Piglet - SOLD

oil 10x8 inches Purchase info here. If you think pigs are cute, this little piglet is even cuter in person. The yellows are a bit calmer, more golden. Yellow is one of those colors that is hard to photograph.

Price Drop

Happy New Year! The following paintings have returned from the gallery and have new prices. Click the link below each image for info or to purchase. Thanks for looking!

HANGIN' OUT 10X10 inch gallery wrapped canvas ready to hang. PURCHASE

MUNCH 10x10 inch gallery wrapped canvas ready to hang. PURCHASE

GINGER 10x10 inch gallery wrapped canvas ready to hang. PURCHASE

BLUB 10x10 inch gallery wrapped canvas ready to hang. PURCHASE

LOYAL 10x10 inch gallery wrapped canvas ready to hang. PURCHASE

Pet Series

oil 10x10 inches GINGER is part of my pet series on display and available for purchase at Studio C, Claremont for the month of November. Also available for purchase online here. GINGER is on 1 3/4 inch deep gallery wrapped canvas with sides painted and ready to hang.

This Little Piggy SOLD

oil 6x6 inches Purchase info here. I love this little painting. Am I allowed to say that? I think so. The Queen of Daily Painting, Carol Marine, gave us permission long, long ago.

A Cow Named Mocha -a plein air painting from Amy's Farm

oil 9x12 magnify/purchase info Afternoon at Amy's Farm, Mocha was intent on her lunch and staying there a while it seemed. I set up quickly, snapped a lot of pictures and painted her first. She changed positions several times, so I relied on memory and the photos. Mocha is the new bovine star to groups of children on field trips at Amy's Farm. I painted her predecessor, the late "Grandma Tina", back in 2014. (below, sold.)

Bird On A Wire -a watercolor sketch

watercolor 5.5x15 inches magnify/purchase Here's a little watercolor sketch I did recently from a photo reference.

Tina, Backlit -sold

oil 12x12x1 1/2 magnify/purchase Meet Grandma Tina from Amy's Farm in Chino. She's a gentle old cow who doesn't mind being led past a line of school children so they can get a sense of how big a cow really is. She always wears her halter and bell. I had a hard time getting a good shot of this piece due to it being wet on five sides. There is glare on the bottom third obscuring some nice warm darks. Painted on 1 1/2 inch deep gallery wrap canvas, ready to hang.

Gone Astray

oil 8x8 inches Click to Purchase Out painting hills one day, slowly from a great distance came 1800 sheep. I know the number because when they finally reached us beside the road I asked the shepherd how many there were. I think he spoke Portuguese. He reached down and with his finger wrote the number in the dirt. They were right up beside the road where cars passed at about 60 mph. Some were scratching themselves on the streetlamp posts. I was afraid they'd get into the road, but they never did. I think they have the cutest faces. On another note, I'm having a terrible time getting good photos of my paintings lately. Maybe it has to do with seasonal light. With every post I want to say, "The painting looks better in person." Might sound cheesy, but it's true.

Dappled- sold

oil 8x10 sold A lot of little girls love drawing horses. I wasn't one of them. My first attempt at painting a horse, it took me a while to get the drawing right, but I'm really happy with this one. This is a friend of ours going about his daily chores at Amy's Farm.

Suburban Squeeze -sold

oil 8x8 inches FRAMED sold I went out one afternoon shooting cows...with my camera :-). When I got close to the fence a herd of young cows came rushing over so close I had to back up. This one stuck his/her? head up just like this. I had a hard time getting a good shot of this painting. It looks so much better in person. I'm beginning to think some colors photograph better than others. I find it sad that the dairies continue to be pushed out by housing, but hey. 20 years ago we moved into one of those houses. Hmmm..... The Chino Festival of Arts is this Saturday from 10:00-4:00. Come on out to the Civic Center Lawn for a fun day of music, dance and art. Stop by my booth and say hi or hang out with me while I paint.

Guarded

oil 8x10 inches
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It's about time I painted some cows. In the 1950's our area had the largest concentration of dairy cows in the nation. When we moved here in the 70's I liked hearing the mooing early in the mornings accompanied by hired hands singing in Spanish. The smell didn't bother me, but the flies were unbelievable. Though housing has replaced the dairies in Chino, there are still plenty within a mile of our house. So I drive around taking pictures of cows. This guy was curious and nervous at the same time--typical.

Obnoxious Pig SOLD

oil on canvas panel 6x6 inches

Last Spring I visited Amy's Farm, just a mile from our house where this very swiney pig was standing on the bottom rail of the fence squealing for it's breakfast. Very dramatic! We stood and watched a while. In my painting I tried to capture the feeling I got that day of a "real life pig": the smell, the mud and the obnoxious behavior.

Lucy & Ethel-sold

oil on canvas panel 6x8 inches

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These two hens posed for a nanosecond atop a tractor at the Gold King Mine in Jerome, Arizona. Lucy and Ethel are not their real names, (if they have names) but their attitudes seemed similar to me. That red-headed one looks pretty wild and the white one's just trying to figure out what's going on. Just like Lucy and Ethel. Painting this was free and fun.