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Amee Again!

Well if at first you don’t succeed, keep trying!  Portraiture is one of the hardest things a painter can attempt, and as you all know I really find it challenging. Amee was such a beautiful model with her sculpted face and fabulous dreadlocks. This time I tried her portrait in watercolour…..it looks more like her, but I’m still  not convinced her mom would know her!  

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Amy

Well, today we got a real live model, and you can’t tell from this how very beautiful she is!  I’m in trouble all the time with my instructor (the brilliant Liz Wiltzen) because I gallop away in all directions, forgetting to measure and go slowly and methodically through the process. I’m like some of the boys in my grade 8 math class, who sat at the back, raced through their equations and got most of them wrong!  And then I wonder why it doesn’t look like the model!  
We only had 3 hours to paint Amy, and this isn’t finished, but it was really a lot of fun.  Tomorrow? A different model, and we get all day with her.  I intend to go slowly and carefully, meanwhile everybody in the class is betting I’ll the first one done again.  DUH! 

Manny

OK this is what I painted today!  Oil painting no less,  16 X 12″. Nine of us gathered around 2 styrofoam mannequin heads and painted from whichever angle we got.  It was intense. It was demanding.  And because I was there and using oil paints, it was also messy. 
It’s interesting to be surrounded by the stunning landscape of Canmore, and be painting human heads.  I think the mountains would be easier!
Tomorrow we get a real live person to paint.  
We’ll see if it gets posted. 

Celestial Ponies

Today I felt like playing.  I wanted a herd of running painted ponies, so that’s what I made.  Sometimes my pen & ink pieces have a cartoon-y look to them, especially if I draw them from my head instead of from a reference. I accentuated that with the funky pastel colours and splashy spots. Nothing like a play date for this artist to counter a cool, dull day. 

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Alley off of Canyon Road

Canyon Road in Santa Fe, the “City Different”,  is a quaint 250year old street which is now home to many beautiful art galleries.  This is an alley which opens up to Canyon Road, and shows the gorgeous old adobe buildings so typical of the area.  On the far right you can see the exposed handmade bricks of a wall from which the adobe mud has eroded.  
This is such an organic and eco-friendly building style, I often wonder why it isn’t adopted on a larger scale.

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Corner of Canyon & Delgado

A few years ago, I was blessed enough to be given an Artist’s Residency in a lovely old adobe compound on Canyon Road in Santa Fe.  It truly was a magical experience in a mystical town. Just up the street from my studio was the corner of Delgado Street, with the most intriguing and delightful adobe home ever.  I always wondered about the history of the place, (of that entire area of town actually) and wished I’d lived there 100, or even 200 years ago.

f you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Shine on Harvest Moon

Last week, returning from the mountains, I took one of my favourite back roads; one that offers miles and miles of uninterrupted native prairie.  As I drove northeast, a pale pink disc peeked over the far, flat horizon, while at the same time the sun was setting on the far, flat southwest horizon. The moon was full and huge, as if attempting to compete with the sun, who was busy splashing everything in vivid tones of orange and pink.  It was quite a contest, and I was aware that though the mountains are stunningly beautiful, so is our prairie.

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

The Long View @ Longview

If you’ve never been down the Cowboy Trail, this won’t look familiar. This is the iconic Alberta scene that one sees over and over in our ads and promos of the province.  Prairie gives way to foothills, which rise up to towering Rockies. Nowhere is this transition more dramatic than at the aptly named “Longview”.  Just north of that little town there is this incredible depth-of-field which defies pen and paint, but I had to try anyway.  Those who haven’t been there, it’s time for a road trip!

f you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Over the Moon Kitty

Last night this crazy cat came in and sprawled on the rug at my feet in what I call her “Aren’t I pretty?” pose.  She looks like she’s flying, complete with a kink in her tail.  So I did a pen & ink sketch of her right then, and took a photo.  Today I re-did the sketch on watercolour paper and made her jump over the moon. That’s the great thing about being an artist…you can even make your cat do things she has no intention of doing!   SOLD

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.

Story Robe

Those who have been following have heard me going on about trying to be more abstract, and so here’s another direction that one could go with that.  Oh wait a minute….this isn’t my art at all! I “borrowed” it from a story robe in the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Great Falls. The robe was a gift to the explorers by the Indians of the region, and this is only a small sample of the many many painting on the robe. I love the gesture that is achieved with such elegant and simple lines.  To me, this looks like a chief (on horseback…note the headdress) meeting someone from another tribe and offering the pipe. The other person is disarming his bow. What d’you think?

If you’d like to own this original watercolour, email Gena with your bid today! gena03@telusplanet.net Minimum bid $100 (plus gst and shipping). First bid, or highest bid wins the painting.