paintings: boscs, and a croissant

I find painting pears is like cheating painting. They’re so easy. Create roundness, shadow, a little reflection, and voile — done! This croissant was a whole lot more like pulling teeth. The roundness, the shadow, the reflection — what the heck? There’s a reason you don’t see a whole lot of croissant paintings! So with [...]

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favorite paintings for this week February 21, 2012

The above two dogs will be in my etsy shop this week. And this angora goat will be in my ebay listings. filed under: labrador dog, black poodle, painting, art

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paintings: a few favorites this week

These will all be listed in my etsy shop this week. Isn’t that horse gorgeous? paintings: paint horse, lemons, nubian goat, schnauzer dog

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paintings: a tractor, and a greyhound

These are dry and ready to go, so I listed them in my etsy shop this morning. The tractor is 8″x10″, and the greyhound is 18″x18″. Both are made by layering colors so that the last coat shows through here and there. I’m trying to raise some extra spending money, so I lowered the price [...]

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painting: a brindle Boxer

This dog stayed with us, oh, maybe four years ago. He did not work out as a pet, as he figured himself alpha enough to not even notice the existence of infants. Which means he didn’t mind bowling over and stepping on and otherwise being just a bitmuch too rough for our house. I did [...]

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painting: greyhound with a story

I guess all pets have a story one way or another, don’t they? This greyhound just happens to have one that stands out a little. I was asked to paint his portrait, and of course the eyes grab you first. I’ll let his owner’s own words tell the story: Lynch’s eyes were white at the [...]

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painting: a nest and a cattledog

I love the way these blue eggs seem to glow in person. The painting is 6×6-inch, and seems just perfect for a bathroom or maybe a sewing room. I think next time I will try some brown speckled eggs, they are pretty fun to paint. This Australian cattledog is from a photo I think my [...]

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paintings: lots of little things

Since this week is part of the big precursor to Christmas and it’s becoming a little difficult to ship things, I generally take the next couple weeks off from selling paintings on ebay. But since etsy is not time-sensitive in the same way (pieces stay up from browsing long past seven days!) I will be [...]

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paintings: a Great Dane, and horses

This week I had a babysitter in a couple times, just so I could have some uninterrupted painting time. You know how things just go so much more smoothly when you can work start to finish without having to re-set your brain countless times? I needed a little bit of that kind of time. And [...]

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trying my hand at watercolor

I painted this little snow bunny just to try my hand at watercolor again–it’s been a very long time. Painting is like any other skill, and if you don’t do it all the time, you forget how to do it. Unlike bicycling or swimming, it’s not a “muscle memory” and it’s not waiting there to [...]

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