2011 One Hundred Paintings / One Hundred Days

256 Fox Eyes Series

2011-12-02T21:33:00.001-05:00

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

2011-11-28T08:20:00.001-05:00

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

2011-10-13T21:29:00.005-04:00

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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You Don't Have to Pay Me for a Painting

2011-10-10T22:19:00.006-04:00

Here is a chance to add one of these paintings to your collection without having to pay me.

All you have to do is donate to Danny and Ron's Rescue. I am giving five paintings. Just donate $100. or more and get the painting of your choice. You can see the available paintings here

After you donate, just send me an email at steve at sfilarsky.com and let me know which painting you like. You donate to them through paypal on their website you can send a copy of the receipt.

I am getting ready to send some of these paintings out to galleries and to display them at upcoming shows. Once they are sent to galleries, I won't be able to include those paintings in this offer, so there is a one week time limit. This will end on October 17 or when five paintings are gone.

Each painting is an original, one of a kind. Once it's sold, it is gone. .

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249 A Horse Portrait

2011-09-28T15:30:00.004-04:00

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

2011-08-19T03:42:00.003-04:00

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

2011-07-15T08:03:00.002-04:00

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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246 Barkley

2011-07-14T07:58:00.002-04:00

Here's Barkley, the second of the three Jack Russell paintings. Barkley curled up on Barkley's pillow is one of the ways he is remembered.

Barkley

5 x 7 Oil on Pintura Panel

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245 Dexter

2011-07-13T07:34:00.003-04:00

This portrait of Dexter is one of three Jack Russell Terriers. The client decided that three individual portraits at this size would be more flexible than one larger painting. When they get another dog(s), adding it's portrait to the collection a simple task. "Stay tuned" for Trooper and Barkley.

Dexter

5 x 7 Oil on Pintura Panel

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244 Tropical Cruise

2011-07-04T13:23:00.003-04:00

Another DayDream/Wishful Thinking painting. Though I was sitting indoors at the NCHJA Horse Show, working in a hot, dusty environment, there is no law that says I have to be there both physically and mentally. Somewhere inside I was on a schooner, leaving a tropical island heading off into a new adventure. I am thinking a nice breeze, a cool drink, my hand on the helm - no, let someone else worry about that-lay back on the deck, look up at the sails and watch the clouds pass by.

Don't you think that this would be a great painting to have on your desk at work?

Tropical Cruise

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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243 Deep Run Fox

2011-06-29T21:48:00.003-04:00

This painting is name Deep Run Fox for two reasons. One the fox head is similar to that of the logo of the Deep Run Hunt Club. The second is that it was painted while at the Deep Run Horse Show which is held at the Hunt Club. I am especially pleased with the eyes.

Deep Run Fox

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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242 Oriental Yacht Club

2011-06-20T12:18:00.003-04:00

You can't put on too many airs when your yacht club is sited next to the fish house and shrimp boats. The Oriental Yacht Club is not exclusively for sailors of Asian heritage, it's name comes from the town of Oriental, NC which in turn got it's name from a ship's nameboard with "Oriental" on it that washed up on the shore. A beautiful summer's day on the Pamlico Sound, no rain, wind or thunderstorms that afternoon.

Oriental Yacht Club

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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241 Blue Ridge Rest Stop

2011-06-15T23:04:00.003-04:00

Another scene from Blowing Rock. An overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway. With motorcycle

Blue Ridge Rest Stop

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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240 The Wine Wall

2011-06-12T21:37:00.003-04:00

A slight turn off of Laurel Dr in Blowing Rock NC will bring you to "The Wall" overlooking the John's River Gorge. Just stop by after the horse show before heading off to dinner or a party. Or just sit and watch the light move across the hollows and ridges as the sun moves across the sky.

The (Wine) Wall

6 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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239 Sunday Under the Oaks

2011-06-08T21:46:00.003-04:00

A beautiful Sunday afternoon in Spring. A free concert outdoors. An new amphitheater, with wide terraced grass tiers, stone walls and walkways. But it seems empty. Off to the sides under the old oak trees of the homestead turned park are the crowds. So this was painted standing in the open looking back to everyone enjoying the shade.

Sunday Under the Oaks

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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238 Sunday Concert in the Park II

2011-06-04T17:32:00.000-04:00

Here is another painting from the Sunday afternoon concert series. This couple was nice enough to stay seated for the duration of the painting.

