"20 for 20" number 5

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Bug Search

10 x 8 Acrylic on Canvas panel

The thing about painting animals....they won't hold still!  I got several good photos of this guy out with some of the girls.  Good thing too because he's no longer with us.  Of the dozen new chicks we started out with this year, it turns out that five of them are roosters.  Not a problem until they grow up and there are now six roosters crowing.  Larry's rooster hunting until there is only one of the noisy things left.  I'm hoping for a black and white one to be the last man standing.

What Pastels?

One of Larry's

8 x10 Pastel on Wallis Paper

I'm even newer to pastel than I am to the rest of my artistic efforts.  I seem to go in spurts-- acrylics for a while....a few pastels....back to acrylics.  I enjoy working in the medium, but I think I just dislike having to put the work behind glass.  I like the drawing/painting feel of pastels, and I really like having no brushes to clean.  Acrylics dry so fast that I'm more likely to smear a pastel piece than I am to smoosh the paint on an acrylic.

Larry has several mounted deer heads, but he hasn't gotten over the "trophy-taking" need.  He takes the heads and makes European mounts of them.  I'm not a big fan.  They are all hanging out in the garage.  This one was over a doorway and was somewhat atypical, interesting enough to paint.  Besides, I'd rather have this hanging around.

Still wishing for Fall....

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Autumn Field

24 x 16 Acrylic on hardboard panel

The highs are still in the nineties, which is preferable to temps in the 100's, but I'm ready for Fall.  This scene is an overlook from the road a mile or two from here.  It doesn't look quite the same now because a man has decided he likes the view too and is building a little house there.   I suppose it's just as well that I live in a place with such a variety of temperature extremes...gives me something to complain about.  The days are coming when I'll be whining about getting out early in the cold, dark morning to break ice on drinking water for the animals.  Then I'll be painting sunny, summer scenes looking forward to warmer weather.  Painting on hardboard is certainly different from painting on canvas.  The surface is so smooth that the paint really slides around.  It is easier to get fine lines, but
 dry brushing doesn't break up so much.

"20 for 20" number 4

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Autumn Falls

10 x 8 Acrylic on canvas panel

I am so ready for a change of season!  This little painting, created with no reference material, reflects a desire to see some water moving and the beautiful colors of Fall.  There may be little of either around here this year because it's been so dry.  We did buy corn for the feeders today at an all-time high price.  The farmers sitting around the Co-op said they were getting so little yield that some were just baling the corn.  I don't know that the acorn crop will be very good either, so we'll at least start out feeding the critters.  Might not feed all winter though....

"20 for 20" number 3

Heading Out

8 x 10 on canvas panel

When it's so hot, the best time to fish is either at night or early in the morning.  I prefer to sleep at night and hate to get up early, so I'm not a big fan.  However, there are beautiful sunrises out on the water, the likes of which I don't see from home.  We are surrounded by so many trees that no viewing vistas open up for sunrise or sunset; I have to get out and travel to see them.  Maybe I'll feel more like getting out when the temperatures cool.  At least there are only one or two days with forecasts in triple digits this week.... I seem to remember when the 90's didn't seem cool....

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Come on, Fall

After Hours

16" x 12" Acrylic on Canvas Panel

I'm ready for Fall.  It has been so hot that I have had quite enough Summer.  Soon we'll be setting out the trail cameras and hopefully feeding some corn.  Trail cameras are great!  We get so many neat pictures; well, and some pictures of rear ends too.  It really shows what animals are around.  We have pictures of various birds, rabbits, and squirrels.  Sometimes there are flocks of wild turkeys, and we have seen a bobcat and a fox.  At night there are often raccoons snacking on corn.  Once there was an owl sitting on a leg of the feeder.  Whitetail deer come in almost on a schedule.  Early in the season does and this year's fawns will come in during early morning or at dusk.  Sometimes bucks will come in with other bucks.  Schedules for the bucks especially change once hunting season starts.  They'll come in separately and mostly after shooting hours, thus the title for this piece.

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Love Clouds!

Work in Progress

20 x 16 acrylic on canvas panel

Clear blue skies are pretty, I guess; but I do love the infinite variety of clouds.  When the dark cloudbanks break and reveal that silver lining and shafts of light, it's glorious!  Puffy, white clouds and breathtakingly beautiful colors of clouds at sunrise or sunset....they're simply amazing.

"20 for 20" number 2

The Bugler

8 x 10 on Canvas Panel

It seems that every picture I see of a bull elk has his mouth open.  All of the nature shows focus on the season of the rut and the really strange noise these guys make.  I'm told it's the only time of the year the bulls bugle.  All I know is that I would never match that high, squeally, weird noise with these majestic animals.  Oh, and that I wouldn't want to carry all of that weight on my head.

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Cascade

8 x 10  Acrylic on Canvas Panel

In keeping with an attempt to make original art affordable, the plan is to post 20 original acrylics on 8 x 10 canvas panels and offer them at $20 each plus shipping of $5.  Water cascades down a rocky slope in this first of the series.  It rained here in beautiful northeast Oklahoma again today.  Still in drought, so it's welcome!

I've been rereading some "Artists Magazine" back issues trying to improve my work, and I have come across mentions of using projection and really large photos.  First, I can't afford a projector, and second, I can't afford large prints of photos.  My work involves no projecting or copying of enlargements.  It's all just doin' what I do.

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Please Rain

Please Rain

16 x 20

Acrylic on Canvas Panel



Within 48 hours of finishing this piece, we received over an inch and a half of rain!  Today was also the first morning to go horseback riding in at least a month.  It has been so incredibly hot here in beautiful northeast Oklahoma.  Several days passed with lovely clouds, but no rain.  I spent a few days painting and repainting to get the look I wanted, painting something reminiscent of the area with stormy skies.  Hmmmmmm.....how to paint "world peace" and "an improved economy"....

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