Sofie's Choice - Jersey heifer oil painting by Debbie Grayson Lincoln

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CALLING ALL FARM ANIMALS!!!!

Starting sometime in January (after my next grandbaby is born!) I want to challenge myself to paint 50 animals in 50 days. I and a number of my artist friends have done this to help ourselves get into a productive habit of working daily. I took some time off this year and did not paint a thing for over 3 months. I was productive in other ways, but I missed painting and I thought this challenge would help.
That's where YOU come in. I have painted my own cows, horses, dogs and assorted feathered friends so many times. I know every wrinkle and every beak. Fellow artist Carol Nelson asked for photos of people to paint and produced 100 portraits in 100 days. Laurie Pace painted 100 horses in 100 days. I am asking for assorted farm animals. I prefer head shots, well lit naturally (NOT with a flash), and large.
Send them to my e-mail address WITH your name and permission to use ("I grant Debbie Lincoln permission to paint the attached image of my animal and use it on her blog").
debbiegraysonlincoln@yahoo.com
Of course the paintings will be for sale, but you are under no obligation to purchase them. You CAN copy the image and use them however you'd like, though.
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Continuing with the limited palette exercises. Colors revealed at end of post!
I have no Hereford neighboring cows, but I do pass this one really nice herd on the way to Bluff Dale and have stopped to take some photos of them on occasion. They have always been pretty far from the fence so I cannot get much detail in the image, but I really don't need it with an exercise in color.
Christmas is bearing down upon us but it doesn't feel like it at all. It was 77 degrees today and continuing dry. East Texas got a bit of rain with the last "cold" front, but it passed us by completely. I would LOVE to get another milk cow (one is NEVER enough!) but feed is an issue - particularly pasture. SO I sit on my hands when I hear of a cow bargain. I will be happy with my 1 cow, 1 heifer, 1 calf and rehabbing Dr. Doofus' cow, Mayflower (more on that later when I paint her).
Colors used: Red, Violet, Yellow-Green - a split complement. fun fun fun
Colossians 2:18
Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.
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Limited Palette Cow 4 - by Debbie Grayson Lincoln

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This is the last one of the series of limited palette cow paintings and I kinda like the little touches of violet. Have you been correct on the other three color schemes?
Today is "get ready for winter" day - there is an Arctic front due to hit us tomorrow evening, so today we are stocking up the firewood stacks, winterizing outdoor equipment, giving animals extra food and bedded shelter, and covering the garden as best we can. Temperatures in the twenties is not unusual here, but they are rarely sustained for very long, so I have found that if I cover garden plants with a variety of insulating materials, I can extend our growing season by a month or more. Plants like English peas and beets can take 20 degrees for several days, as can Spinach and Kale and Swiss chard. They'll come back better if I cover them up, though. The lettuce really doesn't like it much below 30, though, and if I cover it, it can take it down to 25. Below that it become chicken fodder.
Speaking of animal fodder, Aunt Abbey has decided that she loves beet tops. Her mouth starts drooling when she sees me coming with a bucket full. Next year I may plant twice as many just for her!
Have you guessed the colors yet?They are violet, yellow-orange, and yellow-green. I am looking forward to the next set of limited palette paintings, and I hope you are, too!
Ecclesiastes 3:1 (One of my favorites!)
[ A Time for Everything ] There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.
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Limited Palette Cow 3 - by Debbie Grayson Lincoln

