Indoor Chameleon
acrylic on canvas
12 x 9 x 1.5 inches
2022

The forever elusive indoor chameleon in a world of blue. Featuring Picasso’s guitar player from his blue period, a Smurf and the universe’s very own blue marble, Planet Earth! A toddler in a blue striped onesie draws in the corner, the only hint of orange, red and yellow comes out of his hand, the only colours of hope. Completed during a rather blue period in my life with a lot of readjustment, including leaving old roots behind, switching cities and looking for a place of my family’s own, toppled with an ankle injury with a slow recovery, I am just coming out of it now with the prospect of settling in a new home and expecting a baby boy!

All four sides are painted and therefore painting does not require a frame. Complete with hangy wire it is ready for your enjoyment!

Which painting’s going to sell next you think? Place your bets! Maybe some Happy Birthday greeting cards? I got some ideas for more greeting cards, can’t wait to post them up soon. #surrealism #animals #inspirational #ebay

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Marabou Stork In Fur, 8 views 1 watcher

One of my most view posts on my blog. Henri Rousseau did not start painting until his early 40s which tells me there’s still time for me to start doing something entirely new and get really good at it. I would’t stop painting though, I really like painting. Im doing the details now. #paintinginprogress #surrealism #tigers

People don’t realize all the work that goes into the painting even before the paint hits the canvas. I usually draw and sketch things a few times over correcting and changing things along the way. Sometimes the more erasing you do, the better the idea gets 💡 #ayeaye #monkey #surrealism

Finding some process shots from some years ago. This painting ended up with a buyer from Japan! I have a few lizards and chameleons still, guess I like painting reptiles. I love painting scales, it’s tedious but also meditative. #lizard #inspirational #surrealism #magicrealism

I’ve had a client pay top dolla market price for a painting on condition I make my signature more visible, bottom right. She was a serious collector, the type to include her collections in museums. Besides that, I love embedding, almost hiding my signature in the image. People love looking for it, they think it’s clever. But it’s frustrating for new collectors who want to know who painted the piece to find more from the same artist. I very clearly also sign the back. #surrealism #canadagoose #artjournal

Before and after shots of my red flower room with an open door. Acrylic on canvas 20 x 16 inches, an older work painted in 2015. It went onto be the cover art of a Toronto based waltz and polka band @hypnosis.negative and even later, I used it as a base for a later painting. I love how art takes on new meaning in the world and even morphs into new ideas for more paintings!! #surrealism #art #flowers

Roti Island Long Necked Turtle In Turtle Neck

Who loves a good rainy day? This Roti Island Long Necked Turtle might. She likes moist environements, Monet paintings of lilies and keeps a collection of goldfish for pets. Check out those maniqured nails and did you find the hidden heart? Acrylic on canvas painting original 9 x 12 inches #turtle #cutepets #reptile #surrealism

This is me in my red beret from my childhood painting my family’s portrait in Chinese zodiac animals. The beret is how they say Artist in French and red was my favorite colour. There are 4 stethoscopes. 3 doctors, 1 nurse, and 1 medical receptionist. My family could open a medical clinic, which they did! For 3? 4? strong decades. and yet I have a sharp memory of losing my beloved beret when it fell down into the lower level of a shopping mall as I was looking down from an escalator. My mom swears we lost it by accident but I dont see why we didnt just go down and retreieve it. Or why it was never replaced? My mom felt bad enough to even buy me a replacement now in my adult life when I brought it up, she swears she misses it too. My theory is that someone, (maybe dad) nudged it off my head that day, hoping I would forget all about it and the art dream would just fall away with the beret, but I can’t proove it. My parents weren’t always supportive of me purusing art as a career, my dad still panics every time I sell a painting because he thinks I’m gonna off my day job, right then and there. I don’t blame their concern, the art money ebbs and flows and you don’t want to be on an empty stomach. I love them forever for their protection and they did support me financially until I could find a dayjob I could live with to support myself, but i still have conspiracies: What happened to my beloved red beret? Here I am looking cute at Christmas wearing it, art supplies please! #canadiandream #artist