214 In the Flock

I am always amazed at the diversity here just outside Raleigh NC. From longhorn cows to Glouscestershire Old Spots within twenty miles of our house. Old tobacco barns on old tobacco farms, dairy barns on dairy farms, all around the corner. Chickens, guineas, donkeys just down our road. Albino deer running across the front yard, driving the dogs nuts. Squirrels and rabbits. Tree frogs....

Today's painting, Theresa and I took a drive around the county a week or so ago and came across a flock of sheep. Unlike the longhorns down the road, they decided they didn't want us around and began moving away. We had to move quickly to get the cameras out to take photos to use as reference for paintings. On this painting I decided to move the calendar forward a bit and green up their pasture.

In the Flock

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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212 Evening Fire

I had a very hard time photographing this painting and I am still not very satisfied with the image, it just doesn't show the color and the light in the original.

Here you see another of my repeat models. Fidget has been painted lying on the carpet in the sun, on the piano bench, lying in the sun, outside in the evening light and lying in the sun.

Scroll down and you can see a close up of the painting. The bumps and texture in the painting are actually the threads of the canvas.

Evening Fire

4 x 6 oil on canvas

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207 Bird Dog - Art Critic

Bird Dog - Art Critic

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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It was late afternoon on a cold day early in December. I was at a horse show at The Barracks near Charlottesville, VA painting the view looking out towards the Blue Ridge Mountains. For the duration of the two hours I was painting, those three dogs were all over the bed of the truck, hanging out one side, then running over to see what was happening on the other. Yet not once did they try to get out of the truck. They did check the progress of my painting, but didn't give an opinion for good or bad.

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206 Roses and Chimneys

Roses and Chimneys

4 x 6 Oil on canvas

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I am continuing with the theme of warm spring mornings. It is just too cold for North Carolina. This paintings inspiration also goes back to the same painting trip as "Spring Planting" yesterday. The sun and shadows, roof lines and chimneys create a geometric backdrop for the organic forms of flowers and bushes. Fun to paint.

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203 Back with a Pig

What can I say....I had to get a pig painting posted. This one seems a bit more pensive than the other pig paintings.

Thanks to the internet, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy and listing of local farms selling produce, I found a farm raising Gloucestershire Old Spots less than twenty miles from our home. I thought I would be trekking to Virginia and north to find them, but sometimes if you look in your own backyard.....

Here Spot

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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202 Lawn Chicken

Is Santa bringing you or a loved one chickens for Christmas?

Lawn Chicken

4 x 6 oil on canvas

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200 Golden

Someone asked, "Do you ever do Goldens?"

The answer is yes.

This painting has already led to a number of commissions of various dogs, all in this close up pose.

Golden

5 x 7 Oil on Canvas

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198 Mountain Barn

Painted outdoors, "on location," looking up "The Hill" to the barns at the Blowing Rock Horse Show on a beautiful summer day in the Blue Ridge Mountains. "The Hill" seems to get steeper every year. I seem to remember going up and down with ease when I first started painting here. Upon a little more reflection, I used a golf cart shuttle quite a bit that first year.

Mountain Barn

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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197 Pony Painting

Painting a white horse on a black background was a great experiment with color,you can see a post about an earlier painting on my other blog, that I decided to continue with that series. In this painting I used a photo of a white pony taken outdoors on a normal day. I then played with the contast, creating a a brighter, more direct light and darkening the shadows. Then the colors were intensified and played with. All without using photoshop, just paint and imagination.

White Pony

5 x 7 Oil on Canvas

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195 Black Angus

I am playing "catch up," today. This is the second painting posted today. A while back we visited a couple of my wife's portrait clients. In addition to the dogs that Theresa painted, they have a farm full of Black Angus. Bob drove us around so that I could take photographs. We started with the young bull and then off to the field where the heifers were. Then down the road to a field full of calves and their mothers, more photos. Finally back to the house to the old bull who was reaching retirement age. A few hundred photos to work with - isn't digital grand.

