The Cattle are This Way

The newest painting of one of the drovers in our historic stockyards area, David Mangold.  Many thanks to David for permission to use his photo as the reference.  

I can finally unveil this one!

This is a commissioned painting of a special horse, Dancer.  My friend, Pati, had me do it as a Father's Day gift for her husband.  I'm so proud of how it turned out!

Drover paintings

Here are two paintings, almost finished, of two of the drovers in our historic Fort Worth Stockyard area. 

More oil sketches

These are more of the sketches from the photos I took back in March at the photo session at the  home of my sister-in-law.

New work

Here is a recent piece, still in progress. I'm working on paintings to maybe include in the January 2015 show unless they sell before that.

Exciting news!

Exciting news! I have reserved gallery #3 at the Fort Worth Community Art Center for the month of January, 2015. I will have a joint show with my good friend and fellow artist, Mahto Hogue. I will be showing some of my watercolors as well as new works in oil. Lots to do between now and then, especially deciding on new subjects to paint. Thank you, Mahto, for sharing this exciting "first" with me.

New portrait sketches

My sweet sister-in-law invited some friends recently to a photo shoot for me. I photographed 10 individuals in various poses and lighting.  I wanted these shots to use for practice in my portrait painting adventure. 

I am still working on the others but these are the ones I have finished thus far. Each represents about two hours of work. Some of the paintings I really like and in some of the others I see improvements that could be made. I have to keep reminding myself that I am still learning.  Each time I do a painting, I can see improvements in my skill and that is really what goal is, right?