tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82539669372853747832024-03-14T05:08:53.756-04:00Margaret Horvat's a little daily paintingsmall still life and floral paintings in oilAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-1297463268866926002017-11-27T14:27:00.001-05:002017-11-27T14:27:50.227-05:00Flower Girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Watercolour on paper, (14 x 11 inches)</div>
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I painted this watercolour a few weeks ago but neglected to post it. At that time I was working on the theme of flowers and hair and will likely explore more of this subject in the months to come.</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-51714563387068791222017-11-23T15:12:00.001-05:002017-11-23T15:25:14.507-05:00Bubble Meditation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-6139958189161044722017-11-22T16:02:00.000-05:002017-11-22T16:18:41.647-05:00The Mason Gang<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My latest mason jar painting - I keep coming back for more! The nuances of the light shining through the lettering, the changing hues of the bottles and the reflections of the bottles on the shiny surface were fun and challenging details to capture.</span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-18138595983959674562017-10-25T17:34:00.000-04:002017-10-25T17:50:44.451-04:00Emerge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have continued on with my exploration of abstracted florals, and this is my latest offering. I liked the way the petals in the center are unfurling, thus the title "Emerge".</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-11324951207096749242017-10-16T14:44:00.004-04:002017-10-16T15:00:13.104-04:00Awaken<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here is another of the abstracted florals, this is probably more recognizable as floral, but also more fluid like an abstract. I thought the petals seemed to be stretching like we do when just waking up, thus the title "Awaken".</span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-90414797319545577152017-10-12T16:33:00.000-04:002017-10-12T16:51:43.172-04:00Rise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A couple of years ago I had painted a few small scale abstracted floral paintings, and always meant to explore that theme futher, but on a larger scale. Finally got a chance to do that and this is the first of three that I completed along that theme. </span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-50175054579063885312017-10-06T16:23:00.000-04:002017-10-29T15:13:12.426-04:00Mason Jar Trio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My latest ball jar painting, with a Canadian Star! I love the variety of mason jars that are out there and it's always fun to discover new ones at the antique markets.</span> </div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-73478597940890736882017-10-04T13:20:00.000-04:002017-10-04T13:28:42.822-04:00Redhead<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the last watercolor from my 30 in 30 efforts of September, one which didn't quite make the deadline. And while I didn't come anywhere near the goal, for me it morphed into focusing more on the challenge of seeing where I could go using the watercolor medium for the first time in about nine years. I wondered how the work I had done in oils during the previous years would influence my watercolor style and technique. I did start out wanting to be more abbreviated and loose in my style but in the end moved more towards attention to detail (I seem to love the details). In this piece, I wanted to play up the strands of hair and highlights and see where that took me. Also, I loved portraying all the subtle colours present in a head of red hair. So, I'm happy with what I did manage to get done in September, even if falling well short of the goal of 30 paintings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I’m still exploring watercolours during the month of
September and decided to revisit a subject I painted in oils a couple of years
ago (in a much larger format) just to see how I would handle it in watercolour. It turned out very similar to the first one –
I had intended to have more variations of the pinks into blues. I think it turned out okay, but I still have more
experimenting and exploration to do …</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-88401232089287780862017-09-15T14:13:00.000-04:002017-09-15T14:23:00.168-04:00Italian Vista<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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watercolours after a 9-year absence from them, and adding in the further
challenge of doing a landscape, of which I have probably done twice before in
my artistic endeavours. I find the
greenery tricky to pull off, as well as resisting the urge to paint every
little detail in the whole scene – which isn’t very practical on a 5 x 7 inch
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-54806850923606557592017-09-12T10:01:00.001-04:002017-09-21T11:02:10.028-04:00Ripe Heirloom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my latest little watercolour for the month of September. The subject is a beautiful heirloom tomato grown by my father-in-law, who was gracious enough to gift us with a few of them from their garden after my own first attempt at growing tomatoes yielded four very pathetic golf-ball sized pretenders! </div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-64257352827795258392017-09-09T05:45:00.000-04:002017-09-09T06:04:13.289-04:00Sunny Starfish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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challenge. It took a lot of restraint
for me to not go too deep “into the weeds” to try and bring out every detail –
that is also part of what I am trying to challenge myself with this month. I wanted to try and keep it fairly simple but
still have enough interest to make it worth painting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-19009414005883934242017-09-08T05:14:00.000-04:002017-09-08T05:24:05.925-04:00Roman Face<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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little section of a larger sculpture that was photographed by my daughter and
her boyfriend while on holidays in Rome last year. </span></span></div>
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this is the latest study that I completed.
