210 Happy Corgi

Happy Corgi

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

SOLD

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

SOLD

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

SOLD

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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207 Bird Dog - Art Critic

Bird Dog - Art Critic

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

$100. shipping included

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

$100. shipping included

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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205 Spring Planting

Spring Planting

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

SOLD

Looking ahead to bright mornings, warm sun on your shoulders, the season of optimism. Rebirth and growth. The promise of springtime. A great subject to paint on a gray winter's day.
On a more mundane note, today we are planting some trees and starting to repair fences. When the old roses bloom in May, we will have a class in the yard painting them.

Here is a photo of "Spring Planting" in a gold leaf "plein air" style frame. These frames really add a certain je ne sais quoi.

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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

SOLD

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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

$100. shipping included

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Brand new year! Brand New Paintings!

I have had a lot of fun on my 100 paintings in 100 days and thanks to all of my wonderful collectors, went far beyond my original concept of one hundred :-).

With 2011 underway and by popular demand and requests, I am continuing the series and adding new paintings daily! As always, you can contact me with special requests. Remember that a percentage of all of my One Hundred Paintings sales goes to that amazing animal rescue group, Danny and Ron's Rescue. So invest in a painting and invest in a canine life!

Thanks to all my collectors for inspiring me! Now, let's have a great year!

Many of my collectors give these paintings as gifts. Here are are a few from Christmas

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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

$100. shipping included

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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

SOLD

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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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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

$100. shipping included

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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

$150. shipping included

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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*
$100. Shipping included

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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

$100 shipping included

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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

$100 shipping included

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Past Paintings - Volume 1

You can take a look at some of the paintings from deep within this blog (sort of like time traveling for me, I can look and recall where and when they were painted...) The point is that there is now a page on this blog with a collection of some older paintings...you can check them out here:

A Blast from the Past 1 - Available Paintings

Check back for upcoming new paintings and more from the archives....

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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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