Very Excited to announce I have a brand new website design!
I hope everyone will enjoy taking a look around the brand new www.onak.ca with its gift store, interactive galleries, paint along videos and much much more! Let me know what you think!
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Brand New Look to my Website!
I hope everyone will enjoy taking a look around the brand new www.onak.ca with its gift store, interactive galleries, paint along videos and much much more! Let me know what you think!
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
RED ALERT!!!
It has been such fun painting this, just capturing that expression and playing with some really bright colour.
I have always struggled in the past when painting predominantly red/orange paintings because I feel colour as emotion and emotions as colour. So for me to use a predominantly orange/red palette makes me much more daring, determined, energetic, powerful, impulsive and slightly aggressive than usual. It is a highly visible colour that makes me make spur of the moment rash decisions which is so unlike my style of painting and, in the past, has led to me making mistake after mistake. My saviour in this painting was Dawn's green eyes. when I started to get overwhelmed by all the orange/ reds I would just focus on the eyes and add a little more detail to them until I felt calmer again.
Do you find you are affected by the colours you paint with?
I have always struggled in the past when painting predominantly red/orange paintings because I feel colour as emotion and emotions as colour. So for me to use a predominantly orange/red palette makes me much more daring, determined, energetic, powerful, impulsive and slightly aggressive than usual. It is a highly visible colour that makes me make spur of the moment rash decisions which is so unlike my style of painting and, in the past, has led to me making mistake after mistake. My saviour in this painting was Dawn's green eyes. when I started to get overwhelmed by all the orange/ reds I would just focus on the eyes and add a little more detail to them until I felt calmer again.
Do you find you are affected by the colours you paint with?
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Red Alert WIP 2
I am so slow painting hair. After 2 days work I am still not even half way around. To me the WIP photo below looks just like she is saying " really??? I've been waiting here for days and you still haven't finished???
It's fun using all the bright oranges yellows and reds I don't usually use much though with some purples and greens thrown in too. This photo above shows just a section of the full painting. It doesn't capture the intensity or the variation in colour in the actual painting but at least it gives you an idea of my progress.
It's fun using all the bright oranges yellows and reds I don't usually use much though with some purples and greens thrown in too. This photo above shows just a section of the full painting. It doesn't capture the intensity or the variation in colour in the actual painting but at least it gives you an idea of my progress.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Red Alert WIP
Say Ahhhhh!
It's so good when you get an obliging model as you paint, especially when you are painting an open mouth.(grin)
Doing big portraits is a lot of fun. This one has a long, long way to go before it is done ( the teeth are still masked out, there are no proper eye brows or eye lashes, my subject is decidedly pale and she has no hair ) but I just had to share this moment as I finished blocking in the main features and my subject starts to 'interact' with us as I paint.
It's so good when you get an obliging model as you paint, especially when you are painting an open mouth.(grin)
Doing big portraits is a lot of fun. This one has a long, long way to go before it is done ( the teeth are still masked out, there are no proper eye brows or eye lashes, my subject is decidedly pale and she has no hair ) but I just had to share this moment as I finished blocking in the main features and my subject starts to 'interact' with us as I paint.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Dear Angel
Life is full of quiet moments that only you and your angels share. Times when you ask for their guidance or just need a moment to gather your thoughts and seek reassurance that you are on the right path. Times when you feel remorse for something you know you could have handled better and want to find the best way to say sorry.
Having a guardian angel with us can be an enormous comfort. Some people believe that their guardian angel is a spiritual being who looks out for their well-being, many believe it is a deceased loved one who offers guidance during times of need, a few, like me, believe it is your own inner conscience, within you always, if you just allow yourself to listen. Whatever you believe, it is good to feel you are never truly alone.
I am still pondering over a title for this painting. Any ideas will be very gratefully received.
Transparent Watercolour 30 by 19 inches
Having a guardian angel with us can be an enormous comfort. Some people believe that their guardian angel is a spiritual being who looks out for their well-being, many believe it is a deceased loved one who offers guidance during times of need, a few, like me, believe it is your own inner conscience, within you always, if you just allow yourself to listen. Whatever you believe, it is good to feel you are never truly alone.
I am still pondering over a title for this painting. Any ideas will be very gratefully received.
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