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x 6&quot;'/><category term='live model'/><category term='gray hair'/><category term='portrait paintings'/><category term='female figurative'/><category term='model'/><category term='mixed media'/><category term='5 x 7'/><category term='acrylic animal painting'/><category term='redhead'/><category term='contemporary oil painting'/><title type='text'>Portrait Artists International</title><subtitle type='html'>Discover  Portrait Art as International artists post pencil portraits, charcoal portraits,portrait paintings,portraits in oil, watercolor portraits,pastel portraits,figurative art.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>dailypaintersint</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15946582927251639117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>160</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-6080741097183880246</id><published>2012-01-28T07:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T08:00:24.399-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kay crain oil portraits paintings little girl kids children'/><title type='text'>Madeline in Sunlight, by Kay Crain</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0UAkcv3WxMw/TyQbaB4OcvI/AAAAAAAAAVY/auQaKLGf80g/s1600/madelineinsunlight.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fA01HLo-fbM/TxmDwrFSV_I/AAAAAAAAAgI/thZ4nCGyyAc/s1600/Mother+and+Baby.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fA01HLo-fbM/TxmDwrFSV_I/AAAAAAAAAgI/thZ4nCGyyAc/s320/Mother+and+Baby.jpg" width="258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;16x20 oil Portrait on canvas &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;You amdy have seen this before, but I think now I'm finished. See more of my work on &lt;a href="http://www.patriciakness.com/"&gt;www.patriciakness.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings,Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-3546533672647551317?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/3546533672647551317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/mother-and-baby-by-patricia-kness.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3546533672647551317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3546533672647551317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/mother-and-baby-by-patricia-kness.html' title='Mother and Baby by Patricia Kness'/><author><name>Patricia Kness Fine Art Studio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12770264761315066366</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pcbTKRXYjb0/SMSoarMNU3I/AAAAAAAAAFg/BYU8dKO9Yfs/S220/My+Picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fA01HLo-fbM/TxmDwrFSV_I/AAAAAAAAAgI/thZ4nCGyyAc/s72-c/Mother+and+Baby.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-7807581192174964142</id><published>2012-01-05T08:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-05T08:25:32.874-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Portrait of Jessie by Patricia Kness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0sNwJgGrgi8/TwXOgma1a9I/AAAAAAAAAb8/y_as52j5i2U/s1600/Jessie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0sNwJgGrgi8/TwXOgma1a9I/AAAAAAAAAb8/y_as52j5i2U/s320/Jessie.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;16x20 oil portrait&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;NFS &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;to see more of my work visit &lt;a href="http://www.patriciakness.com/"&gt;www.patriciakness.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings,Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-7807581192174964142?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/7807581192174964142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/portrait-of-jessie-by-patricia-kness.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7807581192174964142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7807581192174964142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2012/01/portrait-of-jessie-by-patricia-kness.html' title='Portrait of Jessie by Patricia Kness'/><author><name>Patricia Kness Fine Art Studio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12770264761315066366</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pcbTKRXYjb0/SMSoarMNU3I/AAAAAAAAAFg/BYU8dKO9Yfs/S220/My+Picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0sNwJgGrgi8/TwXOgma1a9I/AAAAAAAAAb8/y_as52j5i2U/s72-c/Jessie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-3713190083412279786</id><published>2011-12-23T08:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-23T08:12:14.841-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Secrets by Nancy Rhodes Harper</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h4cTzbpn_hY/TvSoUASDP7I/AAAAAAAAGF8/dsngBg75Yys/s1600/DSCF0510%2Bcouple%2Bone%2Bday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="210" width="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h4cTzbpn_hY/TvSoUASDP7I/AAAAAAAAGF8/dsngBg75Yys/s320/DSCF0510%2Bcouple%2Bone%2Bday.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;So interested in Malcolm Liepke and Milt Kobayashi's work. Working on my own style but want my paintings to be graceful and flow. 9x12 oil ©2011 $400.00 plus S/H at Daily PaintWorks. Thanks for looking!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-3713190083412279786?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/3713190083412279786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/12/secrets-by-nancy-rhodes-harper.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3713190083412279786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3713190083412279786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/12/secrets-by-nancy-rhodes-harper.html' title='Secrets by Nancy Rhodes Harper'/><author><name>n. rhodes harper</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10567609303724970637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NiXN6V_Nqt4/TGLkso8ZtzI/AAAAAAAAFq4/LulTLZ8NHpY/S220/DSC00787.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h4cTzbpn_hY/TvSoUASDP7I/AAAAAAAAGF8/dsngBg75Yys/s72-c/DSCF0510%2Bcouple%2Bone%2Bday.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-7369844685657074428</id><published>2011-12-23T07:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-23T07:39:45.969-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Portrait Sketch by Patricia Kness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T8tbcINh564/TvSgADXjKwI/AAAAAAAAAa4/gBizRvBcINE/s1600/Portrait+sketch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T8tbcINh564/TvSgADXjKwI/AAAAAAAAAa4/gBizRvBcINE/s320/Portrait+sketch.jpg" width="244" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Three hour portrait sketch by Patricia Kness&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;16x20 oil For Sale $250.00&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;To see more of my work &lt;a href="http://www.patriciakness.com/"&gt;www.patriciakness.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;to purchase email &lt;a href="mailto:kness2pl@mchsi.com"&gt;kness2pl@mchsi.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;commissions available starting at $500.00&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings,Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-7369844685657074428?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/7369844685657074428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/12/portrait-sketch-by-patricia-kness.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7369844685657074428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7369844685657074428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/12/portrait-sketch-by-patricia-kness.html' title='Portrait Sketch by Patricia Kness'/><author><name>Patricia Kness Fine Art Studio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12770264761315066366</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pcbTKRXYjb0/SMSoarMNU3I/AAAAAAAAAFg/BYU8dKO9Yfs/S220/My+Picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T8tbcINh564/TvSgADXjKwI/AAAAAAAAAa4/gBizRvBcINE/s72-c/Portrait+sketch.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-546554321510697436</id><published>2011-12-12T10:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-12T10:52:56.349-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Portrai of lori Anderson by Patricia Kness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QDQGT1Sp-RM/TuZNDy77M_I/AAAAAAAAAaE/C0YfmGwsFzs/s1600/Lori+Aanderson+16x20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QDQGT1Sp-RM/TuZNDy77M_I/AAAAAAAAAaE/C0YfmGwsFzs/s320/Lori+Aanderson+16x20.jpg" width="217" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Oil Portrait from my project Faces of Savage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;16x12 NFS&amp;nbsp; copmmissions welcome. See more of my work on &lt;a href="http://www.patriciakness.com/"&gt;www.patriciakness.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings,Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-546554321510697436?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/546554321510697436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/12/portrai-of-lori-anderson-by-patricia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/546554321510697436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/546554321510697436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/12/portrai-of-lori-anderson-by-patricia.html' title='Portrai of lori Anderson by Patricia Kness'/><author><name>Patricia Kness Fine Art Studio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12770264761315066366</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pcbTKRXYjb0/SMSoarMNU3I/AAAAAAAAAFg/BYU8dKO9Yfs/S220/My+Picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QDQGT1Sp-RM/TuZNDy77M_I/AAAAAAAAAaE/C0YfmGwsFzs/s72-c/Lori+Aanderson+16x20.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2196387062875989194</id><published>2011-12-07T18:01:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-07T18:04:00.378-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Portrait of Adrian by Patricia Kness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ku3Gu4378rA/TuAac3L4LCI/AAAAAAAAAY8/4p7FH3CSUig/s1600/Adrian+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ku3Gu4378rA/TuAac3L4LCI/AAAAAAAAAY8/4p7FH3CSUig/s320/Adrian+%25282%2529.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Oil Portrait 16x20&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Part of my Faces of Savage Project&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;see more of my work on &lt;a href="http://www.patriciakness.com/"&gt;www.patriciakness.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2196387062875989194?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2196387062875989194/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/12/portrait-of-adrian-by-patricia-kness.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2196387062875989194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2196387062875989194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/12/portrait-of-adrian-by-patricia-kness.html' title='Portrait of Adrian by Patricia Kness'/><author><name>Patricia Kness Fine Art Studio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12770264761315066366</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pcbTKRXYjb0/SMSoarMNU3I/AAAAAAAAAFg/BYU8dKO9Yfs/S220/My+Picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ku3Gu4378rA/TuAac3L4LCI/AAAAAAAAAY8/4p7FH3CSUig/s72-c/Adrian+%25282%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2645517663047355340</id><published>2011-12-07T07:08:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-07T07:08:41.253-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Green Dress by Nancy Rhodes Harper</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings,Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;I am really into doing paintings of women in a dramatic style these days. This is a little quick study. 6x6 oil ©2011 Thanks for looking&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2645517663047355340?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2645517663047355340/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/12/green-dress-by-nancy-rhodes-harper.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2645517663047355340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2645517663047355340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/12/green-dress-by-nancy-rhodes-harper.html' title='Green Dress by Nancy Rhodes Harper'/><author><name>n. rhodes harper</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10567609303724970637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NiXN6V_Nqt4/TGLkso8ZtzI/AAAAAAAAFq4/LulTLZ8NHpY/S220/DSC00787.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-7125656098377205954</id><published>2011-12-06T05:19:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T05:25:29.787-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Portrait of Barry by Patricia Kness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jPIogFzHiUM/TsULnlcPa_I/AAAAAAAAAVM/PwlHIxzeQfs/s1600/P7210008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jPIogFzHiUM/TsULnlcPa_I/AAAAAAAAAVM/PwlHIxzeQfs/s320/P7210008.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Oil painting by Patricia Kness 16x20&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Part of the collection I'm doing called "Faces of Savage". &amp;nbsp;I've done about 40 painting of the people that live or work in my town of Savage MN.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Interested in a commission? &amp;nbsp;kness2pl@mchsi.com. &amp;nbsp;See more of my work on: www.patriciakness.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings,Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-7125656098377205954?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/7125656098377205954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/12/portrait-of-barry-by-patricia-kness.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7125656098377205954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7125656098377205954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/12/portrait-of-barry-by-patricia-kness.html' title='Portrait of Barry by Patricia Kness'/><author><name>Patricia Kness Fine Art Studio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12770264761315066366</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pcbTKRXYjb0/SMSoarMNU3I/AAAAAAAAAFg/BYU8dKO9Yfs/S220/My+Picture.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jPIogFzHiUM/TsULnlcPa_I/AAAAAAAAAVM/PwlHIxzeQfs/s72-c/P7210008.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-8495573998650652699</id><published>2011-11-20T09:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T07:49:52.458-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kay crain oil portraits paintings little girl kids children'/><title type='text'>Jane Laughing By Kay Crain</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s2zM9_YwkyU/Tsk603fNGXI/AAAAAAAAAU4/Dh5YLiedV9c/s1600/janelaughing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s2zM9_YwkyU/Tsk603fNGXI/AAAAAAAAAU4/Dh5YLiedV9c/s320/janelaughing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677133485199661426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;See my Blog "What's on My Easel"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;Jane Laughing&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;oil on board&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;8x8&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-8495573998650652699?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/8495573998650652699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/11/jane-laughing.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8495573998650652699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8495573998650652699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/11/jane-laughing.html' title='Jane Laughing By Kay Crain'/><author><name>kaycrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05401505554973687812</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yUEYHYbi4W8/ScxM2TZLh5I/AAAAAAAAAHw/KgqgAvME2ts/S220/maddiekay.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s2zM9_YwkyU/Tsk603fNGXI/AAAAAAAAAU4/Dh5YLiedV9c/s72-c/janelaughing.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-8926617690940044774</id><published>2011-11-13T08:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-13T08:21:45.180-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kay crain original oil paintings children portraits boy baby'/><title type='text'>"Nicholas"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Nicholas&lt;div&gt;oil on canvas&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;12x12&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-virzVndphZQ/Tr_uPhM3jjI/AAAAAAAAAUU/HgNivjopC8c/s1600/nicholas.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-virzVndphZQ/Tr_uPhM3jjI/AAAAAAAAAUU/HgNivjopC8c/s320/nicholas.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5674516005887905330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;See my Blog "What's on My Easel"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-8926617690940044774?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/8926617690940044774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/11/nicholas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8926617690940044774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8926617690940044774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/11/nicholas.html' title='&quot;Nicholas&quot;'/><author><name>kaycrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05401505554973687812</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yUEYHYbi4W8/ScxM2TZLh5I/AAAAAAAAAHw/KgqgAvME2ts/S220/maddiekay.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-virzVndphZQ/Tr_uPhM3jjI/AAAAAAAAAUU/HgNivjopC8c/s72-c/nicholas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-3849811724248480802</id><published>2011-11-01T20:06:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T20:08:14.290-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Resting Ballerina, Figurative Oil Painting by AZ Artist Amy Whitehouse</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EQROV2dBuj8/TrCzzhbmVXI/AAAAAAAABhE/2L1AXIq7eXg/s1600/Resting%2Bballerina%2B5x7%2BOil.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EQROV2dBuj8/TrCzzhbmVXI/AAAAAAAABhE/2L1AXIq7eXg/s400/Resting%2Bballerina%2B5x7%2BOil.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670229628588283250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;5"x7" Oil, $95&lt;br /&gt;To purchase this painting please contact Amy at &lt;a href="mailto:amy.whitehouse@me.com"&gt;amy.whitehouse@me.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To see more of Amy's artwork please visit &lt;a href="http://amywhitehousepaintings.blogspot.com"&gt;amywhitehousepaintings.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-3849811724248480802?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/3849811724248480802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/11/resting-ballerina-figurative-oil.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3849811724248480802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3849811724248480802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/11/resting-ballerina-figurative-oil.html' title='Resting Ballerina, Figurative Oil Painting by AZ Artist Amy Whitehouse'/><author><name>AMY H WHITEHOUSE</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17392623330102583354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wnXiGXmkx48/TFNUtMrrlFI/AAAAAAAAAOY/Ad0utJI-jdo/S220/Amy+with+landscape+ptg.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EQROV2dBuj8/TrCzzhbmVXI/AAAAAAAABhE/2L1AXIq7eXg/s72-c/Resting%2Bballerina%2B5x7%2BOil.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-1274542620092727184</id><published>2011-10-30T14:36:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T14:36:55.735-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol Nelson'/><title type='text'>How do YOU look at art?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Recently I was contacted by &lt;b&gt;Ute Kreplin&lt;/b&gt;, PhD candidate at &lt;b&gt;Liverpool&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;John Moores University&lt;/b&gt;  in the UK, about using one of my images for his online survey  researching how people look at, and react to seeing artistic images.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I  took the survey, which involves looking at images, and grading your  first response in several categories.&amp;nbsp; One of the images is a painting I  created - you might recognize it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will be interested  in the results of Ute's research.&amp;nbsp; Wouldn't it be great for an artist  to know what aspects of a painting appeal to the broadest range of  viewers?&amp;nbsp; This is especially valuable to beginning artists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of  course, every viewer has their own interpretation of what makes a good  painting.&amp;nbsp; I have found that my own appreciation of different artistic  styles has vastly expanded by studying art and art history.&lt;br /&gt;However, ultimately, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you participate in Ute's survey, you will have to &lt;b&gt;think&lt;/b&gt; about what you &lt;b&gt;feel&lt;/b&gt; when viewing the art and I think that alone is an important reason to take the survey.&amp;nbsp; Below is Ute's study:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre wrap=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Liverpool John Moores University Visual Aesthetic Interest Survey&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre wrap=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you want to take part in an online study?&lt;br /&gt;Are you aged over 18?&lt;br /&gt;Do you want to give subjective ratings towards contemporary artworks?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;pre wrap=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can complete the study in around 20 minutes. You will rate pictures for ‘interest’ and you can compare your most interesting picture to everybody else's most interesting picture.&lt;br /&gt;You can also win Amazon vouchers (UK site only).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To take part in this study and for further details go to&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://physiologicalcomputing.net/isurvey/"&gt;http://physiologicalcomputing.net/isurvey/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many Thanks&lt;br /&gt;Ute Kreplin, PhD student at Liverpool John Moores University, UK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-1274542620092727184?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/1274542620092727184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-do-you-look-at-art.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1274542620092727184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1274542620092727184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-do-you-look-at-art.html' title='How do YOU look at art?'/><author><name>Carol Nelson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01630012970904448514</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TKgVyRBP2kI/AAAAAAAADds/2UiiPt_DU74/S220/me_014.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-8816270313947846542</id><published>2011-09-27T00:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-27T00:00:12.661-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cathyann Burgess'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children&apos;s portraiture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil painting portraits'/><title type='text'>Child's Portraiture: Fair of Face by Cathyann Burgess</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gE_n4DEVSv8/ToDrcbHX4RI/AAAAAAAACcM/SQH78cgZcT0/s1600/%2528ella%2529fair+of+facewebcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="397" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gE_n4DEVSv8/ToDrcbHX4RI/AAAAAAAACcM/SQH78cgZcT0/s400/%2528ella%2529fair+of+facewebcopy.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fair of Face©2011 C.L.Burgess nfs 8x8 oil on Raymar linen panel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Well, it has been a while since I have posted a portrait. So, here is one that has been in the wings. I am accepting commissions for these small sizes. Thinking of the perfect gift? This might be it! &amp;nbsp;Holiday season approaching quickly..... get on the list before time runs out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;See my&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.cathyannstudio113.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for details.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-8816270313947846542?