After Brock I stared to explore self portrait like Van Go and the other great masters but mine were 3 X 5 inches.   As I was painting these little paintings I would document the process by letting it dry and making a colour copy of that stage of the painting.  I used this documentation to create a wall size installation that was exhibited at the Hamilton Artists Inc.  I now can use these copies as a teaching tool.  Each painting is $75.00. 

3 X 5 inches

I submitted this small 4x6 inch self portrait painting to the Art Gallery of Ontario for their ?In Your Face? non juried show, in Toronto, Ontario from July to January 2006/07.  The Art Gallery of Ontario was trying to make the World Record for the most portraits.   It remains now in their collection.

After Brock I stared to explore self portrait like Van Go and the other great masters but mine were 3 X 5 inches.   As I was painting this little paintings I would document the process by letting it dry and making a colour copy of that stage of the painting.  I used this documentation to create a wall size installation that was exhibited at the Hamilton Artists Inc.  I now can use these copies as a teaching tool.  I also used some of the photos from this series to create another series of 8 self portraits 8 x 10 inches using the polyclens transfer technique.  I love the marks created by this technique that heighten the emotions of the sitter in the photos.   One of these transfer faces was submitted to the Clarington Art Show and won best in show in 1999. 

After Brock I stared to explore self portrait like Van Go and the other great masters but mine were 3 X 5 inches.   As I was painting this little paintings I would document the process by letting it dry and making a colour copy of that stage of the painting.  I used this documentation to create a wall size installation that was exhibited at the Hamilton Artists Inc.  I now can use these copies as a teaching tool.  Each painting is $75.00. 

After Brock I stared to explore self portrait like Van Go and the other great masters but mine were 3 X 5 inches.   As I was painting this little paintings I would document the process by letting it dry and making a colour copy of that stage of the painting.  I used this documentation to create a wall size installation that was exhibited at the Hamilton Artists Inc.  I now can use these copies as a teaching tool.  Each painting is $75.00. 

After Brock I stared to explore self portrait like Van Go and the other great masters but mine were 3 X 5 inches.   As I was painting this little paintings I would document the process by letting it dry and making a colour copy of that stage of the painting.  I used this documentation to create a wall size installation that was exhibited at the Hamilton Artists Inc.  I now can use these copies as a teaching tool.  Each painting is $75.00. 

I did this painting after graduating from Brock from a picture of my sisters and me when we were all together as a family before my mother left my father.   She had made us each a dress from the same material.  I painted the dresses realistically but decided to paint our faces using colours to show how each one dealt with the pain of alcoholism and separation in the family. 

I did another pastel of this same model in high school which was sold.  A friend of mine liked it and commissioned me to do another which you see here in her home. 

I was commissioned by a beginner artist to do this portrait of this 12 year old girl who died from sudden death of cardio myopathy as gift for the girl?s mother.  I had to use the photo from the paper which I enlarged.  The client was very satisfied with the conti results.  This was my first drawing with conti since graduating from Brock in 1989.

I was commissioned by a male friend to do this portrait of his fianc?.  After I completed it she broke up with him.

In my last year at Brock I explored the sport life.  I did a serious of 7 faces of various athletes caught in different emotions using chalk pastel and Vaseline. Four of these pastel works received best in show award in 1990 at the Scarborough Civic Centre?s Juried show. 

In my last year at Brock I explored the sport life.  I did a serious of 7 faces of various athletes caught in different emotions using chalk pastel and Vaseline. Four of these pastel works received best in show award in 1990 at the Scarborough Civic Centre?s Juried show. 

In my last year at Brock I explored the sport life.  I did a serious of 7 faces of various athletes caught in different emotions using chalk pastel and Vaseline. Four of these pastel works received best in show award in 1990 at the Scarborough Civic Centre?s Juried show. 

In my last year at Brock I explored the sport life.  I did a serious of 7 faces of various athletes caught in different emotions using chalk pastel and Vaseline. Four of these pastel works received best in show award in 1990 at the Scarborough Civic Centre?s Juried show. 

In my last year at Brock I explored the sport life.  I did a serious of 7 faces of various athletes caught in different emotions using chalk pastel and Vaseline. Four of these pastel works received best in show award in 1990 at the Scarborough Civic Centre?s Juried show. 

In my last year at Brock I explored the sport life.  I did a serious of 7 faces of various athletes caught in different emotions using chalk pastel and Vaseline. Four of these pastel works received best in show award in 1990 at the Scarborough Civic Centre?s Juried show.