Kayla and Bullet

I was honored to be asked to paint this special moment between a little girl and her favorite horse to ride.  It is based on a beautiful picture by one of Oregon's leading family photographers, Kristi Seanor, of her daughter Kayla.  I hadn't met Kayla before, so I was really happy when I delivered it and saw that the painting really looks just like her.  You can see more of Kristi's great photography from the link at the bottom  of my blogspot, "A Slice of Life Photography".
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Lucy

This is one of my personal favorite paintings. After spending weeks painting something else, that I wasn't really happy with, I spotted this photo of Lucy on our wall and had the impulse to paint it. It only took a couple of hours (it felt like it painted itself) and it looks just like my pampered princess Plott Hound, Lucy.
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Yay High

Part of a toy giraffe.  There is part of a zebra farther down in the blog.
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Blue Vortex

One in a series of paintings inspired by the Vortex show at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts.
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Birds nest on a barrel stave

I'm working on creating little birdnests from raffia, yarn, found vines and needles, dove feathers and Skulpy eggs.  This one is sitting on a stave from an old wine barrel.
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Ian and the Pacific Ocean

My grandson Ian, and a quiet moment at the beach.  Love the crabby shadow.  That's the way it looked.
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Blue Tree at Chateau St. Jean

On an outing with the Monday Morning Painters this tree, with its long fingery foliage just grabbed my attention and wouldn't let go.  So much for painting the Chateau.
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Zebra Collage

Zebra stripes of magazine text and puzzle pieces, enhanced with acrylic paint and several layers of acrylic glaze.
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Barn Owls

My first painting of one of several generations of barn owls who inhabit our Black Walnut tree every Spring. Noisy but beautiful, they make their presence known and keep the mouse population down in the neighborhood.
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Bobbie's Garden

My friend Bobbie Morrison invited a bunch of us up for a paint-out.  One of the other patinters had a red umbrella.  Who could resist?
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Bottles in My Window

I don't usually do still life paintings, but the light coming through the bottles in my studio window made me grab some blue paint and go for it.
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Fred's Vacation

This painting is a joint project with my Granddaughter Madison.  She shot the picture, and started the painting.  After she got bored, I finished it.  Fred is an Eastern Rosilla parrot who flew into our lives for about 3 weeks last Fall.  Visited, ate lots of tasty food, and flew on.  We miss him and hope he drops by again next time through.
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Sunset

Limiting my palette.  This black isn't black, it's a mixture of ultramarinre blue, aliz. crimson and burnt sienna.  Makes nice greys.
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Little Pirates

Drink up me hearties, yo ho.
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Blues

Some people see rain dripping down a winter window, others see something else.

It's abstract.
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Ann Arbor

This little mama barn owl collage is named Ann Arbor after the Michigan map that makes up the green area to the right of her face.   She's a collage of pieces of pictures from old National Geographics and her body is made entirely from the little "daisies" and globes on the magazine covers.  I think they make great feathers.

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Posh

This is Harvey, one of the family granddogs.  When he comes to visit, he sleeps on a nest of fancy throw pillows, just like he deserves.
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