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Thank you! They are always a joy to paint.

Too cute!!! Great !!

They are funny..

Thank you! Their antics tickle me too

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Thank you they make me smile too…I love to visit them.

Thank you, they were trying to sweet talk me into more apples

Thank you, with every painting I fall more in love with these sweet creatures.

Thank you Sandra. I am painting what I love, and more and more I fall for them.

Thank you, each painting gets easier to know them.

Thank you! Next week I’ll be visiting and getting more reference photos…I’ll take a bag of apples!

Thank you! The models are amazing!

Thanks Mary

Thank you! I’ve started the sketch for the next donkey W/C they are so cute. This is JoJo and Peanut again. 79459957_2689999054426146_6606839241001402368_o

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Thank you! I\'ve started the sketch for the next donkey W/C they are so cute. This is JoJo and Peanut again. 79459957_2689999054426146_6606839241001402368_o

Thank you..Mindy is such a sweet old girl.

Thank you we are going to take them a bag next week.

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Thanks Sandra, yes I had to paint Mindy again. When you are donkey and reach 50+ years you deserve more than one painting.

Thank you, she is such a gentle old girl and just like a big old dog.

Thank you, I’ve fallen in love with them. We have a rescue near our house and I get to visit. They are just the sweetest creatures!

Thank you Mary

Thank you they have so much character all by themselves..

Thank you Lisa!

No we’ve had very mild weather generally. When it’s too cold the Sobeys stay in. They don’t have the cost for rainy cold weather I’m told. But I understand that they like playing in snow, that would be fun to see.

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They make me laugh when I visit them.

Thanks, I don’t know what’s more fun…painting these guys or visiting them and taking photos for reference.. unbelievably sweet!

Oh thank you I fell in love with these rescues, Mindy is the first of a series.

Oh thank you, there will be more coming. They are the sweetest creatures!

Thank you, she is really a sweet heart. She followed me around the fields like a puppy dog while I photographed other donkeys.

With 50 plus years she’s earned the right to say whatever she wants. And at her age she can leave her tongue out if she wants.

Thank you I’m going to do a series of Donkeys this season, next comes of group.

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Thank you, I’d never been around donkeys but after meeting this herd I’ve fallen in love with them.

Thank you! Something so peaceful about that horse walking along.

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Thank you, but the perspective kudos go to the horse owner who loaned me her reference photo. It’s her favorite view. I just found the whole scene so peaceful and had to try my hand with it.

Thank you,I was playing. I love to play with paint.

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Thank you I really want to paint a couple more N.CA Fire Lookouts

Thank you I had to edit it a bit,interior fences made my eyes crazy..
http://blog.mccloudmercantile.com/2010/05/mccloud-ca-squaw-valley-riding-club.html?m=1
I took my reference photo several years ago and its been on my I want to paint list.

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Thank you! The strong color contrasts made great prints.

Just the illusion of….
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Thank you! I suspect it and the surrounding buildings, part of an old lumber camp, are going to truly dissappear.

Thank you.I went back over it with fresh eyes and caught a couple things that bothered me. IMG_20190718_165058

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Thank you.I went back over it with fresh eyes and caught a couple things that bothered me. IMG_20190718_165058

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Thank you, I love painting Shasta.

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Thank you I’ve been painting scenes from my childhood home town. This was our dairy.

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Thank you , the cow was a nod to yester years. The building is now full of businesses and a residence.

Thank you. You should see the interior of the boat it’s like a pirate galleon married a seahorse artist. Carved oak seahorse embellished furniture and fiberglass creations.

Thank you our friends wanted something special and their boat made a great coastal card, I think anyway.

Thank you! The shop I show at suggested I have some small inexpensive originals for those who want something besides a print. These fit the bill I hope .

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Thank you, Maui has the most beautiful sunsets, I can’t even come close, but I try.

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Thank you, Kauai Sunset Mini IMG_20190530_065413

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Thank you, Kauai Sunset Mini IMG_20190530_065413

Thank you. The Rivers running high now and all those rocks are underwater…

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Thank you, one of my favorite places

The water is so cold after getting wet you are glad to lay on the hot lava rocks with the air scented by ponderosa pines.

Thank you I saw the photo on a friend of a friends page and asked if I could try painting it. It was one of those things that just made me smile.

Thanks Charlie, I was fun to paint. Eye crossingly so, but fun.

Thank you, this was a class to train people on training their draft horses to pull. They really knocked down the hay.

Thank you, Gaeyle! I got into the salt again.

Thank you, June! This guy practically drew himself!

It’s looking at clouds and deciding what they look like. The cloud shapes aren’t as defined as they are in the sky, so you look for the hard edges and drips & drabs. For instance, in this painting, off to the right and about even with the top of the tail, there are some brownish spots. They look like eyes to me. The salt I used left lighter…[Read more]

Thank you, Mary!

Thank you, I painted the day a wee bit brighter that it was or the sky and the road would really have merged. It was drizzling and we were on the North end of the island just about as far as we could drive . I didn’t know what a Mule Station was as we drove by but it caught my attention.

Thank you Mary, I’m off to putting in the Moose and Bear sky with the same palette.

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My sister took the reference photo during a snow storm in the Yreka Valley, she’d taken her dogs up to say hi to the pigs. They were very friendly doggies. And the pigs just looked like they wanted to go home and sleep by the fire place too.
This was Bubba and Festus.IMG_20180701_143902

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My sister took the reference photo during a snow storm in the Yreka Valley, she\'d taken her dogs up to say hi to the pigs. They were very friendly doggies. And the pigs just looked like they wanted to go home and sleep by the fire place too. This was Bubba and Festus.IMG_20180701_143902

Thank you Mary

Thank you , I have a soft spot for piggies

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Thank you and I’ve barely scratched the cars from this location. I have lots of future paintings.

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Thank you Mary, it has been a fun series.

They still are here in places .They destroy the claming though and occasionally float out for those not paying attention.
But thanks, I went back and reglazed my surfboard shadows as they faded as they dried. I have one more in this series, then on to critters maybe…

Thanks Mary

Thanks, yes today would have been perfect, 70 degrees, haven’t seen that since October.