My Best Side

This is my entry for the Daily Paintworks Chicken challenge. I love painting animals, and farm animals are among my favorites. I took a photo of this chicken on a farm out west. This critter seemed to be posing and showing me her best side. Really fun to paint!
 
 6x6" Oil on gessoboard
$75 + s&h

Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing this painting, or if you would like to commission a pet portrait.
 
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Farm in August

While I was painting this, I so wanted to be there. The hot sun, the chirping birds are still in my mind, and it seems like heaven to me.

5x7" Oil on gessoboard
$70 + shipping

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Countryside Late Afternoon

This is my entry for the Daily Paintworks challenge for last week. This is in Germany (thanks, Carol Marine!), but it looks like places I have seen in America and Canada.

This was fun to paint. I decided on giving it the late afternoon glow that I am so fond of. My inclination, too, when I am working from a photograph is to be too married to the photo image, and not take license with it. Here I tried to get away from that.

8x8" Oil on cradled birch panel

$110 plus shipping

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Girl with Violin

This is a study of a young woman at a Farmer's Market.

5x7" Oil on gessoboard
$65

Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing this painting, or if you would like to commission a pet portrait.

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Riverdale Art Walk

I am so pleased that I have been accepted again into the Riverdale Art Walk! 

June 4 & 5 • 2011

The 13th Annual Riverdale Art Walk is a two day, juried fine art exhibition open to all. We showcase established and emerging artists in retail spaces, artists’ studios and in Jimmie Simpson Park. We select artists through an anonymous juried process that does not discriminate on any basis. The Riverdale Art Walk is the first outdoor show of the season and we continue to have the lowest participation fees in the outdoor arts festival circuit.  Saturday and Sunday 11am-6pm

This year I will buy my own tent!

Big Sky from a Small Back Yard

This is the miraculous view on occasion when I am letting my dog out first thing on some summer mornings.  I have painted this and a few other different morning images before, but I can't seem to get enough of them! I should live on the prairies where there is nothing but sky!

8x10" Oil on gessoboard
$125 + $15 shipping

Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing this painting, or if you would like to commission a pet portrait.

catgillespie@gmail.com