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Sunrise on the falls.
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This week’s l completed 3 paintings and some brand new smalls. All to be revealed this week. To start off we have #Skeletor aka #keldor classic bad guy staple from the toy box. This piece is 12x12 in acrylic detail on my website #calgaryexpo2026 #abarts #yegartist #canadianart
Here is Kai on her piece, “Space Alight”!
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Edward John (E.J.) Hughes
Canadian artist
1913 - 2007
The Pacific Coast (Near Bamfield)
watercolour on paper
18 x 24 in
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Canadian artist Prudence Heward turns a familiar social scene into something psychologically charged. A pair of women are not decorative accessories on a gentleman’s evening out. They occupy public space on their own terms. That matters in 1928. The theatre becomes a modern arena of female independence, spectatorship, and self-possession, where women go not only to watch but also to be visible. Two young women sit side by side before a performance begins, seen from just behind, as if we occupy a row directly behind them. Their bare upper backs and necks catch a soft, creamy light that stands out against the dark theatre. Both wear black evening dresses cut low across the shoulders. The woman at left has a smooth, simple back, while the woman at right wears a dress with a sheer patterned panel that curls across the fabric in pale loops. Their chestnut-brown hair is parted and gathered into low, polished buns. The woman on the right turns slightly, her cheek and nose visible in profile as she holds a white program in one hand. Around them, other audience members dissolve into shadowy shapes. Deep red seat backs curve across the foreground with a midnight-blue garment partially over the right seat, while cool blue-gray walls rise in broad vertical bands on the stage. The museum notes that the sitters may be Marion and Elizabeth Robertson, the sisters of Beaver Hall Group artist Sarah Robertson, which adds an intimate, almost insider quality to the scene. Heward had returned from Paris only a short time earlier and was developing the bold, sculptural style that would make her one of Canada’s most incisive painters of women. Contemporary critics reduced the picture to “a study of décolleté,” but another praised its “originality” and “vigour.” That tension is still the point. The painting acknowledges the social gaze, yet refuses to flatten these women into spectacle. They feel alert, self-contained, and modern to be present in the crowd, but not absorbed by it.
“At the Theatre” by Prudence Heward (Canadian) - Oil on canvas / 1928 - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Québec) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #PrudenceHeward #Heward #MontrealMuseumOfFineArts #art #arttext #WomenPaintingWomen #arte #CanadianArt #1920sArt #CanadianArtist
Guys… BIG news. In our second issue, we are so lucky to feature three brand-new gorgeous pieces from a Canadian visual artist, Kai Skinner!! 🎨
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Shane Norrie’s Spring Renewal feels like the season waking up in real time — light stretching itself across the canvas, color returning to the world one quiet breath at a time.
Acrylic on canvas #Canadianart
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"Harbour Grace, c. 1880" (2026) 18" X 19" acrylic on watercolour paper painting by Reilly Fitzgerald.
Original painting available
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A pencil drawing of a robin with a wizard hat and little bag across its chest. They are perched on a bush covered in berries.
Ordered art supplies, but they might take a month to come in. I had given up on this drawing because I made it too big for my attention span, but I literally have nothing else to do, so maybe I can get it finished! #drawing #art #canadianart
The countdown to #calgaryexpo2026 is in full swing. The studio is a flutter with displays, new merch and new artwork. 3 weeks to go. Mark your calendars and see your there #artshow #canadianart #albertaarts #abarts
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"Sentinel" Still, watchful, and held in winter light. A quiet shore moment. Select prints available b y contacting: patrickchuprina@patrickchuprina.ca
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One of my favourite prints available on the website, “Carry Me Home”
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Getting back to it, I'm feeling a little rusty but spending as much time in studio as I can! Here's a quick sketch made in Krita.
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A drawing on paper. The left side shows tents within a typical Cylinder pattern consisting of wavy, black bands on a yellow and brown background. The pattern transitions to one on the left side consisting primarily of dark lines with little background colour.
New work completed!
"Moitié Moitié" pencil on paper (22" x 30") - based on the pattern of a Conus archiepiscopus. The title (French) translates to 'half-half'.
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Painting of an alert-looking border collie standing on the rocks at the shore of a river. In the background is the horizon and the reflections of trees on the far shore in the water.
My lovely dog Fly 🐾
“Sentry”, oil on panel, 2026. 30x24
Watch me create this painting in #ASMR here: youtu.be/MtzGbmI1Rfk 🎧
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New video!
Join me and my lovely dog Fly, as I paint “Sentry”, oil on panel, 2026. (30” x 24”), my latest ASMR video:
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"Subtle Moon"
oil on panel
8x8 inches
Nicki Ault
2026
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The Greeters (2026) 12 x 12 inches by Rick Janson (Canada). A small study of an entrance to a shop on Buchanan Street in Glasgow. Originally the Venetian Gothic building was built for the stock exchange. #BlueskyArt #Glasgow #OilPainting #CanadianArt
Tonights quick sketch - a whippet. I’ve always loved the streamlined and elegant shape of these dogs and thought it would be a good muse for tonight’s sketch.
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“A Symphony of Clouds” oil, 36” x 48”. Available at Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Painting selections for a lazy Sunday afternoon. 1) Shimmering Sunset 2) Pancake in Transition 3) Day Fire at Whiskey Bay
All parts of memories of great summers on Lake Superior
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An outline of a bear with red stars above, backed by tin foil reflecting natural light in shades of white, grey and blue.
‘Starbear’, 7” x 5”, acrylic on waste plastic and tin foil.
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Just a quick #pastel sketch done yesterday with the #AlFrescoes :) It was so great to have a sunny day for our #artgroup. #CanadianArt #Womenpainters #Womenartists
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This is the late Inuit artist Davie Atchealak's ambitious, iconic Drum Dance, in stone, from 1989. #canadianart #inuitart #indigenous art
Sold 🔴 “Awake And Dreaming” 48x40” acrylic on canvas
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What is art history today? The topics covered at an art history conference in 2025 are telling. open.substack.com/pub/makingan...
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Sold 🔴. “Dark Study 1” 15x11 acrylic on paper.
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