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/8816270313947846542/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/09/childs-portraiture-fair-of-face-by.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8816270313947846542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8816270313947846542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/09/childs-portraiture-fair-of-face-by.html' title='Child&apos;s Portraiture: Fair of Face by Cathyann Burgess'/><author><name>Cathyann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09373012796939248177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6oSRFvOCel0/TyGyahwkBAI/AAAAAAAACi0/XNWg-QR2QWM/s220/cathyann%2Bpromophoto.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gE_n4DEVSv8/ToDrcbHX4RI/AAAAAAAACcM/SQH78cgZcT0/s72-c/%2528ella%2529fair+of+facewebcopy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-7645312316222733167</id><published>2011-09-15T15:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-15T16:01:40.504-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kay crain original portrait painting oil children st. louis'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pqboxi9zSms/TnKDoldkO3I/AAAAAAAAAT4/hQN4_cuc0bE/s1600/dylandone.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 315px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pqboxi9zSms/TnKDoldkO3I/AAAAAAAAAT4/hQN4_cuc0bE/s320/dylandone.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5652725215577521010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dylan, Portrait of a little boy.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;oil on canvas&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;12x12&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;See my Blog "What's on My Easel"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-7645312316222733167?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/7645312316222733167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/09/dylan-portrait-of-little-boy.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7645312316222733167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7645312316222733167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/09/dylan-portrait-of-little-boy.html' title=''/><author><name>kaycrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05401505554973687812</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yUEYHYbi4W8/ScxM2TZLh5I/AAAAAAAAAHw/KgqgAvME2ts/S220/maddiekay.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pqboxi9zSms/TnKDoldkO3I/AAAAAAAAAT4/hQN4_cuc0bE/s72-c/dylandone.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-6293111571389823117</id><published>2011-08-24T15:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-24T15:11:08.525-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pamela Weisberg oil portraits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='little girl kids children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children&apos;s portraits'/><title type='text'>Girl Model - Oil Portrait by Pamela Weisberg</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FpRKZsJErt0/TlV2EJ3MtUI/AAAAAAAAARw/_7t5y-m08v4/s1600/portrait1285_dp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 262px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FpRKZsJErt0/TlV2EJ3MtUI/AAAAAAAAARw/_7t5y-m08v4/s320/portrait1285_dp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644547521717777730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Size 12 x 9", oil on museum quality canvas panel. To see more, please visit my &lt;a href="http://www.pamelaweisberg.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-6293111571389823117?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/6293111571389823117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/08/girl-model-oil-portrait-by-pamela.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6293111571389823117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6293111571389823117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/08/girl-model-oil-portrait-by-pamela.html' title='Girl Model - Oil Portrait by Pamela Weisberg'/><author><name>Pamela Weisberg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05479012048764844661</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EYnuIImnWRg/TbIjNQ6TOeI/AAAAAAAAANM/1VLVmXjxSJc/s220/pam.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FpRKZsJErt0/TlV2EJ3MtUI/AAAAAAAAARw/_7t5y-m08v4/s72-c/portrait1285_dp.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-1331765290229788814</id><published>2011-08-18T23:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-18T23:35:43.104-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Young Lady in a sun Hat</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PjdZfV87OiI/Tk4D-Y_LmFI/AAAAAAAAATw/S554l9-tkjA/s1600/ladyinsunhat.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PjdZfV87OiI/Tk4D-Y_LmFI/AAAAAAAAATw/S554l9-tkjA/s320/ladyinsunhat.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5642451753536034898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Oil on board&lt;div&gt;8x8&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;See my Blog "What's on My Easel"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-1331765290229788814?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/1331765290229788814/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/08/young-lady-in-sun-hat.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1331765290229788814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1331765290229788814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/08/young-lady-in-sun-hat.html' title='Young Lady in a sun Hat'/><author><name>kaycrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05401505554973687812</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yUEYHYbi4W8/ScxM2TZLh5I/AAAAAAAAAHw/KgqgAvME2ts/S220/maddiekay.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PjdZfV87OiI/Tk4D-Y_LmFI/AAAAAAAAATw/S554l9-tkjA/s72-c/ladyinsunhat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-6368835430696116046</id><published>2011-08-11T10:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-11T10:17:18.262-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kay crain oil portraits paintings little girl kids children'/><title type='text'>Avery in Sunlight</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5FefttwFBI/TkQOE-1qs9I/AAAAAAAAATg/oyFyeVBrCi4/s1600/averyinsunlight.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 313px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5FefttwFBI/TkQOE-1qs9I/AAAAAAAAATg/oyFyeVBrCi4/s320/averyinsunlight.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639648112125064146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Kay Crain Portrait commissions welcomed&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;See my Blog "What's on My Easel"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-6368835430696116046?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/6368835430696116046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/08/avery-in-sunlight.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6368835430696116046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6368835430696116046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/08/avery-in-sunlight.html' title='Avery in Sunlight'/><author><name>kaycrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05401505554973687812</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yUEYHYbi4W8/ScxM2TZLh5I/AAAAAAAAAHw/KgqgAvME2ts/S220/maddiekay.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5FefttwFBI/TkQOE-1qs9I/AAAAAAAAATg/oyFyeVBrCi4/s72-c/averyinsunlight.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2378746012307774789</id><published>2011-08-10T07:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-10T07:42:42.949-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='commissions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cathyann Burgess'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children&apos;s portraiture'/><title type='text'>A Child's Portrait in Graphite by Cathyann Burgess</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; 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border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(136, 136, 136); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.09375) 1px 1px 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Parker ©2011 C.L.Burgess 9x12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Recently I had the pleasure of delivering this portrait&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;to the Mom of this young boy. She was thrilled with it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;But the ultimate compliment came when she held it up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;to the boy and said "who is this?" and he gleefully&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;responded "that's Parker!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;I love satisfied clients.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;http://www.cathyannstudio113.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;http://www.cathyannburgess.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2378746012307774789?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2378746012307774789/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/08/childs-portrait-in-graphite.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2378746012307774789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2378746012307774789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/08/childs-portrait-in-graphite.html' title='A Child&apos;s Portrait in Graphite by Cathyann Burgess'/><author><name>Cathyann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09373012796939248177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6oSRFvOCel0/TyGyahwkBAI/AAAAAAAACi0/XNWg-QR2QWM/s220/cathyann%2Bpromophoto.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8vpJQVYqQAY/TkKSTzhQH2I/AAAAAAAACa0/LvuyNJsyEek/s72-c/Parker+Willis+2+8x10+graphite+emailcopy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-1120523497568794892</id><published>2011-08-09T07:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-09T07:50:30.679-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Portrait of Kristin and Madison</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cmgQmUQAIlc/TkFI7NRwOaI/AAAAAAAABE4/Z78r-WzQcUI/s1600/KRISTIN%2BAND%2BMADISON.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cmgQmUQAIlc/TkFI7NRwOaI/AAAAAAAABE4/Z78r-WzQcUI/s320/KRISTIN%2BAND%2BMADISON.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638868390458177954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Private Collection&lt;br /&gt;8" x 10" Oil on Canvas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I painted this portrait a year ago  from a composite of three photographs.   Last month Kristin and Madison came to Florida and I had the opportunity to meet this lovely  mother and adorable daughter in person!  Both are so beautiful and so charming!   Little Madison is Miss Personality Plus!   Kris is every artist’s&lt;br /&gt;ideal model!  What a joy meeting them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To see more portraits and other paintings, please visit my &lt;a href="http://rosemarysextonpaints.blogspot.com"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;   or email rosemary@franklyrose.com    &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-1120523497568794892?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/1120523497568794892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/08/portrait-of-kristin-and-madison.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1120523497568794892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1120523497568794892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/08/portrait-of-kristin-and-madison.html' title='Portrait of Kristin and Madison'/><author><name>Rosemary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03123711998908894938</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cfLWkOSyQMc/SbGIaQJGTmI/AAAAAAAAAAM/UGIY_BBgWww/S220/Rosemary+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cmgQmUQAIlc/TkFI7NRwOaI/AAAAAAAABE4/Z78r-WzQcUI/s72-c/KRISTIN%2BAND%2BMADISON.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2862847569419963239</id><published>2011-07-29T23:07:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-29T23:08:16.593-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dave at the Beach, Ocean View Painting by AZ Artist Amy Whitehouse</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x4MtV4tui2g/TjOfmwfLokI/AAAAAAAABEM/mrLMR5NkbGI/s1600/Dave%2B%2540%2BBeach%252C%2B9x12%252C%2Bacrylic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x4MtV4tui2g/TjOfmwfLokI/AAAAAAAABEM/mrLMR5NkbGI/s400/Dave%2B%2540%2BBeach%252C%2B9x12%252C%2Bacrylic.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635023046970155586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings,Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;9"x12" Acrylic on Canvas Panel&lt;br /&gt;Please visit my blog:  &lt;a href="http://amywhitehousepaintings.blogspot.com"&gt;amywhitehousepaintings.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2862847569419963239?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2862847569419963239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/07/dave-at-beach-ocean-view-painting-by-az.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2862847569419963239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2862847569419963239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/07/dave-at-beach-ocean-view-painting-by-az.html' title='Dave at the Beach, Ocean View Painting by AZ Artist Amy Whitehouse'/><author><name>AMY H WHITEHOUSE</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17392623330102583354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wnXiGXmkx48/TFNUtMrrlFI/AAAAAAAAAOY/Ad0utJI-jdo/S220/Amy+with+landscape+ptg.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x4MtV4tui2g/TjOfmwfLokI/AAAAAAAABEM/mrLMR5NkbGI/s72-c/Dave%2B%2540%2BBeach%252C%2B9x12%252C%2Bacrylic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-1204209939709998441</id><published>2011-07-29T23:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-29T23:06:05.750-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ballerina Reclining, Figurative Oil Painting by AZ Artist Amy Whitehouse</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O1IQ41cN268/TjOfRB2gwtI/AAAAAAAABEE/QfKW8NH7PKM/s1600/Ballerina%2BReclining%252C%2B5x7%252C%2BOil.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O1IQ41cN268/TjOfRB2gwtI/AAAAAAAABEE/QfKW8NH7PKM/s400/Ballerina%2BReclining%252C%2B5x7%252C%2BOil.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635022673674289874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings,Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;5"x7" Oil Painting on Canvas Panel, $58 for CHALLENGE 58&lt;br /&gt;Please visit my blog:  &lt;a href="http://amywhitehousepaintings.blogspot.com"&gt;amywhitehousepaintings.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To purchase this painting, contact Amy at &lt;a href="mailto:amy.whitehouse@me.com"&gt;amy.whitehouse@me.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-1204209939709998441?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/1204209939709998441/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/07/ballerina-reclining-figurative-oil.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1204209939709998441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1204209939709998441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/07/ballerina-reclining-figurative-oil.html' title='Ballerina Reclining, Figurative Oil Painting by AZ Artist Amy Whitehouse'/><author><name>AMY H WHITEHOUSE</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17392623330102583354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wnXiGXmkx48/TFNUtMrrlFI/AAAAAAAAAOY/Ad0utJI-jdo/S220/Amy+with+landscape+ptg.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O1IQ41cN268/TjOfRB2gwtI/AAAAAAAABEE/QfKW8NH7PKM/s72-c/Ballerina%2BReclining%252C%2B5x7%252C%2BOil.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-4272839183826761052</id><published>2011-07-29T07:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-29T07:45:14.048-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Figurative Friday: "In His Corner"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r7SRY07RiIk/TjLG0SOvV3I/AAAAAAAACaw/bOhvvQhG6lA/s1600/In+his+corner10+x+10olwebcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r7SRY07RiIk/TjLG0SOvV3I/AAAAAAAACaw/bOhvvQhG6lA/s320/In+his+corner10+x+10olwebcopy.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;In His Corner©2011 C.L.Burgess 10 x 10 oil on linen &amp;nbsp;private collection&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;In his corner all is well. A man content with his small piece of paradise, on the banks of a mighty river, quietly gazes at the early morning traffic on the shipping channel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Life is good.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Ideas for portrait/figures come at the most ordinary moments that somehow reveal the profound yet commonplace. I visit with Bill, my brother in law, and his family each summer in upstate NY and for years this image has etched its way into my painterly database. I asked his permission to take his photo while we both sat with our cups of coffee just enjoying the early peaceful morning together on his porch. He was generous enough, knowing that I wanted him for a portrait study and humored me when I abruptly said"...wait wait...please hold still, this is a painter's moment. Let me get the camera!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;I often wonder if similar moments took place in the lives of my favorite painters Sorolla, Vermeer, Sargent and Zorn. Except for &amp;nbsp;the camera, of course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;For information and more portraiture:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;http://www.cathyannstudio113.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-4272839183826761052?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/4272839183826761052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/07/figurative-friday-in-his-corner.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4272839183826761052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4272839183826761052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/07/figurative-friday-in-his-corner.html' title='Figurative Friday: &quot;In His Corner&quot;'/><author><name>Cathyann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09373012796939248177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6oSRFvOCel0/TyGyahwkBAI/AAAAAAAACi0/XNWg-QR2QWM/s220/cathyann%2Bpromophoto.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r7SRY07RiIk/TjLG0SOvV3I/AAAAAAAACaw/bOhvvQhG6lA/s72-c/In+his+corner10+x+10olwebcopy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-1793580868119300617</id><published>2011-07-16T11:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-16T11:37:58.054-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cathyann Burgess'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portraits in oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='orange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='realism'/><title type='text'>The Tangerine Shirt -Portrait of a Young Woman by Cathyann Burgess</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jRmqbSzQ5O0/TiHZgj9ZtqI/AAAAAAAACZE/4STLDAVch4I/s1600/Tangerine+shirt-portrait+of+momakai+webcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jRmqbSzQ5O0/TiHZgj9ZtqI/AAAAAAAACZE/4STLDAVch4I/s400/Tangerine+shirt-portrait+of+momakai+webcopy.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The Tangerine Shirt©C.L.Burgess 20 x 16 oil on linen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;to see more portraits&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;http://www.cathyannstudio113.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-1793580868119300617?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/1793580868119300617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/07/tangerine-shirt-portrait-of-young-woman.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1793580868119300617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1793580868119300617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/07/tangerine-shirt-portrait-of-young-woman.html' title='The Tangerine Shirt -Portrait of a Young Woman by Cathyann Burgess'/><author><name>Cathyann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09373012796939248177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6oSRFvOCel0/TyGyahwkBAI/AAAAAAAACi0/XNWg-QR2QWM/s220/cathyann%2Bpromophoto.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jRmqbSzQ5O0/TiHZgj9ZtqI/AAAAAAAACZE/4STLDAVch4I/s72-c/Tangerine+shirt-portrait+of+momakai+webcopy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-789817002383925889</id><published>2011-06-20T10:54:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-20T10:58:36.117-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kay crain oil portraits paintings little girl kids children'/><title type='text'>Portrait Commission -Two Girls</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gs_D82hzmrw/Tf-Jh4stGsI/AAAAAAAAASI/2qkMOcpkJcU/s1600/cathycousinswithpic.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 316px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0B-vlkrMLWE/TfUC9Tfhn6I/AAAAAAAAASA/2u_Y8Jp8_HI/s320/littlegirlsunlight.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617399362442338210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;oil on board&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;8x8&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;See my Blog "What's on My Easel"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-6268749423643307712?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/6268749423643307712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/06/little-girl-in-sunlight.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6268749423643307712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6268749423643307712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/06/little-girl-in-sunlight.html' title='little girl in sunlight'/><author><name>kaycrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05401505554973687812</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yUEYHYbi4W8/ScxM2TZLh5I/AAAAAAAAAHw/KgqgAvME2ts/S220/maddiekay.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0B-vlkrMLWE/TfUC9Tfhn6I/AAAAAAAAASA/2u_Y8Jp8_HI/s72-c/littlegirlsunlight.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-492774033503510555</id><published>2011-06-12T00:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-12T00:00:08.460-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='child portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cathyann Burgess'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='original oil painting'/><title type='text'>Pretty in Pink by Cathyann Burgess</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xBAMLzceRj4/TfQQy-NKlGI/AAAAAAAACW4/YEbkgVtSeVg/s1600/ella+pretty+in+pink+webcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xBAMLzceRj4/TfQQy-NKlGI/AAAAAAAACW4/YEbkgVtSeVg/s400/ella+pretty+in+pink+webcopy.jpg" width="303" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Pretty in Pink©C.L.Burgess &amp;nbsp;8x6 oil on paper&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I used water based oils on paper for this small alla prima portrait.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;see more work at my website:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;http://www.cathyannstudio113.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-492774033503510555?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/492774033503510555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/06/pretty-in-pink-by-cathyann-burgess.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/492774033503510555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/492774033503510555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/06/pretty-in-pink-by-cathyann-burgess.html' title='Pretty in Pink by Cathyann Burgess'/><author><name>Cathyann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09373012796939248177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6oSRFvOCel0/TyGyahwkBAI/AAAAAAAACi0/XNWg-QR2QWM/s220/cathyann%2Bpromophoto.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xBAMLzceRj4/TfQQy-NKlGI/AAAAAAAACW4/YEbkgVtSeVg/s72-c/ella+pretty+in+pink+webcopy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-342522602964596444</id><published>2011-06-07T21:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-07T22:25:19.266-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kay crain portrait oil mother child'/><title type='text'>Portrait of Thomas and Cait</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ls0lTcbjZng/Te7_wW19FtI/AAAAAAAAARg/V7sxTES6quE/s1600/thomasandcait.