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Shoe Shine

There are Shoeshiners all over the big cities in Turkey (Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara...). Some take two seconds and don't actually care so they "paint" over your shoes and charge five to seven euros. But some really do care about their craft.

Street sketch

Turkish Business man

Oil sketch Practice

This is an oil sketch I did for practice. Many people that are learning how to paint don't practice on a daily basis. We accept the notion of ''you must practice every day'' wen it comes to drawing but it's good to carry that mentality when you are painting. It's simple to pickup a pencil and start to draw, but one must not be afraid of paint. With time you can learn to setup in a way that can be quick to start painting and less daunting.

Sports Bar Painting

This was a commission for the Bombers Sports Bar in Downtown Moncton. The owner said he will reframe it and it will hang inside the bar.

Urban Painting - (Part 2)

Time to hit the streets again in downtown Moncton NB. At this point in the pictures the drawing was already locked down on canvas and I was well on my way. I started by creating a light underpainting. Next I was pushing and pulling some of the values to bring it all to life. Still more to come...

I want to say thank you to my good friend Jimmy Robichaud for taking the pictures.

Urban Painting - (Part 1)

This is the preparatory drawing for a painting I'm currently working on. It was commissioned to me last year but the snow got in the way. Everyone knows it takes more than snow for me to stop painting but since the client wanted a painting without snow I had to postpone.

Some of the lines are a bit strange, this was all done freehand with the sight size method.

I'll be posting my progress.

Self-portrait

Stéphanie Final

Stéphanie Oil in progress