Help Japan Challenge

This weeks Daily Paintworks Challenge is the Help Japan Challenge. The theme of this challenge is "Home" - an image that says home to you. This painting is a Sunday morning on Commercial Drive in Vancouver, where I grew up. The west coast of Canada is on a major earthquake fault line. All of us have some sort of thrown together emergency preparedness kit for such an eventuality, but after seeing the crisis in Japan, we are soberly and seriously preparing our earthquake kits. This is an opportunity for you to donate to Japan Relief and have 100% of your donation go to the cause and at the same time receive a great original piece of art. Click here to go to DPW Challenge and view all of the wonderful paintings donated by artists all over the world. I'm sure you'll find something you will love to own with the added value of helping those in need.

Help Japan Challenge

French Doors and Flowers

Original Oil on Canvas 8 x 10 Framed SOLD
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I demonstrated at the Night Market in my neighbourhood the other night, and decided to do this smaller version of a larger painting I did a while back. I'm quite pleased with the loose brushwork and spontaneity of it. It was a beautiful sunny evening and a good time was had by all.

French Doors and Flowers

Sunday Afternoon

Sunday Afternoon   Acrylic on Canvas   30 x 24  $550 + s/h
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While living in the Southwest of France, in Toulouse, we would head out in any direction and just discover whatever we came across. On this particular day, we came upon the city of Albi. I took this photo from the ramparts above the river. There were stone bridges crossing the river one after the other as far as we could see. Bridges that people had been crossing for probably a thousand years. I thought it was so great to be able to fish while looking at a view so rich in history. I really enjoyed painting the reflections of the city onto the surface of the water.

 

Sunday Afternoon

City Dwelling

City Dwelling   Acrylic on Linen  16 x 20  $450 + s/h
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This painting is inspired from photos I took while living in Paris, France. We had a great apartment in the attic of a seven floor walk up. Yes you read that correctly. Luckily it was a beautiful staircase. Spiral, polished wood, tapestry carpets and floor to ceiling French windows on each landing. But the très chic apartments just above the cafes, within the trees that line the boulevards, like the one in this painting, always fascinated me. These people had large luxurious apartments, and on opening their French doors, could take in all the energy of the street life. I always thought of them as the Parisiens who were really 'City Dwelling'. This building had such beautiful old world charm and combined with the flower boxes full of geraniums, I simply had to paint it. 

 

City Dwelling