Crocus painting 2012

Dear Everyone:

Today I felt the drive to paint

something really simple. This

folk art painting of crocuses

filled the ticket.

Enjoy.

Helen.

Vogue Face #06 2012

Dear Everyone:

This is the sixth image from my

series of folk art paintings of faces

from Vogue magazine.

Enjoy.

Helen.

Strawberry 2012

Strawberry2012

Dear Everyone:

I felt like painting a strawberry.

And did- just because I could.

Helen.

Vogue face #4 2011

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Dear Everyone:

This is the 4th face in my series

of images from Vogue magazine.

I think she looks like

a Grecian goddess.

I particularly like the

blue-black hair.

Enjoy.

Helen.

Iris Painting 2011

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Irispainting2011

Dear Everyone:

This pond with the wild iris is

located in Peggy's Cove.

I had set my heart on doing

an iris painting from the

iris photoreference.

I am pleased with the result.

Enjoy.

Helen.

July sunrise 2011

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Julysunrisepainting#12011

Dear Everyone:

I enjoy doing folk art paintings

from my own photo references.

Here is a painting of a recent

sunrise and its photo reference.

Enjoy.

Helen.

Mother's Day 2011

Mother'sday(somethingblue)2011

Mother'sday(africanmodel)2011

Dear Everyone:

Am recovering from a bad cold.

Worked up 2 Mother's Day

greeting cards this morning.

Something blue was inspired

by a page in a fashion magazine

featuring only blue items.

I wanted to use indigo and aqua.

The African mother and child

were inspired by seeing African

models also in fashion magazines.

See what you think.

Helen.

Easter II 2011

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Dear Everyone:

This is my second Easter image

for 2011.

I deliberately left out the

yellow to make it a bit

more grown up.

I sketched the rabbit

some time ago and adapted

the image this evening

for Easter.

I think I'll do one

more Easter image

and then call it a day.

I hope you enjoy this

image.

Helen.

Easter I 2011

EasterI2011

Dear Everyone:

I just started working

on my Easter greeting

cards.

I sketched and painted

this Easter bouqet directly from

a bouqet I picked up

at the grocery store.

I am pretty pleased

with the image and

in particular I am

pleased with the shapes

and colours.

I hope you enjoy

this image.

Helen.

Celestial horse (blue) 2011

Celestialhorse(blue)2011

Dear Everyone:

This horse comes from my celestial

vision in which I assist Jesus to host

a picnic. Deities and animals come to visit.

The horse is an Arabian with

a concave dish face.

The image wanted red and blue.

I hope you enjoy this image

Helen.

Celestial cow (picnic) 2011

Celestialcow(picnic)2011

Dear Everyone:

This is the second image

from my most recent religious vision.

The vision had me help Jesus host

a picnic. Animals and deities

visited to pay homage to Jesus.

This is a cow.

Enjoy.

Helen.

Celestial Cat (picnic) 2011

Celestialcat(picnic)2011

Dear Everyone:

I have been having a series of

celestial/religious visions.

In my most recent one

I help host a picnic for Jesus.

A series of animals and deities visit.

This folk art painting represents

a jewelled cat which was among

the first animals to visit.

The image is rather childlike

but is true to the cat I saw

in the vision.

I hope you enjoy this image.

Helen.

Model portrait (Asian Beauty) 2011

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Dear Everyone:

Recently I have become interested

in images of Asian beauty.

Luckily the February issue

of U.S. Vogue had some examples.

The photo reference for this

folk art painting was taken

from an Estee Lauder make-up ad.

I hope that you enjoy this

image.

Helen.

Christmas 2010

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Dear Everyone:

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas

and a Healthy, Happy, Prosperous

New Year.

Helen.

Angel with trumpet 2010

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Dear Everyone:

This angel is announcing

the start of Christmas

festivities.

Enjoy.

Helen.

Christmas elf 2010

Christmaself2010

Dear Everyone:

A Christmas elf to assist

you in your final

preparations for

Christmas.

Enjoy.

Helen

Dahlia portrait II 2010

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Dahliaportrait#32010

Dear Everyone:

Here is a second folk art painting

of a dahlia from my own

photoreference.

I like painting from my own

photos. It is hard to improve

upon nature and it avoids

copyright issues.

Hope you enjoy this work.

Helen.

Dahlia portrait I 2010

HPGdahliaportrait#22010

Dahliaportrait#22010

Dear Everyone:

It is a tradition to shoot

the dahlias at the Halifax Public

Gardens each fall.

This specimen had a lovely

colour scheme of pink and orange.

I used the shot as a photoreference for

a folk art painting.

I hope that you enjoy this

work.

Helen.

Model portrait (spanish) 2010

Modelportrait(spanish)2010

Dear Everyone:

This is the latest entry of my

image of a model from a

fashion magazine. Her face

is highly stylized. Almost like
a Japanese geisha. She

happens to be Spanish.

Truly a work of art.

Enjoy.

Helen.

Petunia study II 2010

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Petuniastudy#22010

Dear Everyone:

This is the first in my series

of folk art paintings of the

unusual petunia I detailed

in the previous blog posting.

I had never seen the colour

combination of lime green and

fuchsia of these flowers before.

The painting insisted

that I use greens for the

background.

The image is rather stylized

which is typical of my work.

Enjoy.

Helen.