Posts Tagged ‘animals’
What’s with the Animals?
Saturday, August 20th, 2016
Why did this photo get such a huge response on my facebook page? Because everyone loves Dennis? maybe, but more likely the adoring Dog Friday is the real reason. Why are we so attracted to anything with animals? Dennis has been using animals as a motif on his recent Mishima work. (Here is a video […]
Painting with Sophie
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
“Penny on the Porch” My 9 year old grandniece Sophie, who I painted at Christmas playing her violin, is visiting for a few days and today we spent part of the afternoon painting. Sophie was a great student, working from a sketch she had made earlier of our dog Penny and creating a composition with […]
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Green Stockings
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
“Green Stockings” Oil on Masonite panel 15.5 x 12″ $185 This is the other half of the painting homework I mentioned yesterday. After the specific parameters for the first painting I asked them to ignore everything we had been studying and just go wild; to make the same painting again, but from the gut rather […]
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Peeping Tom
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
“Peeping Tom” 15.5 x 12″ Oil on Masonite panel $185 SOLD- Thanks, J.E. I’m disappointed that my camera can’t seem to capture the correct yellows in this painting and it is too big to scan here at home, sooo… I’ll have to re-post it later. This was an assignment I gave my painting class: to […]
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Big K Ranch
Friday, March 21st, 2008
“Big K Ranch” 12×20″ Oil on Canvas $250 Last weekend I had the pleasure of meeting my daughter for an overnight at the Big K Ranch in Elkton Oregon, which is about equidistant from here and Portland, where she lives. We both drove through rain the entire trip until we turned into the 5 mile […]
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Red Ball
Friday, March 7th, 2008
“Red Ball” 6×8″ oil on canvas $98 SOLD, Thanks L.B. Our friend Tom was house-sitting recently, and part of his job was to take the dog out every day for a game of fetch. Tom is not much of a dog-lover, but dutifully took the dog out and threw a ball for him. The dog […]
