Bunny
BUNNY Please click here or on the image for details about the painting and availability. I thought it was time Bunny had his portrait done.
Turnip
Turnip SOLD Private Collection: Truro, Nova Scotia Yesterday, the New York Times published Recipes for Health: Turnips, which sent me scrambling to the fridge. There were two small turnips sitting in the bottom drawer since October, one was growing yellow sprouts. I peeled, chopped and then tossed the one without the sprouts into a soup [...]
Rubber Duck
Rubber Duck Click here for details and availability Remember Ernie and his rubber ducky from Sesame Street? Okay, sing it with me. :) Rubber Ducky You’re the one You make bath time lots of fun! Rubber Ducky, I’m awfully fond of you!
Bosc pear
Bosc Pear Click here for details and availability. Remember that scene in City of Angels? The one where Nicholas Cage asks Meg Ryan what a pear tastes like and she tells him it “tastes like a pear,” but he really wants to know what a pear tastes “to you.” Sigh. So romantic. That movie was released in [...]
To Sausalito
To Sausalito 5 x 7-inches oil on board This is an image that stuck with me on my recent trip to San Francisco taking the ferry to Sausalito. This is an oil sketch, I love his green shirt, everything else in this image is up for grabs. Have been thinking of creating a larger painting [...]
Happy Holly-days
Happy Holly Days Just a quick life study from the garden, it might be -12C but there is plenty in the garden to hint at renewed life in the spring. We’ve passed the shortest day of the year so the daylight lasts a little longer each day. Just a few freezing months of dreaming [...]
Doyle Street Art in The Chronicle Herald today
The Chronicle Herald’s Elissa Barnard covered the Doyle Street Art Fair in today’s Arts section. Click here to read the story online (heads up though, links on the Herald’s site only last for about a week before the story disappears). Here’s what she said about me: Mary Ann Archibald is a sensitive portrait painter who captures [...]
Moonlight becomes you
Moonlight Becomes You 12 x 12-inch Oil on canvas Currently available at the Doyle Street Art Fair in Halifax. Click here to check availability.
By Any Other Name
This is a full sheet watercolour on rag paper of a rose I completed in 2003. Currently, it is framed (under glass) to about 32 x 40-inches. If you are interested in acquiring this painting (either framed or unframed for easy shipping you can check here for availability).
The gift of choice
If you’re looking for last minute or anytime gift giving ideas, you can give the gift of choice when you provide your special someone with a gift certificate. Click here for details.
The boat saga continues
This post is to try out some new software. This painting I have literally been working on it for years. Not everyday for years but it has been on and off my easel at least 20 times. Each time I pull it off the easel thinking that I’m not getting anywhere with it. Then, [...]
MARY ANN ARCHIBALD
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