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Monday, September 27, 2010

193 Burro - Henderson

The Henderson in the title of this painting is not Henderson NV, but Henderson NC. You may notice that he is in a green background. He lives in a pasture in the midst of tall pines, not the rocks and sand of the desert. You would only have to take a 20minute drive through the back roads to get from our studio to his farm. Also on the farm are a herd of longhorn cows which has provided models for a number of paintings. They work for white bread. The farm manager told us if we couldn't see the longhorns from the fence to just yell, loud and often and have some white bread ready when the arrived. Just for future reference, one loaf of bread, no matter how big, will not feed a herd of longhorns.

Here is my impressionistic painting of an "Eastern" burro.


Burro - Henderson
5 x 7 Oil on Canvas
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Monday, September 20, 2010

192 Cows, FLA

Okay, I am back at it. More paintings to come, they are all lined up and waiting their turn to get online, so...

Let's look at the origin of today's painting. What I want you to do, the next time you are driving through Florida, you really need to get off the interstates. You can go across on I-10 and get on Rt. 301 and head south down the middle of the state. Now please do pay attention to the speed limit signs. You can stop at the Orange Shop in Citra for some fresh squeezed orange juice. As you near Ocala you can still see pastures full of spreading live oak trees (with spanish moss) and white/cream Charolais cows lying in the shade.
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Cow, FLA
5 x 7 Oil on Canvas
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Monday, August 30, 2010

191 Middleburg Street Scene

"They're back." I guess you could call it a hiatus or just plain being busy with more than I had planned (that's good) and not keeping up with this blog. But you should know that though I haven't been posting paintings, I have been painting them. If fact, in a few days you should see the beginning of the third one hundred paintings.

Today's painting is a summer afternoon in Middleburg, VA. The lowering sun backlit the awnings, trees and flowers and made the view down the sidewalk glow. If you want to know the actual location, I was painting diagonally across the intersection for the Red Fox Inn.


Middleburg Afternoon
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

190 Two Hounds

From the Piedmont Foxhounds Puppy Show, June 5, 2010 Upperville, VA

Two Hounds
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

3 Paintings an interlude from the Devon Horse Show

A beautiful day at the Devon Horse Show. The forecast clouds and thunderstorms did not materialize. I have three paintings on this one post, just because after painting outside at the show all day, this is quicker and I can get on with preparing for tomorrow.


Devon Grandstand Cupola
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas







Barns at Devon
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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Devon - Flowers and Ingate
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

188 Beach House

SUMMERTIME!!!
Here are some summer songs for you. I know, it distracts from the artwork, but hey it's almost summer......

Summer - War
Play song from Lala.com

Hot Fun in the Summertime
Play song from Lala.com

Summer in the City
Play song from Lala.com

Grazing in the Grass
Play song from Lala.com

In the Summertime
Mungo Jerry



Beach House
4 x 6 Oil on wood panel
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Friday, May 21, 2010

187 Cool Drink

This painting is the second painting in the horses in water on a summer day series. This painting has already been sold, but don't worry, I am working on a larger/vertical format of the same subject.

Cool Drink
4 x 6 Oil on wood panel
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

186 Afternoon Swim

This is one of the two paintings I posted on my non-1hundredpaintings blog, because I just couldn't wait to show them. It was a hot day at the horse show in Aiken SC and the two paintings of horses and water just made me feel a bit cooler. The second painting is already sold, you can see it at www.sfilarsky.blogspot.com, but I am working on a second, larger painting of that subject.

Afternoon Swim
4 x 6 Oil on Panel
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

185 Seven Sisters at the Garden Gate

I got a chance the other day to take the easel out into our own garden and paint. This is the view looking out of the garden towards our front pasture. The garden face I made from cedar logs and tobacco sticks. It's about time to replace the tobacco sticks, untreated wood outside in the south lasting for almost 15 years seems pretty darn good to me.

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Garden Gate -Seven Sisters
5 x 7 Oil on Canvas
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

184 Corgi Eyes

I painted this while working at a two week long horse show out of town. I had our camper set up and at first enjoyed the quiet life. After a couple of days without Theresa, the four dogs and the puppy ( I guess that means we are back to five) the cat, the goats and the ponies it began to get a bit too quiet. ( I was apparently the only vendor who misread the rules. I think it should have said vendors are requested to bring pets. Apparently someone stuck not into my copy. So just like at home, here is a Corgi to watch your every move...

Corgi Eyes
4 x 6 Oil on wood panel
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Sunday, May 9, 2010

183 Fox in Profile

When I look back at the beginning of this project, one of my goals was to be able to organize my paintings and the info associated with them a bit more efficiently than I had been doing... And I can say that I have improved that aspect. But I swear I thought that this painting had already been posted, but the history of blog posts doesn't lie. So here you go, about a week after I thought I posted it.
One thing about painting small impressionistic pieces. You can use a brushstroke or blob of paint to convey the image, but getting that blob just right at this size is harder than painting a more realistic detailed image. But it is more fun at least for me.

Fox Profile
4x6 oil on wood panel
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

182 Hershey 2

I am enjoying working on wood panels. The smooth surface captures the brush strokes exactly. The next change might be to try some very fine oil primed Belgian linen.


