Brandy the movie star dog!

This is a portrait of Brandy, 💞 a beautiful border collie who was one of the two dogs in the film, Maudie. I keep joking she is my first movie star portrait! 8x10 inch oil painting on wooden panel. 💞🐩

Chicka-dee-dee-dee!

Chicka-dee-dee-dee!
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4"X4" oil on masonite

This one took wayyyyy longer than I planned!!!

I obsessed too much over the details.......

My shoulders and neck started aching......

I felt a bit frustrated.......

and then I started saying "chicka-dee-dee-dee!" and felt happy :) ha ha

I tried to keep the background a little more brushy. Working on that! 

Fun stuff.

Sort of cheating in Labrador!

Little falls on Churchill river lake

I sort of cheated today. This was one I did last year. I did paint one specifically for today, and I do like it.....

but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get a good photo if it!

The painting is quite dark, so maybe that has something to do with it.

If I get a good photo of it sometime I will post!
so....if the point of the challenge is to paint, well, I did do that! Just posting a different painting due to technical difficulties! 

In the meantime, this is a waterfall I took a photo of when we did an 8 day canoe trip

down the Churchill River in Labrador. We spent one entire day crossing a huge lake in a headwind.

The entire shoreline was either vertical cliff or big rocks like this.....nowhere to camp or pull in.

So it was pedal to the metal! Or paddle to the water or something like that!  :)

We occasionally pulled into little "coves" where the wind wasn't so bad to wait for friends and have a snack or two, still in our canoes. It was at one of these little moments I snapped the photo that became this painting. I tried to keep it loose and brushy which was definitely in the spirit of a painting a day!

I framed the painting and gave to my husband as a memento.

Ruby portrait repeat!

Ruby

I didn't get my little daily painting finished today so I am re-posting Ruby, 

she sorta counts as she was finished in February!

Selfie - something silly!

Selfie #2

Self-portrait as a lego!

For fun :) 

30 paintings in 30 days #3/30

Selfie #1

Selfie #1

A practice study to start working at human portraits.

Ruby

This is Ruby,  a pet portrait I just finished!  

I do pet portraits,  contact me at fatlittleman2003@yahoo.ca if interested!  

"Finding my marbles"

                                                              "Finding my marbles"
                                         4"X4" oil painting on Ampersand gessobord panel
                                                     click here to see the ebay auction

 Childhood remembered! 

Catching up and new commitment

                                                       Broadway's Cast of Characters

                                   my uncle Dave LeDrew in the window of his famous store,

                     The Newfoundland Emporium in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador

                             one of four winners of Corner Brook's anniversary art contest 2016

2018 finds me with a full commitment back into my art. At the end of 2017 I had a big decision to make, and I have taken the big leap with full support of my family to focus on art as my career. I wanted to do this for many years but many things held me back (mostly my own inner perceptions?) Interesting stuff when you think about it!

I won't go into the big story, but this quote sums everything up for me:

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

― Anaïs Nin

Working on the blossoming part now :)

Arts and Letters 2015!!

Looks like I didn't update last year when I won arts and letters for the first time (Won this year for the second time! super yay!)

So here is a photo of my painting.........it's hard to photograph, when I get a better one I will update. Working on that with a photographer. This was based on a photo my friend took when sitting in a parked car in the rain on Bannerman Street, St. johns.

Arts and Letters Awards 2016

Arts and Letters awards Newfoundland and Labrador 2016

Senior visual art winner "India Gate View"

Poppy field

sold

A few more poppies. Small 4"X4" oil painting of a poppy field. Poppies are the best :) I love the way they seem to be moving and dancing even when they are still............

Poppies - out of the dark and into the light.

 

Out of the dark.

8"X10" oil painting

and Into the Light

8"X10" oil painting

Painted for the Writers at Woody Point Poppy Exhibit in Woody Point, NL. I have heard through the grapevine they are both sold, lol. Awaiting confirmation :)

Sunny Afternoon

A small, 6"X6" oil painting of a foal relaxing in the grass and sunshine. Available until the end of August at MALA in Corner Brook.

I think it's the first in a series. I liked it :)

Off to new homes

I have a few paintings at the Glass Station in Rocky Harbour. These ones sold in the last few weeks and are off to new homes. thanks to Urve at the Glass Station for giving artists a place to sell their work!

Caribou in summer sunshine

8"X10" oil painting of a caribou relaxing, standing in the evening summer sunshine down
Burgeo, south coast of NL..........

Ponies

 An 8"X10" oil painting of a pony. Reference photo from Wetcanvas artist reference library. SOLD

 I also found this silly little 9 year old pony "horsing around" in my house!

For Sarah's Kids

I am going to donate 90% of the sales of my art until the end of 2014 to a "You Caring" campaign to raise money to assist the family of a young lady who recently passed away from cancer. Her name was Sarah Turpin and she had three children ...under the age of 3. Here is a link to the donation page if you wish to make a donation directly there without purchasing art, or to find out more about this family's story. http://www.youcaring.com/help-a-neighbor/for-sarah-s-kids/257670

 Here is the link to a CBC story about the family http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/the-new-normal-isn-t-easy-for-family-of-sarah-turpin-1.2856741

 Here is a link to my two ebay auctions which end fairly soon http://www.ebay.ca/itm/171561971795?ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

and http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Lily-flower-Original-panting-by-artist-Nicole-LeDrew-May-Gift-for-Nature-lover-/171563822942?pt=Art_Paintings&hash=item27f2002f5e.

 

 

 I also have two paintings for sale at the League of Artists of Western Newfoundland Christmas show. I will post photos of them here. Please contact me directly if you wish to purchase. As I said, 90% of the profits will go to the You Caring campaign for Sarah's family. (10% to help cover costs of replacing materials for me ). Please share to help raise some money for this family! There are a lot of donations made but there is quite a way to go.....

Wine, Words and a Weekend, $395, buyer pays shipping

11"X14" oil on gallery wrap canvas

Child's Play, $175, buyer pays shipping

8"X8" oil on gallery wrap canvas



a Few new teeny tiny paintings

each painting is 4"X4" and the plan is to try ebay auctions as a new way of selling. We'll see how it goes!

the snow is falling here today, the kids are skiing, the LAWN Christmas art show opens this afternoon, the santa parade is tonight and some of us artsy folks are getting together for a Christmas family potluck! starting to look a lot like Christmas!

New ebay auction! Horse eye 4"X4" oil painting!

This is a painting I did recently of a horse's eye. I love painting eyes. So glassy. I like the warm and cool interplay as well.

Here is a link to the ebay auction http://www.ebay.ca/itm/171561971795?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649