Sunday Afternoon

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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The First One Hundred

2011-05-25T15:56:00.004-04:00

Scolling through two hundred and forty posts to find a painting seems like a lot to ask of you. I have created a page on my website with thumbnails of the first one hundred paintings. Each thumbnail is a link to the original blog post and you can see which paintings are sold and which ones are still available.

Funny thing is that it seems like only yesterday I was painting number one.

click image to see page

The second hundred paintings review page is coming soon.

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237 Bull and Quilt

2011-05-18T23:13:00.002-04:00

This painting is based on a larger commissioned painting done a few months ago. They are both going to be studies for the large painting in this series.

Bull & Quilts

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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236 First Radish

2011-05-17T22:50:00.004-04:00

We got the vegetable garden in back before Easter. Squash is up, one hill of cucumbers, sunflowers are almost a foot tall. Green beans are just about to reach their trellis. The basils, parsleys and chives in the herb garden are providing us with fresh herbs. But most the most important plant in the garden is the radish. Matures in three weeks. The first food from the garden. Here is the first radish of the season.

First Radish

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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235 Sunday Concert in the Park

2011-05-17T09:44:00.005-04:00

Sunday in the Park. An afternoon concert in the open air. I have my easel and canvas set up amongst the crowd and am painting the people watching the show. This must be how the impressionists felt, outside painting people enjoying themselves.

Sunday-Concert in the Park

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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You can now see an overview of the first one hundred paintings on one page at

One Hundred Paintings Overview

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234 A Girl and Her Pony

2011-05-15T11:48:00.004-04:00

Can't forget the horse shows. Looking forward to shows in PA, Virginia and North and South Carolina. Pack up the van, hook up the camper and hit the road.

A Girl and Her Pony

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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233 Glorious Morning

2011-05-14T09:50:00.003-04:00

Summer is here at the beach. Actually from over across the bay on the mainland, got up early and watched the sunrise over a barrier island.

Was the island uninhabited maritime forest and beach or crowded with condos and houses? Was there a marina and McDonald's or empty salt marsh with egrets and gulls?

What matters is if this little painting takes you from this electronic and artificially created world we are amidst to the reality of the natural world. To contemplate the gloriousness of the single new day which has arrived.

Glorious Morning

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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232 Byway Afternoon

2011-05-13T22:25:00.002-04:00

Paints with corgi 2. Actually, this is paints with corgi 1. Painted just before the Afternoon Impression while talking a corgi into staying next to me and holding him from chasing cars.

At this point in the afternoon, the angle of the sun changes quickly, the light 0n the trees varies and you can almost see the shadows moving across the road to cover the trees.

No time to think about what you are doing, just paint. Except when I have to kneel down to hold the corgi and talk to him, keeping his attention from the passing car. ( We live on a dirt road, with slow traffic, otherwise he would have been taken back to his pen inside the fenced in yard)

Byway Afternoon

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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231 Piglet

2011-05-12T09:30:00.001-04:00

Yesterday in the studio, I found some photos laying nearby my small canvases. Were these suggestions for painting subjects from my wife. "That's nice." I thought as I loaded them with my easel, canvases and paints for a trip to do a painting demo at a gallery.

A later phone call, "Have you seen the photos I had next to the small canvases? I was going to work on some paintings from them"

Here is one of my results

Piglet

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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230 Afternoon Impression

2011-05-10T21:52:00.002-04:00

Perhaps a better title for this painting would be "Painting with a Corgi II" Not that there is a corgi anywhere in this painting. I took my easel out to paint the roses in the garden late yesterday afternoon, hoping to get some nice slanting light, but the sun had already gone below the trees that are behind our house. So off I went, through the gate and down the driveway to where the trees were still in sunlight. The first painting was started and at this time of day, the sun moves quickly what was still in light would be in shade in a matter of minutes. Not exactly speed painting, but no time to waste, just concentrating. Until the corgi showed up. One of our corgis who decided to hop through the fence and see what was happening. So rather than take him back to the yard and his pen or get a leash, I kept painting and watching him and calling him back ( he still finds many things of more interest to him than my commands) and then holding him by the collar as cars drove by.

The first painting was finished. I had two canvases with me, so I began a second one, this one. Looking back across our pasture, across a honeysuckle covered fence to an old barn and trees silhouetted by the lowering sun.

