87 Piano Study

Last week we went to the opening reception for the Show your Swine art show. While enjoying the artwork, the wine and food we were fascinated by the piano player who was set up in front of windows with the late afternoon/evening sun coming through. Of course, I had no camera with me nor easel and paints (probably would be frowned upon at the event) or even a sketch book (that would have been fun), so I asked one of the directors of the Art Council if she would take some photos for me. She already had taken some and she took some more. This painting is really a study for a larger work. Should it be called a piano etude?

Piano Study

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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18. Pig Ears

I am spending a lot of time down on the farm with these recent paintings. I can help myself. They are fun to paint and popular with everyone. This painting of a pig with a backlight and glowing ears ( the computer image really doesn't do it justice ) was on display at the CDI Dressage Horse Show in Raleigh and was also purchased there.

Pig Ears
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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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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4. Painting the Old Roses at the Pasture

Today's paintings is of Old Roses on a Pasture Gate. Let me tell you the story of how this painting came to be.

When painting outdoors, the weather can play a significant role in my plans. Take today for example, originally I was headed out of town to paint. But weather forecasts for off and on showers all day with thunderstorms in the late afternoon made me reconsider. My second choice of location was a nearby farm where I was working on paintings of some of the barns for the owner. The barns wouldn't get sunlight until the afternoon, and two of them not until after 5:00pm. The morning was cloudy, then sunny, then a clap of thunder, then sunny. I waited for the rain. At 1:00pm it came. At 1:15 it was gone. The sun came out. A hot humid day. I watched the clouds building and building throughout the afternoon. Obviously, we would be having some major thunderstorms later.

To drive across town to paint the barns was now nixed. They were closer than my original destination, but still a 45 minute drive. So the heck with it. I had loaded my easel into the car earlier in the morning. I went and got itout of the car and looked around the yard. The wild roses and Old Roses where blooming. Honeysuckle on the fences and daisies and buttercups out in the field. I decided to set up under the shade of the Sycamore tree. In front of me was the gate to our front pasture. It isn't used that much, and the wild roses and the himalayan musk roses were climbing up around it. The sunlight was shining on the gate. As I got out my brushes it seemed that the humidity dropped, the air cleared and the breeze brought the scent of the roses. The hot summer day became a wonderful spring afternoon. I got down to painting...

Old Roses at the Pasture Gate

4x6 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

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