281 Sunday Afternoon at Devon

The Devon Horse show has always been one of the special shows for me. Held in a historic showgrounds with a variety of disciplines, Hunter/Jumper, Carriages and Coaches, Hackneys and Saddlebreds it offers an abundance of images for painting. Here is a small impressionistic look at one of the Sunday Afternoon carriages. Did I mention that Devon is near Philadelphia, home of the cheesesteak, which has to join beer as one of Ben Franklin's reasons that we know God loves us.

But the painting - trying to capture that feeling of a sunny Sunday afternoon in May. With horses and carriages, red barns with blue trim and all those elements just a joy to paint.

Sunday Afternoon at Devon
Oil on linen panel, 4 x 6
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278 279 Morning at Saratoga

There was just something about early mornings at the barns of the Oklahoma track at the Saratoga Racetrack. For the artist, the old barns, early morning light shining through the trees....

Here are two are paintings of those mornings.... 

Morning Walk
4 x 6 oil on panel
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Saratoga Morn
4 x 6 oil on panel
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272 Southern Summer

Carolina Summer, hot, humid, somewhere above the haze is a blue sky and a burning sun. But find a spot in the shade, under a tree or on the porch, maybe a breeze and a glasses of tea. But that's August and it's still only June, so enjoy.

Southern Summer
4 x 6 oil on linen board
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271 White Rabbit

Rabbits are back!

White Rabbit

4 x 6 Oil on Linen Panel

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266 266a 270 Painting from Life including a corgi

I am combining a couple of paintings in the one post. All of these 4 x 6 oils were painted from life. The first painting is of our male corgi, Throop.  He came into the studio where I was putting the finishing touches on a painting and decided to sleep. It seems that whenever you are painting a candid subject, (where no is posing but you are capturing what is happening around you) your subject always waits until you are at the decisive point of the painting and then changes position or just leaves. Throop did just that, got up moved to another part of the studio. After I finished painting, he came back and laid down in the original spot and back to sleep.

This happens with just about every subject. From people sitting at a cafe table for two hours and then suddenly get up and leave to cows in a field who will all move out of the sunlight to the shade at one time.

Here is Throop.

Sleeping Corgi

4 x 6 Oil on linen panel

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This next painting was started at an outdoor cafe where I had set up and was painting the scenes around me. As mentioned above, this group suddenly got up and left. I didn't see where I could go with what I had so the panel was wiped clean for another paintng.

The second painting on the panel was of four young women getting together for coffee. I began painting as soon as they sat down and quickly got the basic shapes. Then the shadows and highlights and this painting was done. They didn't leave but constantly changed positions and yes, the girl with the sunglasses was that tall.

Sunday Morning Coffee

5 x 7 oil on linen panel

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265 Sleeping Dogs Lie 2`

I was painting outdoors on a beautiful Sunday afternoon not long ago. I was literally a couple of feet away from a sidewalk cafe, a coffee shop and bakery. Looking around for a suitable subject, I saw this pretty young lady passed out under a table. Still, you have to paint quickly and with concentration. You never know when you model will get up and move, then it's all over. Luckily, I was given plenty of time.

Sleeping Dogs 2

4 x 6 Oil on Linen Panel

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264 Dressage Show - Gray

"Painting from Life"  The term "painting from life" is a description for a painting done while looking at a live model as opposed to a sketch of photograph. When painting animals this often means painting from an animal in motion. (Sleeping dogs and cats are one exception.)

So setting up the easel at a dressage show, I quickly learned that to paint horses from life, I should paint at the warm up ring. Rather than going through their program and then leaving the ring, in the warm-up, there is a lot of repetition. To paint this gray, I would look, then paint while the  horse and rider came back into the same position again. Look again, paint again.  Always knowing that in an instant, the horse and rider would leave and my model would be gone. Still, it is a very good exercise in concentration, observation and painting. Starting by capturing the movement of the horse and then its form and finally suggesting details. Unfortunately, working too intensely to make a note of the rider's number...