Carolina Afternoon - Impression

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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229 Down East Morning

2011-05-02T22:59:00.003-04:00

There is a small corner of the North Carolina coast, across Core Sound from the southernmost of the Outer Banks known as "Down East" since it is east of the town of Beaufort. A string of small towns and communities among the salt marshes, you can still hear the old English accent that was also prevelant on the Outer Banks until recently.

This is a view across a bay on a morning that promises become another great day for kayaking, fishing, crabbing and just messing around on the water.

Down East Morning

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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228 Salt Marsh Sunrise Children on the Beach - Paintings Progress

2011-04-24T09:10:00.010-04:00

This post is a bit different, but don't worry, there is a nice 4 x 6 oil painting at the end.

I want to show you a painting as it goes through various stages from start to finish. This is a 24 x 30 oil on canvas of a brother and sister at the beach. The photograph that is the basis for this painting was taken by their mother a number of years ago. Is it wrong for me to say that she waited until she found the right artist to capture her vision?

The photo was taken in the late afternoon, a great time to capture the warm light from the setting sun without the squinting in bright sunlight that we get earlier in the day. Usually around here at the North Carolina beaches it also means that you get a grey color to the sand. No problem, we can capture both the light on the figures and on the surrounding beach.

As you can see, the canvas was toned with a warm dull yellow color. The figures were drawn in, the some of the dark and light accents were placed on the canvas give me reference values.

More of the surrounding was sketched in and work begun on the sky and sea. Some color is added to her dress since it is an accent color, taht is, it is different from the colors in the rest of the painting

Many of these photos were taken with a phone, usually when I suddenly remembered that I was documenting this painting. Usually I take a few at the beginning and then the painting takes over and I forget to photograph. Luckily you are able to see this one progress evenly. The camera phone and the fact that I worked on this painting at different locations is the reason for the change in colors that you notice from one photo to the next.

Here the sky and sea are pretty much complete. Working on them first means I won't have to paint around the figures later. Creating a soft look and then leaving it alone as the rest of the painting is worked on helps keep the sky and sea in the background and helps form a sense of depth to the painting.

You can see in this photo that work has begun on the children. The beach in the background has been painted in colors a bit cooler than the sand in the dunes. This helps keep it back where it belongs with the surf and sky. The dune grass has been begun. The dark masses of the grass are important in keeping the composition from becoming to static.

More of the grass has been added and I am now happy with sand in the foreground is coming along.

A closer look. Work has begun on the children and their clothes

More work to the grasses, sand and the children

Features have been added to the boy's face. This is the hard part. To capture the likeness and expression with impressionistic brush strokes takes a lot more planning and work than you would think.

Here is a closer look at the children.

To be continued.......(until the painting is finished)

Now, the painting I promised, this is morning light at the coast....Low Country salt marsh morning.

Salt Marsh Sunrise

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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227 Garden off the Interstate

2011-04-16T21:24:00.002-04:00

Spring flowers blooming alongside I440 in Raleigh. After 5 1/2 hours of painting at the Small Paintings, Big Results workshop, the students persuaded me to do a final demonstration painting. This is the view out the back door of the Jerry's Artarama store.

Off Road

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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226 Clouds and Sea

2011-04-09T08:34:00.003-04:00

Here is a small painting that has potential to become a larger work. It is a "thumbnail" painting. The shapes and colors of the painting are worked out in a small format so when work begins on the larger painting I can start mixing all the right colors. At the recent small paintings workshop in Raleigh this painting was used to show how perspective is used in painting the sky and clouds.

Clouds and Sea

4 x 6 Oil on Panel

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225 Jack Leg

2011-04-06T20:59:00.003-04:00

This fellow was an extra who along with another Jack Russell had a walk on part in a painting of a local barn. Now he is a star in his own painting.

Jack Leg

4 x 6 Oil on canvas

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224 Jack (Russell) in the Cab

2011-03-07T22:38:00.004-05:00

Three Jack Russell's in the cab.

Jack in the Cab

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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223 Wild Rabbit

2011-03-06T10:26:00.002-05:00

Unfortunately for our dogs, but fortunately for the rabbits, out property is fenced in to keep a small dog from getting out which means that rabbits can't get in. They hop across the driveway, are in the road, in the field next door, but the dogs have to be content chasing squirrels away from the bird feeders.