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 303px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qeX6YYCvf30/Te79x6iomxI/AAAAAAAAARY/Q3NcRCrASSo/s320/tarajoshbeachaac2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615704819347528466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;See my Blog "What's on My Easel"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-6463372675604294923?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/6463372675604294923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/06/at-beach.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6463372675604294923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6463372675604294923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/06/at-beach.html' title='AT the Beach'/><author><name>kaycrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05401505554973687812</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yUEYHYbi4W8/ScxM2TZLh5I/AAAAAAAAAHw/KgqgAvME2ts/S220/maddiekay.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qeX6YYCvf30/Te79x6iomxI/AAAAAAAAARY/Q3NcRCrASSo/s72-c/tarajoshbeachaac2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-352282182829429710</id><published>2011-06-07T21:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-07T21:40:58.593-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kay crain oil portrait painting'/><title type='text'>Portrait of Sandra</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YUXs9n8gZzc/Te79Fk6FxaI/AAAAAAAAARQ/fXK9nW44MM8/s1600/sandracrowedone.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YUXs9n8gZzc/Te79Fk6FxaI/AAAAAAAAARQ/fXK9nW44MM8/s320/sandracrowedone.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615704057626084770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.me.com/kaycrain/site/Blog/Blog.html" target="kay"&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #565656"&gt;See my Blog "What's on My Easel"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-352282182829429710?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/352282182829429710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/06/portrait-of-sandra.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/352282182829429710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/352282182829429710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/06/portrait-of-sandra.html' title='Portrait of Sandra'/><author><name>kaycrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05401505554973687812</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yUEYHYbi4W8/ScxM2TZLh5I/AAAAAAAAAHw/KgqgAvME2ts/S220/maddiekay.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YUXs9n8gZzc/Te79Fk6FxaI/AAAAAAAAARQ/fXK9nW44MM8/s72-c/sandracrowedone.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-8658578684653349029</id><published>2011-05-22T08:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-22T09:40:13.028-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil portraits from photographs kay crain missouri artist'/><title type='text'>"Derby Day" Portrait Commission</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G1hKoC5spSc/TdkxziWMvQI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/6gfhUdrDOmE/s1600/derbydaywc.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: center;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 242px; " src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G1hKoC5spSc/TdkxziWMvQI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/6gfhUdrDOmE/s320/derbydaywc.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609569572329667842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;                       Commissioned Oil Painting by Portrait Artist Kay Crain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Oil on Board&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;12x16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kaycrain.com/"&gt;Kay Crain's Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Email me at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="line-height: 19px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"&gt;&lt;a title="mailto:kaycrain@mac.com" href="mailto:kaycrain@mac.com" style="text-decoration: none; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CC0000;"&gt;kaycrain@mac.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-8658578684653349029?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/8658578684653349029/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/derby-day-portrait-commission.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8658578684653349029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8658578684653349029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/derby-day-portrait-commission.html' title='&quot;Derby Day&quot; Portrait Commission'/><author><name>kaycrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05401505554973687812</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yUEYHYbi4W8/ScxM2TZLh5I/AAAAAAAAAHw/KgqgAvME2ts/S220/maddiekay.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G1hKoC5spSc/TdkxziWMvQI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/6gfhUdrDOmE/s72-c/derbydaywc.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-1721971966661744385</id><published>2011-05-11T14:18:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-22T09:11:31.328-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kay crain original oil paintings children portraits cat baby'/><title type='text'>"What's up, Kitty cat?"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BVNaFHeg8Tc/Tcr9TQI1I6I/AAAAAAAAAQ0/On_BmgUHoTA/s1600/what%2527supkittycatwc.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 255px; " src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BVNaFHeg8Tc/Tcr9TQI1I6I/AAAAAAAAAQ0/On_BmgUHoTA/s320/what%2527supkittycatwc.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605571193407349666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Oil portraits from photos. If St. Louis area will do my own photo shoot.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;See my web page at   &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kaycrain.com/"&gt;www.kaycrain.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Email me at    KayCrain@mac.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:courier;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="line-height: 20px; font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-1721971966661744385?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/1721971966661744385/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/whats-up-kitty-cat.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1721971966661744385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1721971966661744385'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/whats-up-kitty-cat.html' title='&quot;What&apos;s up, Kitty cat?&quot;'/><author><name>kaycrain</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05401505554973687812</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yUEYHYbi4W8/ScxM2TZLh5I/AAAAAAAAAHw/KgqgAvME2ts/S220/maddiekay.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BVNaFHeg8Tc/Tcr9TQI1I6I/AAAAAAAAAQ0/On_BmgUHoTA/s72-c/what%2527supkittycatwc.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-4251592168180216395</id><published>2011-05-09T06:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-09T06:00:03.057-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Richmond Va'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil portraits'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cathyann Burgess'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portrait artist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='realism'/><title type='text'>Young Woman's Portrait by Cathyann Burgess</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YM6sp3WUacg/TcMIGz_cpoI/AAAAAAAACU4/RByMdvLM_v4/s1600/Another+side+of+Emily+webCopy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YM6sp3WUacg/TcMIGz_cpoI/AAAAAAAACU4/RByMdvLM_v4/s400/Another+side+of+Emily+webCopy.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;Another Side of Emily©2011 C.L. Burgess &amp;nbsp;20 x 16 oil on linen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;I love painting people from life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know it has been a week since I posted. I have been painting...big things and little things.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;But I also have been out playing in the dirt again, this time to remove invasive vinca vine that has been strangling everything else in my little garden. I am in desperate need of those guys in HGTV's Curb Appeal. Really. I am way too old for the bend and stoop thing anymore. I had to rub down with asper creme and have a stiff drink and retire before nine after working in the yard yesterday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joan, my blogger friend in Long Island, said it looks like I paint with ease yesterday, on her comments to my grandson's portrait. I gotta say painting for me at this point in life is much easier than gardening, which I also love. But it is not easy really...just passion and repetition and an intense desire to learn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;This is Emily again. The third time she has ever sat for us. She is amazing. Never tires or falls asleep, which I have seen happen ( have you?).&lt;br /&gt;I began her in group, live, for four hours and then completed her after another four.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People are my favorite subject to paint..did I repeat myself?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 293px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TX2kq4OLIMc/TboEpnd-WbI/AAAAAAAAB1A/IGWtetdlHas/s400/04-2011WistfulRosie-w.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600794199604484530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wistful Rosie&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;5 in. x 7 in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;oil on primed matboard&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;$45 + Free U.S. shipping&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And it's never too long before a face paints itself through me.  I'll be back to the still life paintings again, tomorrow, now that Rosie has made her appearance.  : ) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-----------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;To purchase and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-4044045632423800886?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/4044045632423800886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/wistful-rosie-figurative-oil-painting.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4044045632423800886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4044045632423800886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/wistful-rosie-figurative-oil-painting.html' title='Wistful Rosie- a figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TX2kq4OLIMc/TboEpnd-WbI/AAAAAAAAB1A/IGWtetdlHas/s72-c/04-2011WistfulRosie-w.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-6068205195753336241</id><published>2011-05-05T19:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-05T19:04:14.671-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol Nelson'/><title type='text'>"LADY G" 11034, daily painter original textured portrait collage © Carol Nelson Fine Art</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NZeNnbBgJQA/TcNQRQMT-GI/AAAAAAAAD7s/F5ZyJA6Rl2Y/s1600/Lady+G_004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NZeNnbBgJQA/TcNQRQMT-GI/AAAAAAAAD7s/F5ZyJA6Rl2Y/s320/Lady+G_004.jpg" width="251" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;"LADY G"&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I named this painting LADY G after &lt;b&gt;Lady Gaga&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp; It doesn't really look like her, but the flamboyant hair and outfit looks just like something you would see Lady Gaga wearing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The painting has the everything plus the kitchen sink.&amp;nbsp; Many different mediums, including gel "skins" for the facial features, and lots of texture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This painting will replace the one I brought to&lt;b&gt; Brushstrokes Gallery&lt;/b&gt; in Denver for the &lt;b&gt;Artists of Colorado&lt;/b&gt; Show.&amp;nbsp; The original painting, Canyon Colors, sold before the show opened.&amp;nbsp; Woo-hoo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information on this painting, please click&lt;a href="http://caroldnelson.fineartstudioonline.com/works/632177/lady-g-11034"&gt; here&lt;/a&gt; to go to my website.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-6068205195753336241?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/6068205195753336241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/lady-g-11034-daily-painter-original.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6068205195753336241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6068205195753336241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/lady-g-11034-daily-painter-original.html' title='&quot;LADY G&quot; 11034, daily painter original textured portrait collage &amp;copy; Carol Nelson Fine Art'/><author><name>Carol Nelson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01630012970904448514</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TKgVyRBP2kI/AAAAAAAADds/2UiiPt_DU74/S220/me_014.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NZeNnbBgJQA/TcNQRQMT-GI/AAAAAAAAD7s/F5ZyJA6Rl2Y/s72-c/Lady+G_004.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-9114053034575190227</id><published>2011-05-03T04:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-03T04:57:00.214-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oil Painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='modigliani'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='my take'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='copy the masters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman in black tie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='original art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ode to'/><title type='text'>My Take on Modigliani's Woman in Black Tie - figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EwDJbI_FAfQ/Tbn_Zsr-scI/AAAAAAAAB0o/lPq_dZhZF0o/s1600/04-2011Modi-WomaninBlackTie.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 285px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EwDJbI_FAfQ/Tbn_Zsr-scI/AAAAAAAAB0o/lPq_dZhZF0o/s400/04-2011Modi-WomaninBlackTie.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600788428569358786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;My Take on Modigliani's Woman in Black Tie&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;5 in. x 7 in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;oil on primed matboard&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;$45 + Free U.S. shipping&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I adore, I worship, I fall at the feet of Modigiliani.  And the day I painted this was just to get close to him.  : )&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;To purchase and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-9114053034575190227?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/9114053034575190227/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-take-on-modiglianis-woman-in-black.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/9114053034575190227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/9114053034575190227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-take-on-modiglianis-woman-in-black.html' title='My Take on Modigliani&apos;s Woman in Black Tie - figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EwDJbI_FAfQ/Tbn_Zsr-scI/AAAAAAAAB0o/lPq_dZhZF0o/s72-c/04-2011Modi-WomaninBlackTie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-7664166333301991346</id><published>2011-05-02T04:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-02T04:47:00.238-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman&apos;s face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='determined'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary oil painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portrait painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='redhead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='undaunted'/><title type='text'>Looking Ahead Undaunted - a figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MZyGkAp4DoE/Tbn9JI40z_I/AAAAAAAAB0g/xgCOK_Mg4n8/s1600/04-2011LookingAhead-w.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MZyGkAp4DoE/Tbn9JI40z_I/AAAAAAAAB0g/xgCOK_Mg4n8/s400/04-2011LookingAhead-w.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600785945058398194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Looking Ahead Undaunted&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "&gt;5 in. x 7 in.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;oil on primed matboard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;$55 + Free U.S. shipping&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Another redhead.....determined, intense, and nothing is going to hold her back. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;----------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;To purchase and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-7664166333301991346?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/7664166333301991346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/looking-ahead-undaunted-figurative-oil.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7664166333301991346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7664166333301991346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/looking-ahead-undaunted-figurative-oil.html' title='Looking Ahead Undaunted - a figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MZyGkAp4DoE/Tbn9JI40z_I/AAAAAAAAB0g/xgCOK_Mg4n8/s72-c/04-2011LookingAhead-w.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-353009670997724472</id><published>2011-05-01T20:59:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-01T20:59:35.189-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol Nelson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='self portrait'/><title type='text'>"CAROL 2011" - daily painter original self portrait © Carol Nelson Fine Art</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ovhlO78CkYE/Tb4jh5XvQeI/AAAAAAAAD64/z4fvMRp2RTE/s200/me_013c.jpg" width="146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took this picture of myself holding the camera at arm's length.&amp;nbsp; The Daily Paintworks challenge this week is to paint a quirky, unusual self portrait.&amp;nbsp; I wanted to do one that was off center, cropped and very colorful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I cropped it too close on the right side by cutting my eyeball in half.&amp;nbsp; Oh well, it is what it is.&amp;nbsp; I suppose some day when I'm gone, my kids will think this is great.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My husband said I took off 20 years - NOT TRUE!&amp;nbsp; I have a pair of cool glasses.&amp;nbsp; They are rimless, but are difficult to paint.&amp;nbsp; They're there and yet,not there.&amp;nbsp; I ran into those a couple times last year during my 100 portrait project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also think I used too much purple (can there be such a thing?) but I didn't want to redo the whole area around my eyes.&amp;nbsp; The lenses in my glasses are actually purple on the EDGE, and that doesn't show well in the photo.&amp;nbsp; They have to be viewed from just the right angle to see the purple edging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was a fun challenge.&amp;nbsp; See &lt;a href="http://dailypaintworks.com/"&gt;dailypaintworks.com&lt;/a&gt; for more self portraits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-353009670997724472?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/353009670997724472/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/carol-2011-daily-painter-original-self.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/353009670997724472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/353009670997724472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/05/carol-2011-daily-painter-original-self.html' title='&quot;CAROL 2011&quot; - daily painter original self portrait &amp;copy; Carol Nelson Fine Art'/><author><name>Carol Nelson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01630012970904448514</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TKgVyRBP2kI/AAAAAAAADds/2UiiPt_DU74/S220/me_014.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-imj_-B_FtzY/Tb4jhCNNTuI/AAAAAAAAD60/q--eqSJTUgg/s72-c/Carol+2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-6095823851961237758</id><published>2011-04-25T14:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-28T10:24:13.323-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative oil painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='child portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cathyann Burgess'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='childs face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portrait commissions'/><title type='text'>A Child's Portrait in oil : "Pensive" by Cathyann Burgess</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; 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&lt;a href="http://www.cathyannstudio113.com/"&gt;http://www.cathyannstudio113.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Most of the time I prefer to work from life but with children,&lt;br /&gt;a &amp;nbsp;photo will do.&lt;br /&gt;It is also possible to get really wonderful candids to work from,&lt;br /&gt;since kids can be very wary of the invasive camera when asked to "sit".&lt;br /&gt;I created this oil painting from a photo that I used&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;for a watercolor study last year.&lt;br /&gt;See left. It took a year of looking and&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;more practice with color and children's faces to get to this stage.&lt;br /&gt;This little piece took way longer than I would invest in an alla prima&lt;br /&gt;but the subtlety required it and the layers of glazing as well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aQivOpT0sxM/TbmJ4fMhyNI/AAAAAAAACUo/-FGZhUmHAng/s1600/delicious+wtclr+sketch+web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aQivOpT0sxM/TbmJ4fMhyNI/AAAAAAAACUo/-FGZhUmHAng/s200/delicious+wtclr+sketch+web.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.09375) 1px 1px 5px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #888888; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; 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by Cathyann Burgess'/><author><name>Cathyann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09373012796939248177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6oSRFvOCel0/TyGyahwkBAI/AAAAAAAACi0/XNWg-QR2QWM/s220/cathyann%2Bpromophoto.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g8Rb97qV_IM/TbmHKLeJpPI/AAAAAAAACUk/_LWLg6X152o/s72-c/Pensive+Cole+wecopy411o%253Al8x6.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2475982792536682997</id><published>2011-04-17T14:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-17T14:55:05.630-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative oil painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cathyann Burgess'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portrait artist'/><title type='text'>Portrait of a Woman by Cathyann Burgess</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o-8iD_-n9i0/TathDZbeDeI/AAAAAAAACT8/-a-86o2ju7M/s1600/Maybe+Later+cfai+copy+web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="255" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o-8iD_-n9i0/TathDZbeDeI/AAAAAAAACT8/-a-86o2ju7M/s320/Maybe+Later+cfai+copy+web.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Maybe Later?©2010C.L.Burgess oil on linen 10 x 12&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;http://www.cathyannstudio113.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;http://www.cathyannburgess.blogspot.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2475982792536682997?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2475982792536682997/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/04/portrait-of-woman-by-cathyann-burgess.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2475982792536682997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2475982792536682997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/04/portrait-of-woman-by-cathyann-burgess.html' title='Portrait of a Woman by Cathyann Burgess'/><author><name>Cathyann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09373012796939248177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6oSRFvOCel0/TyGyahwkBAI/AAAAAAAACi0/XNWg-QR2QWM/s220/cathyann%2Bpromophoto.