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Painting: Dreaming Interrupted

Dreaming Interrupted Acrylic and Graphite on paper: 10.5″ x 13.875″ © deb davies thorkelson | february 2015 {for more of my artwork please look under the IMAGES […]

Painting: Garden of Feathers

This is a recently completed painting (or illustration or wallpaper or something). It took form as a loose, free-form pencil drawing on paper with large arcs and swoops… The only […]

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Painting: Mosaic Waves (finished)

The final version of my painting “Mosaic Waves”… Acrylic paint, pigmented inks, and oil pastel were used to build up layers of colour. Finally, the make-believe “grout” lines were scratched […]

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Painting: City Blocks #2

“City Blocks #2” © deb davies thorkelson Mixed Media on stretched canvas (acrylics, graphite, felt pen, white-out pen) 9″ x 12″ x 1.25″ Here is a link to City Blocks […]

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Painting: Mosaic Water (in progress)

Today I’m working on a painting that will resemble an old mosaic. It’s going to take a-w-h-i-l-e … These images are a detail area, the final size will be 15″ […]

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Painting: City Blocks #1

Here are some in-progress pics… This is part of a group of small paintings I was working on at the same time. Each of these had been part of old […]

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Painting: Changing Lanes

detail: Changing Lanes This continuation of exploring a theme of moving colour is mixed media (watercolour, acrylic, graphite) on D’arches watercolour paper size: approx. 11″ x 11″ © deb davies […]

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Painting: abstract apollo butterfly

I’m “upcycling” old, unfinished watercolour paintings by using the beautiful D’Arches paper as underpaintings for my current acrylic & mixed media work. To […]

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And then, I paint.

Doing a paint inventory; out with the old, in with the new! And then, I paint. A happy day. © deb davies thorkelson | images + words from bluerock

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Paintings + Poetry = a Collaboration

Thank you to a wonderful blogger who took a trip through my Painting Challenge series today and composed poetry in response to three of the pieces. Here are his words […]

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Painting Challenge #6: Shape

This is the final piece in the 7 Week Painting Challenge online course I’ve been taking. For more, start at #1 (To locate the entire series you can search this […]

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Painting Challenge #5: Abstraction of an Old Master

This week’s painting challenge was to create an abstract using […]

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Painting Challenge #4: Repetition + Rhythm

Painting Challenge #4 in a series. Theme: Repetition + Rhythm Artist Studied: Bridget Riley My Final Piece: “On The Wind” – a study in repetition + rhythmThis is challenge #4 […]

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Painting Challenge #3: Line – A Tribute to a Sculpture

This is the 3rd post in a series. You can […]

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Painting Challenge #2: Pictograph Tribute

Painting Challenge #2 I’m participating in a “7 Week Painting Challenge”, an online painting class with San Francisco artist Tesia Blackburn. This week’s challenge was to do a painting in […]

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Painting: Shoreline

This one is going to evolve one day… perhaps into a collage with elements that will add to its name of “Shoreline”. Detail: © deb davies thorkelson | November 2014 […]