I used dramatic posture from a photo to paint a smokey story. I paint while I imagine the environment. A picture story can add meaning and emotion to the written word. Firestarter – Old Style […]
Author Archives: Marg.
Jingle Dancer
Jingle dancer from photo archive composited and painted. Mountain Textured Jingle Dancer Texture control -Started with rough canvas and canvas duplicate black and white as texture. It was over the top. added mountain texture using […]
Elder
This was a study created after reading Schmid’s “The Figure”. I was interested in his use of edges and his study of Sargent. I made and added Black and white textures to suit the image […]
Kadinsky Tree
A dive into something different for me, a tree made with a Kadinsky brush changed a couple of different way. As well, I started out with a daily texture for a canvas and added a […]
From Beneath Pine St. Bridge
This painting is the far shore taken from beneath Pine street bridge.I made a texture map from a black and white version of the photo and applied a very old Photoshop filter from the Other […]
Trumpeter Swans
I await the return of Trumpeter Swans. They like to feed near the mouth of the Little Shuswap River. The water is ice cold and the Sockeye Salmon which is headed to the Adams River […]
Messengers
Air Messaging This was a work from imagination. I am using Brayers and Wax textures as well as different custom papers on this work to make a high rock location. First, I needed to get […]
Face Painted Youth
Three paintings were made from photo references of this pow wow youth dancer. He was a terrific. Who gets a good subject in motion that has bright colour, interesting form, and angry passion. I’d forgotten […]
Pow Dancer – The Hop
This was the Pow Wow – Senior Men’s Dance winner, a powerful athletic dancer, who I was able to catch in the hop motion. I remember he was smiling and had the widest grin at […]
3 Child Dancers
These child dancer paintings are less concerned with realistic facial features, regalia, and detail and more concerned with movement and light. While I revisit old methods of building up composites and story, I use new […]
The Proffered Hand
The Proffered Hand Skwlax Pow Wow I started this painting during a “Knight’s” class as a black and white image. I wanted the man’s image to come toward the foreground, but it never looked quite […]
Hoi, Hoi, Hoi
I downloaded a photo of a German beerfest crowd from Pixabay. Two men were talking in the foreground and I liked the looks of this fellow as he looked like he could sing a song […]
Chimpanzee
I had downloaded a free-use image for painting fur practice, but the sadness of this Chimpanzee got to me. The photograph was proof that she is real, somewhere ‘out there’ and captive. I tried to […]
Hockey Posters
Chase Heat Goalie Poster Goal Keeps always get attention from photographers. The nets are the most exciting location to get classic action shots. It follows that I’d accumulate a sizeable collection. Composites are technically complicated […]
Bird
Back to Learn Mode. Want to integrate “Thick Paint” brush strokes into my works when it suits the image and need to get used to the Corel Painter 2020’s new interface. This image practice is […]
Ride’Em Cowboys
“Grass Cowboys” painting On a hot August morning, grass cowboys get to work in the neighbourhood. (Click to enlarge, then [X} to close.)
Canada Day
Chase Canada Day, 2019 Three good reasons for marking Chase Canada Day Parade as my premier photo shoot event in 2019: 1./ Councillor Steve Scott and Mayor Rod Crowe , located between the cab and […]
Bears Dancing
Bear Dance First time I’ve seen the claw and growl action between dancers. Serious fun for kids in the circle. The kids were so happy to be bears. Updated some very old brushes in Painter […]
Watch Bears Dance
Watch Bears Dance “Watch Bears dance” – digital painting result based on Neskonlith Elder’s Pow Wow, August 2017, from WIP GrandMother archives. Created Nov. 2017. for 18 X 22.5 inch gallery wrap.
