Bail Off

18 X 24 on Gallery Wrap 1 1/2 " canvas WIP

This is NOT a finished painting, but I thought I'd show it to you before I change or add to it. My recent workshop with Carol Nelson influenced this a bit - I have paid closer attention to composition and color harmony than normal. Usually I just leap in without much thought and keep pushing paint around until I like it. 
I really like this image, too, and want to progressively "abstract it" in future paintings. I think I can exaggerate the diagonals more and add more action and interest.
Luke 6:23
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven.
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Run Wild, Stay Free - running arabian horse

6 X 8 Oil on gessoed board $115

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HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, everyone. Please take a moment to stop and and give thanks in your heart for the men and women who have sacrificed everything so that we can be free. And in my opinion the greatest freedom we have is the one to speak freely. Lord knows the stuff I talk about here is mild compared to what I hear on talk radio nowadays - from BOTH sides. And that is what makes this country great - and is also what amazes OTHER nations. Many cannot fathom what it is like to be able to voice your opinion on any subject and not risk reprisal. When our freedom to speak freely is lost, we are lost.
I have just returned from a workshop conducted by Carol Nelson - a fellow Daily Painter. Carol is one of those gifted artists that paints both realistic impressionisms AND abstracts - and does both very well. I am am very fond of abstracts but find myself almost incapable of producing one I like. A good abstract displays all the basics of good art - composition and harmony - just without an identifiable subject. I learned a lot last week, and hope to incorporate some of it in my future paintings. I also learned some interesting display/finishing techniques using epoxy. Stay tuned for more on this - I think you will like these hard to frame 6 x8's done this new way - at least new to me!
Acts 26:26
The king is familiar with these things, and I can speak freely to him. I am convinced that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner.
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He Ain't Heavy, I'm a Mule

 

5X7 Oil on Canvas Panel $110

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Friends and family close to me know that I am planning a trip to Haiti this October to help a teeny bit with the monumental clean-up tasks. I am struggling with this decision, believe me. It's expensive to go there and part of me says "just send money - they can use it better than my meager body." Some folks have even suggested that we need to keep our money closer to home and take care of "our own" first. Whew. Heavy thoughts.
Today I was painting this mule, thinking about the trip, talking to God, as I often do while painting - and listening to to XM radio 60's music, which I don't normally listen to. It gets my feet moving, making it hard to paint!
Suddenly, I found myself singing along with the Hollies to the song "He Ain't Heavy, He's My brother".  God speaks to us in many ways, and it may be strange to admit that rock and roll from the 60's is his method of choice to speak to ME, but I believe it. Plans continue for the Haiti trip.
Oh, and this painting is actually lighter than this image - I will post a better one when it dries. And the color wheel was "Analogous complements": yellow, violet, red-violet, and red. Next one I'll go in the other direction, same description: yellow, violet, blue violet, blue - should impart a cold feeling, so I may have to play in the snow with it!

"The road is long with many a winding turn that lead us to who knows where, who knows where,
But I'm strong, strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.

So on we go. His welfare is my concern. No burden is he to bear, we'll get there.

For I know he would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother."

Matthew 11:29-30 (New International Version)

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

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Easy and Georgia - no. 5 in experiments with the color wheel

5 X 7 oil on canvas panel $110

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Another quick study using only 4 Double Split Complements: blue and orange and violet and yellow. I didn't use much yellow, though and did mix a bit. I think on the next painting I will use the same colors and very limited mixing. There's enough darks and lights without re-combining - I may end up with a purple horse, but hey, it's MY horse painting and and I can do what I want to!
My buddy/business partner, Laurie, just came out of teaching a fabulous workshop, and part of what she taught was the need to step out of your comfort zone. I believe that to be true in both art and other parts of your life. I have an opportunity to travel to Haiti in October and help with the ongoing monumental cleaning tasks. This is not something I normally participate in - I am usually happy to give money for such efforts, but actually going in person and using my OWN muscles!!!??? In un-airconditioned, no-electronics, third world Haiti??? Whew - my family thinks I'm nuts...I cannot ignore that little voice in my head that says "you CAN make a difference, however small."  And this will definitely be a step out of my comfort zone.
Psalm 23:4
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
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Easy Run - 4th in color experimenting series