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o-8iD_-n9i0/TathDZbeDeI/AAAAAAAACT8/-a-86o2ju7M/s72-c/Maybe+Later+cfai+copy+web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-6502183263850899370</id><published>2011-04-11T07:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-11T07:44:34.470-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='child portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cathyann Burgess'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary oil painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portrait artist'/><title type='text'>A Child's Pose: oil portrait by Cathyann Burgess</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; 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&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0lumrbCcOzY/TZ8VXm-Nu4I/AAAAAAAACTk/B1RmX36lUxA/s1600/morgan%2527s+hair+webcopy4811.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0lumrbCcOzY/TZ8VXm-Nu4I/AAAAAAAACTk/B1RmX36lUxA/s320/morgan%2527s+hair+webcopy4811.jpg" width="249" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Morgan's Hair©2011C.L.Burgess&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I love painting from life. Morgan is a regular model I use,(She never looks the same twice!)&amp;nbsp;but this time her hair was the most prominent feature. It is very dark and was illuminated very slightly, mostly again by reflections bouncing off of her shirt.&amp;nbsp;I had a view of her that was almost a profile.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This is one of those times that I search out, study and admire Velasquez and Sargent for....bringing form with minimum information out of a dark passage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;I only had a little more than three hours of the live sitting to get enough info to work towards finish at home. I did not have a camera...so I had to rely on memory this time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;You can see more of my portraiture work at my website:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;http://www.cathyannstudio113.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-7062235824714523907?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/7062235824714523907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/04/portrait-of-young-woman-by-cathyann.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7062235824714523907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7062235824714523907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/04/portrait-of-young-woman-by-cathyann.html' title='Portrait of a Young Woman by Cathyann Burgess'/><author><name>Cathyann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09373012796939248177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6oSRFvOCel0/TyGyahwkBAI/AAAAAAAACi0/XNWg-QR2QWM/s220/cathyann%2Bpromophoto.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0lumrbCcOzY/TZ8VXm-Nu4I/AAAAAAAACTk/B1RmX36lUxA/s72-c/morgan%2527s+hair+webcopy4811.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-4648471078444961277</id><published>2011-04-07T06:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T06:29:17.898-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Jeff"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-haTEL3ntAD8/TZ27lesPPtI/AAAAAAAAATU/hzpmMJg8jnU/s1600/jeff.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-haTEL3ntAD8/TZ27lesPPtI/AAAAAAAAATU/hzpmMJg8jnU/s400/jeff.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592832564832190162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This young man was killed in Afghanistan several years ago.  A good friend of his father asked me to paint this for him.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-4648471078444961277?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/4648471078444961277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/04/jeff.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4648471078444961277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4648471078444961277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/04/jeff.html' title='&quot;Jeff&quot;'/><author><name>Rose Dobbins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15551862202345392210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_PqX0ImcEDq4/SCTcWb646GI/AAAAAAAAAAM/SbEpsjcJyfw/S220/rose+photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-haTEL3ntAD8/TZ27lesPPtI/AAAAAAAAATU/hzpmMJg8jnU/s72-c/jeff.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2145998192129704466</id><published>2011-04-04T22:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-04T22:19:51.125-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol Nelson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dog portrait'/><title type='text'>"ROSCOE" 11023, daily painter dog portrait © Carol Nelson Fine Art</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-042VPvlZEvw/TZqeRMonXsI/AAAAAAAAD4M/mNeLsU6Wo-g/s1600/Roscoe+11023_002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-042VPvlZEvw/TZqeRMonXsI/AAAAAAAAD4M/mNeLsU6Wo-g/s320/Roscoe+11023_002.jpg" width="317" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;"ROSCOE"&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a commissioned pet portrait.&amp;nbsp; Roscoe looks like a happy guy.&amp;nbsp; I had a good reference photo to work from with strong light and shadow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember my portrait project from a year ago where I painted 100 portraits from photos I received by email.&amp;nbsp; I had to stress over and over the importance of taking a photo with strong light coming from one side so there would be shadows across the face.&amp;nbsp; I actually told people to go outside at dawn or sunset and take a picture with the sun lighting only one side of the face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's one of the reasons many professional portraits are boring.&amp;nbsp; Flash, flash, flash.&amp;nbsp; No shadows on the face.&amp;nbsp; There is no reason to light up the entire face as if it were a mug shot or an object in an advertisement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2145998192129704466?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2145998192129704466/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/04/roscoe-11023-daily-painter-dog-portrait.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2145998192129704466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2145998192129704466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/04/roscoe-11023-daily-painter-dog-portrait.html' title='&quot;ROSCOE&quot; 11023, daily painter dog portrait &amp;copy; Carol Nelson Fine Art'/><author><name>Carol Nelson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01630012970904448514</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TKgVyRBP2kI/AAAAAAAADds/2UiiPt_DU74/S220/me_014.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-042VPvlZEvw/TZqeRMonXsI/AAAAAAAAD4M/mNeLsU6Wo-g/s72-c/Roscoe+11023_002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-8902011372097439562</id><published>2011-04-01T07:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-01T07:17:18.019-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oil Painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Richmond Va'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='male portrait. african american'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cathyann Burgess'/><title type='text'>Male Portrait Vignette by Cathyann Burgess</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oxadxTJ3NR0/TZXcjnTIRPI/AAAAAAAACTI/eOf15fHnXEw/s1600/Lamont+portrait+sketch+cfaiwebcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oxadxTJ3NR0/TZXcjnTIRPI/AAAAAAAACTI/eOf15fHnXEw/s320/Lamont+portrait+sketch+cfaiwebcopy.jpg" width="260" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Lamont@2010 C.L.Burgess&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;oil on canvas 20 x 16&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The human character revealed through my paintbrush is what keeps me ever engaged with this subject matter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;See more images, prices and porcedures at my website.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;http://www.cathyannstudio113.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;http://www.cathyannburgess.blogspot.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-8902011372097439562?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/8902011372097439562/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/04/male-portrait-vignette-by-cathyann.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8902011372097439562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8902011372097439562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/04/male-portrait-vignette-by-cathyann.html' title='Male Portrait Vignette by Cathyann Burgess'/><author><name>Cathyann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09373012796939248177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6oSRFvOCel0/TyGyahwkBAI/AAAAAAAACi0/XNWg-QR2QWM/s220/cathyann%2Bpromophoto.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oxadxTJ3NR0/TZXcjnTIRPI/AAAAAAAACTI/eOf15fHnXEw/s72-c/Lamont+portrait+sketch+cfaiwebcopy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-3791572243534745279</id><published>2011-03-30T18:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-30T18:41:02.418-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Laura 1947</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M8m9cokJTjo/TZPa9mtm1QI/AAAAAAAAATM/mA5c2Cj3hpE/s1600/Img_0063.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M8m9cokJTjo/TZPa9mtm1QI/AAAAAAAAATM/mA5c2Cj3hpE/s400/Img_0063.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590052314395628802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Laura"  11 x 14 oil portrait of my mother.  This was her 1947 high school graduation photo which was originally in black and white.  I painted it for her the year before she died.  Please inquire to Rose Dobbins for commission information, 304-647-4104.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-3791572243534745279?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/3791572243534745279/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/laura-1947.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3791572243534745279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3791572243534745279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/laura-1947.html' title='Laura 1947'/><author><name>Rose Dobbins</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15551862202345392210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_PqX0ImcEDq4/SCTcWb646GI/AAAAAAAAAAM/SbEpsjcJyfw/S220/rose+photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M8m9cokJTjo/TZPa9mtm1QI/AAAAAAAAATM/mA5c2Cj3hpE/s72-c/Img_0063.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2034947995098858228</id><published>2011-03-24T20:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-24T20:24:28.910-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol Nelson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portraits'/><title type='text'>"DORI" daily painter original oil portrait © Carol Nelson Fine Art</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-bWgswQi8Jnk/TYwEIu4SACI/AAAAAAAAD1w/KzjatFCwTKg/s1600/Dori.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-bWgswQi8Jnk/TYwEIu4SACI/AAAAAAAAD1w/KzjatFCwTKg/s320/Dori.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;"DORI"&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AUgnc5v39Hg/TYwENK2qimI/AAAAAAAAD10/fWhfvGH9a0I/s1600/doridewberry2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AUgnc5v39Hg/TYwENK2qimI/AAAAAAAAD10/fWhfvGH9a0I/s1600/doridewberry2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This portrait is of artist &lt;a href="http://dewberryfineart.blogspot.com/"&gt;Dori Dewberry.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dori's photo was one of the ones I selected to be part of my 100 PORTRAITS project about a year ago.&amp;nbsp; Recently, I answered a call for entries by submitting this portrait to be in &lt;a href="http://randyhigbeegallery.com/Randy_Higbee_Gallery/Home.html"&gt;Randy Higbee Gallery&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;b&gt;6x6 INCH SQUARED&lt;/b&gt; competition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm happy to say that this painting of Dori was chosen to be in the group of selected paintings from 1200 entries by artists around the country.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The exhibition will be at Randy Higbee Gallery in Costa Mesa, CA.&lt;br /&gt;Dori lives in Orange County in Southern California, so she will be able to see her own portrait in the show.&amp;nbsp; That is cool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dori beat out other entries I made of my granddaughter and husband!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R1bBjQJhLeM/TYwJOY71BJI/AAAAAAAAD14/nvjpjEaT4SE/s1600/Morris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="319" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R1bBjQJhLeM/TYwJOY71BJI/AAAAAAAAD14/nvjpjEaT4SE/s320/Morris.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;"MORRIS"&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-d_ABgQgRCSM/TYwJSi7DrxI/AAAAAAAAD18/_yaTunxEZRE/s1600/Jaidyn_004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-d_ABgQgRCSM/TYwJSi7DrxI/AAAAAAAAD18/_yaTunxEZRE/s320/Jaidyn_004.jpg" width="310" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;"JAIDYN"&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2034947995098858228?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2034947995098858228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/dori-daily-painter-original-oil.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2034947995098858228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2034947995098858228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/dori-daily-painter-original-oil.html' title='&quot;DORI&quot; daily painter original oil portrait &amp;copy; Carol Nelson Fine Art'/><author><name>Carol Nelson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01630012970904448514</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TKgVyRBP2kI/AAAAAAAADds/2UiiPt_DU74/S220/me_014.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-bWgswQi8Jnk/TYwEIu4SACI/AAAAAAAAD1w/KzjatFCwTKg/s72-c/Dori.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-492710411988748597</id><published>2011-03-24T06:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-24T06:00:04.693-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oil Painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blonde'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whimsical'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulful'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='11&quot; x 11&quot;'/><title type='text'>Felicia goes Blonde over the Weekend - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kgjen9OZfu0/TYj6IfnbEPI/AAAAAAAABxg/qpCxufuhEpk/s1600/03-2011Felicia-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 396px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586990361585848562" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kgjen9OZfu0/TYj6IfnbEPI/AAAAAAAABxg/qpCxufuhEpk/s400/03-2011Felicia-web.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Felicia goes Blonde over the Weekend&lt;br /&gt;11.25 in. x 11.25 in.&lt;br /&gt;oil on cradled wood panel,&lt;br /&gt;sides painted  black, ready to hang&lt;br /&gt;$165 + Free U.S. shipping&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This gal, well, she's ready to break out of the mold and try some new things in her life.  So what does she do on a boring Saturday night?  She bleaches her hair! Oh, Felicia, hope it works for you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;------------------&lt;br /&gt;To purchase and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-for-the-Soul-of-it/108758342493496"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/joanieart"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/joanieARTBMoon"&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blessings! Joanie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-492710411988748597?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/492710411988748597/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/felicia-goes-blonde-over-weekend.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/492710411988748597'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/492710411988748597'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/felicia-goes-blonde-over-weekend.html' title='Felicia goes Blonde over the Weekend - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kgjen9OZfu0/TYj6IfnbEPI/AAAAAAAABxg/qpCxufuhEpk/s72-c/03-2011Felicia-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-8480707089317371861</id><published>2011-03-23T07:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-24T09:35:28.407-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oil Painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Richmond Va'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portrait vignette'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cathyann Burgess'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='young man'/><title type='text'>Portrait Vignette: Male by Cathyann Burgess</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-yVydWJWLecc/TYoGUIdyGoI/AAAAAAAACSc/5NL3mPYY8O0/s1600/Chris+web+portrait+cfai.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-yVydWJWLecc/TYoGUIdyGoI/AAAAAAAACSc/5NL3mPYY8O0/s320/Chris+web+portrait+cfai.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Chris©2009 16 x 20 oil on linen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Painting from life is one of my favorite things to do. The vignette can be completed in one or two 3 hour sessions, most often. &amp;nbsp;The vignette is purposely left with softened or vague edges and background. Fresh, immediate and alive, it is an heirloom.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;For more examples and fees, visit my website.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;http://www.cathyannstudio113.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-8480707089317371861?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/8480707089317371861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/portait-vignette-male-by-cathyann.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8480707089317371861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8480707089317371861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/portait-vignette-male-by-cathyann.html' title='Portrait Vignette: Male by Cathyann Burgess'/><author><name>Cathyann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09373012796939248177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6oSRFvOCel0/TyGyahwkBAI/AAAAAAAACi0/XNWg-QR2QWM/s220/cathyann%2Bpromophoto.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-yVydWJWLecc/TYoGUIdyGoI/AAAAAAAACSc/5NL3mPYY8O0/s72-c/Chris+web+portrait+cfai.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-1949067826219283267</id><published>2011-03-22T12:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T12:33:06.677-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary art by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bahrain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary oil painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='expressive'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='purple'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yellow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='7&quot; x 5&quot;'/><title type='text'>Change Now - a contemporary figurative oil painting</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BFkcCpMQx3E/TYj4jppDnXI/AAAAAAAABxY/wXbS1sVQr5g/s1600/02-2011Change-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 287px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586988629110267250" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BFkcCpMQx3E/TYj4jppDnXI/AAAAAAAABxY/wXbS1sVQr5g/s400/02-2011Change-web.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;When the middle eastern chaos broke out a few weeks ago, I saw a compelling picture online of a Bahraini woman in grief. It just stopped me in my tracks. So I broke free from a literal interpretation, and the painting turned into this. May there be Peace on Earth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Change Now&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;5 in. x 7 in.&lt;br /&gt;oil on board, ready to hang&lt;br /&gt;$65 + Free U.S. shipping&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;-------------------&lt;br /&gt;To purchase and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-for-the-Soul-of-it/108758342493496"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/joanieart"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/joanieARTBMoon"&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blessings! Joanie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-1949067826219283267?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/1949067826219283267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/change-now-contemporary-figurative-oil.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1949067826219283267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1949067826219283267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/change-now-contemporary-figurative-oil.html' title='Change Now - a contemporary figurative oil painting'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BFkcCpMQx3E/TYj4jppDnXI/AAAAAAAABxY/wXbS1sVQr5g/s72-c/02-2011Change-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-5348335663582580642</id><published>2011-03-18T14:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-18T14:48:34.700-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='commissions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cathyann Burgess'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portrait; Oil Painting'/><title type='text'>Young Woman: Oil Portrait by Cathyann Burgess</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-pSvkufQS12Q/TYPSNCtqKKI/AAAAAAAACSM/0_vdxLOTWTQ/s1600/morgan+cfai+port+webcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-pSvkufQS12Q/TYPSNCtqKKI/AAAAAAAACSM/0_vdxLOTWTQ/s320/morgan+cfai+port+webcopy.jpg" width="242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Morgan©2011 C.L.Burgess oil on canvas 16 x 12&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;See more of my portrait work at : http://www.cathyannstudio113.com/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-5348335663582580642?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/5348335663582580642/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/young-woman-oil-portrait-by-cathyann.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5348335663582580642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5348335663582580642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/young-woman-oil-portrait-by-cathyann.html' title='Young Woman: Oil Portrait by Cathyann Burgess'/><author><name>Cathyann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09373012796939248177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6oSRFvOCel0/TyGyahwkBAI/AAAAAAAACi0/XNWg-QR2QWM/s220/cathyann%2Bpromophoto.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-pSvkufQS12Q/TYPSNCtqKKI/AAAAAAAACSM/0_vdxLOTWTQ/s72-c/morgan+cfai+port+webcopy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-8904817423690628740</id><published>2011-03-16T12:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-16T12:43:04.380-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='modigiliani'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='picasso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary oil painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sally'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulful'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affordable contemporary art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free shipping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shopper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman shopping'/><title type='text'>Sally's a Shopper - contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JRsmafd6CSc/TYEQsp2TAkI/AAAAAAAABxI/pbuDfcCBMKo/s1600/03-2011SallyShopper-w.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JRsmafd6CSc/TYEQsp2TAkI/AAAAAAAABxI/pbuDfcCBMKo/s400/03-2011SallyShopper-w.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584763372250006082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sally's a Shopper&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;12in x 4in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;oil on cradled wood panel, sides painted black, wire-ready to hang&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sally loves to shop, just look at her!  