I liked how it turned out so I may try it out in a larger scale oil
painting in the weeks or months to come. For now, this little piece will be my
latest (and overdue) installment for my 30 in 30, which is already downgraded
to 27 in 30 – I got distracted by the long weekend! </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-91469549213250887052017-09-02T06:26:00.003-04:002017-09-02T06:47:33.193-04:00Beach Road<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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picture I used as a reference for this painting didn’t actually have water in
it – there was a bend in the road and the view beyond was originally more
greenery and trees. I thought it needed
something else, so it became a beach! </span></span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-29419921057457637692017-09-01T07:08:00.000-04:002017-09-01T13:16:01.530-04:00And now for something (almost) completely different <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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in 30 challenge” on <a href="http://www.saetastudio.com/30-in-30-blog"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Leslie
Saeta’s blog</span></a>. So, in theory, I will
be posting a painting every day both here on my blog and on the 30 in 30 Blog
as well. This is a challenge that Leslie
has offered up twice a year for the last few years now, and I am finally
attempting to take part! I’m not
promising that I will actually post a new painting every day, but I will
challenge myself to at least paint a lot more frequently and hopefully get
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will be doing some of that work using watercolours, just to change things
up. Still, some of the work you’ll see
will be oils, but hopefully a lot will be watercolours like today’s painting ...change is as good as a rest.</span></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-3238807603073469322017-08-10T17:23:00.002-04:002017-08-10T17:36:26.024-04:00Mop Tops<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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love the way these two are hanging out like they’re posing for a family
portrait.</span></span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-1110545198090277812017-06-30T12:01:00.000-04:002017-06-30T12:13:37.991-04:00Peonies in a Vase<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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enough to grab a shot if this beauty in full sunlight. My favourite part was the reflected images in
the shiny chrome – what a beauty!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been wanting to paint a shell picture again for a
while and this set up gave me the opportunity to really focus on all the
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-14760983616987079852017-03-25T14:49:00.000-04:002017-03-25T14:57:28.296-04:00Golden Flute<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once upon a time - many years ago, I played the flute … a
little. I took lessons for a couple of
years and really enjoyed every minute of it, but as years went by the lessons and the flute were put
away and sadly I barely remember any of what I learned back then. But I still have the flute and in recent
weeks decided if I can’t play it anymore I can at least paint it. I loved capturing the reflected lights as well as all the interesting details. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In reality the flute is actually a more common silver plate, but I decided
to play around with the colours and painted it in gold tones to contrast nicely against the blue
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-24923226448335755342017-03-09T11:20:00.000-05:002017-03-09T12:14:50.774-05:00Sunny Fruit Bowl II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a re-working of a painting I had done a while back - I always wondered if the background was a bit too dark for the overall composition. So I worked on the lights on the fruit as well as adding in some lighter green/blue into the background. I feel like the changes allow the painting to live up to it's title - "Sunny" Fruit Bowl.</span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12478373142832682460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253966937285374783.post-60754147874894901762017-03-08T18:05:00.000-05:002017-07-08T08:37:30.729-04:00Sweet Clementine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just a simple little clementine – I’ve been wanting to paint
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something about a beetle car that makes me want to paint it. This one was basking in the sunshine at an
antique car show and it caught my eye right away. I think it’s all the curvy lines that makes it
an interesting subject for me plus the nostalgia that they seem to radiate.</span></span></div>
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