224 Jack (Russell) in the Cab

Three Jack Russell's in the cab.

Jack in the Cab

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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223 Wild Rabbit

Unfortunately for our dogs, but fortunately for the rabbits, out property is fenced in to keep a small dog from getting out which means that rabbits can't get in. They hop across the driveway, are in the road, in the field next door, but the dogs have to be content chasing squirrels away from the bird feeders.

There hasn't been many rabbit paintings in this project, this is probably the fourth rabbit out of two hundred and twenty three paintings

Wild Rabbit

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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222 Catching Some Rays

It seems that Winter might be ending, at least for a few days. So Theresa and I jump in the car on Sunday afternoon and take a ride around Granville, Franklin and Warren counties. As usual, it seems that I find most of the interesting subjects just around the corner. It was a nice day, still a bit of chill in the wind, a good day to hunker down and enjoy the warm sun.

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Catching Some Rays

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221 Afternoon Sun

A look outside a the sun drenched landscape before siesta. Sound of the surf and a sea breeze through windows.

Afternoon Sun

4 x 6 Oil on canvas

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220 White Horse Pike

Another grey horse, this one along with the earlier painting of a draft horse are "thumbnail" paintings. They will be the basis for a much larger painting. I can use them to decide which one to paint larger and a guide for the larger work. If it doesn't look good small, it sure won't look good larger.

The name White Horse Pike is my homage to South Jersey and the Pine Barrens.

White Horse Pike

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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219 Gray Draft

We travel to a lot of horse shows, stables, farms and barns for both work and pleasure. One of the most impressive and enjoyable (for me that is) are the draft horses. Here's one, all dressed up, waiting for the carriage classes at the NC State Fair.

Gray Draft

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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218 Sailing Away

What better way to spend a February day than dreaming of the tropics. Sailing on the trade winds. Blue sky, blue sea, no mud, no snow. I am here in the states, but the schooner Russamee is in the Caribbean. After seeing this painting, one woman commented that sailing was on her "bucket list." She needs to go sailing now, for perchance it takes, she will go sailing again and again or it will lie lows, nagging in your subconscious. Like an painter who isn't painting, a feeling of something undone.

Sailing Away

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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217 Mountain Farm Morning

Summer morning in the Great Smoky Mountains. Still cool in the shade, but in the sun is the promise of a hot summer day. Behind me in the trees is a stream. The corn is high and off to the right along the garden fence, the sunflowers are higher still. Sounds good in the middle of February.

Mountain Farm Morning

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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216 A Hard Run

A German Shorthaired Pointer after a hard run on a cold winter morning. That green in the background represents the pines at the edge of the field. It was pointed out to me that he has "psycho eyes" in the painting. A trick of the sunlight, but don't German Shorthaireds alway have psycho eyes?

A Hard Run

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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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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207 Bird Dog - Art Critic

Bird Dog - Art Critic

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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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

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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

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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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