New Dog Painting -- Neela Boston Terrier

Every now and then I get into the mood to paint a dog, and when a friend or relative begs me, well, I just have to!!  This is "Neela", a sweet Boston terrier dog that actually lives in Boston.   I photographed it on the floor so you can see that it's on a very large canvas, so should make a pretty big statement on the wall. 

 

 I used a stencil to make the wood grain on the floor and then touched up with my paint brush.  That was the fun part of this painting for me!   We are moving to another house in 3 weeks, so I will probably need to pack up my art supplies.  After I get settled, I'm going to paint a Lake series and then I want to commit to painting 100 paintings!!  It is supposed to help you really hone in on your style.  I got the dogs down, now on to bigger and better things!!  My next post won't be until June. 
Ta Ta for now!! 

New Dog Painting-- Australian Shepherd

I rarely accept commissions because it stifles my art flow!! Seriously-- I won't do anything else until I get it done and I procrastinate like crazy.  So I really have to be in the mood to paint a dog to accept a commission!  Fussy, eh?? 

I've analyzed why this is so and I have come to this conclusion:  It's just not creative enough for me.  It's all very technical.  Here is a picture; now go paint it -- I want it to look just like my pet.  Not much room for fun interpretation at all.  But I do enjoy the end result and making someone happy. :)

Anyway, here is one that I did recently.  It's 16"x20" in acrylic.  "Dempsey" is an Australian Shepherd.  

I have one more commission that I've accepted, a Boston Terrier on a large canvas.  I had the flu last week and it's just sitting there waiting for me to get busy with it!!  I'll post it as soon as I get around to finishing it. LOL

New Commission Finished!

I recently accepted a commission for a landscape scene and just finished it yesterday.  I was given a photo that was taken in La Jolla, California.  This couple just got engaged.  It's a large 24"x40".  

Here is the photo that I worked from: 

In other news, we got our hardwood floors refinished and I am in love with them!! Too bad we are putting this house back on the market in a week. So I will be busy cleaning for the next week.  I have two other paintings close to finishing and hopefully will have them done in the next two weeks.  Thanks for looking! 

A fun abstract!

I was doing my normal intuitive painting technique thing and I found myself loving this chaos.  So I'm leaving it just the way it is!  I was going to paint over it and bring out some kind of figure, but I don't think it needs one.  It has a lot of interesting parts to it-- much better to look at in person.  I used gold paint, brown, green, yellow and black.  Just a touch of turquoise is mixed in.  Let me know what you think!

A couple of new abstract-like landscapes

This first one is large 40x60, I think.  My daughter loves it, so it's in her room. 

This other one is a sunset on stretched canvas:  30"x40" Acrylic. Not sure what to call it. Sunset? HA

Now I'm working on a Klimt painting with my one of my daughter's faces in it.  And also painting over an old chaotic painting.  Not sure it's going to be any less chaotic though!!  Have a great weekend. :)

A few LARGE doodle paintings! Elephant and some decorative doodles

I took a silhouette of an elephant and then painted the doodles in the shape on a large 30"x40" canvas.  I shaded it and love the way it turned out!!  It's available at my Etsy store, as well as prints.

 

"Doodlephant"  30"x40"  And the painting is actually a true white background.  

Here is another one with a Navy background and white paint: 

This is 40"x40" "Worlds Apart"

I named it this because my husband is from India and I'm from the US.  Only when his mom visits do I feel that our cultures are so different! 

And then one more (to get it out of my system for a while!), grey background with blue, white and black.  I did a lot of shading to give it some depth:

This is 40"x40"  "Sublime Mandalas"

Got a few landscapes to post next !! Thanks for checking out my artwork.  Now I have to post all of this on my website.  Not my favorite thing to do because the program is so CLUNKY! UGH

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