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# Michelle's mum
- URL: https://www.galleryxscarborough.com/portfolio/irish-guy/
- Published: 2024-05-19T04:08:18.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-20T01:14:31.000Z
- Description: Oil on canvas
- Author: GalleryX Staff
- Tags: Portfolio, Joy MacFadyen

I noted in the record that Joy often use her computer to view her reference photos as it made for a comfortable painting setting along with the sizes she painted, this one a 14 inch square panel as opposed to a canvas. I have mentioned a maulstick elesewhere as a steadying prop for an artists and this works even more steadily when one paints on a board rather than on a canvas. Once again this is a memorial portrait painted for a friend who’s mother passed away, and once again it seems to me that the eyes have that very distant look of staring into the universe, a view that might be entirely appropriate. She is always going to be there.

Oil on canvas. Photo credit: Joy MacFadyen.