Using a limited palette of six colors, she is stylishly and colorfully harmonious.  Are you a shopper, or a have a good friend who is, too?  This just may be the perfect painting to adorn their wall! : )&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;To purchase and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com"&gt;ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-for-the-Soul-of-it/108758342493496"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/joanieart"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Follow me on &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/joanieARTBMoon"&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-8904817423690628740?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/8904817423690628740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/sallys-shopper-contemporary-figurative.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8904817423690628740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8904817423690628740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/sallys-shopper-contemporary-figurative.html' title='Sally&apos;s a Shopper - contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JRsmafd6CSc/TYEQsp2TAkI/AAAAAAAABxI/pbuDfcCBMKo/s72-c/03-2011SallyShopper-w.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-3065969939934173719</id><published>2011-03-12T13:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-12T13:04:25.569-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='female figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary figure'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative art'/><title type='text'>Lauren</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-M11L--ZtRHk/TXqMwmvf3ZI/AAAAAAAACRU/AVqz6DAEPKc/s1600/Emily+T+webCopy+312011+copy_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-M11L--ZtRHk/TXqMwmvf3ZI/AAAAAAAACRU/AVqz6DAEPKc/s320/Emily+T+webCopy+312011+copy_2.jpg" width="248" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: auto;"&gt;Emily©2011 14 x 11 oil on canvas&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;"&gt;&lt;div class="paragraph_style" style="color: #9b8c8d; font-family: ArialMT, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;What I try to convey in my paintings is a love for the contemplative spirit, those introspective moments when a subject is unaware of being seen. I like to think of myself as a contemporary realist who prefers to paint from life and is more colorist than tonal painter. Painting from life reveals the whole truth, which is why I believe it is the best way to perceive and interpret the subject.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="paragraph_style" style="color: #9b8c8d; font-family: ArialMT, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="paragraph_style" style="color: #9b8c8d; font-family: ArialMT, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;For more portrait work and fees visit my website please: http://www.cathyannstudio113.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-5449093494822213228?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/5449093494822213228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/portrait-in-oil-of-young-woman-by.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5449093494822213228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5449093494822213228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/portrait-in-oil-of-young-woman-by.html' title='Portrait in Oil of a Young Woman by Cathyann Burgess'/><author><name>Cathyann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09373012796939248177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6oSRFvOCel0/TyGyahwkBAI/AAAAAAAACi0/XNWg-QR2QWM/s220/cathyann%2Bpromophoto.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-M11L--ZtRHk/TXqMwmvf3ZI/AAAAAAAACRU/AVqz6DAEPKc/s72-c/Emily+T+webCopy+312011+copy_2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-3258217911395269948</id><published>2011-03-09T12:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-09T12:44:53.186-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='old man'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gray hair'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil painting demo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='5&quot; x 5&quot;'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='retirement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil on wood panel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ready to hang'/><title type='text'>The Painting of Harry and Demo Video - by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W0vQeGfOVLM/TXfmILKuqGI/AAAAAAAABw4/8liYYuhzJ4w/s1600/03-2011Harrydreadsretire-w.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W0vQeGfOVLM/TXfmILKuqGI/AAAAAAAABw4/8liYYuhzJ4w/s400/03-2011Harrydreadsretire-w.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582183291260151906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;span mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; "&gt;Harry Dreads His Retirement Party&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 in. x 5 in.&lt;br /&gt;sides painted,&lt;br /&gt;ready to hang:  includes hang tag and acrylic bump-ons at bottom corners&lt;br /&gt;oil on 1/4 in wood panel&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;$50 + Free U.S. shipping&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Harry, ah....this little painting was the result of me testing my Flip camera for part two of The Painting of Laura...and I thought before I botch that up, let me experiment....so I swished quickly thru my sketch journal, found this guy....and proceeded to video record my painting of him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Go here to see the &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/videos/the-painting-of-harry/" mce_href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/videos/the-painting-of-harry/" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;OIL PAINTING DEMO VIDEO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;-----------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;To purchase and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-3258217911395269948?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/3258217911395269948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/painting-of-harry-and-demo-video-by.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3258217911395269948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3258217911395269948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/painting-of-harry-and-demo-video-by.html' title='The Painting of Harry and Demo Video - by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W0vQeGfOVLM/TXfmILKuqGI/AAAAAAAABw4/8liYYuhzJ4w/s72-c/03-2011Harrydreadsretire-w.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2817746605025223026</id><published>2011-03-02T17:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-02T17:35:57.533-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary oil painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulful'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='abstract'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pink'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='green'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='long neck'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='affordable contemporary art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free shipping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on sale'/><title type='text'>Angelica - a contemporary abstract figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U97CMvvbxco/TW7vXyB0c6I/AAAAAAAABww/RCN86mLhPLc/s1600/02-2011Angelica-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U97CMvvbxco/TW7vXyB0c6I/AAAAAAAABww/RCN86mLhPLc/s400/02-2011Angelica-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579660180204057506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Angelica&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;12 in. x 12 in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;oil on 1/4" wood panel&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;$200 + Free U.S. shipping&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Very Picasso-esque, methinks.  I’ve been trying to get to this level of abstraction, for awhile now and this one, for me, represents a breakthrough. Hope you like it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;***Please check out my new &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/videos/"&gt;VIDEOS&lt;/a&gt; section.  3 videos are already for viewing, and more coming.***&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;To purchase and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com"&gt;http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2817746605025223026?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2817746605025223026/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/angelica-contemporary-abstract.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2817746605025223026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2817746605025223026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/angelica-contemporary-abstract.html' title='Angelica - a contemporary abstract figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U97CMvvbxco/TW7vXyB0c6I/AAAAAAAABww/RCN86mLhPLc/s72-c/02-2011Angelica-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-7107893524218163872</id><published>2011-02-28T15:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-28T16:05:17.210-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cat portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animal face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary oil painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulful'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free shipping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='8 x 8'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on sale'/><title type='text'>Silly Boy - Whimsical cat portrait by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rNVormk6wZQ/TWw1Q7-QzfI/AAAAAAAABwg/uavYbCS9aZA/s1600/02-2011sillyBoyweb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 389px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rNVormk6wZQ/TWw1Q7-QzfI/AAAAAAAABwg/uavYbCS9aZA/s400/02-2011sillyBoyweb.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578892603498221042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Silly Boy&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;8 in. x 8 in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;oil on cradled wood panel&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;$105 + Free U.S. shipping&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Oh Harley J, you are just too cute!  My daughter's cat continues to be my Muse.  His wide-eyed faces and personality, along with his amazing photogenic appeal, well.....he appears quite frequently in my work and I suspect you can see why.  : )&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;--------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;To purchase and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-for-the-Soul-of-it/108758342493496"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ91ZPFm0pw"&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-7107893524218163872?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/7107893524218163872/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/02/silly-boy-whimsical-cat-portrait-by.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7107893524218163872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7107893524218163872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/02/silly-boy-whimsical-cat-portrait-by.html' title='Silly Boy - Whimsical cat portrait by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rNVormk6wZQ/TWw1Q7-QzfI/AAAAAAAABwg/uavYbCS9aZA/s72-c/02-2011sillyBoyweb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-670680399718941065</id><published>2011-02-25T14:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-25T14:45:05.786-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman&apos;s face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='5 x 7'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary oil painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulful'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free shipping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on sale'/><title type='text'>Quiet - original figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VgqJl2nfug4/TWgvFrBcCTI/AAAAAAAABwY/E5i-jJUsZV8/s1600/02-2011Quiet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 287px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VgqJl2nfug4/TWgvFrBcCTI/AAAAAAAABwY/E5i-jJUsZV8/s400/02-2011Quiet.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577759912992966962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;Quiet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;7 in. x 5 in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;oil and charcoal on gessoed paper&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;She’s covered, quiet, inward looking…..a very winter-ish pose.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;For purchase info and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art,&lt;br /&gt;please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-for-the-Soul-of-it/108758342493496"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ91ZPFm0pw"&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-670680399718941065?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/670680399718941065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/02/quiet-original-figurative-oil-painting.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/670680399718941065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/670680399718941065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/02/quiet-original-figurative-oil-painting.html' title='Quiet - original figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VgqJl2nfug4/TWgvFrBcCTI/AAAAAAAABwY/E5i-jJUsZV8/s72-c/02-2011Quiet.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-5297912574548782705</id><published>2011-02-23T17:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-23T17:06:33.830-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oil Painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman&apos;s face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whimsical'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulful'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free shipping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='6 x 6'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on sale'/><title type='text'>Maggie Wonders What Kind of Day it’s Going to Be - original oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7JJvb-cvMMw/TWWuFzkBXcI/AAAAAAAABwQ/ga4EwFnf-SY/s1600/02-2011MaggieWonderAboutDay.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 389px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7JJvb-cvMMw/TWWuFzkBXcI/AAAAAAAABwQ/ga4EwFnf-SY/s400/02-2011MaggieWonderAboutDay.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577055128332099010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Maggie Wonders What Kind of Day it’s Going to Be&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 in. x 6 in.&lt;br /&gt;oil on cradled wood panel, ready to hang&lt;br /&gt;$75 + Free U.S. shipping&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; "&gt;This painting went thru a few versions, and her face kept begging me to get loose and free, so that’s what i did. Layers, sgrafitto, abstraction, all around to create texture and interest.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;To purchase and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com"&gt;http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-5297912574548782705?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/5297912574548782705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/02/maggie-wonders-what-kind-of-day-its.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5297912574548782705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5297912574548782705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/02/maggie-wonders-what-kind-of-day-its.html' title='Maggie Wonders What Kind of Day it’s Going to Be - original oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7JJvb-cvMMw/TWWuFzkBXcI/AAAAAAAABwQ/ga4EwFnf-SY/s72-c/02-2011MaggieWonderAboutDay.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-780612924144641064</id><published>2011-02-18T18:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-18T18:30:28.391-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oil Painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman&apos;s face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figure study'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='5 x 7'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free shipping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on sale'/><title type='text'>Figure Study: Alegre in Yellow Dress, oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y1Kl9Rp8XBU/TV8qSn5MJXI/AAAAAAAABwI/vD9gKWHyE3Y/s1600/02-2011ModelinYellowDress.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y1Kl9Rp8XBU/TV8qSn5MJXI/AAAAAAAABwI/vD9gKWHyE3Y/s400/02-2011ModelinYellowDress.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575221363142829426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; "&gt;&lt;strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Alegre in Yellow Dress&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 in. x 5 in. oil on canvas panel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another great figure painting session, this time I worked smaller and that helped a lot.  Also took my full size palette since I needed more mixing room. These were 30 minute sessions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;For purchase info and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-780612924144641064?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/780612924144641064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/02/figure-study-alegre-in-yellow-dress-oil.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/780612924144641064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/780612924144641064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/02/figure-study-alegre-in-yellow-dress-oil.html' title='Figure Study: Alegre in Yellow Dress, oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y1Kl9Rp8XBU/TV8qSn5MJXI/AAAAAAAABwI/vD9gKWHyE3Y/s72-c/02-2011ModelinYellowDress.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-5452209373720977762</id><published>2011-02-06T10:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-06T10:54:03.608-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oil Painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='valentine&apos;s day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman&apos;s face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='valentine art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='6&quot; x 6&quot;'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wood panel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free shipping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='heart art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on sale'/><title type='text'>Sophie Ponders Another Valentine's Day - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TU7tD7caXQI/AAAAAAAABwA/vQYd8nLw490/s1600/02-2011SophiePonders-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TU7tD7caXQI/AAAAAAAABwA/vQYd8nLw490/s400/02-2011SophiePonders-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570650440856132866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SOPHIE PONDERS ANOTHER VALENTINE'S DAY WITHOUT A DATE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;6 in x 6 in, oil on cradled wood panel, sides painted black, ready to hang.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Price: $65 with FREE U.S shipping&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Another one of these faces that just come through!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;I've decided to add a bit more info about what pigments I'm working with, and support information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;I worked with a limited palette here: let's see, raw umber, sap green, cerulean blue, white, my new quin red and a wee bit of primary yellow light. I think that's it.  I discovered the other day, while ordering new paints online that a naples yellow could be mixed with raw umber, cad red, cad yellow, white.  So I tried my own version since i wanted most of the colors in this painting to be pretty muted or desaturated, starting with her skin tone.  I'm working on eliminating the cadmium red and yellow when i run out, and in anticipation, I'm trying out Grumbacher Red (Napthol) as a potential replacement for Cad red, and Primary Yellow Light to replace cadmium yellow.  I'll let you know how it goes.  Yes, they mix differently, so it will take some practice, but so far I am encouraged.  I use watersoluble oils exclusively.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Here's the link to my brand new ART TIP:  &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/2011/02/03/why-i-use-water-soluble-oils/" mce_href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/2011/02/03/why-i-use-water-soluble-oils/" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Why I Use Watersoluble Oils info&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;For purchase info and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com"&gt;http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-5452209373720977762?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/5452209373720977762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/02/sophie-ponders-another-valentines-day.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5452209373720977762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5452209373720977762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/02/sophie-ponders-another-valentines-day.html' title='Sophie Ponders Another Valentine&apos;s Day - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TU7tD7caXQI/AAAAAAAABwA/vQYd8nLw490/s72-c/02-2011SophiePonders-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-5712249624034608450</id><published>2011-02-02T12:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-02T12:40:27.251-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='city life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free u.s. shipping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whimsical'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulful'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='12&quot; x 8&quot;'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stella'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art on sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ready to hang'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cradled wood panel'/><title type='text'>Stella Steps Out for a Night in the City - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TUnAfH33OLI/AAAAAAAABvw/uBhyPjx9ZKU/s1600/01-2011StellaStepsOut-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TUnAfH33OLI/AAAAAAAABvw/uBhyPjx9ZKU/s400/01-2011StellaStepsOut-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569194055142160562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Oh Stella, she’s a bit hesitant to go out, the city seems a bit scary, but she’s got a blind date, so here she goes!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;span mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;TITLE: Stella Steps Out for a Night in the City&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;SIZE/SUPPORT:  12 in. x 8 in.  oil on cradled wood panel, ready to hang, sides painted black.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;-------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;For purchase info and to view more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-5712249624034608450?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/5712249624034608450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/02/stella-steps-out-for-night-in-city.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5712249624034608450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5712249624034608450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/02/stella-steps-out-for-night-in-city.html' title='Stella Steps Out for a Night in the City - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TUnAfH33OLI/AAAAAAAABvw/uBhyPjx9ZKU/s72-c/01-2011StellaStepsOut-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-8738308423161440702</id><published>2011-01-30T21:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-30T21:30:15.739-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='abstract  nude oil painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wood panel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ready to hang'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='abstract cat'/><title type='text'>Inseparable - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TUZIVtAP41I/AAAAAAAABvo/KefP49t5tXQ/s1600/01-2011Inseparable.