This is the other painting that I did for my son and let him pick the one he liked the best.  This is also a 16x20 oil but left a little unfinished, with less detail and quite a bit of the red underpainting showing through in places.  Very little time in this one but sort of liked it and left is more unfinished.  I have such a hard time getting good photos of my oils.  This one looks so much brighter than the other painting but really isn't.  My watercolors are so much easier to photograph.  I seem to always get a glare on the oils.  I take them in the shade, and then the sun and there is so much difference.  This is also on a Fredrix linen canvas panel.  My son really liked the other one the best so that is the one he chose for his boss.  He has a wonderful boss.  But of course, my son is just pretty wonderful also so he gets to keep this one.

My son went fishing in Colorado with his boss and other friends last summer.  He took a photo of his boss and his dog and  commissioned me to paint him a picture from that photo.  This photo was very dark so had to imagine just what colors would be there at that time of the year.  This is a 16x20 oil on a Fredrix linen canvas panel, framed in a wide, oak and gold frame.  I like the linen panels as I don't worry about them getting punctured in shipping like I do a canvas.  I painted two for him to choose from, one vertical and one horizontal.  He chose this one as it is so much more detailed and that is what he likes in a painting.  It was fun and especially fun since my son really liked the finished painting.  He sent it to his boss.  I will post the other one next.

This is an 8x16 oil painted on a linen canvas board.  I painted it from a photograph that I took when we went to Maui in 2009 for my granddaughter's wedding.  We drove up the rough coastal area and it was magnificent.  I took lots of pictures.  I have painted this area twice before but in a different format.  The others were oil except about 11x14 and painted on gessoed  watercolor paper.  Just fun stuff, nothing serious.  We had such a wonderful time.  Everytime I paint it, I just sort of relive the wonderful week that we had.  My daugher, her husband, their son, husband's mother, and I went over with our granddaughter and her husband to be.  The wedding was on the sandy beach and it was just beautiful.  They decided to "be mauied" so away we all went.  What fun!!!!!

Better photo in a different light.  Oils are so difficult to photograph.  At least for me.

I just finished this painting of Legacy.  It is a 16x20 oil, painted on a linen canvas panel.  This dog won the 2013 National Bird Hunters Association Futurity.  His owner is Jim Wirths, Conifer Bluff Kennel, Boonville, Mo.  This competition was in the spring and this painting is to be given to this winner at the next competition.  This painting will be framed in a wide rustic frame.

Lennies Fireworks

This is a little watercolor that I just completed this a.m.  It is 7x10 and matted to an 11x14.  Every year our neighbor at the lake sets off a beautiful display of fireworks for us all to enjoy.  Living right next door, we didn't really have a good view because of a big tree, so we took the pontoon out in the lake and viewed them from there.  The fourth of July is my favorite time at the lake.  There are fireworks going up all around us and with the beautiful reflections in the water, it is a sight to behold.  Such fun!!  Family, friends and home made ice cream to share with all.  We also have a neighbor that makes the most delicious cinnamon rolls in the world and has a morning coffee for all the neighbors to enjoy.  What a wonderful fourth of July we all had.  My little painting is a bit gawdy and colorful, but it was just a wonderful, colorful time,
This little painting was very popular with the neighbors in the cove that I did several of them, each a little different, due to watercolor misbehaving some, and gave several away.  Not excellent painting but one that brings back lots of memories as to what fun we all had when Lennie set off his fireworks for us all to enjoy.  What memories!!!!!