"Back To The Stables #2"

8"x8" image size

Oil on Board
$175 plus $10 domestic s/h

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I took another image that I did a drawing of a few weeks ago, posted on June 16, AND that I have done a smaller painting of posted June 27. Sometimes I come across an image I like so much I want to keep trying it. This is the most colorful of the three for sure. Again I used pthalo blue, alizaron crimson, alizaron yellow and white and a little bit of dioxazine purple as it was hard to get as bright a purple as I wanted. I intend to save this painting for a show I have in August.

"Little Cowboy"

16"x20"

Oil on Gessoboar

Sold

Ta-Da!! I finished this commission! I am jumping up and down inside! Actually, there's a spot I'm going to tweak, but this is about it.

Commissions are hard for me. Just the stress of wondering if the buyer will like it, and in the case of this painting, needing to get a good likeness of the child, the horse and the car! It's an interesting process and I hope they're happy with it!

"Ride 'Em Cowboy!"

Image: 6" x 7.25"

Hand-pulled Linoleum block print on Rives Lightweight paper

Edition size: 10 plus 1 artist's proof

$65 includes s/h

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Finished! I am much happier with this than I thought I would be yesterday! I was thinking that the lines showing the highlights on the horse were ruining the effect of the large black shape, but it seems to have balanced out fine with the rest of the detail. I was also not happy with the difference in the marks made--the area of dust had one kind and the horse had another. I think that putting similar marks in those sections gave the image more unity. It's all such a learning experience!

I printed this on a creamy paper--Rives Lightweight. I love that paper. It almost feels like fabric and takes the ink beautifully.

Sketch for a commission

6"x8"

Oil on Canvas Panel

NFS

This is a color sketch I did today for a commission I'm going to be doing, mainly to see if the color is accurate for the horse and the car. The proportions need work--it seemed hard to get them right when the objects were so little--I'm glad the final painting will be larger!

"Cutting In Close" (sold)

12"x12"

Oil on Board

NFS at this time

Finished the painting I posted the day before yesterday--at least I think so! I need to live with it some more to know for sure. Crowds! Geez! I feel like I never quite know what to do with them--I think this is OK, but again, I need to live with it for awhile!