Some of my best inspirations for subject matter come from photos.
I particulary like photos from my photo album as they have meaning to me.
It's great when a photo provides dramatic, artistic possiblities such as the pictures of my girlfriend when she was young, visiting a park near Niagra Falls.
Her ballet-like pose echoing the bend of the nearby tree was compelling. This painting was done using acrylics on canvas paper.


I followed up this piece with another using soft pastels on yellow construction paper (below).


















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This work is more impressionistic in style. Scanning the painting and using Microsoft PictureIt! illusion effects, I altered the image.