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City in the Mist
Exploring continues. Took an online class from Angela Anderson Fine Art on her YouTube channel, and am thrilled with the outcome of my acrylic painting. Love the diversity in the trees and shrubs and first time learning how to create the look of fog or mist in the distance.
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Currents – An Abstract Commission
This abstract acrylic painting is my first large commissioned piece. It’s influenced by a famous Puerto Rican artist, Andres Bueso.
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Dukie – The King of the Finca La Nuestra, AKA Farmhouse
Dukie is the king of the Finca La Nuestra, aka ‘Our Farmhouse’, in Satsuma, FL. He is a Rhodesian Ridgeback and Yellow Lab mix. When my brother, Albert, and my uncle Fernando and their spouses, Dania and María Eugenia, bought a 10-acre farmhouse earlier this year, they didn’t anticipate that the previous owner’s dog would
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Lady Patches Pet Portrait
Lady Patches Grimes is a miniature Schnauzer living her best life in Jacksonville, FL. It took her mom, Patti, many months trying to get her still enough to capture a photo to send me as a good reference. I think there must have been a tasty treat in front of the camera evidenced by her
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Sunflowers for Mothers
Happy Mothers Day from Leo Art Creations and R. Michael Brown, Marketing Consultant. Shot at Bedner’s Farm, Boynton Beach, Florida 📸 Photography: Leonor Martinez www.LeoArtCreations.com 🎦 Post Production: R. Michael Brown LLC www.RMichaelBrown.com 🎵 Music: “Winter Sunlight” by Unreal dm, 2009 – Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)
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Leo Art Creations Business Cards Have Arrived!
Leonor Martinez of Leo Art Creations requested business cards so I designed one for her. She’s an artist that paints on canvas so I made the card look like a painting on canvas with the traditional linen look of canvas on the front and the stretched and stapled canvas on the wood frame on the
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Art Talk with Kristen & Leonor
Kristen Kerr, of Cultivate the Creative Foundation and Leonor Martinez, of Leo Art Creations, sat down via Zoom to talk about how Leo got started in painting. Leo just started a year ago. It’s their hope that viewers, especially new artists, can learn from their experience starting this wonderful adventure. Leonor shows some of her
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Jamie’s Lily
This cutie was my good friend Jamie Jordan’s four-legged baby for many years and it was an honor to paint her. I painted this puppy in acrylic and creating white fur with paint always has its challenges because you need to see past the white and bring out the underlying colors. What I love most
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Mountain Escape
This scenic escape is an acrylic painting I did a few weeks ago for a colleague who loves mountains and nature. I truly enjoy working with different tools to get the effects and detail I’m looking for throughout the piece. To see the full size painting, click to my Landscape Painting Page.
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Lucy – A Loving Pet Portrait
Lucy, the Goldendoodle, was inspired by a get well card I was sent and the puppy with beautiful red-toned locks reminded me of “our favorite red-head,” aside from my hubby 😜, Lucille Ball during the sitcom I Love Lucy reruns we watched in the 70’s. I gave Lucy lots of contrasting colors and texture in
