Wilmington Azaleas juried in to show

I am happy to announce that my oil painting "Wilmington Azaleas" was juried into Wayne County's (NC) 29th Annual National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition. There were over 300 entries and only 54 chosen for the exhibit.

I originally painted this as part of the monthly landscape challenge on the online art community Wet Canvas! I felt it was a good subject for me living in NC and having visited town of Wilmington recently.

On another note, I have a number of new dog prints available, I have been painting like crazy. New breeds include Belgian Terverun, Mini Schnauzer, Smooth Fox Terrier, Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier, Whippets, and several others.

Also have been working on an oil portrait for a client in England of her beautiful and rare sighthound, an Azawakh. I will post a photo of it when it is finished.

It's been a while....

since I have posted anything here! I have had a great month of March starting with my much anticipated trip abroad to London and Crufts Dog Show. It was every bit as wonderful as I had hoped. Since returning, I have been working on portraits, filling orders and doing watercolor paintings for new print releases which I have added to my website. Here is a painting I just finished that is going to be auctioned off at the American Whippet Club National Specialty in Oregon. I am not going this year but I will be represented with this and a print that is being offered for Best Brace. Now I am off to the framers to get these two pieces framed.

Art Show at the Dog Show entries

Got my notification today for the art show and two of my pieces were accepted for the exhibition. Yah! Here are the two pieces, the whippet (16 x 20" oil on board) titled "Did You Call?" and the Shetland Sheepdog (20 x 24" oil on canvas) titled "Late Arrival".

Arthur painting finished and a commission too

I am finished with my large oil painting of my whippet Arthur. I love fall colors so that is what I decided to go with. The painting is 30 x 40", the biggest I have done so far. Hope you like it. And I also wanted to share the watercolor commission I finished. It is 15 x 22" and will be traveling to it's home in Florida soon. I was pleased with the way the background came together on this watercolor.

Welcome to the New Year!

The holidays are over and I got a lot accomplished; got all the commissions done and sent out, created some new watercolors for prints including Japanese Chin, Bedlington Terrier and two of Friesian horses. Have also been working on my oil painting including dogs and landscapes. Here is one of the horse paintings, Noble Faces, done in watercolor and available as a print. And here are a couple of the new dog paintings, a Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy titled The Little King Surveys His Domain, and an adorable Jack Russell, titled Terrier Unique.

New watercolor portrait

Here is a new, just finished, portrait of three Scottish Deerhounds and a whippet. The client said "I love it, I am thrilled" so I wanted to feature it here before I send it out. The painting is 22 x 30" in watercolor.

An exciting couple of weeks

It started with attending a workshop at Art of the Carolinas in Raleigh given by artist James Sulkowski. The workshop was on Classical Still Life Painting in oils. It was a day long workshop and packed with information. Mr. Sulkowski is a well known and talented artist. There were still life set ups around the room and after a demonstration by Mr. Sulkowski, the workshop participants set up their easels and picked a still life to paint. Here is the one I completed. It is 11 x 14".

My next adventure was a trip to Florida. First to Ocala where I set up my art booth at the dog show for 4 days. Saw a lot of my friends, enjoyed the weather, the beautiful grounds and showing my dogs. Then we left for Cape Coral where I had plans to stay with my friend Ann and.... big goal..... do some plien air painting. I also took lots of reference photos to create more Florida scenes now that I am home again. Here are a couple little paintings I did while there. One was done in Pineland on Pine Island, a barrier island overlooking Charlotte Harbor. The island is much the way it has been for many years, with a lot of palm tree farms interspersed with Florida style homes. There are also a number of little shops and Galleries as you first go on the island in Matlacha. The art scene is very active there. The painting is 5 x 7".

The other painting I have pictured was done in Centennial Park in Fort Myers. It is on the Caloosahattche River. I understand that the park will not be there for long as they are planning to put a high rise condo there. I am glad I got the chance to paint there before that happens. When I lived in that area, I enjoyed the park and will be sad to see it go. My Centennial Park painting is 8 x 10".

So now I am home, and back working in my studio. I have quite a few commissions to finish before Christmas. If you are interested in any of the paintings featured on my blog, be sure to contact me as they may be available.