#18 - Cow and Calf - time lapse video of painting

6 X 8 Oil on mounted canvas $100

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This is a relatively simple image, and what attracted me was the cow's angles. I do not know how old she is, but I do know she is a high producer and probably puts everything she has into milk. She belongs to another one of my KFC friends, so I DO know she is well cared for and well loved.
I painted this image quickly and did a time-lapse video of it so did not get into a lot of detail. The video is only a little over 3 minutes long - actual painting time was 77.6 minutes with 4556 images taken. The playback is 24 frames per second (for those of you who like math!), and you can see it HERE.
Deuteronomy 6:3

Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as theLord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

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Lookin' For Love in All the Wrong Places

18 X 24 Oil on Canvas
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I started this painting several weeks ago and just couldn't get into it. Originally it had only the cow images - no horse. And I knew it was missing something. Then I remembered when neighbor, Ron, kept his roping horse in the pasture adjacent to ours. One single horse. All alone. Sometimes my horses would hang out with him, separated by the fence. But if I moved them to another pasture, he'd be all alone and looking so sad. Georgia, the Border-Collie-Wanna-Be would go visit him in the morning when she'd do her rounds, and he'd welcome her company, but it wasn't the same as having his horsey neighbors visit.
Horses, like dogs are extremely social animals. They need another warm body nearby, and preferably their own kind. Every now and then you'll run into one who is perfectly happy all alone, but it's rare. They will follow cows around while they graze if they have no other choice. It's their nature to be part of a herd. And many race horses are stabled with companion ponies or goats for that very reason. It keeps them happy, proving that there is a match out there for everyone and every animal.
Psalm 55:13
But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend,

Spring Gift

8 X 6 Oil on gessoed masonite
SOLD to a collector in California

Spring is TRYING to come to my little part of Texas. We had another inch of rain last week, but last night I had to cover the tomato plants due to the threat of frost. I moved Easy and Dandy to a smaller pasture and locked up PJ for her annual weight loss program. PJ doesn't lift her head from grazing, and that's OK in the winter, but on Spring grass she gets really fat and has a tendency to founder. So she gets locked up in the round pen this time of year and goes on a strictly hay diet. She hates it, but it's for her own good. Every time I walk out the back door, though, I hear her whinny to me as if to say "I'm starving! Feed me more!" I can't remember the last time I saw her ribs, so she gets no sympathy from me!
As of yesterday, Ron still had three calves with 2 more cows due. Since the horses are moved, he should be letting them onto our pasture soon. I always look forward to watching them out my studio window and painting them as well.
Ezekiel 34:20
Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep