Touch the image above to reveal the snapshot that led to the painting. Click the "naked ladies" below to see an enlarged version of this painting.

Naked Ladies Original Watercolor 26.5 x 40" Click image to enlarge $4000 (framed)

Nicolette's paintings and drawings have been on exhibit in Chicago, San Francisco and Denver. Her work received an award from the Ravinia Festival and a one-woman show sponsored by the Chicago Library. Nicolette's art has been exhibited in more than a dozen shows.

Nicolette received an MS in design from the Institute of Design, the New Bauhaus at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She minored in art history while earning a BA in Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Nicolette finds inspiration in nature, and has been influenced by the Japanese printmakers Hiroshige and Hokusai, and by American painter Georgia O-Keefe. She is drawn to the work of Native American painters Allan Houser, Quincy Tahoma and Blackbear Bosin. (Bosin's famous painting of antelope fleeing a prairie fire hung in her childhood bedroom and is etched in her memory.) She admires these painters for both their use of color and the composition of their works; she suspects that some of what she has learned from them figures in her own work.

Nicolette works in watercolor, watercolor pencil, pen and ink, Photoshop collage and computer drawing using Illustrator. She accepts commissions for illustrations and portraits of people, animals and homes.She usually creates portraits from one or more photos. An example - of her cat, Tabi - can be seen at right. Click here to see another portrait that was developed from two separate photos.

Nicolette is also an architectural illustrator who writes about arts and architecture. She likes cats, grows roses and is an amateur ice skater.

Information about purchasing Nicolette's original paintings may be found on the Painting page of this website. Poster prints may be purchased ($60 - $100) at Nicolette Toussaint's Etsy store.

Chicago Peace 23.5 x 18" Orig. watercolor (framed) $2800 Poster print $65	Aeonium 23 x17" Orig. watercolor (unframed) $2000	Social Climber 23.5 x 18" Orig.watercolor (framed) $2800 Poster print $70	Pelican 18 x 23.5" Orig. watercolor Sold	Passion of the Bee 23 x 17" Orig. watercolor (unframed) $2200 available free to loan for nonprofit fundraising

All images copyright by Nicolette Toussaint, 2011