Digital Artwork

Some more work I created in Corel...having fun !!

Transient Guests Are We............

Another world....

Google Art Project

If there is a company I would like to work for it would be Google..such innovators. The newest project they have come up with is called 'Google Art Project'. It allows one to view the artworks in various museums around the world from your desktop. Not only can you view the artworks but you can also take a virtual tour around the entire museum.

For artists like moi it allows us to zoom in on each painting to such a degree that I can analyze the colors used to paint the eye. Helps very much when studying value and brush strokes. Click here to read the article written by one of the innovators at Google and click here to get to the Google Art Project home page.

To give you an idea of the level of detail one can zoom into, see the pics below:

Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Habsbourg, Queen of France and her children

New toys to play with...

OMFG !!! I have found a new toy to play with and I am loving it - Corel PSP is awesome. Of course initially it is maddening but the more you play with it the more you learn. D dug up a `PSP for Dummies`book for me and I am painstakingly going through each page as I really want to learn this program. So many options...so much you can do with it..........

A peek of what I created this afternoon.....all digitally!!

Painting featured in Etsy Treasury for the 17th time

My painting titled 'Blushing Turnips' was featured in an ETSY Treasury along with other work from the talented artists on Etsy. Roneprinz curated the treasury and she makes & sells sculptural, whimsical jewellery - really love her birds on wheels pieces and the stunning chair necklace - so quirky!!! If you are into steam punk jewellery you will love her work. Please pop by her shop to check out more of her products. 

21 chair sterling silver necklace 

The treasury can be viewed here as well as many others.

Artist: Lynda D'Souza

Title: Blushing Turnips

Size: 7" x 7"

Medium: Oil on Hardboard  

Painting featured in Etsy Treasury for the 16th Time

My painting titled 'Fall Fays' was featured in an ETSY Treasury along with other portraits from the talented artists on Etsy. What I am very chuffed about is that my work has been featured along with other artists who I greatly admire and religious follow their blog / works. To be featured along with Krystina81, Janet Hill Studio, TushTush, BeHappyNow to name a few is humbling.

DanaAndCarol curated the treasury and she sells unique paper wreaths and her white ones are so so pretty. Please pop by her shop to check out more of her products. 

The treasury can be viewed here as well as many others.

Artist: Lynda D'Souza
Title: Fall Days 
Size: 12" x 12"
Medium: Oil on gallery canvas 

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Featured on Designwali's Blog

The lovely Designwali has featured my work on her blog and I am so so grateful for the exposure. In the online world every footprint goes a long way!

This is the article and click here to check out the post on her blog. I love her blog..she chats about home decor and furniture and features some beautiful design ideas with an Indian flavour. Please pop over.........

Thank you Designwali....ps. love your tablas!!

Painting featured in ETSY Treasury for the 15th time

My painting titled 'Ava' was featured in an ETSY Treasury along with other items from the talented sellers on Etsy. Blue Rose Retro curated the treasury and she sells unique vintage items in her online store. She has quite a selection of household items, clothes and shoes - please pop by her shop to check out more of her products. 

The treasury can be viewed here as well as many others.

Artist: Lynda D'Souza
Title: Ava (Portrait painting)
Size: 12" x 12"
Medium: Oil on gallery canvas 

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Beautiful Quote

Via the French By Design blog

Painting workshop - completed painting

This is the completed painting of Mr Antonio completed in 12 hours at school. It was the first time I was painting over a stretched period of time and with a dried canvas. Most of my previous work I have done alla prima and over 3-5 days. So much I learned....and painting from a live model is..........ah what's the word........exquisite. Yes exquisite, because it allows one to see so many colors. This was a workshop without instruction so the painters all did their own thing - its more like playing with our paint.

Click here to see pics of the studio and the model himself. 

Inspiration Board - part 2

As I mentioned in an earlier post I was looking for a gold frame to make myself an inspiration board. Found this gorgeous frame in a liquidation store for $6/- and love it's big size. I even love the pic in it, such a pity I will have to discard it. Now just to find the fabric for the inside............definitely something grey. 

Bargue Assignment 1 completed

I just realized I had blogged about my first assignment but never put up a pic of the completed drawing so here it is! It was such an eye opener...learning to use my knitting needle to measure, understanding the different pencils, pushing the graphite into the grooves of the paper........! And the best part was the light form modelling...once I put that in it was like putting the final icing on a wedding cake - just made the drawing pop.

Found this gorgeous gold frame which has a sienna sort of patina to it and will hang it along with my second assignment somewhere in the living room.

Oh geez I should sign it...I always to forget to sign my art.

Click here and here to see the drawing taking shape.

Carved stamp

        Feelingcrafty I was in the mood for carving something and found this gorgeous book we bought a while ago on 'Detail, Cottage and Constructive Architecture'. I used my carving tools & rubber slab, and set to work digging out the intricate moldings of this beautiful design. I have since used this stamp to stamp out images on cards and on my abstract canvas paintings. It was so much fun......in fact I am feeling the itch to do another one....maybe later this afternoon...........

Inspiration board

Via the Eclecchicc  Blog

Now that the studio is complete (thanks to the dear hubby) I have been perusing ideas for my inspiration board. I had one earlier but it was just a big piece of foam board that I pinned things on. This time round I want something pretty - where the board itself is a statement piece...............quite like this one featured on the Eclecchic blog. Love the gold trim and the wood carving on top. I might go with a burlap or cream cotton canvas background cover as opposed to printed fabric. Nice no!

Painting workshop

A few weeks ago I enrolled in a six weeks painting workshop that takes place on friday afternoons and we have access to a live model (fixed pose) for 3 full hours. It is so much fun to get the paint under my nails again and painting from a live model is another experience altogether...you see a myriad of colors, form, values.....things you do not see from a flat picture or photograph. There are a dozen other students some painting, drawing, pastels...just playing with our mediums.

That's a pic of my painting and the model posing with me. Antonio is just the best model I have met....one -  because he doesn't move at all (and its pretty hard staying still for 23 mins at a time) and two because he brings us goodies every friday...last week was Foccachio with sun dried tomatoes, ham and cheese! seriously which model feeds the artists!!! we love him!!

Quotes

Via the Sacramento Street blog

Academy of Realist Art classroom

Academy of Realist Art - Bargue Room 

...and this is where I spend my week days...in the 'Bargue room' where we work on our Bargue assignments and live model drawing sessions. After completing 4 assignments we will graduate to the next room for charcoal drawing and final level of oil painting. We have soft classical music playing in the background and lots of natural light. Peers who's thoughts & words match my world. It is a dream come true studying here.

We have students travelling from the US, Australia and Hongkong to study here and I am so fortunate that this school is in my province....just a train ride away!

Bargue - Assignment II

Been working on my second Bargue assignment and learning so much more. This piece involves much more modelling on the lights and darks. Prof insists on us working the darks ONLY first before moving onto the lights. So right now I am softening the bed bug line and spreading the diffusion outwards. It's already been a month since I have been working on this....enjoying every moment.

Portrait of Chanel

Title: Chanel

Oil on canvas

10 x 10 inches

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Uploaded this painting in the shop recently. Really pleased with the softness in the face, loved the process of blending. 

Romaine Brooks

I have noticed my paintings are developing into a similar range of muted colors. I find I cannot use bright colors and end up graying my colors quite a bit. I also find my clothes and furniture are in a similar palette.  I guess this is what they mean by "Life imitates art or Art imitates life".......... Discovered this artist whose palette I can very much relate too, she is definitely bold in her choices for that period but I am loving the subdued palette and subject matter - ROMAINE BROOKS. Quite a life she led - read more here. 


Romaine Brooks (May 1, 1874 – December 7, 1970), born Beatrice Romaine Goddard, was an American painter who specialized in portraiture and used a subdued palette dominated by the color gray. Brooks ignored contemporary artistic trends such as Cubism and Fauvism, drawing instead on the Symbolist and Aesthetic movements of the 19th century, especially the works of James McNeill Whistler. Her subjects ranged from anonymous models to titled aristocrats, but she is best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress, including her self-portrait of 1923, which is her most widely reproduced work.^[1]

Self Portrait (1923)

The Black Cap (1907)

Peter, a Young English Girl (1923–1924), a portrait of the artist Gluck

All images via the Little Augury Blog.