Winter Birds 2 Goldfinch

Here is another visitor to our feeders during the last snow. A typical Carolina winter, we went from the 60's on Monday to snow on Friday-Saturday, 9° and 0° degree nights on Sunday and Monday and back to 70° on Friday. 

Goldfinch Winter

4 x 6 oil on linen panel

$105. shipping incl. 

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258 Summer Afternoon

Mother and child, a summer afternoon in the country. An homage to Winslow Homer.

Summer Afternoon

4 x 6 Oil on Linen Board

Seaside Art Gallery, Nag's Head, NC

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257 Fox Fox Fox Chicken

This Rooster was painted in the middle of a number of Fox paintings,thus the name Fox Fox Fox Chicken. One of those fox paintings "Fox Eyes" is on the previous post. Could Fox Eyes and this painting be considered a matched pair?

Rooster (Fox Fox)

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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249 A Horse Portrait

Today's painting is a commissioned portrait. My client had some very nice photos, including some nice head shots, but the look she liked best was from a full body photograph.

Portrait of Fletcher
5 x 7 Oil on Panel

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91 Red Barn

This barn is near Unionville, PA. Wyeth family country, outside of Philadelphia. Painting in there, it's nice to know that the east coast Megalopolis hasn't taken over everything yet.

Red Barn

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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86 Mountain Farm

I saw this farm on a hill when I stopped at a traffic light near Culpepper. VA.

Mountain Farm

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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20. Cookie the Goat

Here at the old Homestead we have lived the past few months without any goats. I wasn't aware that this was a problem for my wife. Well, it was and she solved it. Our new goats are Oreo and Cookie, two female dwarf pygmy goats. Cookie was named Shorty before she moved here, but Shorty seemed a bit too masculine for her, so she's Cookie now. Both goats have horns and the dogs have learned to keep away. Shadow the pony is getting used to them, but still tries to stomp them occassionally.

Cookie the Goat

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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19. Gypsy Laddie O

This painting is based on a photograph my wife took while down in Florida. The Gypsy Vanner horse she photographed was actually much darker. But like painting black cows, they just aren't as much fun, colorwise. I titled this painting after old scottish ballad The Gypsy Laddie. While painting ( and even now when looking at it ) the refrain of Tannahill Weavers version kept running through my head... Laddie-o, laddie-o, follow the gyspy laddie-o.

Gypsy Laddie O

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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16. Jersey Rabbit

One Hundred paintings in one hundred days. Doesn't that mean a painting a day? So where haveI been and where are the paintings?

I have been painting. I arrived home for the Devon Horse show last Wednesday night after a ten hour drive. The next morning I was at the Hunt Horse Complex in Raleigh, setting up for the CDI show. The show went from eight in the morning until 9:30 at night. While I was painting, I was just too tired to put the paintings on this blog and email updates. What about yesterday? When I checked my email, I found out that a number of the "buy it now" buttons on the blog were not working. So needless to say, hours were spent until that little bit of html code was found.

That's my story...

So here we are, back to the paintings. This fellow here also lives at the Jersey Shore. His painting was on display at the CDI and was sold there.

Jersey Rabbit
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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9. Oreo Cows

Another painting of the Belted Galloway Cows at Fearrington Village. Driving up to Philadelphia from home in North Carolina for the Devon Horse Show, I kept passing farms and landscapes that made me want to pull over, stop and get out the easel and paint. As I drove up the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the sun was almost setting, sending golden light out onto the fields and barns of this still rural landscape. Had to keep driving, have to paint at the show tomorrow....

Painting the Cows at Fearrington Village. Thanks to Vicky Wilson for the photo

I made me appreciate how lucky I am that I can take the time to go and paint in these wonderful locations. From the quiet of the pasture to the hustle and bustle of the horse show. Here is another of the Belted Galloway paintings from my trip to Fearrington Village.

Belted Galloways 2
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
Collection of C Cammett

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7. Back to the Dogs

This morning I joined a group of plein air painters from the Raleigh-Durham NC area in painting at the Fearrington. A beautiful sunny but not hot day. I completed paintings for this project along with the start of a larger garden scene. More about that later.

Today I've gone back to the dogs. Looking back, I seem to be painting a lot of dogs in golf carts. In golf carts at Horse shows. And a good number of Jack Russells in golf carts at horse shows. Maybe like this fellow, they are more relaxed in a golf cart. This scene was at the Duke Children's Classic Horse Show.

Jack Russell at Duke

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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3. In the Herd Cow Painting Number Two

Yes, this is another cow painting. No, it is not the same cow that was featured in yesterdays painting. Cows have been a favorite subject for painters for centuries. There is something so "pastoral" about a painting of a cow. If I am setting up to paint out in the country, I am often next to a field with a herd. Curiosity will have an entire herd ambling over to where I am painting. ( Ususally with a fence in between) After a while, when they realize I am not bringing food, most amble away, though a couple may stay to watch. I came upon this herd while driving around scouting for painting locations near home here in North Carolina.

In the herd

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

Collection of B. McClintick

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2. OK Cow Painting

Day one got off to a great start. Blog up and emails sent all in a timely fashion. Website updated. Now only ninety eight left to go.

Today I have gone from the dogs to the cows. I photographed this one while driving through Oklahoma on our trip to California in April. The cows were standing in the field with about 2 inches of snow and the early morning sun shining on it all. We had just driven down the steepest hill we encountered during the entire trip. Sort of like a roller coaster rather than a road. Thankfully, it was a short hill. And yes, it was in Oklahoma. At the bottom of the hill, the morning sun was shining through the trees onto the dry grass poking up through the snow and creating a beautiful backlight on this herd of cows.

OK Cow

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

SOLD

All of these paintings are for sale, priced at $100. including shipping. Each painting is an original, one of a kind. Once it's sold, it is gone. Click on the button above to pay with paypal or credit card. Or contact me directly at

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Don't forget to check back tomorrow to see the next painting