Here is one of the girls from the heifer's field.

Black Angus

4 x 6 Oil on Board

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194 Piedmont Hound

This is the second painting from the Piedmont Hounds "Puppy Show." The painting has been "hanging" around the studio and its time for internet exposure has now come.

Piedmont Hound

4 x 6 Oil on Board

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188 Beach House

SUMMERTIME!!!
Here are some summer songs for you. I know, it distracts from the artwork, but hey it's almost summer......

Summer - War
Play song from Lala.com

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Play song from Lala.com

Summer in the City

Play song from Lala.com

Grazing in the Grass
Play song from Lala.com

In the Summertime
Mungo Jerry

Beach House
4 x 6 Oil on wood panel
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173 Raven Rock

Back to the birds. From an overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the NC Appalachian Mountains. Check bac, more birds to come

Raven Rock
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172 A Glass of Wine

A Glass of Wine. I realized that today's painting is the first still life in the series. I am a bit amazed that I haven't done any until now. In addition to a long history of still life painting through the last 500 years, painting still lifes is a great way to work on your painting skills. The techniques you learn painting from a still life, color and value, making objects move back or come forward. Using soft edges vs. hard edges, etc. translate to figure and landscape paintings. Painting distant trees against a fence line in the foreground of a landscape is the same, if of a lesser degree than painting the edge of a table against a plaster wall background.
Here's a glass of wine for you. Knowing me, it's most likely just a nice chianti to go with my Italian sauage and salad.

A Glass of Wine
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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171 Jack

George Carlin once noted that dogs have eyebrows we can see the emotions there. These eyebrows just said it all.

Jack
4 x 6 Oil on Panel*
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170 Rottweiler

When my wife, Theresa, was recently working with Burning Oak Studios recording a DVD on How to Paint the Family Dog, I helped her with a scene on how to and how not to photograph your dog. DaVinci our 106lb Rottweiler/lapdog was one of the stars. I stole one of Theresa's photos to use for this painting.

Rottweiler
5 x 7 Oil on Canvas
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166 Barn in Snow

Barn in Snow
4 x 6 Oil on canvas
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Maybe I should wait until summer to post this painting. I know even here in North Carolina I have seen enough snow for this year, so I can imagine other parts of the country are ready for this winter to end. At least down here the snow doesn't last, which means a couple of things. The roads will be clear in a day or two, despite the efforts of the highway department. Beautiful sunny days with snow on the ground that are an inspiration to paint are rare. And last, it will soon become more mud. Ready for spring.
Back to the painting. This old tobacco barn with attached shed has been the subject of a number of my paintings. The other day I happened by as the sun broke out with steel blue clouds behind. It cried out to be painted, so I did. Think how refreshing it will be to look at when August rolls around...

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164 Two Cows Too

Two Cows Too
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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Laurel and Hardy? Here is a short (24 sec) video montage of the creation of this painting

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152 Farm Pond with Cedars 2

Part 2 of the previous post. Why a diptych (two separate paintings meant to show as one)? I was anxious to start a painting of the farm. I was deeply involved in finishing commissioned painting, so I decided to do a more intimate size painting, but the proportions of the canvas just wouldn't work. I happened to have two canvases on the easel at the time, so, "Why not a diptych?" The two paintings as shown together below.

Farm Pond Cedars II
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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This painting can be matched with the next painting in the project, Farm Pond Cedars II to form a diptych. Here's a preview with tomorrow's paintings

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151 Farm Pond and Cedars I

A farm near Oxford. Rows of cedars along the fence line. Rolling hills. I have driven past this farm for nearly twenty years. The small conical cedars growing along the fence have become large trees. A couple of houses have been added but it remains a gem in the landscape of North Carolina.

Farm Pond Cedars I
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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This painting can be matched with the next painting in the project, Farm Pond Cedars II to form a diptych. Here's a preview with tomorrow's paintings

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