The Joanal

The last of, but by no means least of the restaurant series of paintings is now completed. The Lignum Vitae, I must admit, was not as much fun for me to paint as the other 5 paintings in the series. I really struggled to achieve accuracy in hues for this one. Blending varying values of [...]

Today I completed the second in the restaurant series paintings. I’m really happy with the results considering working in acrylics is not my forté. Enter the studio to see the end results.
I’ll spend the next few days working on the sunset and later, the Lignum. I’m looking forward to getting this lot of paintings done. [...]

The first in the lot of paintings I’ve been working on for my aunt’s restaurant is now complete and sitting ‘in the studio’ for you to see. Feedback welcome.

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 [...]