back on Daily Paintworks!! WooHoo! It's a wonderful safe online gallery. And this colourful painting, one of my faves (because I love painting red) is first up! It's an 8x10" original painting and includes an 11x14"mat. FREE SHIPPING to the US and Canada. No need to sign up, just click PayPal. 

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Fishies!

 

Two Sweet Seahorses 12x16" - OIL

Clowing Around 6x8" - OIL

Follow the Leader 8x12" - OIL

Hello. I've been busy painting fishies! So cute and so much fun. I love using oil paint to show off the colourful fish and the dark/light contrasts in the ocean. An awesome challenge! Questions? ... just ask - nora904@yahoo.com

ANNIE'S KIT CLUBS - MANDALA AFGHAN "FLORAL PARADISE"

 

I'm just loving this crochet kit from Annie's Kit Clubs. I'm motoring along. Here's my little review so far. Above is kit 1 and most of kit 2 finished! Loooove the colours. The pattern has many new cute stitches like the shell stitch, the bean stitch and the star stitch. It's just so fun. And the 100% acrylic yarn, which is anti-pilling, is great to crochet with. Smooth but not slippery. So great. The pattern goes from using a 5mm hook to a 5.5mm hook. 

The start of kit 3 is flowers! As the pattern says, I've attach them to each other as I go. The pattern and video instructions do a 4 chain to start, but I'm just using a magic ring. Also, I am absolutely stitching in the ends as I go, not weaving them in after each flower, as they suggest. I'd say the pattern is intermediate.

The flower chain is separate until I'm finished all 36 of them. Then, with the white (linen colour) you attach the chain to your mandala. Even then, I'm only 1/3 of the way! It was an X-mas gift to myself so, I'm actually happy with how fast it's going. 

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The pattern calls for me to crochet into the BACK BARS a lot, so I'm not weaving in my row ends right away. That way, the back bars are easier to find. 

HUNGRY CRITTERS

 

$80

5x7"original watercolour painting in 8x10"mat. 8x10"frames are easy to find. You may have one already!

I used one of my favourite colours, called Opera Pink, in the watermelon. It's a hot pink. Then I added dabs of warm cadmium red for contrast. Hmm... the hot pink should be called cold pink, since it's a cool colour. #heehee Anywho... I went for lots of contrasts in this piece. The cool and warm as well as dark and light. Raccoons are a blast to paint!

Pastel Beauties

 

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$80 - 5x7" original watercolour painting on paper with 8x10" mat.

I recently took a flower arranging class! I've been interested in doing this for some time. We made a huge bouquet which was lovely, but sooo big. Once I got it home, I decided to make many small bunches from it and take the week to paint each one. Here's the first. #woohoo

jarred treats

 

SOLD - 5x7"original watercolour painting with 8x10"mat

I was missing my watercolour paints, what with all the oil painting I've been doing, so I painted this wonderful little still life. Fridge contents make great subjects!

lilac roller

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$90 - 6x6" original oil painting on 1/8" panel

This colourful beauty can be found amongst the trees in Africa. One of the most colourful birds known to us, the lilac-breasted roller. So fun to paint! And I kept the brach flowers loosey-goosey so he stayed the star of the show.

jewels

$80 - 5x7"original watercolour painting with 8x10"mat

This is my second recent portrait with a model wearing sunglasses. It's fun painting eyes behind colourful glass! 

Here's the original sketch. 

just looking

$60 - 5x7" original watercolour painting with 8x10"acid-free mat.

Ready to pop into a store bought frame.

These colourful friends are looking around, just checking things out. 

a new path

$60 - 8x10"original watercolour painting.

I was inspired to paint this after a wonderful demo by the talented artist Art Cunanan at Banbury Club. It's on cold-pressed paper which offers up the potential for lovely washes. It's great. I've been using hot-pressed paper for it's wonderful paint vibrancy however, it doesn't give a nice wash like cold-pressed. Hence, a new path!