Posted in daily painter, tagged barn, barns, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Virginia Artist on April 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Barn is an oil on canvas panel measuring 6″x8″ and is available for $125.
This barn could be a home to the many farm animals I have been painting lately. Living in the Shenandoah Valley gives you access to beautiful landscapes and many of them include barns.
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, oil painting, pig, Virginia Artist on April 5, 2010| Leave a Comment »
This Little Pig is an oil on canvas panel measuring 6″x8″ and is available for $125. More in the Farm Animal series coming all week!
Posted in daily painter, Dogs, tagged black dog, daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, impressionism, oil painting, Virginia Artist on April 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Marley is an oil on canvas panel measuring 11″X14″. He lives in Manassas with his dad and the painting was a birthday present for him.
I love doing pet portraits! It is always fun seeing photos of peoples beloved pets and hearing stories about them. 
Black dogs are the hardest for me to paint because it’s difficult to show the highlights of their features. And I almost always do black dog portraits in oil because I can achieve the features better in oils.
This is how “Marley” started out on the easel. I keep several photos close at hand so that I can continually refer to it.
The palette for “Marley” has some colors on it that you don’t necessarily see in the portrait but they are in there, mixed with other colors to achieve the look we want.
So Happy Birthday Marley’s Dad. Hope you enjoy your painting!
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, oil painting, Rooster, Virginia Artist on April 2, 2010| 1 Comment »
Mean Rooster is an oil on canvas panel measuring 6″x8″ and is available for $125. This is another in the Farm Animal series of paintings that I have been working on lately. It has been such a fun group of paintings and I can’t wait for you to see the rest of them.
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, impressionism, oil painting, sheep, Virginia Artist on April 1, 2010| 1 Comment »
Another in my farm animal series….Meet Jester. Look at this cutie. This Jester is an oil on canvas panel measuring 6″x8″, SOLD.
Photo Courtesy of Suzanne McMinn
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, lamb, oil painting, Virginia Artist on March 31, 2010| 1 Comment »
Annabelle was the cutest little lamb that had to be bottle fed. Isn’t she adorable? This painting of Annabelle is an oil on canvas panel measuring 6″x8″ and is available for $125. SOLD
For more adventures of Annabelle and her farm friends click on www.chickensintheroad.com .
Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged daily painter, daily painting, donkey, farm animals, jackass, pet portrait, Virginia Artist, West Virginia on March 29, 2010| 3 Comments »
For some time now I have been addicted to a blog that I read everyday called “Chickens in the Road”. It’s by a marvelous writer turned farmer about her experiences on a farm in West Virginia. Her photographs are wonderful. She has lots of animals and many adventures that she writes about in a way that makes you want to come back and read more. Be sure to take a look at www.chickensintheroad.com . (And notice that her blog is listed in my favorites links on the right column of my blog so you can click everyday and look at it from here. I just love the internet!)
Because of her terrific photos, I have been wanting to do a series of farm animals and Suzanne McMinn, aka Chickens in the Road lady, gave me permission to use some of her photos as reference for my paintings. So over the next few weeks I’ll be posting the Farm Animal series based on her animals.
One of my favorite animals that she talks about is Jack. Meet Jack.
Photo courtesy of Suzanne McMinn
My version of Jack is an oil on canvas panel measuring 6″x8″. How can you not love that face????!!!!! SOLD.
Posted in Abstract, daily painter, tagged Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, art lessons, daily painter, daily painting, Virginia Artist on March 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
In October 2009 I got a call from a new student who was interested in only learning to paint in abstract. So we started lessons. We have been having a great time painting several times each week as she has learned the ins and outs of painting in abstract.
Now we have been invited to have a show together as teacher and student. The name of the show is “Minds Wide Open” and the organizers of the show thought that our works in abstract would be a good way to emphasize that theme. The show will have each of our works, side by side, to show the different visions each of us had to the same lesson. I think it will be very interesting. I’ll let you know when it will go up so hopefully you can stop in to see it.
Today’s painting (that is an Ode to Joan Mitchell, a wonderful abstract painter from the mid 20th Century) shows the progress of a recent lesson and the finished painting. I know that abstract is not everyone’s “cup of tea” hence the name of the show, Minds Wide Open. It is sometimes good to take a look at something we don’t think we care for and we see something in it that we grow to appreciate.
Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on March 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Valley View Lesson I is an oil on canvas panel measuring 9″x12.
Valley View Lesson II is an oil on canvas panel measuring 11″x14″.
Both of these were lessons for Wednesday Night Art Class. I just completed these recently. New students almost always start with a landscape similar to these because it gives them a chance to learn about color mixing, tones, and composition as well as becoming comfortable with putting paint to canvas.
Posted in Art Class, daily painter, Dogs, tagged Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, impressionism, oil painting, Small Town Life, Virginia Artist on March 23, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Truman can be so mean to Jed. I have to play referee a lot while painting. I will look around and there will be Truman laying in front of the doggie door and poor Jed sitting outside waiting to come in but Truman is blocking the way. You can see the outline of Jed through the door in this photo. I have to go over and move Truman to let Jed inside. Basset Hounds are so ornery sometimes!
Bold Carrots is an oil on canvas measuring 10″x8″ and is available for $95. This is another lesson piece that I have just finished up after it sat here for a little while.
The Studio 