There hasn't been many rabbit paintings in this project, this is probably the fourth rabbit out of two hundred and twenty three paintings

Wild Rabbit

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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222 Catching Some Rays

2011-03-05T22:32:00.003-05:00

It seems that Winter might be ending, at least for a few days. So Theresa and I jump in the car on Sunday afternoon and take a ride around Granville, Franklin and Warren counties. As usual, it seems that I find most of the interesting subjects just around the corner. It was a nice day, still a bit of chill in the wind, a good day to hunker down and enjoy the warm sun.

Catching Some Rays

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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221 Afternoon Sun

2011-02-22T13:59:00.003-05:00

A look outside a the sun drenched landscape before siesta. Sound of the surf and a sea breeze through windows.

Afternoon Sun

4 x 6 Oil on canvas

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220 White Horse Pike

2011-02-16T21:51:00.005-05:00

Another grey horse, this one along with the earlier painting of a draft horse are "thumbnail" paintings. They will be the basis for a much larger painting. I can use them to decide which one to paint larger and a guide for the larger work. If it doesn't look good small, it sure won't look good larger.

The name White Horse Pike is my homage to South Jersey and the Pine Barrens.

White Horse Pike

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

SOLD

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219 Gray Draft

2011-02-14T20:37:00.004-05:00

We travel to a lot of horse shows, stables, farms and barns for both work and pleasure. One of the most impressive and enjoyable (for me that is) are the draft horses. Here's one, all dressed up, waiting for the carriage classes at the NC State Fair.

Gray Draft

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

SOLD

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218 Sailing Away

2011-02-14T08:21:00.006-05:00

What better way to spend a February day than dreaming of the tropics. Sailing on the trade winds. Blue sky, blue sea, no mud, no snow. I am here in the states, but the schooner Russamee is in the Caribbean. After seeing this painting, one woman commented that sailing was on her "bucket list." She needs to go sailing now, for perchance it takes, she will go sailing again and again or it will lie lows, nagging in your subconscious. Like an painter who isn't painting, a feeling of something undone.

Sailing Away

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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217 Mountain Farm Morning

2011-02-10T16:39:00.004-05:00

Summer morning in the Great Smoky Mountains. Still cool in the shade, but in the sun is the promise of a hot summer day. Behind me in the trees is a stream. The corn is high and off to the right along the garden fence, the sunflowers are higher still. Sounds good in the middle of February.

Mountain Farm Morning

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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216 A Hard Run

2011-02-09T21:07:00.003-05:00

A German Shorthaired Pointer after a hard run on a cold winter morning. That green in the background represents the pines at the edge of the field. It was pointed out to me that he has "psycho eyes" in the painting. A trick of the sunlight, but don't German Shorthaireds alway have psycho eyes?

A Hard Run

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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215 A Corgi in Winter

2011-02-08T21:29:00.004-05:00

Time for another Corgi painting. My wife, Theresa, set this photo near my easel. I took the hint. A corgi out in the snow on a beautiful sunny day. Wonderful backlight on the dog, with sun sparkling off the snow.

Painting winter and snow paintings on a toned background is really the only way for me. You paint the figures and landscape, the shadows in the snow and then come on with the white, brightening the painting as you add a brushstroke there and a brushstroke here, building up to the bright winter day.

A Corgi in Winter

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

SOLD

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214 In the Flock

2011-02-07T08:33:00.005-05:00

I am always amazed at the diversity here just outside Raleigh NC. From longhorn cows to Glouscestershire Old Spots within twenty miles of our house. Old tobacco barns on old tobacco farms, dairy barns on dairy farms, all around the corner. Chickens, guineas, donkeys just down our road. Albino deer running across the front yard, driving the dogs nuts. Squirrels and rabbits. Tree frogs....

Today's painting, Theresa and I took a drive around the county a week or so ago and came across a flock of sheep. Unlike the longhorns down the road, they decided they didn't want us around and began moving away. We had to move quickly to get the cameras out to take photos to use as reference for paintings. On this painting I decided to move the calendar forward a bit and green up their pasture.

In the Flock

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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213 White Rabbit

2011-02-05T22:55:00.004-05:00

White Rabbit

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

SOLD

No, this is not our rabbit. No rabbits at the old homestead.

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212 Evening Fire

2011-02-02T19:47:00.004-05:00

I had a very hard time photographing this painting and I am still not very satisfied with the image, it just doesn't show the color and the light in the original.

Here you see another of my repeat models. Fidget has been painted lying on the carpet in the sun, on the piano bench, lying in the sun, outside in the evening light and lying in the sun.

Scroll down and you can see a close up of the painting. The bumps and texture in the painting are actually the threads of the canvas.

