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Three New Portraits

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Gadget (Blue), Bailey (Lavender) and Nikki (Ochre), 11x14 oil on linen. 2013. I painted these three papillons with different color backgrounds because they will be hung next to each other on the same wall.  I wanted to make the arrangement of the portraits an artistic display in its own right. ...

Gearing up For the Fall Season, Continued

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Portrait of 798.  Oil on linen. 16"x16". 2013. For sale at Waterford Fair. This is the second painting I created for the Red Barn Art Exhibit at the Waterford Fair.  This heifer was one of the herd at Rocky Pointe farm that I visited late last month. The abstract idea behind the painting w...

Gearing up For the Fall Season

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Speckled Chicken. 12"x12". Oil on linen. 2013.  For sale at Waterford Fair. The first weeks of September find me getting prepared for the fall shows and fairs in which I participate every year. This season I will have my usual display booth at Bluemont Fair (Sep 21, 22) as well as having some w...

Pasture Fed

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I found some holstein cown just across the river in Maryland, but they were not at all cooperative about having their picture taken.  So I stuck with the herd that I found earlier in the summer and made a painting from the photos I took at the side of the road in Purcellville. I've offered this...

Portrait of Zeke

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Zeke.  Oil on linen 14" x 24". 2013 I knew as soon as I had finished taking some photographs of him how I would approach the painting of Zeke (at least as far the background was concerned) and finding the right canvas size was straighforward once I did a couple of small sketches.  Putting ...

A Portrait in Pencil

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This is my latest portrait, a rescued German Shepherd called Nick. I do pencil sketches all the time as studies or as preparatory drawings for my portraits and landscapes, but it's been a while since my last formal portrait in pencil.  I used a full sheet of Arches hot press watercolor paper - ...