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Portrait Artist of The Week 37- Nurse Alex Our Angel Hero
P O R T R A I T A R T I S T O F T H E W E E K
Global paint-along zoom event Sundays during the pandemic lockdown by SkyTV
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PORTRAIT OPERA SINGER 12” x 12” Oil on panel handmade linen over birch December 12, 2020 PORTRAIT DANNII MINOGUE 12” x 12” Oil on birch Dec.18, 2020
During the pandemic I joined a community of more than 1200 ARTISTS WORLDWIDE every Sunday for a global Paint-along. This is one of many portraits I painted while watching SkyArts TV live on Sunday mornings. It was a magical session with UK portrait Artist Tom Croft painting the ever effervescent British soprano Leslie Garrett. Love this show. It was something to look forward to every week. Delightful to listen to her chat about opera and even her belting out Silent Night to everyone’s astonishment and shear delight. It was fabulous to participate in this live four hour global painting event on Sundays. This is another of many portraits I painted while watching SkyArts TV live on Sunday mornings. Australian singer, actress, fashion designer, presenter, host Dannii Minogue was a pleasure to listen to and paint. She was a real trooper sitting for 4 hours entertaining and chatting until 1 am from her home in Australia to all of us around the world. Just so fabulous to participate in this live four hour global painting event, from my easel in Puerto Rico where I spent the lockdown as I was unable to travel.
This paint-along on Sundays allowed me a chance to experiment in different styles.
O R E H L E G N A R U O X E L A
11” x 14” oil on linen primed with clear gesso adhered to birch board.
Alex was my Covid Hero of the Week for #portraitsforcovidheroes. December 15, 2020. She is one of my mother’s two rotating hospice nurse practitioners who attended to my mother every other day in the home. (Santa Paula, California) She gave my sister Andi (mom’s full time caregiver) assistance and guidance in keeping our mom comfortable and pain free, monitoring her vitals and occasionally more extensive procedures. Alex’s eyes sparkle as she enters the home, showing her kind and loving nature. She’s was blessing to my mother who suffered from advance stages of dementia and is bedridden. Especially during this covid pandemic, I wanted to take time to thank and honor her with this portrait for helping my sister and mom in these difficult days. I wanted to have the backlighting give her a halo, portraying her as the angel she is to our family.
