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12 x 12 Acrylic painting, close up of dogs face

Polymer Clay Plagues- Holiday Set

Well I have been very busy in the studio working with polymer clay. This latest project was a gift and I loved working on it. I decided to make a plague for each of the holidays. Each one is hand made and hand painted. I would consider them mixed media because I use texture sheets and molds, some I found some I made, stamps, found objects, beads and of course paint.

Artist Trading Cards or ATC’s

Yep I got swept up into the whole atc world awhile back and started a very nice collection. I have decided to once again work on these little gems and offer them up here for trade. The ones I am listing now are from that time period 2005 and 6, I had put them in a folder and forgot all about them. If you see one you like and want to trade for just give a yell and we can make a swap.

For those that don’t know about theses they are little works of art other than the size they must be 2.5 x 3.5 and the skys the limit as far as medium style etc. Many artist sell these cards, I did for awhile but to be honest its much more fun to trade. You can type in atc for more information on these but be careful its very addictive.
 

Stars and stripes horse, this guy moves, his body is jointed at the star . acrylic, paper, colored pencil, brad, horse is laminated

Dog done in colored pencil

Horse pencil

pear pencil

pear acrylic

apple acrylic

hoof pick acrylic

blue dog, print, paper, metal

orange dog print, paper, metal

WIP- Horse Head

Day # 1 I started this painting the way I do most, with a drawing on layout paper and then transferred it to the canvas. I am working in acrylics and its on a 14 x 18 canvas. I concentrated on getting the canvas covered laying in the darks and some midtones.

Day # 2- ok so I decided to switch to oils and at first I was sorry I did but once I got the entire canvas covered in the oils I was really glad. I know from past paintings that when I want a really dark, dark it can take many, many sessions to get it but doing it this way I was able to get dark’s on the second session . I am not sure what direction this is going to take, my original plan was to make the horse entirely in shadow but I may let more detail show. I guess I will decide in the next session or so.

Day 3

Day 4

Cat Painting WIP

Well I thought I would be brave and share a work in progress with you, no guarantee that I will produce a finished painting. Does that surprise you, it shouldn’t, most artist have a stack of unfinished paintings sometimes they just don’t work out the way we wanted sometimes we just get bored with them and I am sure there are countless other reasons but that’s the two for me.


So the details, this is an oil painting, a close up of a cats face on a 12 x 12 canvas.
 
Day one- I drew the image on layout paper then transferred it to the canvas. I painted without worrying to much about the color as I know it will change many times. I worked until the canvas was covered, I hate white canvas, and until I could not work with the wet paint. This is a great challenge for me as I am used to working with acrylics and I can just keep going.

Day 2- I started to pay more attention to the colors without getting to fussy and I started to be more concerned with the details, being more concerned with the drawing part of it, but again not to  fussy, that will come later. I need to let it set up again before I continue.

Day 3 - I worked on the entire paintings today spending a lot of time on the eye, not there yet but I am getting closer. Not sure how much of a change you can see on line but I reworked the entire painting.

                                     

Day 4

                                          

Day 5

                                            

almost done

                                         

Looking For Bill

Looking for Bill

image size- 5 x 5
paper size- 81/2 x 11
edition size- 100 with 5 ap’s
signed- yes


cost $20.00 + shipping $5.00 additional prints shipped free

To purchase this print email me at artistichorse@yahoo.com or go directly to my etsy store

Looking for Bill

I know that must seem like a funny title for this image but once you hear the story you will understand. One day Bill the dog was barking and barking and barking till I finally had to go outside and see what was up. Well there were two chickens on the other side of the dog fence I had no idea where they had come from as I had never seen them before but I did know they had to go away. I shooed them out of the yard and thought that was the end of it. Wrong!! They just came back again and again. I took a few pictures as they were kind of pretty and I thought one day I might want to paint them.

So one day we, myself and my husband, came home and pulled into the yard only to find Bill the dog greeting us in the drive way, this was not a good thing as he is supposed to be on the other side of the fence. We get out of the car and he runs toward the front porch with that look, look, look mom look what I have and I cant believe what I am looking at..... there is a chicken on the porch...... and its very clear that Bill has been playing with this chicken as there are feathers everywhere. I am freaking out yelling at the dog to get away, he is waging his tail and pushing the chicken with his nose, jab jab jab.... I am yelling at Joel to do something and he is looking at me with that look of “like what” !!!!.I am sure if there had been on lookers it would have been really something.

Finally with much effort I got the dog away and Joel shooed the chicken away. I swept the front getting rid of all evidence and hoped that would be the end of it. The next day I was walking in the back yard only to find lots of white feathers scattered around, the chicken we encountered in the front was not the white one..... I have no idea really I don’t.......

A few days later I hear someone yelling, “get out of there, get out of there, out get out” this goes on for awhile before I realize something is not right, I realize that Bill the dog is not in the house nor is he in the back yard. I grab the leash and go out the front when I hear ,get out, get out ,get out, louder and louder while I am running next door not really sure what I am going to find yet very sure that my dog is somehow involved. I find my neighbor standing at the front of his property screaming into a blackberry batch that must have been 6 feet tall and 20 feet wide with a hatchet, oh yes a big hatchet....... I stop in my track, the dog had chased the chicken into the blackberry mess , both the chicken and the dog where in there swallowed up by the blackberries and the man was going to save his chicken, I am hoping the hatchet was for the blackberries ..... with much yelling and coaching on my part, I get my dog, apologized, and walk run home. We, my neighbor and I, never spoke of it again and I never saw either of the chickens again..... I am hoping the chicken is still looking out for Bill....

Heart # 1

Heart #1

image size- 5 x 5

paper size- 81/2 x 11

edition size- 100 with 5 ap’s

signed- yes

cost $20.00 + shipping $5.00 additional prints shipped free

To purchase this print email me at artistichorse@yahoo.com or go directly to my etsy store