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TUZIVtAP41I/AAAAAAAABvo/KefP49t5tXQ/s400/01-2011Inseparable.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568217526985286482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Found this interesting little sketch in my sketchbook, and thought, Why Not?  So here it is.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TITLE: Inseparable&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;SIZE/SUPPORT:  12 in. x 8 in.  oil on cradled wood panel, ready to hang, sides painted black.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;$80&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;---------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;For purchase info and to view more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful ar,t&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-8738308423161440702?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/8738308423161440702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/inseparable-contemporary-figurative-oil.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8738308423161440702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8738308423161440702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/inseparable-contemporary-figurative-oil.html' title='Inseparable - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TUZIVtAP41I/AAAAAAAABvo/KefP49t5tXQ/s72-c/01-2011Inseparable.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-1991544386751785546</id><published>2011-01-27T13:14:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-27T13:18:35.613-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daisies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wood panel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ready to hang'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='purple'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flowers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='floating frame'/><title type='text'>Daisy Gazing - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TUHgeor0ylI/AAAAAAAABvg/Ka60lEQuwKg/s1600/01-2011DaisyGazing-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 396px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TUHgeor0ylI/AAAAAAAABvg/Ka60lEQuwKg/s400/01-2011DaisyGazing-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566977431328574034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Another small format using luscious oils -- aspiring to loose and soulful paintings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;span mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; "&gt;TITLE: Daisy Gazing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;SIZE/SUPPORT:  5 in. x 5 in.  oil on wood panel, ready to hang, sides painted, floating frame&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;PRICE: Reg $60 /&lt;span mce_style="color: #ff0000;" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "&gt; ON SALE for $30&lt;/span&gt; + FREE U.S. SHIPPING&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;----------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;For purchase info and to view more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art&lt;br /&gt;please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-1991544386751785546?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/1991544386751785546/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/daisy-gazing-contemporary-figurative.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1991544386751785546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1991544386751785546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/daisy-gazing-contemporary-figurative.html' title='Daisy Gazing - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TUHgeor0ylI/AAAAAAAABvg/Ka60lEQuwKg/s72-c/01-2011DaisyGazing-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-4840433430088257361</id><published>2011-01-25T18:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-25T18:18:20.296-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wood panel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ready to hang'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='floating frame'/><title type='text'>Judi Received Flowers From a Secret Admirer - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TT-Dp-ksw6I/AAAAAAAABvY/X1PzuN3tPwU/s1600/01-2011JudiReceivedFlowers-.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TT-Dp-ksw6I/AAAAAAAABvY/X1PzuN3tPwU/s400/01-2011JudiReceivedFlowers-.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566312421648024482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;Another small format using luscious oils -- aspiring to loose and soulful paintings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; "&gt;TITLE: Judi Received Flowers Today From a Secret Admirer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;SIZE/SUPPORT:  5 in. x 5 in.  oil on wood panel, ready to hang, sides painted, floating frame&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;PRICE: Reg $60 / &lt;span mce_style="color: #ff0000;" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "&gt;ON SALE for $30&lt;/span&gt; + FREE U.S. SHIPPING&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;For purchase info and to view more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-4840433430088257361?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/4840433430088257361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/judi-received-flowers-from-secret.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4840433430088257361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4840433430088257361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/judi-received-flowers-from-secret.html' title='Judi Received Flowers From a Secret Admirer - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TT-Dp-ksw6I/AAAAAAAABvY/X1PzuN3tPwU/s72-c/01-2011JudiReceivedFlowers-.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2354737145896914709</id><published>2011-01-21T15:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-21T15:31:08.244-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art for sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wood panel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on sale'/><title type='text'>Sweet Annie - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TToWWlOjZiI/AAAAAAAABvQ/Zp_7lkop-M0/s1600/01-2011SweetAnnie-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TToWWlOjZiI/AAAAAAAABvQ/Zp_7lkop-M0/s400/01-2011SweetAnnie-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564784866775754274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Back to small format using luscious oils -- aspiring to loose and soulful paintings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TITLE: Sweet Annie&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;SIZE/SUPPORT:  5 in. x 5 in. on wood panel&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;PRICE: Reg $60 / &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;ON SALE for $30&lt;/span&gt; + FREE U.S. SHIPPING&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;--------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;To view more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2354737145896914709?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2354737145896914709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/sweet-annie-contemporary-figurative-oil.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2354737145896914709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2354737145896914709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/sweet-annie-contemporary-figurative-oil.html' title='Sweet Annie - a contemporary figurative oil painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TToWWlOjZiI/AAAAAAAABvQ/Zp_7lkop-M0/s72-c/01-2011SweetAnnie-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-5449023379086851510</id><published>2011-01-19T15:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-19T15:29:26.621-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='om mani padme hum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vintage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='childs face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='buddha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='textured wood panel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='18in x 8in'/><title type='text'>Bodhisattva - a contemporary figurative painting in oil by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TTdy4PRcbyI/AAAAAAAABvI/wUzu4UscUiU/s1600/01-2011Bodhisattva-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 188px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TTdy4PRcbyI/AAAAAAAABvI/wUzu4UscUiU/s400/01-2011Bodhisattva-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564042175137476386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I have a friend who is Buddhist and for a long time I've been sketching and trying out ideas.  This one turned into a painting. The chant "Om Mani Padme Hum" is written around the edges.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bodhisattva&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;18 in. x 8 in.&lt;br /&gt;oil on textured wood panel&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;___________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;For purchase info and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-5449023379086851510?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/5449023379086851510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/bodhisattva-contemporary-figurative.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5449023379086851510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5449023379086851510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/bodhisattva-contemporary-figurative.html' title='Bodhisattva - a contemporary figurative painting in oil by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TTdy4PRcbyI/AAAAAAAABvI/wUzu4UscUiU/s72-c/01-2011Bodhisattva-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-8038380215187769537</id><published>2011-01-14T10:58:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-14T10:58:16.410-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vintage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='childs face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on stretched canvas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='14in x 11in'/><title type='text'>Age 4, 1930 - a contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TTCbmVrL5FI/AAAAAAAABvA/pz8a4cPJ2Yc/s1600/12-2010Age4-1930.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TTCbmVrL5FI/AAAAAAAABvA/pz8a4cPJ2Yc/s400/12-2010Age4-1930.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562116622758175826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This was a breakthrough painting, not only is it in oils (which I haven’t been able to use in awhile due to allergies to linseed oil), but it’s textured oil which delights my soul to work with.  And I used a reference photo of my mother at age 4, 1930, so of course it’s exceptionally dear.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TITLE: Age 4, 1930&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;14 in. x 11 in. textured oils on 3/4 in.  stretched canvas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;For purchase info and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-8038380215187769537?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/8038380215187769537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/age-4-1930-contemporary-figurative.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8038380215187769537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8038380215187769537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/age-4-1930-contemporary-figurative.html' title='Age 4, 1930 - a contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TTCbmVrL5FI/AAAAAAAABvA/pz8a4cPJ2Yc/s72-c/12-2010Age4-1930.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-8875856001354716598</id><published>2011-01-12T10:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-12T10:18:28.947-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary art by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on canvas panel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='redhead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='womans face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='10in x 8in'/><title type='text'>Voices in My Head - A contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TS3vmSC2jCI/AAAAAAAABu4/fMJGy36i9HY/s1600/12-2010VoicesinmyHead-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 322px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TS3vmSC2jCI/AAAAAAAABu4/fMJGy36i9HY/s400/12-2010VoicesinmyHead-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561364555830299682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Voices in My Head&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;10 in. x 8 in.&lt;br /&gt;oil on canvas panel&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;---------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;For purchase info and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.co&lt;/a&gt;m&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-8875856001354716598?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/8875856001354716598/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/voices-in-my-head-contemporary.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8875856001354716598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8875856001354716598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/voices-in-my-head-contemporary.html' title='Voices in My Head - A contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TS3vmSC2jCI/AAAAAAAABu4/fMJGy36i9HY/s72-c/12-2010VoicesinmyHead-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-4923012622331515961</id><published>2011-01-09T07:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-09T07:42:16.507-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Janice Filkins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portrait; Oil Painting'/><title type='text'>The Boys by Jani Lori</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/TSnWyl6XjJI/AAAAAAAABII/yRH9u8jybew/s1600/IMGP1680.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="247" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/TSnWyl6XjJI/AAAAAAAABII/yRH9u8jybew/s320/IMGP1680.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;8x10 oil sketch on linen panel&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://janiloripaints.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://janiloripaints.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-4923012622331515961?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/4923012622331515961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/boys-by-jani-lori.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4923012622331515961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4923012622331515961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/boys-by-jani-lori.html' title='The Boys by Jani Lori'/><author><name>Jani Lori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15778762404164894580</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/Sz1cM8RswII/AAAAAAAAACI/t2VkhqMBRnk/S220/Scanjlf_edited-2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/TSnWyl6XjJI/AAAAAAAABII/yRH9u8jybew/s72-c/IMGP1680.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2406929577451788371</id><published>2011-01-07T10:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-07T10:58:39.426-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary art by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='10in x 10in'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='redhead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ready to hang'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='womans face'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cradled wood panel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic'/><title type='text'>Seeing Red - a contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TSdhUz_W0qI/AAAAAAAABuw/zMhAiD1loww/s1600/12-2010SeeingRed-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TSdhUz_W0qI/AAAAAAAABuw/zMhAiD1loww/s400/12-2010SeeingRed-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559519275193389730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Well, let’s just say that this painting came about when I was “seeing red” about an issue that broadsided me.  This is how I worked it out.  Her eyes are glowing copper.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;TITLE: Seeing Red&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;20 in. x 24 in. acrylic and mixed media on cradled wood panel, sides painted black, ready to hang&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;For purchase info and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2406929577451788371?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2406929577451788371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/seeing-red-contemporary-figurative.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2406929577451788371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2406929577451788371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/seeing-red-contemporary-figurative.html' title='Seeing Red - a contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TSdhUz_W0qI/AAAAAAAABuw/zMhAiD1loww/s72-c/12-2010SeeingRed-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2306137291748913421</id><published>2011-01-06T11:55:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-06T11:55:39.462-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mixed media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary art by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='10in x 10in'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='our lady of guadalupe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='works on paper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='religious art'/><title type='text'>Our Lady of Guadalupe - a contemporary mixed media painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TSYckUZcvjI/AAAAAAAABuo/gEvOybNMYEg/s1600/12-2010Guadalupe-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TSYckUZcvjI/AAAAAAAABuo/gEvOybNMYEg/s400/12-2010Guadalupe-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559162200311774770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Lady of Guadalupe….I love her story, and all the roses, so after thinking about it way too long, I finally painted my version of the Lady, during the dark of the year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Title: &lt;b&gt;Guadalupe&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10in x 10in, mixed media&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;---------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;For purchase info and to see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2306137291748913421?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2306137291748913421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/our-lady-of-guadalupe-contemporary.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2306137291748913421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2306137291748913421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/our-lady-of-guadalupe-contemporary.html' title='Our Lady of Guadalupe - a contemporary mixed media painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TSYckUZcvjI/AAAAAAAABuo/gEvOybNMYEg/s72-c/12-2010Guadalupe-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-4440064236472239310</id><published>2011-01-04T12:23:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-04T12:42:15.813-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary art by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic animal painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='abstract cat'/><title type='text'>Blue-Eyed Geisha - a contemporary painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TSOFnAt21eI/AAAAAAAABuY/8WjRq9XJVtE/s1600/Blue-Eyed-Geisha-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TSOFnAt21eI/AAAAAAAABuY/8WjRq9XJVtE/s400/Blue-Eyed-Geisha-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558433270359053794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 20px; "  &gt;She told me her eyes were blue, but did not tell me her name.  Now that’s different!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 20px; " &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;TITLE: Blue-Eyed Geisha&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;12 x 7.5 in., oil on cradled wood panel, sides painted black, ready to hang&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;--------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;To purchase and see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-4440064236472239310?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/4440064236472239310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/milo-contemporary-painting-by-joanie.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4440064236472239310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4440064236472239310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/milo-contemporary-painting-by-joanie.html' title='Blue-Eyed Geisha - a contemporary painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TSOFnAt21eI/AAAAAAAABuY/8WjRq9XJVtE/s72-c/Blue-Eyed-Geisha-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-4642381236542039787</id><published>2011-01-03T14:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-03T14:25:53.217-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary art by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='child portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic'/><title type='text'>My Muse - a contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TSJMRK_mchI/AAAAAAAABuI/4BQASBAQX1o/s1600/12-2010Corra.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 328px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TSJMRK_mchI/AAAAAAAABuI/4BQASBAQX1o/s400/12-2010Corra.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558088748021215762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Another of my muse, my granddaughter, Corra. What a cutie patootie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;span mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; "&gt;TITLE: Muse&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; "&gt;SIZE/SUPPORT:&lt;/span&gt; 14 in. x 11 in.,  acrylic on canvas&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;---------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;To  see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-4642381236542039787?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/4642381236542039787/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-muse-contemporary-figurative.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4642381236542039787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4642381236542039787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-muse-contemporary-figurative.html' title='My Muse - a contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TSJMRK_mchI/AAAAAAAABuI/4BQASBAQX1o/s72-c/12-2010Corra.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-3142685410582843302</id><published>2011-01-02T08:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-02T08:59:01.779-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ava Grace</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cfLWkOSyQMc/TSCuuo5hfZI/AAAAAAAABCY/LFOY3bagJtc/s1600/Ava-Grace-for-blog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 248px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cfLWkOSyQMc/TSCuuo5hfZI/AAAAAAAABCY/LFOY3bagJtc/s320/Ava-Grace-for-blog.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557634056451095954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 " x 8" Oil on canvas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a joy painting this beautiful little girl!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For portrait information please &lt;a href="rosemary@franklyrose.com"&gt;email me&lt;/a&gt; and visit my blog &lt;a href="http://rosemarysextonpaints.blogspot.com "&gt;http://rosemarysextonpaints.blogspot.com &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-3142685410582843302?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/3142685410582843302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/ava-grace.