Bluebonnet Roller 2

8 X 10 Oil on canvas
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My precious friend, Barbara, requested a "repeat performance" with this painting - slightly larger (and slightly different image). Barbara is part of what I call my "Florida Fan Club". A high percentage of my paintings have gone in that direction...there are a BUNCH of transplanted Texans in the Sunshine State!
I thought you might also enjoy the process by which I painted this little painting. I recommend new AOT bloggers to share their techniques, and I thought I should follow my own advice today.
I start by doing an under painting using Windsor and Newton Liquin Original to both help the paint dry quickly and to provide a slick base.
Then I used a white pencil to draw in the basics. Not much detail is needed here, as all I really want is placement of the main image.
Next I placed the extreme darks and lights. If I hadn't toned the canvas in advance, I would not place the lights until the very end, but I do that now just to be sure I won't "lose" them.
Now I add the mid tones and color - hopefully in a pleasing pattern that will keep your eye interested. Try not to muddy the colors here by adding too much white. Try to keep to using color that is close to straight from the tube.
Keep adding color and shapes - more intense color close up - grayed down and less intense with less detail in the background.
Finish up with the little details close up- highlight the flowers, add grasses, highlights on the horse's body...leave the background less detailed and less intense in value.
Voila!
Psalm 19:14
May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

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Chicken Gourmet 3 - colorful coyote oil painting by Debbie Grayson Lincoln

5X7 Oil on masonite panel $85
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I tried really really hard to paint this in more "normal" tones, but something about the coyote just demands extra color! They really are pretty neat looking dogs, you know - until I catch one with a chicken in its mouth....
Psalm 25:10
All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.

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Chicken Gourmet 2 - Coyote abstract oil painting

6 X 8 Oil on Linen board $105
Includes shipping and insurance US

Georgia, the Cowdog-Wanna-BE, woke me at 4:00 am this morning whining to go outside. This is very unusual for her, so I got up, thinking she must be sick to her stomach. As soon as I opened the sunroom door, she shot like a bolt around the West side of the house, without a sound. I followed her in the bright moonlight and could see nothing as she circled the house and then took off for the chicken pen - all without uttering a peep, nose to the ground.
We live with coyotes, coons and bobcats, but there has also been periodic sightings of cougars in the area. Georgia barks at other dogs, possums and coons (and bears - but that's another story), and I am familiar with those warning barks. I do not know how she "talks" to extra-large cats. After we came back inside, I briefly thought that the next time I go traipsing around outside in the wee dark hours of early morn, perhaps I should take my gun...although I'd MUCH rather shoot the wild animals around here with my camera. If they'd just leave the chickens alone!
I am going to paint this coyote twice - first in this colorful manner and tomorrow I hope to show you a more realistic version.
Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside! I’ll be killed in the public square!”

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Sandman - horse portrait

6 X 6 oil on linen
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Ever since I was a little girl and first saw Roy Rogers on his gorgeous palomino, Trigger, I wanted a golden horse with a flaxen mane.
I even bred my favorite mare, Miss Jack, THREE TIMES to a fabulous Palomino named Mr Photostac Mac. Those breedings resulted in first a sorrel filly and then 2 black fillies. All gorgeous, but not my palomino. I kept the sorrel (PJ, Dandy's dam), sold the other two and gave up ever getting my "Trigger".
My friend, Jan, owns THIS pretty boy, Sandman. Sandman's life started off rough, but it appears as if it will end really happy. With Jan's patience and great instruction from Trista and Clinton Anderson, Sandman is turning into a really good horse that happens to be truly nice on the eyes, too.
Every good dog deserves a home and so does every good horse...
Proverbs 15:31
Whoever heeds life-giving correction will be at home among the wise.

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Get Ready For the Storm

12 X 6 Oil on Belgium Linen panel $125.00

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I keep seeing images of storm clouds on the horizon - sometimes I wake early in the morning dreaming of them. And their colors are so intense, I cannot get back to sleep. So I reluctantly get up and quietly join the cold air in the studio and begin another day.
I have had this image of the cowboy for quite some time and just today felt compelled to put him on a ledge with the brilliant, forbidding sky. Fortunately he is prepared with the slicker tied to his saddle - maybe he'll survive the storm unfazed.

Job 33:14-16 (New International Version, ©2010)

"For God does speak-now one way or another-though no one perceives it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon people as they slumber in their beds, he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,"

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Cold Weather Survival

The chickens haven't been out of their pen for 4 days and today (number 5) was reason for celebration. The thermometer rose above 32 degrees.
Hens CAN cuss, and these have gotten quite good at it. For 4 days we have cared for them - made sure their water was liquid, kept the heat lamp on in the coop, carried them extra table scraps and kept them as comfortable as Mother Nature would allow under extreme conditions. But we have NOT let them roam free, as is their custom every afternoon, and they have NOT been happy birds.
But I must say this in their behalf - they have continued to lay. I am sure there is a social statement to be found in this analogy. I am profoundly proud of their stamina in the face of adversity.
Today their suffering and continuing hard labor was rewarded and they were finally allowed to roam in the garden again - the wet, muddy, formerly ice-covered garden. They were frustrated in their attempts at dust-bathing and their feet quickly became mud-caked, but you could tell they were extremely happy at their re-discovered freedom.
The bees had been a worry - I didn't know what to expect under the conditions of such sustained cold. But since these bees were a captured wild swarm, I figured they could probably withstand whatever Mother Nature hurled at them. We were right. Today they were basking in the warmth on their front porch - the old shipping blanket we threw over the hive probably helped keep them warm.
Since we don't blanket horses unless the conditions are really extreme, they grow extra fur on their own. Today they were enjoying the sun, like the rest of us. You can see here that PJ isn't lacking for padding.
I have friends that were without water and/or heat for nearly the entire week and I prayed for them daily, knowing that they were suffering inconveniences rather than life threatening conditions. There are others in this world much worse off, though, who have no light at the end of the tunnel to sustain them - like many souls in Haiti. More on this later....

James 2:16
If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?
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Checking His Chaps

6 X 6 Oil on Belgian Linen $115 Includes Shipping and Insurance

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Another cold day in the South - Chickens huddling outside their coop, locked up in the pen, not understanding WHY I won't let them loose into the sub-freezing garden. Ancestors of our domesticated chickens are from Southeast Asia and Indonesia, so they are not accustomed to really cold weather or perhaps it's just not in their brains to comprehend such cold. I have a heat lamp on inside the coop, yet they prefer to huddle outside. Go figure....
I did get to paint a little today in between doing bookwork, baking bread on top of the wood stove and helping to arrange the next advertisement in Western Art Collector.
I am in incredibly talented company with these artists....
Psalm 37:25
I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.
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Quit Bucking If You've Won the Fight

16 X 20 Oil on Canvas $250 plus shipping and insurance
One-Of-A-Kind Texas Mesquite Frame Available

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It's been a frosty, frozen day here in Hill Country Texas. Only 2 cars have passed down our road all day, and one has been the mailman. I can see the chickens occasionally poke their beaks outside the coop and then hurriedly return inside. The horses galloped past my studio window a few moments ago. I suspect they became bored sheltering in the barn. Their burst of energy didn't last long, though. After about 10 minutes of kicking and bucking, they returned to again huddle in the barn and avoid the sub-zero wind chill. I feel sorry for any animals, domesticated or wild who are without shelter. This cold is brutal.
I am continuing to play with the palette knife and I'm liking the looseness it forces upon me. Can't get too detailed when no tiny brushes are used. More paint ends up on the canvas, too, which makes an intensely colorful image. In addition I LOVE this frame. It fits this painting perfectly.
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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?