215 A Corgi in Winter

Time for another Corgi painting. My wife, Theresa, set this photo near my easel. I took the hint. A corgi out in the snow on a beautiful sunny day. Wonderful backlight on the dog, with sun sparkling off the snow.

Painting winter and snow paintings on a toned background is really the only way for me. You paint the figures and landscape, the shadows in the snow and then come on with the white, brightening the painting as you add a brushstroke there and a brushstroke here, building up to the bright winter day.

A Corgi in Winter

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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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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213 White Rabbit

White Rabbit

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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No, this is not our rabbit. No rabbits at the old homestead.

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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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211 Corgi Puppy 2

Throop, pronounced "troop" like the Thames River, is the latest addition here at the studio. At ten weeks old he was commanding from the top of the front porch steps, surveying the yard whose security has been placed in his capable paws. Now nearly one year later, he still takes his work seriously, coming inside for a break or nap. I photographed this painting as it progressed to give you a look at the painting process.

Throop

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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210 Happy Corgi

Happy Corgi

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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Another one of my perennial models, Rosie our Corgi. Looking back, I see a lot of Corgi paintings with a pensive or worried expression. Am I anthropomorphizing a bit much? You would think so unless you lived with one of these creatures. Getting back to the painting, I have decided to give you a happy corgi this time.

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209 The Girls

The Girls

5 x 7 Oil on Canvas

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The Girls have modelled for me a number of times, both together and separately. The colors in these paintings have always intrigued me. We ran across them late on a early spring afternoon. Let me say that again. It was early in Spring, late March, early April here in NC and we were driving up in northern Granville County late in the day. So there was a still that clear winter light with a warm orange cast from the setting sun. This creates, especially on their white faces, a warm light against a cool bluish shadows. Just fun to paint if you like to play with color.

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208 Bus Stop Bobby

Bus Stop Bobby

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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A dog. A dog on a golf cart. A dog on a golf cart at a horse show. Sound familiar. It seems to be one of the recurring themes running through this project. Bus Stop Bobby was found at a bus stop. He had been tied and left there. He now lives in dog heaven, aka Beaver River Farm.

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204 Charolais

A pig, now a cow. What's next? A chicken or a frog? A horse or a dog or a cat? Nope. I had to do some gold leaf work out of town, so I have had to plan ahead. Back to today's painting. A Charolais. You can find them lying in the shade of huge old oak trees as you drive down through central Florida. Do you fly in and out of Palm Beach International? Then you probably don't see them and will just have to add painting to your collection.....

Charolais

4 x 6 Oil on canvas

$100. shipping included

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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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201 Young Heifer

At a recent show in northern Virginia, a lot of collectors were interested in paintings of Black Angus. Now I understand that there are a lot of Black Angus in that area, but when it comes to painting, the Herefords (white and brown), Belted Galloways (oreo cows) and Highland Cattle (hairy, shaggy with long horns) make the job much easier.

The white face of the young cow below gives an opportunity to play with colors. Warm whites from the sunlight, neutral/grays in the shadows and some blue reflected lights from the sky.

Young Heifer

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

$150. shipping included

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199 Belgian Blue Bull

A quick post, this painting was sold before I got it up on the blog, sorry about that. Since the file names for the photos include the number and it was on the website, I am posting this and will move on to the next.....number 200

The rope halter is the "fun to paint" item in the painting...

Belgian Blue

4x6 Oil on board

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196 Red Rooster

The Red Rooster is the first of new chicken paintings. Though small in size, it is a powerful painting, capable of getting your attention from across the room. Perhaps you can put in on a small table top easel next to your alarm clock.

Red Rooster

Oil on Canvas

SOLD

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Finding older paintings and posts on a blog can easily become frustrating. In addition to the page with some of the earlier paintings, new posts will have a image and link to earlier work. Today's painting is Jack, a Jack Russell Terrier

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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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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Portrait of Betty Young

I thought at first that I might surprise you when you saw the painting after reading the title of this post. But since you met Lulu in the previous post, it looks like my chances of that are way down.

Betty is a member of the Young family along with Lulu. They were both rescue dogs adopted from Danny and Ron's Rescue. Their portraits will be featured on Danny and Ron's Rescue 2011 Calendar along with eleven others. So be on the lookout, the calendars will be coming out in November.

Betty Young

8 x 10 Oil on Canvas

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A sneak peek - Lulu Young

Today's painting is a bit different. You may notice that I didn't even number it. It is a portrait of Lulu Young. I created it for Danny and Ron's Rescue 2011 Calendar. The calendar will feature works of twelve artists ( I am making an educated guess ) including my wife M. Theresa Brown, who have created paintings of dogs that have found homes thanks to Danny and Ron.

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192 Cows, FLA

Okay, I am back at it. More paintings to come, they are all lined up and waiting their turn to get online, so...

Let's look at the origin of today's painting. What I want you to do, the next time you are driving through Florida, you really need to get off the interstates. You can go across on I-10 and get on Rt. 301 and head south down the middle of the state. Now please do pay attention to the speed limit signs. You can stop at the Orange Shop in Citra for some fresh squeezed orange juice. As you near Ocala you can still see pastures full of spreading live oak trees (with spanish moss) and white/cream Charolais cows lying in the shade.
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Cow, FLA
5 x 7 Oil on Canvas
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190 Two Hounds

From the Piedmont Foxhounds Puppy Show, June 5, 2010 Upperville, VA

Two Hounds
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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