Hershey
4 x 6 Oil on wood panel
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Monday, April 26, 2010

181 Dressage at Fork

This painting was done on location at the Fork Stables a few weeks back during the CIC*** 3 Day Event. The horse (and its rider) participate in a cross country course - uphill, downhill, over jumps and through water, a timed stadium jumping course and dressage. For this painting I was standing at the side of the road looking down into the dressage ring. With a painting like this from life, one has to decide what to paint first. Capture the horse and rider than leisurely(relatively) at the background or the other way around, get the landscape right and then set the horse and rider in it.

Dressage at Fork
4 x 6 Oil on Wood panel
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

180 Red Macaw

This second macaw painting probably shows the similarity between the macaw and chicken eyes. Tonight I have finished day two at the horse show in Aiken SC. Spent yesterday setting up and today finessing the display and working on some paintings, two of which should end up on this blog. To be honest, after two days at the show, I can't think of what to tell you about this painting. I did use it in a demonstration in a workshop Theresa and I gave at the Raleigh NC Jerry's Artarama store. It wasn't about painting, but photographing artwork and having prints, note cards, tote bags etc made....


Red Macaw
4 x 6 Oil on wood panel
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Friday, April 9, 2010

179 Hieland Laddie

The Kyloe or Highland Cattle
What made this painting a challenge and fun was creating the different textures. Long hair on the cow, the horns and the trees and pasture in the distance. I to take a bit more care when painting this size as each brush stroke carries more importance than it does in a larger painting.

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Hieland Laddie
4 x 6 Oil on panel
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

178 Germain Shorthair 2



German Shorthair 2
4 x 6 Oil on panel


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177 Corgi Puppy

Seven weeks since they were born, I am now painting the corgi puppies. One went to a new home last Saturday. I was a bit resistant to painting the puppies at first. I was worried that the paintings could easily become "too cute." But now that they are leaving, I am painting them.

This painting and the next few are painted on a wood panel rather than on stretched canvas. The quarter inch mahogany plywood comes from a wooden boat builder. It has a great smooth surface that captures all the brush strokes. What's great about it for you is that they are much easier to frame.


Fergie
4 x 6 Oil on Panel
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

176 Kingfisher

I have always been fascinated by the Kingfishers. Here in North America, the belted kingfisher can be found at almost any pond or body of water. We see them here in central North Carolina and at the coast along the salt marshes and estuaries. They will perch on poles or wires watching for fish. If flying, they will hover before diving headfirst into the water.

"See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water." Pink Floyd "Granchester Meadows" from Ummagumma

Here is a painting of a female Belted Kingfisher in the late afternoon sun....


Kingfisher-Afternoon Sun
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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Sunday, March 28, 2010

175 White Donkey

Yesterday I was at the Dixie Draft Horse, Mule and Carriage Auction in Troutman, NC. It seemed that I needed to be working on a painting of something other than birds for a couple of days. So here's another donkey painting....

White Donkey
4 x 6 Oil on Pintura Panel
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174 Macaw

Staying with the birds. While painting this macaw, what struck me was the similarity between the macaw and the chicken. Of course, I am only speaking here in terms of painting, not the biology or zoology. Just look at the eye of the macaw and compare it to the eye of chicken.


Macaw
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

173 Raven Rock

Back to the birds. From an overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the NC Appalachian Mountains. Check bac, more birds to come

Raven Rock
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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Monday, March 22, 2010

172 A Glass of Wine

A Glass of Wine. I realized that today's painting is the first still life in the series. I am a bit amazed that I haven't done any until now. In addition to a long history of still life painting through the last 500 years, painting still lifes is a great way to work on your painting skills. The techniques you learn painting from a still life, color and value, making objects move back or come forward. Using soft edges vs. hard edges, etc. translate to figure and landscape paintings. Painting distant trees against a fence line in the foreground of a landscape is the same, if of a lesser degree than painting the edge of a table against a plaster wall background.
Here's a glass of wine for you. Knowing me, it's most likely just a nice chianti to go with my Italian sauage and salad.

A Glass of Wine
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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Monday, March 8, 2010

171 Jack

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*
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

170 Rottweiler

When my wife, Theresa, was recently working with Burning Oak Studios recording a DVD on How to Paint the Family Dog, I helped her with a scene on how to and how not to photograph your dog. DaVinci our 106lb Rottweiler/lapdog was one of the stars. I stole one of Theresa's photos to use for this painting.


Rottweiler
5 x 7 Oil on Canvas
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Friday, March 5, 2010

169 Red Red Tree Frog

No, I wasn't listening to UB40's Red Red Wine while painting this, though I just put it on to listen to while writing this post. I painted this while at a horse sale of all places. The red background that is the beginning of most of my oil paintings is plain to see here. In fact I was getting ready to start on the background leaves when I decided that I liked it fine the way it was. So, it was finished!

Red Red Tree Frog
5 x 7 Oil on Canvas
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

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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Monday, February 22, 2010

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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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

166 Barn in Snow


Barn in Snow
4 x 6 Oil on canvas
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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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Saturday, February 13, 2010

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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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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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