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3142685410582843302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3142685410582843302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2011/01/ava-grace.html' title='Ava Grace'/><author><name>Rosemary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03123711998908894938</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cfLWkOSyQMc/SbGIaQJGTmI/AAAAAAAAAAM/UGIY_BBgWww/S220/Rosemary+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cfLWkOSyQMc/TSCuuo5hfZI/AAAAAAAABCY/LFOY3bagJtc/s72-c/Ava-Grace-for-blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-3924555605059185285</id><published>2010-12-31T12:45:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-31T12:52:12.556-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mixed media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watercolor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whimsical'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulful art by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gouache'/><title type='text'>Polly with Glasses - a contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TR5Ccvrbc6I/AAAAAAAABtw/lPDWxqysPQY/s1600/12-2010Polly-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 313px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TR5Ccvrbc6I/AAAAAAAABtw/lPDWxqysPQY/s320/12-2010Polly-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556952051824161698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="single"&gt;&lt;div class="post post-single"&gt;&lt;div class="post-7765 post type-post hentry category-figurative-2 tag-contemporary-painting tag-figurative-painting tag-original-painting tag-polly-with-glasses tag-soulful tag-whimsical" id="post-7765"&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;Low key in tone, highjinks in attitude!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TITLE: Polly with Glasses&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SIZE/SUPPORT:&lt;/strong&gt; 10″ x 10″ on 300# paper, watercolor, gouache, mixed media&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;---------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;To purchase and see more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;please visit my website at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-3924555605059185285?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/3924555605059185285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/polly-with-glasses-contemporary.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3924555605059185285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3924555605059185285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/polly-with-glasses-contemporary.html' title='Polly with Glasses - a contemporary figurative painting by Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TR5Ccvrbc6I/AAAAAAAABtw/lPDWxqysPQY/s72-c/12-2010Polly-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-4774147399105156716</id><published>2010-12-30T17:51:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-30T17:51:42.581-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary art by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='watercolor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gesso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gouache'/><title type='text'>Mystical Mona - Contemporary Figurative Painting from Joanie Springer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TR0wyE8O0XI/AAAAAAAABtk/rnRmCt8gCwo/s1600/Mystical-Mona-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TR0wyE8O0XI/AAAAAAAABtk/rnRmCt8gCwo/s400/Mystical-Mona-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556651152123023730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Ah, Mona, at first she was brash and bold, and after looking her over a few days, I thought of using some tinted gesso to partially veil her.  Methinks it worked!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 1.6em; "&gt;&lt;span mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Mystical Mona&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt; 10? x 10",  watercolor, gouache on 300# paper&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px; "&gt;---------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;See more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art&lt;br /&gt;at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-4774147399105156716?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/4774147399105156716/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/mystical-mona-contemporary-figurative.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4774147399105156716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4774147399105156716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/mystical-mona-contemporary-figurative.html' title='Mystical Mona - Contemporary Figurative Painting from Joanie Springer'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TR0wyE8O0XI/AAAAAAAABtk/rnRmCt8gCwo/s72-c/Mystical-Mona-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2001728222541939218</id><published>2010-12-29T13:48:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-29T13:52:45.496-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contemporary art by Joanie Springer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='abstract; acrylic; Oil Painting'/><title type='text'>Best Friends</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TRulOynn46I/AAAAAAAABtY/ekH1pUrJeOM/s1600/Best-Friends-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TRulOynn46I/AAAAAAAABtY/ekH1pUrJeOM/s400/Best-Friends-web.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556216238816355234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TRulOynn46I/AAAAAAAABtY/ekH1pUrJeOM/s1600/Best-Friends-web.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Best Friends&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;14.5" x 11" acrylic on paper&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;---------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;See more of my Contemporary, Whimsical, and Soulful art&lt;br /&gt;at &lt;a href="http://www.artforthesoulofit.com/"&gt;www.ARTfortheSOULofit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Blessings! Joanie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2001728222541939218?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2001728222541939218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/best-friends.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2001728222541939218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2001728222541939218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/best-friends.html' title='Best Friends'/><author><name>BMoon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15320770340807131901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wmgE6MigqFw/TxB4UCLSZzI/AAAAAAAAB48/qPlpYhgXR0E/s220/11-2011InkMEPortrait-w%2B%25281%2529.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ax5YG7JQHHo/TRulOynn46I/AAAAAAAABtY/ekH1pUrJeOM/s72-c/Best-Friends-web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-3548520279171970337</id><published>2010-12-29T07:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-29T07:02:46.374-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Caitlynn a Watercolor Portrait by Angela Ungren</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_agPJjcFb7bQ/TRtNNQFADbI/AAAAAAAAAR0/m3ivte6Ehkw/s1600/Caitlynn+Portrait+Finished.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_agPJjcFb7bQ/TRtNNQFADbI/AAAAAAAAAR0/m3ivte6Ehkw/s320/Caitlynn+Portrait+Finished.jpg" width="231" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;This is the Finished Watercolor Pencil Portrait of my Daughter&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="mark" id="misspell-0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/pim/dclient/cg553/img/md5/bfe4082db3a892f1c16cb9b5cf7cef98_1.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;"&gt;Caitlynn&lt;/span&gt;. The Black watercolor Pencils didn't&amp;nbsp;get as intense as I needed so I used some Ink to deepen those areas. I love the way it came out! Cant wait to try another sketch with these pencils.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;7x9 Inches&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;140 lb Paper&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Please contact me if you would like to&amp;nbsp;Commission&amp;nbsp;Portrait of your loved one.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="unmark" id="misspell-cursor"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;www.sgtnunswife@yahoo.com&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-3548520279171970337?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/3548520279171970337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/caitlynn-watercolor-portrait-by-angela.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3548520279171970337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3548520279171970337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/caitlynn-watercolor-portrait-by-angela.html' title='Caitlynn a Watercolor Portrait by Angela Ungren'/><author><name>Angela Ungren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07232175533787787619</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gEM83nubFvY/Tnp8_0rINHI/AAAAAAAAAYk/Xt4koMjj940/s220/SDC10156.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_agPJjcFb7bQ/TRtNNQFADbI/AAAAAAAAAR0/m3ivte6Ehkw/s72-c/Caitlynn+Portrait+Finished.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2252529409949766142</id><published>2010-12-19T20:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-19T20:10:13.120-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='girl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol Nelson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><title type='text'>"CELIA" 10170, daily painter original oil portrait © Carol Nelson Fine art</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TQ7Sv5-HTaI/AAAAAAAADpQ/tguxre_S1MM/s1600/Cecelia_10170.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TQ7Sv5-HTaI/AAAAAAAADpQ/tguxre_S1MM/s400/Cecelia_10170.jpg" width="398" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;"CELIA" 10170&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a commissioned portrait for a friend who was over at my house and saw some of the portraits I did earlier this year of my family members.&amp;nbsp; I don't usually paint kids less than two years old, but when I saw Celia's photo, I KNEW it would make an excellent portrait.&amp;nbsp; She has such sparkle in those eyes.&amp;nbsp; And I loved doing that hair!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was fun to do another portrait.&amp;nbsp; It's been good for me to NOT do any for a while... Please click &lt;a href="http://carolnelsonfineart.com/works/554191/celia-10170"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to see other portraits on my website.. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2252529409949766142?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2252529409949766142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/celia-10170-daily-painter-original-oil.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2252529409949766142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2252529409949766142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/celia-10170-daily-painter-original-oil.html' title='&quot;CELIA&quot; 10170, daily painter original oil portrait &amp;copy; Carol Nelson Fine art'/><author><name>Carol Nelson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01630012970904448514</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TKgVyRBP2kI/AAAAAAAADds/2UiiPt_DU74/S220/me_014.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TQ7Sv5-HTaI/AAAAAAAADpQ/tguxre_S1MM/s72-c/Cecelia_10170.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-8799899460679091924</id><published>2010-12-11T06:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T06:03:58.566-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/TQOBq6RyryI/AAAAAAAABGQ/VthodRm0OWU/s1600/IMGP1668.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"&gt;Naughty or Nice, Art makes a great gift!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"&gt;Check out all the connecting artist sites and mine, too!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://janiloripaints.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://janiloripaints.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://janicefilkins.com/"&gt;http://janicefilkins.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/TQOBq6RyryI/AAAAAAAABGQ/VthodRm0OWU/s200/IMGP1668.JPG" width="163" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-8799899460679091924?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/8799899460679091924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/discover-portrait-art-portrait.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8799899460679091924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8799899460679091924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/discover-portrait-art-portrait.html' title=''/><author><name>Jani Lori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15778762404164894580</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/Sz1cM8RswII/AAAAAAAAACI/t2VkhqMBRnk/S220/Scanjlf_edited-2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/TQOBq6RyryI/AAAAAAAABGQ/VthodRm0OWU/s72-c/IMGP1668.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-597090873280803261</id><published>2010-12-02T19:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-02T19:54:32.911-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Krysta, New Aquaboard with Watercolor Tryout by Texas Artist Laurie Justus Pace</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;'Krysta'&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;18 x 24&amp;nbsp; Watercolor on AquaBoard&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gift for Krysta.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Contact me for commissioned paintings. &lt;a href="mailto:ellepace@me.com"&gt;Laurie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hzmBUJYxf_8/TPhgfTPVhyI/AAAAAAAAH0k/TggZ0KHXyEA/s1600/blog+Krysta+70s+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hzmBUJYxf_8/TPhgfTPVhyI/AAAAAAAAH0k/TggZ0KHXyEA/s320/blog+Krysta+70s+2.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;On the Easel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hzmBUJYxf_8/TPhfGIQkpMI/AAAAAAAAH0g/ONM3JiNo6Dg/s1600/blog+progress+IMG_3224.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hzmBUJYxf_8/TPhfGIQkpMI/AAAAAAAAH0g/ONM3JiNo6Dg/s320/blog+progress+IMG_3224.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;© Laurie Justus Pace &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Graphics One Design 2010 &lt;b&gt;  &lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lauriepace.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;My Blog&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ellepace.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;My Website&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://laurie-pace.artistwebsites.com/art/all/all/all"&gt;Giclees on Canvas, Prints and Cards&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Pencil Portraits,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-597090873280803261?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/597090873280803261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/krysta-new-aquaboard-with-watercolor.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/597090873280803261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/597090873280803261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/12/krysta-new-aquaboard-with-watercolor.html' title='Krysta, New Aquaboard with Watercolor Tryout by Texas Artist Laurie Justus Pace'/><author><name>Laurie Pace Texas Contemporary Artist ~ International Equine Artist</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17080385841467711304</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hzmBUJYxf_8/TNIg7g5sOnI/AAAAAAAAHv8/p6v0Z49GNXw/S220/ltp+blog+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hzmBUJYxf_8/TPhgfTPVhyI/AAAAAAAAH0k/TggZ0KHXyEA/s72-c/blog+Krysta+70s+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-2833130776410019134</id><published>2010-11-26T12:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-26T12:15:04.230-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='impressionist art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil paintings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paintings of women'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portraits of women'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='women paintings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative art'/><title type='text'>Blessings on Black Friday from Artist September McGee</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XdcdGxtaSos/TPAUs48MQMI/AAAAAAAAAVo/SVBnhBXt81o/s1600/Couch+Series+-+Avis.jpg+for+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" ox="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XdcdGxtaSos/TPAUs48MQMI/AAAAAAAAAVo/SVBnhBXt81o/s400/Couch+Series+-+Avis.jpg+for+blog.jpg" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Couch Series - Montrachet&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oil on Italian panel - 18" x 14"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blessings to all on this glorious Black Friday!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a beautiful oil of an even more beautiful woman&lt;br /&gt;who posed for me. She is gorgeous on the inside and out and her beauty radiates in this painting. this oil was created on an Italian Pannelli board which lends&lt;br /&gt;to a finished piece with rich colors and deftly rendered strokes.&lt;br /&gt;On this holiday season may you all be blessed with joy and happiness beyond measure and love.&lt;br /&gt;Give the gift that lasts forever - give the gift of art!&lt;br /&gt;ART is the bargain of the season!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;view available paintings at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.septembermcgee.com/"&gt;http://www.septembermcgee.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blessings,&lt;br /&gt;September McGee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;smcgeearts@aol.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buy American Art&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-2833130776410019134?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/2833130776410019134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/11/blessings-on-black-friday-from-artist.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2833130776410019134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/2833130776410019134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/11/blessings-on-black-friday-from-artist.html' title='Blessings on Black Friday from Artist September McGee'/><author><name>September McGee</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XdcdGxtaSos/Sx2R81C3VSI/AAAAAAAAAAM/yu9fqZ2KfEk/S220/my+mug+for+paint+am+smaller.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XdcdGxtaSos/TPAUs48MQMI/AAAAAAAAAVo/SVBnhBXt81o/s72-c/Couch+Series+-+Avis.jpg+for+blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-1332794163041611917</id><published>2010-11-22T11:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-22T11:54:25.964-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='impressionist artist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='american painter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='women artist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil paintings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='american impressionist artists'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portraits of women'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='figurative art'/><title type='text'>Monday Musings with Artist, September McGee</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XdcdGxtaSos/TOrKAnJUaLI/AAAAAAAAAVg/uJtGeZR3FJo/s1600/terri+for+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XdcdGxtaSos/TOrKAnJUaLI/AAAAAAAAAVg/uJtGeZR3FJo/s320/terri+for+blog.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cafe Series - Lunch at the White House - Terri&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Starting off this holiday week with a beautiful new painting of a wonderful and special woman who has blessed my life with her friendship, giving spirit and loving heart!&lt;br /&gt;This is an oil on museum board from a brand new series of paintings from Lunch at the White House! The owner of the White House in Anaheim, CA was kind enough to allow us to do a photo session at his fabulous restaurant and I am very excited about this series. &lt;br /&gt;With gratitude being the order of the day on this Thanksgiving week, I am ever so grateful for my family and friends, for the generosity of so many people who help me with my art and for the gift of creativity. &lt;br /&gt;I am truly blessed!&lt;br /&gt;Wishing you the best day of your life - today and always!&lt;br /&gt;September McGee&lt;br /&gt;See more!&lt;br /&gt;http://www.septembermcgee.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:smcgeearts@aol.com"&gt;smcgeearts@aol.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-1332794163041611917?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/1332794163041611917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/11/monday-musings-with-artist-september.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1332794163041611917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1332794163041611917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/11/monday-musings-with-artist-september.html' title='Monday Musings with Artist, September McGee'/><author><name>September McGee</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XdcdGxtaSos/Sx2R81C3VSI/AAAAAAAAAAM/yu9fqZ2KfEk/S220/my+mug+for+paint+am+smaller.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XdcdGxtaSos/TOrKAnJUaLI/AAAAAAAAAVg/uJtGeZR3FJo/s72-c/terri+for+blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-7869225695244284389</id><published>2010-11-19T11:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-19T11:51:16.428-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol Nelson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portrait'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='book'/><title type='text'>20% off my book - 100 PORTRAITS - © Carol Nelson Fine Art</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsZvjblbcnk/TOQZTxfTETI/AAAAAAAAAd8/KIeeIG_4zFE/s1600/CFAI%2BLOGO%2B3%2Binch%2B300%2Bdpi%2Brgb_1%2Bcopy.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt; 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&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;If you wish to order a book, enter the promo code "PROMO" at checkout in the US, or "PROMO3"&amp;nbsp; in Canada, for the 20% discount.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, I have one of the books sitting on my coffee table.&amp;nbsp; People cannot resist picking it up and browsing through the 100 faces.&amp;nbsp; These are portraits of REAL PEOPLE from photos I received from folks all over the world. &amp;nbsp; If your portrait is in the book, don't forget to put a fancy bookmark on the page containing your portrait. &amp;nbsp; Humans are naturally drawn to images of other humans, whether they know them personally or not.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Order your 100 PORTRAITS&amp;nbsp; today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Discover Portrait Art, Portrait Paintings, Contemporary Portrait Paintings,Portrait Oil Paintings, Portrait Sketches,Charcoal Portraits, Abstract Portrait Paintings, Realistic Portrait Paintings as International Artists post daily their newest artwork. &lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-7869225695244284389?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/7869225695244284389/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/11/20-off-my-book-100-portraits.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7869225695244284389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7869225695244284389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/11/20-off-my-book-100-portraits.html' title='20% off my book - 100 PORTRAITS - &amp;copy; 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font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_agPJjcFb7bQ/TOE-xzp42rI/AAAAAAAAANA/dTO0mpDqtlk/s1600/d374a677-db01-4ec0-9a0f-f679d130e2e5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_agPJjcFb7bQ/TOE-xzp42rI/AAAAAAAAANA/dTO0mpDqtlk/s320/d374a677-db01-4ec0-9a0f-f679d130e2e5.jpg" width="254" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;"What a pleasant experience! Angela is so wonderful. Great customer service, great communication, great craftsmanship. The painting is perfect, I couldn't ask for more. I will DEFINITELY be back, and would HIGHLY recommend her!! Thanks Angela!!