Island Grove Revenge #2

This is my second painting of Island Grove Revenge. I put this one in a totally different setting. I just hope it looks like the same dog. Again, my photography is not good due to lighting so will redo this at a later date. Also, I hope the two owners don't like the same painting, then I might really be in trouble and have to redo one. I am just now trying to get back into some serious painting since my surgery over a year ago. I've done a few but not many in the past year. This was fun! I just hope I can keep the momentum going.

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Island Grove Revenge

This is a painting I was commissioned to do as this dog is the 23rd NBHA Futurity Winner. His name is Island Grove Revenge. It is a 16x20 oil and I was asked to do two paintings of the dog because two people own it together. So this is the first one, then I will blog the second painting. This one is painted like the photo they provided, background and everything. My photography is not the best lighting as the weather has been so gloomy here in Missouri and I usually like to photograph outdoors. So if spring ever comes, I will rephotograph the paintings and replace these.

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Kirk's Stream

This is an 11x14 oil that I just did yesterday afternoon. First time I have had my oils out for so long. I decided to play with my palette knife. Not sure about the results but it sure was fun. I photographed this stream on my son's pasture a few years ago. I decided to finally paint again in oil so I just pulled this photo out of my file randomly. Sometimes I do that to get me started. I just try to make a painting from the photo, taking artistic license and trying to improve on composition etc.

If you notice, I have left the red underpainting show through in spots all over the canvas.

Hawaii Sunset

This is another sunset scene that I painted from photos I took on the Hawai trip. We were eating lobster at an ocean side restaurant when I took this. The colors just got brighter and brighter. There was a luau taking place just down in the foreground but I left all those people and dancers out. This is a 7x10 watercolor, matted out to an 11x14. Not for sale. It was a wonderful evening with good food, wonderful family and a beautiful view. Such fun!!

Hawaii Sunset #1 2009

I did this painting after taking a trip to Hawaii to observe my granddaughter getting married on the beach. I will give this to her as a wedding present. The sunsets there are so beautiful that one simply cannot duplicate it with paint or even photos. This one is not for sale of course. It is matted to 11x14.

GAVE TO MY GRANDDAUGHTER

Fly fisherman

Since I have not started painting yet (my recovery is slow) , just thought I would post an old painting. This is a watercolor about 14x18, matted to a 20x24. A friend has this one. I hope to start painting soon. The weather is getting nice out so I am getting the "bug" to do some plein air painting.

Snowman

This is just a small greeting card, about 6x8 which I did a series of. I haven't blogged anything for quite awhile because of having knee surgery and not being able to get to my basement studio. I am doing a lot of rehab, which has sort of consumed my life for the present. I just wanted to post my little snowman to tell all of you, "Happy New Year" and I hope to be back to painting before long. As an artist friend always says to other artist friends, "keep your brushes wet". I hope to soon.

On Point #1

For some reason this one didn't go out on the blog correctly yesterday so I am re-sending it. This one was taken in the shade. It is a 16x20 oil on a linen panel. Such a nice surface to work on. One of these paintings is to be given to a dog handler for a prize for winning at a field trial so it is NFS.

On Point #2

This one was taken in the sun. What a difference in photographs. A photographer, I am not. Just thought I would show you the difference that a photo can make. I like the shaded ones and my husband likes the ones in the sunshine.

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On Point #2

This is the same dog, different background, different pose, lighting etc. They brought me two photos to work from, now they have to choose which one they want. It is also a 16x20 oil on stretched canvas and is not for sale.

On Point # 1

This is the one photographed in the sunshine. Got a little shade on it but it is o.k.

Colorado Stream 9x12

I decided to do this one again. The other one is 8x12 and this one is 9x12, which I had a frame for. I now have a frame for the other one also. I liked the effect I got , I don't know which one I like the best, although the other one scanned the best I think. It is a 9x12 oil on a Raymar panel. I love that linen surface! This painting brings back memories of my trip last summer that was so great. It is framed in a driftwood frame with a linen liner with a gold lip. It is $300.00 including S&H.

