Day 24: 30 in 30: Every and Anything Series

"Miriam's Portrait" Pastel on Illustration Board, 8"x 10", Original Painting NOT FOR SALE

Hello everyone! It's January 24, 2015 and today is Day 24 of my 30 Painting's in 30 Days Painting Challenge!

My theme for this 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge is "Every and Anything" and over the next 6 days I will be painting every and anything from landscapes, to pet portraits; from people portraits, to still lifes; and so forth! (To learn more about why I chose this theme click HERE.)
 
This is a pastel portrait of my little girl, Miriam, who is seven. She is the fraternal twin of my other daughter, Faith, whose portrait I posted yesterday.

I don't think that I'm quite satisfied with how my three little girls portraits have come out over the last few days. I think that I'll spend a little more time working on them and then when I am content, I plan to hang them in our living room, maybe. Or perhaps another room in the house? . . . Hmmm . . . Not sure which room they'd look best in, but I'll keep thinking about it :)

Anyway, that's all for now from the Blog of SamDoum Art!' Til later fellow art lovers! Take care, and God bless!
-SamDoum

Day 23: 30 in 30: Every and Anything Series

"Faith's Portrait" Pastel on Illustration Board, 8"x 10", Original Painting NOT FOR SALE

Hello everyone! It's January 23, 2015 and today is Day 23 of my 30 Painting's in 30 Days Painting Challenge!

My theme for this 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge is "Every and Anything" and over the next 7 days I will be painting every and anything from landscapes, to pet portraits; from people portraits, to still lifes; and so forth! (To learn more about why I chose this theme click HERE.)

Wow! Only a week more to go in this challenge! I'm determined not to miss any more days so I painted ahead, in case if things get too busy and I need a back up painting.

This is a pastel portrait of my little girl Faith, who is seven. She is the twin of my other daughter Miriam, whose portrait I will post tomorrow. They are fraternal twins so they look a little different from each other which means tomorrows painting will feature another little girl (my daughter) with different features than this one (my other daughter).

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Anyway that's all for now from the Blog of SamDoum Art! 'Til later fellow art lovers! Take care, and God bless!
-SamDoum

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Day 22: 30 in 30: Every and Anything Series

"Sephora's Portrait" Pastel on Illustration Board, 8"x 10", Original Painting NOT FOR SALE

Hello everyone! It's January 22, 2015 and today is Day 22 of my 30 Painting's in 30 Days Painting Challenge!

My theme for this 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge is "Every and Anything" and over the next 8 days I will be painting every and anything from landscapes, to pet portraits; from people portraits, to still lifes; and so forth! (To learn more about why I chose this theme click HERE.)

Yep, it's true. As I wrote in yesterdays blog post, I've missed several days during this challenge but I'm back! And I'm mixing things up a bit in this challenge with a portrait of my youngest daughter Sephora.

This is my first people portrait in this January 2015 Challenge, so far. I'll be posting two more portraits of my daughters, Miriam and Faith, in the next couple of days.

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Anyway, that's all for now from the Blog of SamDoum Art!'Til later fellow art lovers! Take care, and God bless!
-SamDoum

It's Movie Night!

It's Movie Night!

It’s movie night for us and the girls tonight! Every Friday night myself, their dad, and their nana have a movie night with the girls, where the girls take turns choosing movies from Netflix. The girls usually watch on my computer, and we usually start around seven or eight, shortly after finishing with dinner. It’s something that the girls really look forward to all week long, but hopefully they’ll be no fighting or arguing with each other tonight, as there is always someone standing in front of my laptop blocking someone else’s view, and when that happens the girls get to arguing and fighting with each other.

If I Could . . .

If I Could . . .

For the past few days we’ve been putting the girls to bed without reading them bed time stories. Instead we have been having the girls tell stories of their own. This idea started when a few days ago, my husband and I went out to Starbucks in order to get some coffee and sit down and chat. Meanwhile, while we were out, my mom, the girls’ nana, watched the girls for us. Now, we didn’t get back until late at night as we made a few stops to a couple stores out in Henrietta, New York. Meanwhile, my mom put the girls to sleep for us. And instead of her reading a bedtime story to the girls, my mother asked, “How about you guys tell me a story instead.” And that’s where our girls telling us bedtime stories began.

Nana's Love

Nana's Love

So here’s a little bit more about myself. I am a wife and the mother of three beautiful children: all girls including a set of twins.

Our daughters’ names are Miriam, Faith, and Sephora Doumnande. Sephora, or Sephie for short, our baby, is now three years old (she just had a birthday this past November 26th) and her sisters, who are four, will be five years old on March 29th 2012.

Miriam is the oldest of the twins. She was born into the world seven minutes before her sister Faith.  And Sephora is their little sister.

Now, I selected all three of my girls as models for the composition of the beautiful piece “Porch Trio” that was featured in my last post dated November 27th, 2011 which was titled “So, Where did I Leave Off.” And I have to tell you, the poem featured in that post rings truth! Those girls are always fighting over toys! –