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🇨🇦 JenPaints
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GenX. Artist. Mom and grandma. I own a music store with my husband. Maritimer and proud Canadian. 🇨🇦 I like history and nature.
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Day 9 #ArtAdventCalendar
I painted this a few years ago for fun. I love Maggie Smith as Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey. I love her face and the expressiveness of her eyes. I'm sorry she is gone now. She was brilliant.
Maggie
11x14 Acrylic on Claybord
#Acrylic #painting 🎨
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Day 8 is 1/3 the way through #ArtAdventCalendar!

Close Encounter
40×48in 101x122cm
Oil on Canvas
2021

#art #painting
December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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When in doubt, get sprinkles. Hope your Sunday is sweet, #ArtAdventCalendar friends.

#watercolor
December 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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🪸🐙 Reef Dreams VII & VI ✨

🐙 Hand sculpted from clay & lovingly painted 🎨🪸 Tiny Glass Beads & Wire.

#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
December 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 7, I present one of my favorite things I’ve ever drawn, let alone drawn during this “damn near impossible to draw anything” marathon-of-depression year.

Sled dogs are some of the happiest dogs on earth. Always good for a pick me up. 😊
December 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Love this. Reposted for the art. Followed for the name.
December 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Barred owl. Day 7 #ArtAdventCalendar
A maybe unfinished drawing from last winter. We see and hear these owls all the time. Last summer we had babies squawking around the yard!
#birds #natureart #wildlifeart #owls
December 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
December 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Peaceful Pacific Grove, a watercolor for #ArtAdventCalendar day 7.
I was inspired to paint this after walking the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail. Love visiting Pacific Grove. 💙 #art #watercolor #landscape #Monterey #California #coast

Prints available 🎨 1-elizabeth-kennen.pixels.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar. Hand sketch, charcoal and white pencil crayon.
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 7: This mountain lion was carved by my father as a present to my mother for their anniversary many years ago. I love the simplicity of the carving, yet you can see it come alive so eadily.
December 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 7: Another very old piece from 2015, this time Eurasian blue tit! This one I still like super much, which is unusual with my old artworks.
#art #traditionalart
December 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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For Day 7 #ArtAdventCalendar morning

Chaser Sunset
35x44in 89x112cm
Oil on Canvas
2020

#Art #Painting
December 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar #ForestFriday

Dec 5: watercolor of Appalachian mountains, the smooth curves covered in green forest.
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Day 5
#ArtAdventCalendar 🎨
The four girls are myself and my high school chums. It's an ode to our youth and friendships growing up... a distant memory. One of us is gone now. The fallen red leaf is for her.
Forever Friends
24x36
#Acrylic #Art #Painting #RED #whistpr #autumn 🍁🌳
December 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Still life Pencil Drawing from 1988 assignment in 10th grade art class.
#artadventcalendar #pencil #drawing #eastcoastkin #stilllife #artyear
December 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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It is rare to find Hans Heysen's early work from when he was at Académie Julian and Colarossi’s Academy in Paris in the decade before WW1. This work, painted on a cold Parisian morning, is prosaically titled, 'From the Apartment Window, Paris, 1901.'
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Beautiful
Here are three of my pastels showing the Dixie's Retro Fashion stall on Cambridge market. This was for a long time a visual delight on the corner near Great St Mary's. These all found buyers.
#art #pastel #cambridge #retrofashion #fleamarket
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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A trio for day 4 of #artadventcalendar

Atlantic Puffins hanging out

#watercolor #seabird
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Day 4
#ArtAdventCalendar 🎨
10x10 Green water.
#acrylic #art #painting #water
December 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Love this!
Goldfinches (the European species) in the winter’s morning sunshine. Ink and watercolour.
#artAdventCalendar
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December 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4 morning

Breakup
30x36 76x91
Oil on Canvas
2021

#art #painting
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Wow! Beautiful ❤️
Day Threeeee! Weeeee! #ArtAdventCalendar
Make it a good one, BlueSky Friends
"Remembering Why We Came"
Acrylic On Canvas
#painting
#torilart
#art
#fineart
#acrylic
#stillontime 😀
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Day 3
#ArtAdventCalendar 🎨
This is a painting from a few years ago. It's based on a photo I took at our favourite fishing spot.
#acrylic #art #painting #stilllife
#landscape #water
December 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Wow! Beautiful ❤️
Day 3 of #ArtAdventCalendar
"Layer By Layer"
Hand embroidery thread painting artwork
#PortraitArt #enbroidery #FiberArt
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Day 2
#ArtAdventCalendar 🎨
8x8 acrylic study for a much larger painting I'm working on.
#acrylic #art #painting #stilllife
December 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM