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The Many Faces of Bellator

March 26th, 2010 | Posted in Virtual pARTy


Shanghai Spring, 4 x 6 watercolour and ink, Christine Trevino

We had our best turnout yet for a pARTy with this March edition – now you can see what took me so long getting them up! Thanks to all of our participants, and to our handsome model, Bellator. Hope you all had fun!

Artists – I included the “specs” on your piece and a link for those I had – I didn’t have time to go searching this time. Send me an email and the pARTy address if yours is missing and you’d like me to add it. And if I’ve missed someone, please let me know!

Yvonne Todd, 6 x 2.5 oil

“Why The Long Face?” 16 x 8 oil on canvas, Linda Massey

Sue Kroll, 10 x 8 acrylic

“Fuzzy Ears,” 7 x 5 oil, Marilyn Sadler

Miriam Hughes

Mary Agarwal
Lisa Guarino, 4 x 3 watercolour pencil

Linda Ward, 3.5 x 2.5 (ACEO) pencil

“Vertical (Bellator)” 16 x 8 acrylic on canvas board, Kim Santini

Kathy Roeth, 14 x 10 gouache and watercolour on coldpress

Karen Thumm, 12 x 9 oil on canvas board

Karen Bowden

“Just a Bit of Blarney” 6 x 4 acrylic on coldpress watercolour paper, Linda Martin

Judy Johnson, 6 x 4 watercolour

“Nice ‘N’ Cozy”, 6 x 6 acrylic, Elizabeth McCrindle

“Hay?” 11 x 4 oil on canvas, Diana Lancaster

Charlotte Tanner, acrylic on cardboard


“Bellator #2″ 7 x 5 oil on shellaced masonite, Linda Shantz

©Copyright 2010 by The Virtual pARTy and participating artists. See original post here.
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Ready….Set…pARTy! March 2010

March 16th, 2010 | Posted in Virtual pARTy


Here’s your image for the March pARTy. You have from midnight tonight until midnight March 20th to get your painting to us. Remember the idea is to complete your painting in a 24-hour span of time. Complete instructions are above. Email a low-res image (72 dpi, approx. 4 x 6 inches dimensionally) of your painting to us at thevirtualparty77@yahoo.ca – if you don’t get a reply acknowledging receipt, that means something went awry!

This handsome boy is Bellator, a young Warmblood gelding that lives at Inish’Or Farm in Puslinch, Ontario. Please remember to give credit to the photographer – in this case, Linda Shantz.

PS – if you’d like a high-res file from which to work, just send a request to the address above.

©Copyright 2010 by The Virtual pARTy and participating artists. See original post here.
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February pARTy Paintings!

February 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Virtual pARTy

We had a great turnout for our Feburary pARTy. Thanks again to Kim Santini for providing the reference image of the Curly horse! Artists – I have tried my best to include information for everyone with their image, but if yours is missing (or incorrect!), just send me an email or make a comment to the post and I’ll make the changes.

Thanks so much to everyone who took part! Without further ado…your pARTy pARTicipants! (in no particular order!)


Kim Santini, “Up Close(Percy)” 6 x 8 acrylic on board


Catherin McMillan, 5 x 5 acrylic on canvas panel


Catherine Gillespie, “Percy”


Lois Primeau, 5 3/8 x 8 oil on gessoed masonite


Sue Kroll, acrylic

Lisa Ward-Guarino, pastel


Candy Simchik, “Hello” 5 x 7 acrylic on canvas board

Kate Dardine, “She Really Didn’t Need a Man on Her Back” 6 x 6 oil on canvas


Kathy Roeth, 9 x 7.5 watercolour and gouache on coldpress archival watercolour paper


Linda Martin, “Snow Globe” 4 x 4 watercolour


Marilyn Sadler, “Snow Pony,” 5 x 7 pastel


Linda Massey, “Winter Reflections” 3 x 20 oil on panel


Diana Lancaster, “Wild Dawn” 6 x 6 acrylic


Linda Ward, “Mardi Gras Pony!”


Linda Shantz, “Up Close and Personal with Percy” 10 x 10 oil on gallery wrap canvas

©Copyright 2009 by The Virtual pARTy and participating artists. See original post here.
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Heads Up! Next pARTy Coming!

February 5th, 2010 | Posted in Virtual pARTy

Okay, let’s try to keep the momentum going with another pARTy for February. This one will be run during February 16th through the 20th. I think this time around I’ll be looking for a snow photo. Snow is challenging to paint, and maybe we’ll get some International participants this time who might not otherwise have the chance to paint snow!

Mark your calendars! And the same ‘rules’ apply. I think the header, above, is up-to-date on the information. Feel free to share, too! The more the merrier!

©Copyright 2009 by The Virtual pARTy and participating artists. See original post here.
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Jul 4 – Virtual pARTy Challenge, and a Demo

July 5th, 2009 | Posted in Elin Pendleton

In the workshop this morning, I had to demonstrate morning light, so I picked up on an image from Linda Shantz, who organized a virtual pARTy for artists to do an image from the same source.

This is a 16 x 20 acrylic done for a morning light painting in the Color System, and depicts a very pregnant mare in a pasture. I modified the source material quite a lot and am quite pleased with this painting. Redesigning source material and making it one’s own is the mark of a confident artist, with an arsenal of ability to make source material just the “jumping off point” for the art. I love doing this! And in front of the eleven participants, I finished this up for them in record time.

You can see the source material and some of the other entries here. Mine won’t be there for a while until my registration is cleared.

Congratulations to new collector Louise Sackett from Santee, California, on her purchase of yesterday’s painting of the California Coast in moonlight!

You can see my entire blog HERE.
My workshop schedule for 2009 is HERE.
Color System information can be found HERE.
If you need to email me directly, please click here.

©Copyright 2009 by Elin Pendleton. See original post here.
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Belmont’s Tail End. Racing drawing.

June 6th, 2009 | Posted in Sheona Hamilton-Grant

pARTied, had a smashing time and no headache to nurse!!!

“Belmont’s Tail End”
Graphite on Paper 36×20 cm (14′x8′)
Sheona Hamilton-Grant. All rights reserved

Went to a virtual art pARTy organised and hosted by fellow artists Kim Santini, Linda Shantz .

This simply means one reference pic, one day to produce an inspired piece of work and another day to peek at all the variations on a theme provided by the other participants.

This pARTy’s reference picture was provide by photographer Juliet Harrison.


This are great challenges, especially for someone like me who likes to work too slowly.
With such a short dead-line you have to simplify and work loose and ….speed up!
Went for the first thing I saw: the bay horses eye and dilated nostril.
The diagonal composition emerged from there.
Sketched down a few lines (in ink would you believe!) picked up a 2B Derwent and got scribbling on Strathmore Bristol Smooth( 300 series).
Loaded The Killers into the hi-fi and swung into action.

Spent a little too long on the whole process (5 hours) but then again that’s what usually happens at a good party right?

©Copyright 2009 by Sheona Hamilton-Grant. See original post here.
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