Gold Rush-Goldfish

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.
This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Christine was the host and provided a bunch of great photos!

 I like the complementary elements of this goldfish photo! I couldn't discern some of those details of the fins, so I just painted my reaction to it. I learned a little with that approach.

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting!


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My Etsy

Isaiah 64:8       Yet, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our Potter, and we all are the work of Your hand.

Flamboyant-Green European Woodpecker

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 Foreground grass

Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.
This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Robert was the host and provided a bunch of great photos!

 I have always loved birds ever since I was a young'un! This good looking green European woodpecker was a new species to me.

I enjoyed pushing the color in this one. I really had a good time experimenting with those foreground grasses.

C&C welcome. Thanks for taking a look and commenting!

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My Etsy

  2 Timothy 3:1   This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
² For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy

Sing Me A Memory-Musician Portrait

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.
This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Grace was the provided a bunch of great photos!

The old musician struck a chord with me. Here he is still entertaining after all these years. He has seen music evolve in person. I too played music for years until old Father Time caught up with me and said, "Whoa"! I have an older brother who's still playing shows!

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting.

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My Etsy

1 timothy2:5       For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

Sitting Pretty-Cat Portrait

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Mary was the gracious hostess

 The intense gaze of a cat often gets my attention as a subject.

I pushed the color boundaries in this one a little. As an experiment, I didn't use a toned panel this time. I really missed it. Lotsa paint!


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My Etsy

 2 Corinthians 4:18       While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Pasture Eyes-Cow

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Susan was the gracious  hostess. 

Looks like I'm on a semi cow kick lately! Well, I love painting them and they're a popular subject among the viewers.Got Milk???             

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting! You all help keep me on the right track.

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My Etsy

Isaiah 64:8        Yet, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our Potter, and we all are the work of Your hand.

Drip Dry-Ducklings

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Connie was the gracious  hostess.

 I decided to try some ducklings this week. I came up with a new name for this painting technique...it's called Lotsa!!!

Lotsa painting knife, lotsa brush strokes, and lotsa paint!

Oil on a 5x7 canvas panel.

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting! You all help keep me on the right track.

Here's how it started

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My Etsy

^{Philippians 2:13}          For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Stepping Out-Chickens

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Oty was the gracious  hostess.

What can I say?...I can't pass up a chicken. I sometimes feel like the Colonel Sanders of the art world....I'm thinking my chicken paintings might sell a whole lot better with sides of mashed potatoes and biscuits!!

This painting was about 50/50 brushes and painting knife.

I attempted this (loosely) in the style of  that great painter, Cheri Christensen. Thanks for the tip, Julie! I really like to hop around in cyberspace and try to emulate the styles that blow my socks off...hoping some will stick. Usually it doesn't and I just wind up painting like  my ol' boring self, but with cold feet! Brrrr!  
I really appreciate your comments!

Galatians 3:26     For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

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My Etsy

Break O' Dawn-Boat

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 Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Dominic hosted.

I had to try the boat with a painting knife. This is completely by knife...no brush used. I remembered to use generous paint this time. That's not easy for me to do. At the moment, I'm satisfied with it.

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting!


Below is the original reference photo. Hope they don't revoke my artistic license!!!!

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My Etsy

2 Corinthians 12:10      Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Who Brought The Sunglasses?-Geese

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 Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Jeanne supplied a bunch of great reference photos.

The reference photo was of a large group of geese. Wanted to get close, so I cut out most of the flock/gaggle and moved the one on the far right in closer to tighten the grouping.

Mostly all painting knife with a little help from the brushes in the tight spots.
I had a lot of fun playing with those "white colors".

I first covered the panel with white gesso, then applied thinned alizarin acrylic ....then painted the background using black gesso. I find that the alizarin provides a good mid value to judge added values against. And colors really "pop" against the black gesso. Hope some of that makes sense...Lol.

Under painting

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My Etsy

^{2 Corinthians 10:17}       But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

 

All Business-Captain Portrait

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Li supplied a bunch of great reference photos.

Capt. Jim runs the tours on the original boat used in the film the African Queen, which has been lovingly restored in Key Largo, Fla. Here's the modern African Queen Captain setting off on another voyage. Loved the movie...it's one of my all time faves. Just the thought of those leaches on Bogey still make me squirm!!

This was done with a painting knife. I really enjoy the results of a knife painting. Strange.. I always have to push myself to get started on a knife piece.....probably because I'm so unsure of controlling a knife until I actually get into using one.

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting!  

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My Etsy


1 Corinthians 2:5      That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.