Painting
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Monochromatic Watercolor Forest
It was fun to work in just one color, and the result was a super moody forest scene. The key when working with one color is to vary the lights and darks as…
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Watercolor Mountains
I have been playing with watercolors for a couple of years now and it’s a medium that I really enjoy working with. Lately, I’ve also started to incorporate ink outlines to some of…
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Sheikh Zayed Mosque
This beautiful mosque is located in Abu Dhabi, I haven’t been to it since construction was completed but years ago on a trip to the east I remember driving past it on a…
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Watercolor Bird
Summer has been really busy and I was looking forward to fall but that lasted about three days max here in Calgary this year. There's been snow falling starting sometime yesterday and it's…
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Negative Space Painting
YouTube is such an amazing resource for learning just about anything from changing your brake lights to speaking a new language and (of course) learning art techniques as well. These paintings were done…
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Thailand Phetchaburi Road
I had been in Bangkok a few days and I had a couple hours to kill so I asked the cab driver to take me anywhere nice. I had no idea where I…
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Whimsical Watercolor Owl Study
I love doing studies of other artist’s works in order to explore different styles and to further develop my own skills. This was a painting that the Watercolor Misfit (on YouTube) had playing…
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Handmade Greeting Cards
I always like making greeting cards by hand, I actually like giving as many personalized things as possible because you can make them to suit the person that you’re giving them to. It’s…
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Kaaba Abstract
It’s currently the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims who fast from pre-dawn until sunset. Where I live that’s approximately from 3:30 am until 9:40 pm these days. Fasting isn’t just about not…