Evening Fire

4 x 6 oil on canvas

$100. shipping included

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211 Corgi Puppy 2

2011-02-01T19:17:00.008-05:00

Throop, pronounced "troop" like the Thames River, is the latest addition here at the studio. At ten weeks old he was commanding from the top of the front porch steps, surveying the yard whose security has been placed in his capable paws. Now nearly one year later, he still takes his work seriously, coming inside for a break or nap. I photographed this painting as it progressed to give you a look at the painting process.

Throop

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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210 Happy Corgi

2011-01-28T21:39:00.005-05:00

Happy Corgi

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

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209 The Girls

2011-01-26T23:07:00.005-05:00

The Girls

5 x 7 Oil on Canvas

SOLD

The Girls have modelled for me a number of times, both together and separately. The colors in these paintings have always intrigued me. We ran across them late on a early spring afternoon. Let me say that again. It was early in Spring, late March, early April here in NC and we were driving up in northern Granville County late in the day. So there was a still that clear winter light with a warm orange cast from the setting sun. This creates, especially on their white faces, a warm light against a cool bluish shadows. Just fun to paint if you like to play with color.

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208 Bus Stop Bobby

2011-01-25T22:00:00.004-05:00

Bus Stop Bobby

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

SOLD

A dog. A dog on a golf cart. A dog on a golf cart at a horse show. Sound familiar. It seems to be one of the recurring themes running through this project. Bus Stop Bobby was found at a bus stop. He had been tied and left there. He now lives in dog heaven, aka Beaver River Farm.

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207 Bird Dog - Art Critic

2011-01-23T19:57:00.004-05:00

Bird Dog - Art Critic

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

$100. shipping included

It was late afternoon on a cold day early in December. I was at a horse show at The Barracks near Charlottesville, VA painting the view looking out towards the Blue Ridge Mountains. For the duration of the two hours I was painting, those three dogs were all over the bed of the truck, hanging out one side, then running over to see what was happening on the other. Yet not once did they try to get out of the truck. They did check the progress of my painting, but didn't give an opinion for good or bad.

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206 Roses and Chimneys

2011-01-21T19:09:00.005-05:00

Roses and Chimneys

4 x 6 Oil on canvas

$100. shipping included

I am continuing with the theme of warm spring mornings. It is just too cold for North Carolina. This paintings inspiration also goes back to the same painting trip as "Spring Planting" yesterday. The sun and shadows, roof lines and chimneys create a geometric backdrop for the organic forms of flowers and bushes. Fun to paint.

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205 Spring Planting

2011-01-20T22:27:00.006-05:00

Spring Planting

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

SOLD

Looking ahead to bright mornings, warm sun on your shoulders, the season of optimism. Rebirth and growth. The promise of springtime. A great subject to paint on a gray winter's day.
On a more mundane note, today we are planting some trees and starting to repair fences. When the old roses bloom in May, we will have a class in the yard painting them.

Here is a photo of "Spring Planting" in a gold leaf "plein air" style frame. These frames really add a certain je ne sais quoi.

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204 Charolais

2011-01-19T22:09:00.005-05:00

A pig, now a cow. What's next? A chicken or a frog? A horse or a dog or a cat? Nope. I had to do some gold leaf work out of town, so I have had to plan ahead. Back to today's painting. A Charolais. You can find them lying in the shade of huge old oak trees as you drive down through central Florida. Do you fly in and out of Palm Beach International? Then you probably don't see them and will just have to add painting to your collection.....

Charolais

4 x 6 Oil on canvas

$100. shipping included

SOLD

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203 Back with a Pig

2011-01-18T22:11:00.004-05:00

What can I say....I had to get a pig painting posted. This one seems a bit more pensive than the other pig paintings.

Thanks to the internet, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy and listing of local farms selling produce, I found a farm raising Gloucestershire Old Spots less than twenty miles from our home. I thought I would be trekking to Virginia and north to find them, but sometimes if you look in your own backyard.....

Here Spot

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

$100. shipping included

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Brand new year! Brand New Paintings!

2011-01-17T08:52:00.007-05:00

I have had a lot of fun on my 100 paintings in 100 days and thanks to all of my wonderful collectors, went far beyond my original concept of one hundred :-).

With 2011 underway and by popular demand and requests, I am continuing the series and adding new paintings daily! As always, you can contact me with special requests. Remember that a percentage of all of my One Hundred Paintings sales goes to that amazing animal rescue group, Danny and Ron's Rescue. So invest in a painting and invest in a canine life!