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-9191816239224987697?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/9191816239224987697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/11/long-day-in-iraq-by-angela-ungren.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/9191816239224987697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/9191816239224987697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/11/long-day-in-iraq-by-angela-ungren.html' title='A LONG DAY IN IRAQ By ANGELA UNGREN'/><author><name>Angela Ungren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07232175533787787619</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gEM83nubFvY/Tnp8_0rINHI/AAAAAAAAAYk/Xt4koMjj940/s220/SDC10156.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_agPJjcFb7bQ/TOE-xzp42rI/AAAAAAAAANA/dTO0mpDqtlk/s72-c/d374a677-db01-4ec0-9a0f-f679d130e2e5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-1966693808393385079</id><published>2010-11-12T16:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-12T16:51:44.195-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oil Painting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><title type='text'>The "Project"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/TN3goUIRrtI/AAAAAAAABFg/Uy3kjLG1dGg/s1600/IMGP1663.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/TN3goUIRrtI/AAAAAAAABFg/Uy3kjLG1dGg/s320/IMGP1663.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;On the easel is a 24x30 of the project. After a memorial service this summer, while the adults were talking and grieving, the kids were busy outside. When asked what they were doing they cheerfully replied "the project". Using wonderful kid imaginations they had gathered rocks, sticks, dirt, branches, banana peels, and assorted objects and built a sculpture on the sidewalk. Leave it to kids to demonstrate how life goes on. I snapped a photo on my cell phone and remembered it this week. It was a good "project" for me too. What are you up to? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit and say hello at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://janiloripaints.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://janiloripaints.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-1966693808393385079?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/1966693808393385079/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/11/project.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1966693808393385079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1966693808393385079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/11/project.html' title='The &quot;Project&quot;'/><author><name>Jani Lori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15778762404164894580</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/Sz1cM8RswII/AAAAAAAAACI/t2VkhqMBRnk/S220/Scanjlf_edited-2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/TN3goUIRrtI/AAAAAAAABFg/Uy3kjLG1dGg/s72-c/IMGP1663.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-4302463313525053151</id><published>2010-11-04T19:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-04T19:00:29.551-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for the memory by Janice Filkins</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/TNNksFrp2dI/AAAAAAAABC8/gCABqh40ZU8/s1600/scan0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/TNNksFrp2dI/AAAAAAAABC8/gCABqh40ZU8/s320/scan0001.jpg" width="258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I do not know the man in the photo. The photo was taken while I was attending school in Manhattan.&amp;nbsp;One of my&amp;nbsp;fellow students and I&amp;nbsp;wandered the streets with our cameras during lunch breaks, looking for that magical moment to capture on film. (Yes we used film in those days). Anyway, I came across this picture today and I remembered the minute I shared with him. He saw the camera in my hand and said,"&amp;nbsp;take my picture girly". I think I replied something like, "I am looking for something&amp;nbsp;memorable to shoot". He immediately took the cigerette from his mouth and put it in his ear. Many years later, I look at this photo and realize how "memorable" it is. All those small everyday interactions with each other that enrich our lives. Anyway thanks for reading! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://janicefilkins.com/"&gt;http://janicefilkins.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-4302463313525053151?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/4302463313525053151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/11/thanks-for-memory-by-janice-filkins.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4302463313525053151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4302463313525053151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/11/thanks-for-memory-by-janice-filkins.html' title='Thanks for the memory by Janice Filkins'/><author><name>Jani Lori</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15778762404164894580</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/Sz1cM8RswII/AAAAAAAAACI/t2VkhqMBRnk/S220/Scanjlf_edited-2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CDWBeKCayTM/TNNksFrp2dI/AAAAAAAABC8/gCABqh40ZU8/s72-c/scan0001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-3735100331751419973</id><published>2010-10-10T13:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-10T13:42:39.361-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Texas Contemporary Artist Laurie Pace'/><title type='text'>Sheer Grit Completed Girl Soccer Oil Painting by Texas Artist Laurie Pace</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 292px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TIU1cK_sJOI/AAAAAAAAAKs/46GmEgmREDA/s400/Ophelia+001.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513872076889138402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Original charcoal portrait by Jean Marie Baldwin  18x12&lt;br /&gt;jeanmariebaldwinart.blogspot.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-7213145213178268731?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/7213145213178268731/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/09/susan.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7213145213178268731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/7213145213178268731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/09/susan.html' title='Susan'/><author><name>Jean Marie Baldwin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13944823958496696828</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/S8nskvL4XUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jsCwGlUoVWI/S220/biltore,+portraits+033.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TIU1cK_sJOI/AAAAAAAAAKs/46GmEgmREDA/s72-c/Ophelia+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-6741831249072352678</id><published>2010-08-26T07:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-26T07:21:12.613-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Jill and Addison</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cfLWkOSyQMc/THZ3zZ05RII/AAAAAAAAA-k/keOYZdslz1w/s1600/For-Web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cfLWkOSyQMc/THZ3zZ05RII/AAAAAAAAA-k/keOYZdslz1w/s320/For-Web.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509722919124157570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oil on Canvas 8" x 10" by Rosemary Sexton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a joy it was painting this beautiful young mother and her new baby!&lt;br /&gt;Please visit my &lt;a href="http://rosemarysextonpaints.blogspot.com"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="rosemary@franklyrose.com"&gt;email&lt;/a&gt; me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-6741831249072352678?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/6741831249072352678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/08/jill-and-addison.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6741831249072352678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6741831249072352678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/08/jill-and-addison.html' title='Jill and Addison'/><author><name>Rosemary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03123711998908894938</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cfLWkOSyQMc/SbGIaQJGTmI/AAAAAAAAAAM/UGIY_BBgWww/S220/Rosemary+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cfLWkOSyQMc/THZ3zZ05RII/AAAAAAAAA-k/keOYZdslz1w/s72-c/For-Web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-5833805895150368794</id><published>2010-08-20T10:18:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-20T10:20:03.785-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jean marie baldwin art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charcoal portraits'/><title type='text'>Laura</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TG65AobahjI/AAAAAAAAAJs/A0qtJ29A2BU/s1600/Katie3+003.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TG65AobahjI/AAAAAAAAAJs/A0qtJ29A2BU/s400/Katie3+003.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507542814824236594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Original charcoal portrait by Jean Marie Baldwin  16x12&lt;br /&gt;jeanmariebaldwinart.blogspot.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-5833805895150368794?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/5833805895150368794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/08/laura.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5833805895150368794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5833805895150368794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/08/laura.html' title='Laura'/><author><name>Jean Marie Baldwin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13944823958496696828</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/S8nskvL4XUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jsCwGlUoVWI/S220/biltore,+portraits+033.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TG65AobahjI/AAAAAAAAAJs/A0qtJ29A2BU/s72-c/Katie3+003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-625695267867116712</id><published>2010-08-14T12:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-14T12:07:49.659-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jean marie baldwin art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charcoal portraits'/><title type='text'>Chris</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TGbpKmxhXhI/AAAAAAAAAJE/8Zq0kkVhgpM/s1600/Nikkie+and+Jean+005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TGbpKmxhXhI/AAAAAAAAAJE/8Zq0kkVhgpM/s400/Nikkie+and+Jean+005.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505343962923228690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Original charcoal portrait by Jean Marie Baldwin 15x12&lt;br /&gt;jeanmariebaldwinart.blogspot.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-625695267867116712?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/625695267867116712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/08/chris.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/625695267867116712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/625695267867116712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/08/chris.html' title='Chris'/><author><name>Jean Marie Baldwin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13944823958496696828</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/S8nskvL4XUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jsCwGlUoVWI/S220/biltore,+portraits+033.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TGbpKmxhXhI/AAAAAAAAAJE/8Zq0kkVhgpM/s72-c/Nikkie+and+Jean+005.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-1475626977712241049</id><published>2010-08-14T12:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-14T12:03:03.536-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jean marie baldwin art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charcoal portraits'/><title type='text'>Self Portrait</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TGboGhs7maI/AAAAAAAAAI8/SNQRhfF_K3g/s1600/Nikkie+and+Jean+001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 307px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TGboGhs7maI/AAAAAAAAAI8/SNQRhfF_K3g/s400/Nikkie+and+Jean+001.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505342793330694562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Original charcoal portrait by Jean Marie Baldwin  14x12&lt;br /&gt;jeanmariebaldwinart.blogspot.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-1475626977712241049?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/1475626977712241049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/08/self-portrait.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1475626977712241049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/1475626977712241049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/08/self-portrait.html' title='Self Portrait'/><author><name>Jean Marie Baldwin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13944823958496696828</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/S8nskvL4XUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jsCwGlUoVWI/S220/biltore,+portraits+033.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TGboGhs7maI/AAAAAAAAAI8/SNQRhfF_K3g/s72-c/Nikkie+and+Jean+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-8569007190432680935</id><published>2010-08-06T09:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-06T09:17:34.477-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jean marie baldwin art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charcoal portraits'/><title type='text'>Greta</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TFw1Wvu9HkI/AAAAAAAAAIM/qVV83YpzkNQ/s1600/Greta+and+Selena+003.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TFw1Wvu9HkI/AAAAAAAAAIM/qVV83YpzkNQ/s400/Greta+and+Selena+003.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502331509626707522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Original charcoal portrait by Jean Marie Baldwin  18X12&lt;br /&gt;jeanbaldwin@bellsouth.net&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-8569007190432680935?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/8569007190432680935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/08/greta.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8569007190432680935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/8569007190432680935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/08/greta.html' title='Greta'/><author><name>Jean Marie Baldwin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13944823958496696828</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/S8nskvL4XUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jsCwGlUoVWI/S220/biltore,+portraits+033.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TFw1Wvu9HkI/AAAAAAAAAIM/qVV83YpzkNQ/s72-c/Greta+and+Selena+003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-6321867369800582546</id><published>2010-08-01T14:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-01T14:21:07.336-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol Nelson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><title type='text'>"AFRICAN CHILD", 10122, daily painter portait study © Carol Nelson Fine Art</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TFXjgRx7cpI/AAAAAAAADTU/f4mHGKwdAdc/s1600/African+Child_10122.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TFXjgRx7cpI/AAAAAAAADTU/f4mHGKwdAdc/s320/African+Child_10122.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500552663571067538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this portrait of an African child, there are several things going on.  I like the over the shoulder pose with the whistfull, almost dreamy look of the child.  Notice there are two obvious light sources - a golden light on the right side that is slightly behind the figure,  and a cooler white light on the left, frontal side.&lt;br /&gt;The warm reds of the robe are also reflected on the face.  Careful observation of these subtle nuances of light are essential when looking at the reference material.  I deliberately chose this tightly cropped composition because I wanted the face to be dominant in the smaller format.&lt;br /&gt;This 7x5 painting is available for $85, including shipping in the US/Canada.  Please &lt;a href="http://carolnelsonfineart.com/works/484711"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to go to my website for a Paypal button.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-6321867369800582546?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/6321867369800582546/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/08/african-child-10122-daily-painter.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6321867369800582546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/6321867369800582546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/08/african-child-10122-daily-painter.html' title='&quot;AFRICAN CHILD&quot;, 10122, daily painter portait study &amp;copy; Carol Nelson Fine Art'/><author><name>Carol Nelson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01630012970904448514</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TKgVyRBP2kI/AAAAAAAADds/2UiiPt_DU74/S220/me_014.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TFXjgRx7cpI/AAAAAAAADTU/f4mHGKwdAdc/s72-c/African+Child_10122.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-3321504510170874233</id><published>2010-07-31T13:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T13:21:34.114-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Carol Nelson'/><title type='text'>Best Friends, 10123, commissioned portrait © Carol Nelson Fine Art</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TFR-cXzsDSI/AAAAAAAADTE/WhCoRzhJAA4/s1600/Best+Friends_001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TFR-cXzsDSI/AAAAAAAADTE/WhCoRzhJAA4/s320/Best+Friends_001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500160070818467106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These ladies are best friends.  One of them asked me to paint this portrait of the two of them as a surprise gift for the other one.  I agreed to do it, but now I think I should have declined.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was working from a small photo and, as you can see, it was a flash photo with both of them looking directly into the camera.  That is precisely the type of reference photo I dislike intensely. It makes a good photo, but a lousy portrait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now, I'm going to say NEVER AGAIN.  If you study the work of famous portrait artists, their work never looks like an ad for good dental checkups.  These ladies have great smiles, but when I look at this painting, all I see is teeth.  You would think, after my 100 portraits project, I would have known the pitfalls of painting this photo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-3321504510170874233?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/3321504510170874233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/07/best-friends-10123-commissioned.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3321504510170874233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/3321504510170874233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/07/best-friends-10123-commissioned.html' title='Best Friends, 10123, commissioned portrait &amp;copy; Carol Nelson Fine Art'/><author><name>Carol Nelson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01630012970904448514</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TKgVyRBP2kI/AAAAAAAADds/2UiiPt_DU74/S220/me_014.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_paPjrds2o7A/TFR-cXzsDSI/AAAAAAAADTE/WhCoRzhJAA4/s72-c/Best+Friends_001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-69335030276608134</id><published>2010-07-29T14:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-29T14:13:15.173-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jean marie baldwin art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charcoal portraits'/><title type='text'>Deva</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TFHung1cwEI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7n7u0uGoZW8/s1600/Deva+and+Vickie+002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TFHung1cwEI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7n7u0uGoZW8/s400/Deva+and+Vickie+002.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499438982592512066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Original charcoal portrait by Jean Marie Baldwin  18X12&lt;br /&gt;jeanbaldwin@bellsouth.net&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-69335030276608134?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/69335030276608134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/07/deva.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/69335030276608134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/69335030276608134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/07/deva.html' title='Deva'/><author><name>Jean Marie Baldwin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13944823958496696828</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/S8nskvL4XUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jsCwGlUoVWI/S220/biltore,+portraits+033.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TFHung1cwEI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7n7u0uGoZW8/s72-c/Deva+and+Vickie+002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-5760431717490056179</id><published>2010-07-29T14:08:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-29T14:10:43.305-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jean marie baldwin art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charcoal portraits'/><title type='text'>Kate</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TFHt9ywtuxI/AAAAAAAAAHE/9U7u4WosDWk/s1600/Kate+002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TFHt9ywtuxI/AAAAAAAAAHE/9U7u4WosDWk/s400/Kate+002.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499438265849985810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Original charcoal portrait by Jean Marie Baldwin 18X12&lt;br /&gt;jeanbaldwin@bellsouth.net&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-5760431717490056179?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/5760431717490056179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/07/kate.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5760431717490056179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/5760431717490056179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/07/kate.html' title='Kate'/><author><name>Jean Marie Baldwin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13944823958496696828</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/S8nskvL4XUI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jsCwGlUoVWI/S220/biltore,+portraits+033.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O3YQ0ibdg68/TFHt9ywtuxI/AAAAAAAAAHE/9U7u4WosDWk/s72-c/Kate+002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660550366671586385.post-4941818085211978050</id><published>2010-07-17T12:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-17T12:48:34.515-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Rub-A-Dub Jed</title><content type='html'>by Rosemary Sexton.&lt;br /&gt;24" x 18" oil on canvas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Please visit my &lt;a href="http://rosemarysextonpaints.blogspot.com"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="rosemary@franklyrose.com"&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cfLWkOSyQMc/TEIG3aWNIxI/AAAAAAAAA9s/5Y4K7JcOB9Y/s1600/Rub-a-Dub-Jed-for-Web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cfLWkOSyQMc/TEIG3aWNIxI/AAAAAAAAA9s/5Y4K7JcOB9Y/s320/Rub-a-Dub-Jed-for-Web.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494962044380455698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A portrait of our grandson, Jed, as a baby which hangs in my studio along with other portraits of him and his older brother, Eddie.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4660550366671586385-4941818085211978050?l=portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/feeds/4941818085211978050/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/07/rub-dub-jed.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4941818085211978050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4660550366671586385/posts/default/4941818085211978050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://portraitartistsinternational.blogspot.com/2010/07/rub-dub-jed.html' title='Rub-A-Dub Jed'/><author><name>Rosemary</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03123711998908894938</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cfLWkOSyQMc/SbGIaQJGTmI/AAAAAAAAAAM/UGIY_BBgWww/S220/Rosemary+2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cfLWkOSyQMc/TEIG3aWNIxI/AAAAAAAAA9s/5Y4K7JcOB9Y/s72-c/Rub-a-Dub-Jed-for-Web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry></feed>
