The Joanal

Check out my friend Uchay’s Article regarding some of his recent work. Uchay’s work has taken on a new face lately. His work has become, in his own words, “much more conceptual”.
Art for Things Fall Apart at 50

I sent an e-mail to the author of the reference material I used for the Italian door painting informing her that the painting I did based on one of her photos was completed and posted on my blog and, the following, in part, was her response:
“Joan,The painting is Brilliant! I think it improves upon the [...]

I was inspired to paint this oil painting after seeing a brilliant photograph of this Italian door taken by Webshots Member, ‘terrytigger’. Having lived in Italy for over 6 months, I fell in love with its art and history . I saw many of these doors during my visit to this beautiful country and have [...]

It was a family tradition when I was growing up to attend the Canadian Forces annual air shows. I had looked forward each year to see all the planes on display and, gasped in amazement at the dramatic aerobatic feats performed by the talented and brave pilots and their planes. Needless to say it was [...]

In the summer of 2005 I took a driving trip from Alberta to Ontario. . .(what a long drive that was!!!). On the return trip to my hometown, driving through the United States, I made an impromptu stop to stroll the beaches of Lake Superior. It was cool, windy and overcast. With my little canine [...]

A great big shout out to all my followers and lovers of my paintings. I finally decided to create a blog especially for showing off my art creations, particularly my paintings. This blog is not a venue to sell my works but if you see a work of art you like and would like to [...]

My name is Joan A Brown and I’m a self-Representing artist living and working in Alberta, Canada. I have been a Self-Representing Artist selling my own art on eBay since early 2004 as well as representing African Artist Uchay Joel Chima’s work in North America. After many years of creating oil paintings and giving [...]

Several years ago I taught myself HTML, the language used by most web browsers. At first it was like greek to me. It took me a while to catch on to all that codes, scripting, etc. but now it’s so much fun to be able to whip up a page if I so choose. Here [...]