168 Ready for Spring - Sportfishing

I came across these two, ready for the first nice weekend while prowling around Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, NC. I had met with a portrait client earlier and was kicking myself for not loading the easel and paints. The day started out cloudy and foggy after the previous day of cold and rain. By the time I hit Wilmington it was sunny and warm. The following day I painted this while it rained and then snowed. READY FOR SPRING!

Ready for Spring
5 x 7 Oil on Canvas
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154 Interior w Roses

The missing painting. This is a 3 x 5 painting on panel. A vase of roses and peonies from my wife's garden. Sunlight shining through the venitian blinds just called out to be painted. I think that she set me up.

Interior with Roses
3 x 5 Oil on Pintura Panel
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167 The Crossing

Cows - Action paintings. A few members of the herd crossing a creek. We came across this herd while driving around the countryside a few weeks ago - the snow had melted.
I walked up to the fence to get a few photographs. The cows saw me and began to move towards me. More cows came out of the trees and over the hill. Then they started bellowing. Yes! I got action photos.
This painting at 5 x 7 is a bit larger than most of the paintings in this project.

The Crossing
5 x 7 oil on canvas
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166 Barn in Snow

Barn in Snow
4 x 6 Oil on canvas
$100. shipping included

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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165 Fidget French Door

Fidget, our 15 year old cat, sitting in the sun by the french doors. Yeah, he is fifteen but he is probably waiting to go outside to chase birds, mice and patrol his territory.

Figdet by the French Door
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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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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163 Cat in Sun, French Door

Cat in Sun, French Door
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

This is another appearance by our cat Fidget.

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162 Mr Fred at the Fox Hunt

Mr. Fred
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
NFS

Another painting from the opening meet, Mr Fred, the original huntsman, now retired. At eighty nine he follows the hunt in his pickup truck, down the "roads" and across the fields.

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161 Side Saddle

Autumn Morning
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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This painting is one of the results of spending a beautiful late autumn morning at the opening meet of a local fox hunt.

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160 Snow Bird

Today we got seven inches of snow and a couple inches of sleet on top.We filled the feeders three times today. Probably put out over 5 lbs of sunflower seeds in the bird feeders. I caught this bird as it sat on a tree outside the kitchen window. Off to the studio (it's twenty five feet from the house) to work on this painting. The colors are a little more subtle, but there are oranges and blues that might not make the transition to the computer screen.

Snow Bird
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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159 Two Cows

Two Cows
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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158 Tree Frog Tree

The frogs should be happy here today. Seems like it was only a week ago that we were having highs of 30. This morning it is 61 and raining. Snow on the weekend? I will be waiting until I can hear the chorus of tree frogs in the evening...

Tree Frog Tree
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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157 Titmouse

With winter being here, titmice, chickadees, juncos, cardinals and even woodpeckers are eating at the bird feeders. Fifty pound bags of sunflower seeds seem to disappear in days. Maybe not days.... The little titmouse goes to the feeder, takes one seed in its beak and flies off to a tree branch were it works on the seed, eats it and flies back. I wonder how it gets enough food. Sort of like eating steamed crabs, go through about a half a dozen and then go get a meal....

Titmouse
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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156 Fox Hound - Enough

I photographed this hound at an opening meet of a local fox hunt. He was sitting in front of a priest who was giving the blessing of the hounds. Looking at his expression I can see him thinking "Enough already, lets go!"

Fox Hound - Enough
4 x 6 Oil on canvas
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155 Fox Hound - Right Face

Fox Hounds I am painting some larger paintings involving Fox Hounds, so I've taken a break and worked on a couple of small hound portraits.

Fox Hound - Right Face
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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153 Night Frog

Stephen Filarsky, Painter of Tree Frogs


The Night Frog
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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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
$100. shipping included

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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150 Lead line

The Blowing Rock Charity Horse asked me to do a painting for the 2010 show poster. I have been looking through photos of the show, gathering references for the work. I came across a photo of this girl and her mom, taken by Cathrin Cammit. It looks like she won the lead line class, that's a blue ribbon in her hand.

Lead Line at Blowing Rock
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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149 Halflinger

This painting is on a 6 x 6 canvas. Last month I was commissioned to paint five pony paintings on 6 x 6 canvases. Since I really hadn't worked in a square format before (I like to paint these paintings a standard size that can be easily framed. The five pony paintings were hung as a group unframed.) so I bought a few extra to work with.
My wife had a halflinger named Alf, a few years ago, I thought he was a great horse (he neither kicked or bit me), so I decided paint one. Since he was 14.1 and 1200lbs, I guess this can also be considered a pony painting.

Halflinger
6x6 Oil on Canvas
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