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Lynn Cociani Art
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Artist painting in Canada
Landscapes, pet portraits, wild creatures
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Another close-up of a tiny part of a painting for you. Soon I'll be away on vacation for a month, then the full-on show prep scramble begins!
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#canadianartist #landscapeartist #canadianlandscape
Image shows a small section of a painting, with a gnarly log on a lake, evergreen trees, and rain on a mountain in the distance.
August 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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A snippet! This is a close-up of what felt like a million tiny trees. I may have been overly dramatic about it. 😆
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#trees #painting #canadianartist
Image contains a close-up detail of a painting, with background evergreen trees in greens dark to light and pink leafless deciduous trees in the foreground.
August 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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The birth of a mountain, painting version.
Lately I've really been putting my head down and painting, but not posting a whole lot. Because I'm working on a November show I'm kind of reticent to reveal things fully ahead of time. But I can show you snippets, right? #canadianartist #canadianart
August 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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The pieces for my next show are coming together. This spot along the highway is a giant cliff with many small waterfalls. It's a significant place for my family because you can often spot mountain goats. As my kids grow up and move away these places become even more meaningful.
#parenting #lettinggo
Image shows a painting in progress, a misty waterfall covered cliff in the distance, and a road beside a river. Everything is painted but the road because the artist is trying to figure out how to achieve the effect of water on pavement.
July 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I'm starting to put a Christmas commission list together, so if you're thinking about giving a dog portrait this year, give me a shout!
But also, I just love this dog's face. Those jowls! That soulful gaze! ❤️
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#dogportraits #christmasiscoming #giftideas
Image shows a pencil crayon portrait of a chocolate lab dog with an extremely smooshable face.
July 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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While I'm busy working on commissions please enjoy this poster for my past show with Suzo Hickey. The photo Jeseka Hickey used as reference for the poster now lives on our studio fridge. I really love this fridge. Mystery! Cats! Italian! Me and Suzo pretending to fight!
#artbattle #artist #artshow
Image shows a line drawing of two women trying to hit each other with canvases. The title is SMACKDOWN and is styled after a wrestling promo. Suzo Hickey seems to have the upper hand as Lynn Cociani appears to be losing her footing as she slides down the W in the title. Image shows a small fridge with an assortment of eclectic items including an envelope labeled "secrecy envelope", a fridge magnet that says "Mambo for cats", and a large photo of Suzo and Lynn attacking each other with paintings.
May 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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One of my most therapeutic mediums is pencil crayon. Something about it is calming, meditative. Maybe it's the childhood connection? Anyway, here's a little pencil crayon cup of tea for a rainy afternoon.
#pencilcrayon #colouredpencil
Image shows a drawing of a yellow teacup with tea inside. No milk! The cup and saucer have a gold rim. It was fun to draw.
May 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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This is a little detail of a finished painting, hooray! Now I move on to commissions for a bit, then jump back into painting for my November show.
It feels pretty good to put that final brush stroke on, I gotta say.
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#water #waterfall #art #canadianartist
Image shows a snippet of a larger painting. The snippet is of underwater rocks, above water rocks, and reflections on the water.
May 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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A little underwater rock detail as I plug away. I'm finding painting both more difficult and more essential these days.
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#painting #stressrelief
Image shows painted underwater rocks and reflection of sky, as artist slowly inches towards a finish.
May 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I gave up on the underwater rocks to paint above water rocks for a bit, but I couldn't escape forever. Send help. Lol
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#acrylicpainting #canadianart #paintingprogress #wip #theyrenotdoneyet
Image shows a painting of rocks on a sandbar, and a bunch of unfinished underwater rocks.
May 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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🍳 My brain on underwater rocks. 11 on the trickiness scale, maybe. 😵‍💫
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#acrylicpainting #canadianartist #paintingwater
Image shows a painting that is 2/3 unfinished because the artist has no idea how to tackle the painting of the underwater rocks.
May 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Northword magazine is back! And the artist group I belong to is featured in the first issue. The article is about our trip to Anyox and the art that came out of the trip. Thanks NAAG for being great friends and collaborators, and thanks Northword!
#northernbc #canadianartist #canadianart #anyox
Images show a magazine open to an article showing images of the ghost town Anyox and a group of artists who traveled there seeking inspiration and community.
May 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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The rest of this painting has a lot going on. Reflections, underwater rocks, a gravel bar, etc. I approach it by picking a shape and paint that in so that my brain can start making out what to do by looking at the other elements in relationship to that shape. It's one way to get past the overwhelm.
Image shows a painting of a waterfall with the bottom half of the painting sketched in.
April 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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And now the middle! A lot of northwestern BC folks might recognize this waterfall. Or maybe I need to paint more of it to give it context. 😄 What I know for sure is I would like to be standing in front of it for real right now.
#nassvalley #nass #vedderfalls #northernbc #beautifulbritishcolumbia
Image shows a waterfall in a painting that's only finished on the top half.
April 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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The other side of the forest painting. Little bit of sunlight breaking through. 🌞
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#forestbathing #nature #landscapepainting #paintingnature
Image shows a partially finished painting of a forest with sunlight hitting trees and rocks.
April 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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These days we could probably all use more forest therapy. Today, for me, that took the form of painting one. Not a real forest, but it still makes me feel calm.
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#landscapeart #landscapepainting #forest #foresttherapy #art
Image shows a partially finished painting with a forest painted in, and lots of empty canvas yet to be painted.
April 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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And finished! Heading to The Fairlie Cafe for a coffee and a tasty treat! I try to do this every time I'm in Terrace. A train going by is a bonus. Anybody else here who loves trains? 🙋‍♀️
Thanks for joining me as I painted this one!
#art #canadianart #canadianartist #painter
April 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Today's before and after, everything done but the pavement. Looking at the reference photo, the pavement was pretty wet that day, so reflections coming up!
#landscapepainting #cityscape #art #artist
Images show a painting in progress, of a white older house at dusk, with the lights on.
April 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Finally got those stairs in, now I'm blocking in shapes for the foreground. Here's where I start making decisions about what to leave in and what to take out, and with foregrounds I'm inclined to declutter. Big rocks, yes. Garbage can, no. And I need to decide, is the cul-de-sac pavement wet or dry?
April 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Well, my vacation is over and tomorrow I'm back in my studio. We pivoted from our original plan to go to Seattle, and went to Ottawa instead. If you haven't been there, I really recommend it! The National Gallery for one is truly bucket list. Here are some photos 😊
March 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I walked by this scene in Ottawa today and it gave my Canadian heart a squeeze. It's an interesting, extra emotional time to be in our nation's Capitol. ❤️
Image shows a metal statue of a running Terry Fox, in front of the CBC Radio Canada building.
March 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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I'm on holiday for a week, but here's where this sweet little coffee shop ended up before I left. There's been a lot of trial and error on those lights. Too orange, too yellow, too white. I settled on all three.
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#canadianartist #canadianpainter #canadianart
Image shows a painting on canvas with a coffee shop in a vintage house, in progress.
March 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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This railing was trickier than it seemed at first!
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#art #canadianart #canadianpainter
March 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Blocking some shapes in and trying to figure out what shape goes where. I really like doing buildings, but it hurts my brain a little. Maybe that's what I like about it, it's difficulty. Flowers are the same, so difficult, but so fun.
#landscapepainting #canadianartist #canadianart
Images show a painting in progress with the top floor of a house roughly painted in.
March 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Adding a few trees, it looks kind of awkward, but it'll make visual sense once the building is painted.
#landscapepainting #landscape #sunset #canadianart #canadian
Images show a painting in progress with the sky and trees complete but unfinished building and foreground.
March 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM