Gannets
This regal creature caught my attention in the free photos on Pixabay. The photo was tagged with Georg_Wietschorke. Though his photo had a few more birds in the background, I like to simplify for what I think has greater punch. Gannet comes from the old English word for gander which was ganot. These golden head […]
Along Generational Lines
I haven’t shaken all the zebras out of my system yet.
Zebra
Such wondrous creatures, don’t you think? And like fingerprints, no line patterns are ever the same.
Life Gives Me Lemons
Huyu-lookn-at?
People just love these bright red cardinals, and I have produced some more elegant renditions in the past. Once in a while whimsy strikes, so here is one with attitude.
Duke
Earlier in the year, I was asked to paint this pair of pals as a potential wedding anniversary gift. The woman whose name I never learned was fond of her hiking partner Duke, now deceased, so her husband commissioned me to produce this image from his photo. The anniversary is now past so, alas, I […]
Carolina Wren
As much as I find birds to be wonderful subjects of color and their feathery forms so tempting to paint, they are indeed deceptively challenging in those specific proportions that say “wren” or “jay” or “sparrow”.
Daisy Duck
The wet eye caught the light; it is actually bolder in the painting and watching you.
Veiltails
The rich reddish orange never gets captured digitally, but it is in the actual painting. My father kept a fish tank for us when we were small children. Perhaps that is behind the draw these golden creatures have on me.
School of Aquatics