Thanks to all my collectors for inspiring me! Now, let's have a great year!

Many of my collectors give these paintings as gifts. Here are are a few from Christmas

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202 Lawn Chicken

2010-11-30T18:20:00.001-05:00

Is Santa bringing you or a loved one chickens for Christmas?

Lawn Chicken

4 x 6 oil on canvas

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201 Young Heifer

2010-11-17T07:10:00.004-05:00

At a recent show in northern Virginia, a lot of collectors were interested in paintings of Black Angus. Now I understand that there are a lot of Black Angus in that area, but when it comes to painting, the Herefords (white and brown), Belted Galloways (oreo cows) and Highland Cattle (hairy, shaggy with long horns) make the job much easier.

The white face of the young cow below gives an opportunity to play with colors. Warm whites from the sunlight, neutral/grays in the shadows and some blue reflected lights from the sky.

Young Heifer

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

SOLD

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200 Golden

2010-11-15T23:03:00.003-05:00

Someone asked, "Do you ever do Goldens?"

The answer is yes.

This painting has already led to a number of commissions of various dogs, all in this close up pose.

Golden

5 x 7 Oil on Canvas

$150. shipping included

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199 Belgian Blue Bull

2010-11-13T07:15:00.003-05:00

A quick post, this painting was sold before I got it up on the blog, sorry about that. Since the file names for the photos include the number and it was on the website, I am posting this and will move on to the next.....number 200

The rope halter is the "fun to paint" item in the painting...

Belgian Blue

4x6 Oil on board

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198 Mountain Barn

2010-11-10T22:29:00.001-05:00

Painted outdoors, "on location," looking up "The Hill" to the barns at the Blowing Rock Horse Show on a beautiful summer day in the Blue Ridge Mountains. "The Hill" seems to get steeper every year. I seem to remember going up and down with ease when I first started painting here. Upon a little more reflection, I used a golf cart shuttle quite a bit that first year.

Mountain Barn

4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

$100. shipping included

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197 Pony Painting

2010-11-04T21:28:00.004-04:00

Painting a white horse on a black background was a great experiment with color,you can see a post about an earlier painting on my other blog, that I decided to continue with that series. In this painting I used a photo of a white pony taken outdoors on a normal day. I then played with the contast, creating a a brighter, more direct light and darkening the shadows. Then the colors were intensified and played with. All without using photoshop, just paint and imagination.

White Pony

5 x 7 Oil on Canvas

$150. shipping included

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196 Red Rooster

2010-10-31T09:07:00.005-04:00

The Red Rooster is the first of new chicken paintings. Though small in size, it is a powerful painting, capable of getting your attention from across the room. Perhaps you can put in on a small table top easel next to your alarm clock.

Red Rooster

Oil on Canvas

SOLD

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Finding older paintings and posts on a blog can easily become frustrating. In addition to the page with some of the earlier paintings, new posts will have a image and link to earlier work. Today's painting is Jack, a Jack Russell Terrier

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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195 Black Angus

2010-10-17T23:11:00.003-04:00

I am playing "catch up," today. This is the second painting posted today. A while back we visited a couple of my wife's portrait clients. In addition to the dogs that Theresa painted, they have a farm full of Black Angus. Bob drove us around so that I could take photographs. We started with the young bull and then off to the field where the heifers were. Then down the road to a field full of calves and their mothers, more photos. Finally back to the house to the old bull who was reaching retirement age. A few hundred photos to work with - isn't digital grand.

Here is one of the girls from the heifer's field.

Black Angus

4 x 6 Oil on Board

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194 Piedmont Hound

2010-10-17T21:34:00.004-04:00

This is the second painting from the Piedmont Hounds "Puppy Show." The painting has been "hanging" around the studio and its time for internet exposure has now come.

Piedmont Hound

4 x 6 Oil on Board

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Past Paintings - Volume 1

2010-10-14T22:00:00.002-04:00

You can take a look at some of the paintings from deep within this blog (sort of like time traveling for me, I can look and recall where and when they were painted...) The point is that there is now a page on this blog with a collection of some older paintings...you can check them out here:

A Blast from the Past 1 - Available Paintings

Check back for upcoming new paintings and more from the archives....

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Portrait of Betty Young

2010-10-06T06:15:00.003-04:00

I thought at first that I might surprise you when you saw the painting after reading the title of this post. But since you met Lulu in the previous post, it looks like my chances of that are way down.

