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FIGURES and PORTRAITS

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An Ascent of Exceptional Degrees
oil  40" x 30"
$4900.

Angel Ballerina
Heather Dougan 
gallery wrap oil  30" x 40"
$4900.
SOLD
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FIGURE DRAWINGS  

Drawing the human form is the perfect discipline to keep an artist's skills finely tuned.
When I lived in Canmore, I made every effort to attend the Tuesday evening sessions
when a group of artists assembled to work from a live model.

These drawings are some of the longer poses, from these evenings:

These drawings are smaller, more spontaneous pencil drawings,
available unframed at $100. each.  Paper size is 9" x 12":

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PORTRAITS

For me portraits present the biggest challenge I can choose to take!

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Selma Palmer is a wonderful woman who just happens to be somehow related to me.
We met at The International Saltiel Family Reunion in Barcelona (see below).  Her
spirit and face compelled me to paint her portrait, twice, in 2001.  Please understand
that portraiture is something I usually shy away from because, for me, achieving a
likeness is very difficult.  I gave these portraits to Selma and she in turn passed
them on, one to each of her two sons.

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The Moshe Shaltiel Commission

I call this dynamic man King of The Saltiels because, to me, he is.  In 1990 when he was visiting Banff,
he called me, as he is wont to do everywhere he goes when he finds any Saltiels in telephone books.
What followed was my entering into the then developing Saltiel Family Worldwide.
http://www.shealtiel.com/shealtiel/today/welcome.asp
There are international family reunions every three years and while we haven't attended all of them,
we did go to Salonika, Greece in 1997 and to Barcelona, Spain in 2000.  Delightful friendships evolved
and we have both visited and hosted charming 'relatives' as a result of our meetings at these reunions.



I photograph him in my studio.

First, I block in all the elements	then, I manipulate his features
and develop them to a likeness	Next, I refine the background