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Painting Animals in the Landscape
Sep 30, 2017
Throughout my painting career I've painted both animal and landscapes. Yet, combining the two has always been difficult. Over the summer I spent some time on a series of paintings with animals in them. In this blog post I talk about what I learned and my experiences in painting these pieces....
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Meadow Grove Farm
Jul 14, 2015
Meadow Grove Fields (plein air). 11x14, oil on linen panel. 2015 Meadow Grove Farm in Upperville, VA is one of my favorite paint-out locations: lot of distant views across the fields, animals in abundance, a variety of scenery, trees singular and clustered, and the ever-present Blue Ridge. In ...
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Eros the Ram
Jan 1, 2015
Eros. 20x24, oil on linen. 2015. Firstly, I should be honest and say that I finished painting Eros on New Year's Eve but since I'm unveiling the painting today I'm calling it a 2015 painting. The benefit of this, of course, is that I can convince myself that I'm getting off to a very productiv...
![A Black Faced Ram](https://d185xs4ho5y6i7.cloudfront.net/blog/simon-bland/2014/Ram.jpg)
A Black Faced Ram
Dec 19, 2014
Black Faced Ram Sketch. 8x8, oil on linen. 2014 I painted this small sketch of a black faced ram at Weatherlea Farm in part because I wanted to try a creating something a little darker than usual. I had taken a series of photos in the shadow cast by the large barn and there was only a trace o...
![A Thanksgiving Weekend Painting](https://d185xs4ho5y6i7.cloudfront.net/blog/simon-bland/2014/Cassidy.jpg)
A Thanksgiving Weekend Painting
Dec 1, 2014
Weatherlea Ram. 14x11, oil on linen panel. 2014 I started this painting as a demo for workshop I held over the weekend. Unfortunately I talked for way too long and only had time to do the block in so I had to do most of the painting work today. The focus of the workshop was on the creative process f...
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Morning Light
Nov 7, 2014
Morning Light. 16x20, oil on linen. 2014. I started work on this painting two months ago and left it hanging unfinished on my studio wall before revisiting the design and adding the sheep this week. I spent a few hours on the sheep and additional layers of glazing and scumbling to bring it clo...