Betty is a member of the Young family along with Lulu. They were both rescue dogs adopted from Danny and Ron's Rescue. Their portraits will be featured on Danny and Ron's Rescue 2011 Calendar along with eleven others. So be on the lookout, the calendars will be coming out in November.

Betty Young

8 x 10 Oil on Canvas

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A sneak peek - Lulu Young

2010-09-29T09:32:00.007-04:00

Today's painting is a bit different. You may notice that I didn't even number it. It is a portrait of Lulu Young. I created it for Danny and Ron's Rescue 2011 Calendar. The calendar will feature works of twelve artists ( I am making an educated guess ) including my wife M. Theresa Brown, who have created paintings of dogs that have found homes thanks to Danny and Ron.

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193 Burro - Henderson

2010-09-27T22:55:00.004-04:00

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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192 Cows, FLA

2010-09-20T21:28:00.003-04:00

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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191 Middleburg Street Scene

2010-08-30T22:09:00.004-04:00

"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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190 Two Hounds

2010-06-23T11:42:00.004-04:00

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

Two Hounds
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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3 Paintings an interlude from the Devon Horse Show

2010-05-29T21:09:00.006-04:00

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
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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188 Beach House

2010-05-22T21:39:00.008-04:00

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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187 Cool Drink

2010-05-21T20:25:00.004-04:00

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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186 Afternoon Swim

2010-05-20T21:39:00.005-04:00

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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185 Seven Sisters at the Garden Gate

2010-05-19T20:38:00.004-04:00

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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184 Corgi Eyes

2010-05-16T22:42:00.004-04:00

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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183 Fox in Profile

2010-05-09T09:18:00.004-04:00

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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182 Hershey 2

2010-05-04T15:45:00.006-04:00

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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181 Dressage at Fork

2010-04-26T19:16:00.006-04:00

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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180 Red Macaw

2010-04-21T22:12:00.003-04:00

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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179 Hieland Laddie

2010-04-09T18:18:00.005-04:00

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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178 Germain Shorthair 2

2010-04-06T22:43:00.004-04:00

German Shorthair 2
4 x 6 Oil on panel

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177 Corgi Puppy

2010-04-06T08:36:00.005-04:00

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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176 Kingfisher

2010-03-31T06:42:00.001-04:00

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....

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175 White Donkey

2010-03-28T09:02:00.007-04:00

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....

174 Macaw

2010-03-28T08:41:00.004-04:00

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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173 Raven Rock

2010-03-25T22:11:00.004-04:00

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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172 A Glass of Wine

2010-03-22T20:50:00.004-04:00

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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171 Jack

2010-03-08T23:06:00.003-05:00

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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170 Rottweiler

2010-03-07T09:22:00.007-05:00

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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169 Red Red Tree Frog

2010-03-05T11:35:00.005-05:00

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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168 Ready for Spring - Sportfishing

2010-02-25T22:19:00.005-05:00

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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154 Interior w Roses

2010-02-22T21:45:00.004-05:00

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

2010-02-22T21:22:00.004-05:00

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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166 Barn in Snow

2010-02-17T23:17:00.004-05:00

Barn in Snow
4 x 6 Oil on canvas
$100. shipping included

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

2010-02-17T22:20:00.004-05:00

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
$100. shipping included
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164 Two Cows Too

2010-02-17T21:46:00.003-05:00

Two Cows Too
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

$100. shipping included

Laurel and Hardy? Here is a short (24 sec) video montage of the creation of this painting

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163 Cat in Sun, French Door

2010-02-13T21:44:00.005-05:00

Cat in Sun, French Door
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas

This is another appearance by our cat Fidget.

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162 Mr Fred at the Fox Hunt

2010-02-09T22:06:00.002-05:00

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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161 Side Saddle

2010-02-02T08:27:00.005-05:00

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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160 Snow Bird

2010-01-30T22:58:00.003-05:00

Today we got seven inches of snow and a couple inches of sleet on top.We filled the feeders three times today. Probably put out over 5 lbs of sunflower seeds in the bird feeders. I caught this bird as it sat on a tree outside the kitchen window. Off to the studio (it's twenty five feet from the house) to work on this painting. The colors are a little more subtle, but there are oranges and blues that might not make the transition to the computer screen.

Snow Bird
4 x 6 Oil on Canvas
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