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Here's number 3 in the series...same idea, limited palette with complements.
Mike and I went to one of the local dairy sale barns today, hopefully to buy another new born baby calf to "graft" on to Aunt Abbey. We sent her adopted 4 month old bull calf to the sale Wednesday and now she's just nursing her single calf. He's loving it, but that much milk is giving him the scours (diarrhea) PLUS we are getting a gallon to drink every 3 days. We really need to put another calf on her.
At the dairy calf sales, usually there are 50 baby calves to chose from, but today there were just a dozen. I picked out two I liked, and as usual, they were the most expensive ($250 and $145 each - I had HOPED to pay less than $100). We passed and returned home empty-handed. The weather is supposed to turn cold Sunday, so part of me is kinda glad I won't be wrestling the cows in bad weather. We may try to get another one later.
The palette I used on the painting had green, red-orange and red violet. I like the way this one "pops" - almost Christmasy!
Jeremiah 50:9
For I will stir up and bring against Babylon an alliance of great nations from the land of the north. They will take up their positions against her, and from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed
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Limited Palette Cow # 2 by Debbie Grayson Lincoln

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Here's the 2nd cow in the series, and it turned out the University of Texas' burnt orange school color. This palette should be easy for you to guess. Remember I am using complements.
Still no rain down here in central Texas. We watched a special on the Dust Bowl last week, and I see a number of parallels in then and now. Politicians promised the moon when they sold that part of Western Oklahoma to homesteaders. It looked like a deal that was too good to be true, and it was. That part of Oklahoma has been returned to the native state it once was. Mother Nature had nicely populated the ground with prairie grass and it thrived in the limited rainfall. There is a reason there are no trees in that part of our country - IT DOESN'T RAIN ENOUGH THERE!
There ARE trees in our part of Texas, though, and they are all suffering with lack of rainfall. It won't be long until the only live ones will be those surrounding houses where they get watered - much like West Texas! At least we will have plenty of firewood!
The palette used here was Red Orange, Yellow Orange and Blue. Did you get it right?
Genesis 8:2
Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
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Limited Palette Cow #1 by Debbie Grayson Lincoln

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Here is the first of the four limited palette cow studies...Can you guess the 3 main colors?
Today is cattle sale day and we are hauling one of Abbey's 2 calves to the sale barn - I think he weighs 250 to 300 pounds. The money he brings will feed Aunt Abbey through winter AND allow me to purchase another baby to put on her next Monday.
The tax situation is still up in the air (thank you, Congress), so we are probably going to sell the other calf before the end of the year, too. We are NOT the so-called wealthy that the President wants to tax - we are retired/working middle class, a group that is slowly shrinking and getting strangled by government regulations. Living on a farm certainly helps buffer prices and tax fluctuations, but we can't do it forever. I do know a lot of families across America who are readying themselves for a long hard night, though, and are learning how to live self-sufficienty. Even my Momma in Dallas uses every spare plot of dirt in her yard to grow veggies - you should see her enormous spinach plant!
The colors I used, by the way, were Red-Violet, Blue-Violet and Yellow. Did you guess right?
Luke 12:38
It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak.

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One Cow Four Palettes

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I have been thinking of ways to challenge myself without paying an arm and a leg and going to workshop after workshop.
One way to send the brain in different directions is to limit the available colors to paint with - limiting the palette. I have done this before with mixed results. This time, I decided to commit to painting 4 little images of the exact same cow (I liked the light on her) all with a different palette - in this case 2 or 3 analogous colors and a complement. These are the 4 paintings and in the next 4 days I will talk about each one individually and reveal the palette. I will be interested in knowing your favorite, too!
Thanksgiving this year was a real blessing - we spent it at my son's home in Euless, which is becoming a central meeting place for our mostly Central Texas Family. You have to understand why this was a HUGE undertaking....my son, Ben is a minimalist. Material things don't matter to him and his life is actually quite uncomplicated. He is not married and has no pets. He also doesn't cook much either. SO we had to bring EVERYTHING - and by that, I mean plates, silverware, salt and pepper, pots and pans...etc! I cooked the turkey at my house in advance and everyone else brought a dish to share. The dogs got to go, too, and I think we fed 14 people - a houseful under any circumstances. We ate very well, watched the Cowboys get beat, and returned home with good memories.
I hope your Thanksgiving was as blessed and as memorable!
“[Dispute Over Jesus’ Testimony] When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”” John 8:12NIV
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