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Jun 18, 2020
1 min

My Giverny

Raise your hand who's happy the good weather is here and parks are open! :) With all the confinement of the last few months, I must say I...

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Ioana

May 18, 2020
3 min

Church Challenge

Back in January, a lovely Romanian lady commissioned me a watercolour as a gift for her husband's birthday. She loved it, he loved it,...

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Ioana

Apr 30, 2020
1 min

Flowers as Hope

I was supposed to be part of a RAW ARTISTS event before the COVID crisis. As literally all of us know, that - along with everything else...

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Ioana

Apr 20, 2020
1 min

Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!

Pascha came, despite Covid. Time for rejoicing, good food and ... cookies! I did these cookies for a family of very good friends who just...

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Ioana

Oct 27, 2019
1 min

Sketches of a Golden Autumn

So very blessed with the Fall this year... the trees have started to colour a good few weeks ago and the leaves are just hanging there,...

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Ioana

Oct 14, 2019
2 min

Edible Watercolours for Thanksgiving!

I like trying my art elsewhere then on paper, too. For instance, in the kitchen. For those of you who don't know me personally and have...

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Ioana

Sep 12, 2019
1 min

My New York Moment

... yep, as I said. Here's what happened. I was browsing LinkedIn one day, scroll up and down, stumble upon a posting of a lady I had...

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Ioana

Aug 27, 2019
2 min

Cities in Colour (1)

Traveling by bus from Ottawa to Toronto takes a while. More precisely, a bit more than 5 hours, and that's with no traffic. I can only...

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Ioana

Jul 17, 2019
1 min

Plein Air at... Camp

July heat - ain't it good? Perfect time to visit people at the annual camp of our church. They went for the weekend. My days of sleeping...

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Ioana

Jul 15, 2019
2 min

A Room with 4 Views

When I was asked to teach presentation techniques a good few years back, I hadn't had much experience with conveying messages to an...

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My First Exhibition: at the very Parliament!

Ioana

Jul 1, 2019
2 min

My First Exhibition: at the very Parliament!

When I was growing up in communist Romania, we had many jokes to keep us sane. A famous series was that of Q&A of Radio Yerevan. One of...

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Ioana

May 31, 2019
1 min

Spa Sketches

Last year I got a Nordik Spa gift certificate for my birthday. That's in the second half of May. Well, what do you know... I did NOT find...

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