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A different combination here: an analogous split complement which consists of red-orange, yellow-orange, blue-violet and blue green. RO and BG are compliments of each other as are YO and BV. Those (plus white) are the only paints I put on my palette, and this result looks rather "remington-ish" doesn't it? It's probably that greenish sky.
Another split complement arrangement would be yellow, orange, violet and blue - 2 primaries and 2 secondaries. The obvious color missing is red - and a challenge for me, because I LOVE red.
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Easy Move - 3rd in color experimenting series

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I rather like this split complement combination: green, red-orange and red-violet. The red-violet and green make a nice dark, and red-violet and white works well for the shadow on the stockings.
Still keeping it simple.
I haven't yet heard from Jennifer regarding Easy. I hope she gets to ride him after school today, because this is about as perfect a day that Texas can offer - in fact I have to admit that it felt like Colorado this morning when I stepped out to feed the chickens. Fifty degrees, light breeze, low humidity and warming up to low 70's. Just what we find in Creede in August. If it would STAY this way, we would never feel the need for a vacation! But, alas, we know August's seering heat is right around the corner. Thank God for Colorado!
Psalm 19:7
The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple.
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Easy Run - 2nd in series of color wheel experiments

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Again I have limited my palette to 3 colors - this time Orange, Blue-Violet and Blue-Green - another split complement. I am not as fond of this one as the first, though, but I stuck to it.
We received an inch of rain middle of last week and the garden has really taken off. Tomatoes are setting and the green beans are full of blossoms and tiny beans - WHICH the chickens have also discovered. So they are temporarily in confinement. I get cussed out by them every time I pass their coop door without opening it. I think we are going to have to fence the garden to protect the veggies - at least until there are grasshoppers to get their attention away from the veggies. Meantime I am learning new chicken cuss words daily.
Proverbs 30:8
Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.

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Easy Walk

6X8 Oil on Gessoed panel $115

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I have a need to get back to basics - and one problem I have always had is achieving color harmony. I have a color wheel, which helps, so I dug it up and used it on this painting. My plan is to paint one simple small painting of Easy every day for a week using a different palette from the color wheel.
This palette is a "split complement"  using blue-green, orange and red. A complement of blue-green is red-orange. The "split" occurs when you use the two colors on either side of the red-orange. I may just rotate one color and do the next image as a split complement, too. This could turn out interesting.
I am painting Easy because he is on my mind. Today he went to a potential new home - down in China Springs near Waco. I have always thought he would excel as a 4-H English project and that's exactly what 13 year old Jennifer wants to do with him. They are going to take up to a month to decide if they are a good fit. She is beginning rider and has an instructor to work with them. I do not want Easy to go anywhere where he is not appreciated and cared for and Jennifer and her family seem like the perfect caretakers. And if it doesn't work out, well, I'll still have my favorite model!
Ecclesiastes 7:8
The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.

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Walk Away - longhorn cow painting

 5 X 7 Oil on stretched canvas $115 unframed

$145 framed in "free style" Native Texas Pecan frame

by Hill Country Furniture

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It has finally rained and a huge sigh of relief can be heard throughout my neighborhood. We received an inch and a half yesterday which has allowed the "burn ban" to be lifted. The Possum Kingdon Lake fire was finally extinguished last week and this blessed rain should insure freedom from worrying about more fires for a while. We burned several tree trimming piles today. It was tricky getting the wood to burn. Once the blaze got going good, Mike pulled up a lawn chair and pretended he was in Colorado. It smelled like it, but somehow the lack of mountains on the horizon kinda made the vision hard for me!
Ron's cows have all had their babies and all 8 are bulls! I'm not sure what the odds are for that to happen, but it's gotta be pretty high. This is my favorite of the longhorns to paint. She usually has a calf that looks just like her, but not this year - most of the babies are solid black and boring! Which is just as good, because none of them will be here much past weaning, I suspect.
Isaiah 54:10
Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
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