Spooky Spotted Cow - new angle

6 X 6 Oil on board  

Available through the Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas

My neighbors next door have had the worst luck these past few months. Phyllis hurt herself stepping off a ladder while decorating their Christmas tree, and Ron slipped and fell on his shoulder outside the Post Office. They also have cows, and this time of year, they must be fed daily. So Mike (and sometimes I) have helped out by feeding the cows for them.
I never go anywhere without my camera, and a couple days ago I had a chance to get some more images of the Spooky Spotted Cow that I love to paint. Her horns are getting quite impressive - I always marvel at how they can manage with such ornaments on their noggins.

Jeremiah 2:32  Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.

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Moonlight Stroll - longhorn oil painting by Debbie Grayson Lincoln

6X6 Oil on Canvas $125

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By this time last year I had completed one new painting...2012 was not productive for me at all. I guess every artist encounters a block occasionally, and last year I hit mine. This year I have more on my plate than ever, but I have still managed to paint nearly every day. Not all of the results have pleased me, but the efforts have, and I have benefitted greatly. Sometimes the best way to get past a block is to simply chip away at it a tiny bit at a time.
This longhorn cow is a member of a herd of assorted cattle that I pass on the way to Stephenville. Her physique is not much to brag about, but her horns are really impressive. Every time I drive by this ranch, I look for the herd, and if they are near the road I stop to get images. I think most of Erath County has honked at me at one time or another while I wade through the chigger-infested right-of-way to get my pictures!
Mimi report for my family: Mom is still in re-hab, and looking good! She has lost weight, but no longer looks pinched, and her appetite has returned (along with complaints about the food!). All pain is gone and she gets a good 2 hour workout daily. The Occupational Therapist says she can go home in 2 weeks and the Physical Therapist seems ready to agree to the same schedule. We have a consult with the oncologist next Tuesday to decide on what to do about the lung lesion. Your continued prayers are certainly welcome!
Psalm 84:3

Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young— a place near your altar, Lord Almighty, my King and my God.

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Downhill Cattle Drive 3 - Longhorns headed downhill oil painting

10 X 20 Oil on mounted canvas

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Every animal in this herd has a set of trophy-worthy horns and the cowboy remains a respectful distance from them!
Texas is experiencing a "cold spell" today. It's nearly 4:00 pm and it's only 86 degrees - delightful! I don't know what we did to deserve it, but I have never been one to look a gift horse in the mouth, so I am enjoying...
The corn was ripe and harvested last week within two days. It was so hot that anything left longer was already too starchy to eat, BUT the cows love it! I am stripping several rows every morning and picking the remaining little ears to give to Abbey and Sophie . The "welfare cows" are waiting for me as I head to the garden with my Homer bucket. I don't need to call them up. Cows are so easy to teach new routines.
Next on the harvest block are the black eyed peas...eating is never boring at our house...
Revelation 14:15

Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.”

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Limited Palette Cow 4 - by Debbie Grayson Lincoln

6 X 6 Oil on panel $100

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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

6 X 6 Oil on canvas panel $100

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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

6 X 6 Oil on canvas panel $100

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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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COLOR PLUS Longhorn Steer - Palette Knife Oil Painting University of Texas Bevo Mascot

16 X 20 Palette Knife Oil on canvas

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Wow - Have I not posted for over a month???? I have been busy with my adorable grandbaby, the garden, the animals and a lovely commission for some precious people in Florida (don't worry, I will show it to you when I am finished!) MY LIFE IS OVERFLOWING!
I painted a completely different painting on this canvas first - and then wiped it off. And I nearly wiped this one off when I was half-way through with it. I have just not had the desire to paint lately. Too many other interesting things to do. But then I started having fun moving paint around (and there is a LOT of it!) and just let go with it. It's definitely a "wall brightener"!

Aunt Abbey is raising her 4th calf for us (Sofie, the Jersey) and I need to wean her SOON. Abbey is due to calve in August and needs to dry up before that happens. Little Sofie is NOT happy being allowed to only nurse once a day now. She will REALLY be unhappy when she's cut off entirely. The good news is that she is halter broke. The bad news is that she acts like a very large dog and is not afraid to shove me around. The lessons in respect will be next.

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Another Hill to Climb - Longhorn cow oil painting by Debbie Grayson Lincoln

6 X 8 Oil on Gessoed Masonite $115

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We have finally had a bit of rain here in the Heart of Texas and no really cold weather yet. Aunt Abbey the milk cow is enjoying the little patch of oat grass, as is her adopted son the Other Brother Darryl. THIS cow is still looking for grass, though...maybe over that hill yonder?
Spring planning has begun - ordering chicks and seeds are at the top of my list right now. I curl up on the sofa in the evening and pour over the catalogs and make my lists.
All the hens have been very healthy through the winter (and safe from the coyotes and bobcats), but I still like to "replenish" every spring with both mail order chicks and chicks that I will allow one hen to hatch. I just LOVE the sound of a hen clucking to her chicks when she has found a special morsel for them - they are the personification of the perfect mother, putting their babies first in every way.
Luke 13:34
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.
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