Rodeo Retiree
I don’t know Don. He has been visible at every Pritchard rodeo I ever attended. He wears many hats at the BCRA. Runs the tractor that cultivates the arena for the barrel riders: judges bare, […]
Pritchard Rodeo
BCRA Rodeo – Pritchard 2017 I attended the July 9th rodeo in Pritchard and found that half of the toughest contestants, those from Cache Creek area were not able to compete. They were busy fighting […]
Canada Day 2017
Chase Parade Chase Canada Day paraded an honour guard, RCMP in red, float cakes marked 150, golf carts and emergency vehicles brought up the rear. And there was more….Scroll Down to see
Flautist
A flautist is under a canopy of cherry trees. I carried this idea in my head when I first saw the tree in a photo. It was good to get it painted. If you scroll […]
Cherry Tree
Have been doing lots of painting, but no posting. For March, The Cherry tree is a further exercise in trunk, branch and foliage. As well, it is a negative painting practice to separate pannicles and […]
Deer Man
The Deer This man was dancing in the Seniors category at the Neskonlith Pow Wow, 2016. In the photo reference, he wears bright green regalia as he danced. And he was a very good dancer.But […]
Portrait Montage
Portrait Painted with Rock and Forest Textures Still practicing. This one is textures painted with the new texture brush categories from Painter. Below is the latest:
Child Portraits
Child Portraits New version Painter 2017 out means new interface and tools. In ‘learning mode’ it means a lot of practice with few visually satisfying results, but many new ideas to develop and put together. As […]
Go Home
Time To Go Home This digital oil painting, with a bit of impasto, was posted for a Sept 29, 2016, DAA class using Corel Painter’s new 2017, new software version. For my final assignment I […]
Blue Heron Painting
Great Blue Heron Used Karen Bonaker’s impasto brushes to add harsh edges to the bird and feathers while making the lake and reflection blended. Original from a photo I took in February (Brrrr) of a […]
Pet Portrait
Pet Portrait of Benji A Bichon-Poodle cross who was dashing through wet morning grass demanded attention. He is ten, with energy to spare and very congenial, as was his owner. Have not painted dogs, other […]
Oriental Pink Lilies
Oriental Pinks Taking a class on Impasto with special brushes and wanted a finished image to print. For me, impasto is all about edges and light. I always like a subtle little bit of impasto […]
Pet Portrait
Dog Portrait of Kia Time to do a pet portrait. it’s been a long time since I did a short haired dog, so I am not much of a judge. Kia is getting older and […]
Pow Wow Youth
Youth Pow Wow Dancer I call this painting “BlueBoy”. Oil, impasto, and blending with brushes on multiple layers and versions.
Boy Dancer
Mouse – Boy Dancer Finished this youthful grass dancer. Mouse was the browns sampled from the boy’s regalia. And the image started out, predominantly in sepia colours. Later, I sampled more of the colours and […]
Cranesbill
Blending Blue Cranesbill, A Perennial Geranium Blending these days to practice for an upcoming class with Karen Bonaker, at Digital Art Academy. I need to use the new Blender Panel in Painter. I’d like to […]
SweetHeart Dancer
Child Pow Wow Dancer for Valentine’s Day This is the latest in the series of Pow Wow Dancers. While impasto was used to make male Boldini figures, the child was done in a softer, more […]
Snow Dancers
Dancer in a Snowscape I made a photo composite of my main subject on a heavily populated aspen patch. Then I painted a snowscape with a few birches, my subject, and later added a fox […]
Dancer Landscape
Still painting, still printing Pow Wow dancers on archival canvas. Now I am also oil painting and gel varnishing large canvas panels as well. I hungered for a series to develop in my own way. […]
Hockey on Ice
Arena Updates Note: Chase Heat – Home game photo shoots are posted as temporarily Galleries for the Regular Season then my favourites are moved HERE . See Photo Blog to find more Chase Heat posters. […]
Owl
Owl Medicine Bag Along the animistic theme, this is a further painted Boldini-like pow wow dancer. This fellow holds “The owl” in his hands in the form of a medicine bag. I picked an owl […]
Pipe Dancer
Pipe of Change (Click Image to View Full Sized.) The legend of Calf Woman kept going through my mind as I painted. I want the dancer and the white calf to have power and […]
Dapper Dancer
Dapper Hatted Man and Canada Goose (Click Image to View Full Sized Hat Man) Dapper Dancer & Canada Goose The best way for me to learn is to “just do it”, and keep […]
Pow Wow Dancer
Heron Man I printed my first canvas and I printed it with a new printer. Also created “Heron Man” —another Pow Wow painting— the 13th image in a series of Bodini-like figures. Optimism has returned. […]
Paintings Lost
I put all my painted images that I had not printed onto a storage hard drive during extensive house renovations. The external hard drive failed. When I inquired about the costs involved in rescue and […]
Little Shuswap Lake
Little Shuswap Lake – Mid May. This morning, 8:30, took a photograph of Little Shuswap Lake in between rains. It rains edible nitrogen–makes colours rich. Makes birds loud. I’m liking Spring all over again. […]
Long Canoes
Long Canoes Paddle Through the Mouth of Little Shuswap Lake August 1st, under the noon day sun, many stand on Pine Street bridge to cheer, wave, and hold up signs for the 5 local bands […]
Chase Wharf
Chase Wharf Photographs The new wharf is a steel and concrete beauty, taller, and made to last longer. If needed, a maintenance truck can now drive down the length of it. The wharf funding was […]
Rodeo Bull
The Under Bull Pritchard puts on a great little rodeo. It’s so well set up that I can count on great action shots and lots of photo stories. I love a good story. This story […]
Timber Sports
Making Cookies And Chop Part I – slideshows July 14, 2012, I lug my camera to Memorial Park in the hope of finding a log-rolling contest that I could photograph from the beach. No log-rolling. […]