Red & PInk Roses #1

Here is the mate to the other. It has just been licensed for the open edition prints and they are on the market now--somewhere. No hatboxes for this one, but I like it better than the other. It also is a 16x20 oil on canvas.

Red & Pink Roses

This is a 16x20 oil that I did a few years ago when I was painting for a company that made prints from my paintings. It has a mate that I will blog tomorrow or whenever. It has been licensed on open edition prints and also hat boxes. Cato's sold the hat boxes a couple of years ago and the prints are somewhere out there in the marketplace.

Leo

This is a portrait of a dear friend who passed away last spring. He was always at his Amoco station and in a dead run to make sure everyone got taken care of. We miss him. This is a 14x18 oil and I painted it for his son to give to Leo's widow.

"Em are Ducks

Checking my Feedblitz.

Bandstand from the Hill 24x36

I did this one larger than the previous one. This is a 24x36 oil and was painted from the photos that I took this spring in our lovely park. Some day I will have to paint it with the people playing in the band. We still have band concerts three times a week in the summer. I think I like the small one better. It was fun to paint though. Right now, it is NFS.

HANGS IN COMMUNITY BANK, EL DORADO SPRINGS, MO

White Iris in watercolor

I did this in a watercolor workshop this past weekend. It is a little larger than my scanner so I had to trim the left side a bit. Some time ago I did a small 5x5 oil of this same Iris. It is a 9x12 watercolor, matted with off white and has a gold liner. It is $75.00 including S&H.

Bandstand from the Hill

I have painted this scene from almost every angle. This is a 16x20 oil of our local park with the bandstand and the springs. People used to come to the springs for healing waters. I am working on a 24x36 like this one. Then I had better look for another subject. Or maybe another season. How would that be? Our Picnic celebration is in July and I am just probably excited to see old friends so am feeling nostalgic. Maybe that is why I am doing so many of these scenes. It is fun though. Maybe I will wait for fall before doing some more.

Bandstand in ElDo 2008

I have really been in the "bandstand mood". I am trying to perfect the scene so I can hang the painting in the local bank. Of course I have to eliminate a few trees, monuments etc. so it is not exact. Our summer concerts are so wonderful for a town this size and I am hoping everyone enjoys this scene. This is the time of year that organizations ask me for a donated painting for their raffle to make money. I don't know how many of these paintings I have done. Many!! It is a 24x36 oil and is not for sale. I am doing two more which I will post when finished.

HANGS IN COMMUNITY BANK, EL DORADO SPRINGS, MO

Bandstand in Spring '08

This is a 24x36 oil that I just completed. It is a view of our park that I have painted many times for local club groups for their fund raisers. This is the first time I have painted this large in some time and it was fun. It is NFS right now anyway.

OWNERS; ED & SHERRY MORLAN

Yellow Pears & Grapes

This is an 8x20 oil and is one that has been printed in an open edition on the market. This is on textured masonite. I did several of these with this technique and several of them have been licensed and printed. It is $500.00 in cluding S&H.

Santa Fe Garden #II

This is an 11x14 oil, painted on stretched canvas. I painted it from a photograph that I took when I visited Santa Fe four years ago. I think maybe this was on Canyon Road, although I am not sure. I took so many photos and I always think I can remember just where it was taken, but I guess I don't. This painting not framed at the present and is $400.00 including S&H

Lakescene, Moon Comin' Up

I paint this scene so much as it is what I see from my little "get-away" cabin on the lake. It is a 6x18 acrylic, matted out to a 12x24. It is painted on gessoed watercolor board. It is $200.00 including S&H.

The Orange Tree

This is a small 8x10 oil on a wrap-a-round canvas and I just sold it at the Dogwood Festival in Camdenton, Mo.
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