Pasture Eyes-Cow

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Susan was the gracious  hostess. 

Looks like I'm on a semi cow kick lately! Well, I love painting them and they're a popular subject among the viewers.Got Milk???             

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting! You all help keep me on the right track.

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Isaiah 64:8        Yet, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our Potter, and we all are the work of Your hand.

The Shadow-Angus Cow Portrait

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 Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Lin supplied all the reference photos.

I wasn't too sure about painting such a dark character as the Angus but, thought it'll be a good challenge. The shadow of the ear across the shoulder really was what caught my interest.

This is oil on an acrylic toned canvas panel. First I covered the gessoed panel with a thinned alizarin crimson. Then I painted in the dark shadowy areas with black gesso. Below is what the start looked like. I like starting from a mid value and working my way up and down .

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Psalm 4:2      "How long will you people turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods ?"

Spotlight-Cow

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

Wow...(patting myself on back)! Two posts in the same week!!!!! It has been awhile since I've done that. I started out in 2006 all gung ho and dashing out nearly one a day for quite some time. Guess I got lazy over time plus general wellness factors. But I still enjoy the painting, posting, and comments from my friends! :)

I wanted to investigate lighting with this one. By keeping around 80% of the painting dark or colorful midtones, the small area I've selected to receive light is really in the spotlight. I like the dramatic effect. Hope you do too.

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Update

I gave this ol' gal a face job! Many niggly things I wasn't too happy about in the first take. I Worked on her eyes, ears, nose, and added more exciting color to the face shadows. I think the effort was worth it!

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Romans 10:13        For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Candy Colored Cow

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Oil on 7x5 gessoed hardboard.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Scatty was the gracious hostess who supplied all the great reference photos.

 Just couldn't pass up the white cow! I love pushing the color all over the place on a white subject and the lighting on this cow was perfect.

This is oil on a 7x5 hardboard. All by brush....no knife this time.

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Proverbs 27     Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 

Seeing Red-Bull

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Oil on 7x5 gessoed hardboard.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. The very Valri was the gracious hostess who supplied all the great reference photos

 I decided to do the bull and make him a little more menacing than he appears in the photo. It's always fun to try and paint the temperament of a subject.

This is oil on a 7x5 hardboard. After sketching the bull with a Sharpie, I toned the panel with thinned Alizarin Crimson acrylic.
The high value colors were applied with both a painting knife and loaded brush.

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John 12:46      I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

Bovine Beauty-Calf

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Oil on 5x7 hardboard.

This is for the WDE at Wet Canvas. Skappy generously supplied the reference photos.

I singled one calf from the herd. Always a joy to paint bovine beauty.

I first toned the canvas with a dark red/brown acrylic. After the drawing was on, I painted the background (the area around the calf) with black gesso. After the black was dry, I made it notches darker by painting it with thinned ultr. marine blue oil paint.

After all the background prep, I had fun painting the calf in thick strokes.

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Proverbs 3: 11 My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline,and do not resent his rebuke,12 because the LORD disciplines those he loves,as a father the son he delights in.

Summer Sun into Autumn Sun

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Oil on 5x7 hardboard.

This landscape was posted on Wed. It was done quickly and posted immediately thereafter. It was a summer scene and I felt it was devoid of life...just "blah".

I appreciate the input of my artist friends... Celeste Bergin and Pam Holnback. Please check out their fine blogs. They made several suggestions that I immediately recognized as true. I was merely temporarily "blinded" because of the freshness of the work.

For one thing, I am presently surrounded with fall colors and my muse just didn't want to tackle so much summer green. So I re-worked it into an Autumn landscape.

I'm happier with it now...but, of course (as always), there remain areas in question.

Here's a side by side for easy comparison.

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Proverbs 3:3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Noon Sun

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Oil on 5x7 archival canvas panel.

Thought I'd run this by you folks. I didn't have a lot of time to paint today, so I whipped this up to check some facets of landscape painting that I have been mulling over. Less is more...a touch of red near a point of interest...just basically the power of suggestion.

I don't yet know how successful it is since it's so fresh in my mind.
Do you think it's overdone or underdone...or as the baby bear says: "Just right."?

Thanks for looking.

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Proverbs 3^{: 1} My son, do not forget my teaching,
but keep my commands in your heart,
² for they will prolong your life many years
and bring you peace and prosperity.

Cow Portrait

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.

I've enjoyed doing cattle in the not too distant past. Here's another. This is the Murray Grey breed. I've pushed the color to give it the appearance of standing in a still moonlit night.
I started this composition by first applying black gesso to the support. I then applied a thin coat of pthalo blue acrylic which made it even darker.

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Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Unseen Rajasthan Award

I would like to thank Megha Chhatbar
for honoring me with the Unseen Rajasthan Award. Her work is delightful in style and color. Please check her out! At this time, due to time constraints, I won't list artist's names because I just did that a little earlier. Please check out my sidebar...a bunch of very talented folks!
Thank you Megha!

Longhorn Steer

Oil on 5x7 archival canvas panel.
The reference photo was supplied by Susan, the hostess for this week's WDE at Wet Canvas.
Somehow, I got started doing a cow a month on my blog. This long-horned dude will fill the bill for September.
I like the portrait effect against the dark background...it really forces the attention on the subject, and produces a huge dramatic effect.

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Psalm 5:10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; for they have rebelled against thee.

August Cow Portrait

Oil on 5x7 archival canvas panel.

Here's another in my series of cow portraits. It seems that I'm averaging a cow portrait about once a month. My two most recent are here and here.

Sold to a great collector in Irvine, Ca. Thanks!

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Philippians 2:3: Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

Cattle

Oil on 5x7 archival canvas panel.
My aim on this one was to keep the strokes fresh and lively...lay it down and leave it alone.It's oil on a 5x7 archival canvas panel. The panel was primed with black gesso with a touch of thalo blue added.

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John 14:1: Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

June Cow Portrait

Oil on 5x7 archival canvas panel.
I had such a good time painting the cow in the May 21st post( scroll on down this page), I had to try to relive the experience! So here's another one done in the same manner.

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Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Cow Portrait

Oil on 7x5 archival canvas panel.
I really like how this one came out. First of all, I covered the panel with black gesso warmed with a little red acrylic. The colors come alive and "pop" from the very first strokes. Secondly, I didn't over blend the colors with brush strokes in one spot...I laid the color down and moved on. Third, in areas of accent or highlight, I placed a loaded brush stroke and let it alone.
I hope y'all like it!
This one just sold to great lady in Irvine, CA...Thanks!
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Psalm 121:7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

Jersey Cow

Oil on 5x7 archival canvas panel.
Finally...Here's one I'm happy with! Everything went down on the canvas surprisingly easily. Love when that happens. I invented the background to compliment the subject. Great color relationships...contrast...value range. Forgive my if I appear to be bragging on this one...you may or may not agree. But if you don't toot your horn once in a while, everyone will think you have a dead battery...

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1 Thessalonians 5:18
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.