'TOADSTOOL MARION' PAINTING

'Toadstool Marion'

Acrylic on canvas painting, she came about from an ACEO art card series called 'Toadstool Central'. Two of the ACEOs are still available in my Etsy shop! The yellow background is a pale mustard yellow, I love the combination of yellow and blue in that vintage sort of tone. On my recent USA trip I found an Art Deco era teacup in a similar colour combination and had to get it even though it would be a hassle to bring it back with me to Singapore. Will share about it on my next blog post.

The smaller mushrooms were a pain to paint, still not used to using finicky caked MALLEABLE wet bristles, not in tiny scale anyhow lol. The whole painting is only about 9.5 x 7" so the hard-to-reach parts were filled in using a toothpick. She is available in the Bear & Bird Gallery group art show too.

Toadstool Central 1

Toadstool Central 2

Toadstool Central 3

'RAINY CLOUDS NEVER STAY' PAINTING

"Rainy Clouds Never Stay"

Acrylic on canvas, the title is borrowed from The Brilliant Green's song 'Rainy Days Never Stay'. There's quite a number of paint layers on this because it was line-background-line-background over and over till the lines appeared neat enough. This painting is also included in the Bear & Bird group art show 2 posts below.

GIRL + PET PAINTINGS

'Walking the Blue Dog'.

This is one of the acrylic paintings on canvas that will be featured in the art show I blogged about in my last post. It's pretty straightforward - walk your dog and bring a poopie bag.

'Suzy and Alistair', a smaller sized painting than 'Walking the Blue Dog'. There was a bit of a mishap while varnishing - there's some specks of dust sealed in so I didn't want to display or sell it. I got the kitty's face from Fuman:

Aka 'Big Boss'

GROUP ART SHOW AT BEAR & BIRD'S

Am participating in a group art show 'Small Stuff 4' which will open on Nov 21st. There's gonna be food, music and lots of beautiful small-sized original art by local & international artists on the launch day party. Best of all the artworks are priced to sell, because this show is held specially for the Christmas gift-giving season! Don't forget to drop by if you're close! The artworks can also be bought online from their website.

Address:

Bear and Bird Boutique Gallery

4566 North University Drive

Lauderhill, Florida

http://www.bearandbird.com/

Will share the 5 paintings I made specially for the show on my next blogpost perhaps.

WET DAY AT HUNTINGTON GARDENS

Huntington Library Gardens in early Oct. It rained unexpectedly so we stayed in the museums and looked at art instead of wandering outside.

Spiderweb in a tree.

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Rainy and foggy. You can see some spiderwebs in the background.

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Wet shamrock closeups.

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French style rooms with nice chandeliers and ornate tapestry.

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I uploaded these in larger resolutions for better viewing. Interesting biological drawings in the 1500s.

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Unicorns and manimals!

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I love this but forgot to take down the name of the artist.

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Gestation #2 by Stanton MacDonald-Wright, 1963

Synchronism abstract art.

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