This painting is a 5 x 7, a bit larger than most of the others in this blog.

  

Dressage Show - Gray

5 x 7 oil on linen panel

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International Miniature Art Show

Some news on the "little paintings." Three paintings are now in Nag's Head on the North Carolina Outer Banks for the 21st International Miniature Art Show at the Seaside Art Gallery. As of tonight, Summer Afternoon has been sold, but don't worry... 

Zebulon's Heifer

Windjammer South

Summer Afternoon

...I continued working with that image, only larger

Summer Afternoon 

Oil on Canvas, 24 x 36

For those of you in the Raleigh NC area, you can see this painting along with 16 others at The Upper Crust, Lafayette Square at Honeycutt and Falls of the Neuse Rds, in north Raleigh through July 1st. 

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263 Mighty Hunter

I don't know what it is about the corgi's eyes. The expression that is just a bit unreadable....adoring or accusing?

Mighty Hunter

4 x 6 Oil on Linen Panel

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262 Ross Castle

Usually, a small painting is done as a study for a larger one. In this case, it was the other way around. I painted a large acrylic, 16 x 20 of this scene for a painting class that was being held on St. Patrick's Day. It was based on a photo sent to me by a friend whose ancestral home was Ross Castle. Small paintings need simple elegant design and so do paintings for a class. So it was only natural to add Ross Castle to the 1hundred paintings series. 

Now I am thinking of looking through photos of our trip to Killarney. I did a number of watercolours while there, but the ruins of an 12th century priory on the island of Inishfallen across the lake from Ross Castle still remind me that they need painting also....

Ross Castle, County Kerry

4 x 6 Oil on Linen Panel

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261 Sunny Afternoon

Another example of what you see on the side of the road in North Carolina. Took some photos, but the fenced in pasture was the only dry land. Slog through the marsh to get to the sunny side. Wet shoes, I think this is what the photographers call a "difficult shot"

Sunny Afternoon

4 x 6 Oil on Linen Panel

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259 At the Beach

In case you forgot these past two days, Spring has arrived and Summer is coming. Here is something to look forward to / remember.

At the Beach

4 x 6 Oil on Linen Panel

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258 Summer Afternoon

Mother and child, a summer afternoon in the country. An homage to Winslow Homer.

Summer Afternoon

4 x 6 Oil on Linen Board

Seaside Art Gallery, Nag's Head, NC

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257 Fox Fox Fox Chicken

This Rooster was painted in the middle of a number of Fox paintings,thus the name Fox Fox Fox Chicken. One of those fox paintings "Fox Eyes" is on the previous post. Could Fox Eyes and this painting be considered a matched pair?

Rooster (Fox Fox)

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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256 Fox Eyes Series

It seems that I am always coming back to paint foxes. Sort of a continuing series amidst other paintings.

Fox Eyes

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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255 Cat - Morning Sun

A bit perturbed by the obnoxious clicking of the camera shutter, the cat lifts his head to stare with disapproval at this disturbance to his early morning nap.  

Morning Sun

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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250 A Granddaughter

I found a photograph of a beautiful baby girl amongst my portrait artist wife Theresa files. A lot of fun to paint but boy, are those subtle colours and values tricky to paint. Not some craggy old sea captain with chiselled features, dark shadow and obvious lines. Just minute changes in color temperature and slight darkening or lightening to capture that smooth baby face.

Granddaughter

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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249 A Horse Portrait

Today's painting is a commissioned portrait. My client had some very nice photos, including some nice head shots, but the look she liked best was from a full body photograph.

Portrait of Fletcher
5 x 7 Oil on Panel

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248 Brownie

Brownie is one of the dogs from the Blowing Rock Horse Show that I painted this year. My client said that when he looks at her husband, the his ears drop and a look of pure adoration is in his eyes. So we ended up with a painting focusing in on the eyes with enough space to show the lowered ears.

Brownie

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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247 Trooper

Here's Trooper, the third and last (at least for now) Jack Russell portrait.

Trooper

5 x 7 Oil on panel

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