Feeding Canada Goose Chicks

After a visit to a friend in Oregon, I was inspired to a painting of her feeding the Canada Geese in her back yard, and included her cats and turtle. There's a river with dunes on the other side. A beautiful place.

It took a lot of sketches and thinking before I was ready to paint.

Small Paintings

These are some small paintings, each about 3 by 4 inches. I cut stencils of quail, raven, and heron, which I can reuse for different paintings, and then I improvise the background. They are primarily done using an airbrush, with a few additions. The airbrush gives a nice soft and dreamy look.

                                               

I am hoping to soon move these into my ArtFire studio for sale.

Previously I'd painted some art cards, the official size of which is 2.5 x 3.5 inches, which I find altogether too small for an original painting, though it's fine for a print. So these are a wee bit bigger. The painting is 3 x 4, but each is on a paper 3.5 x 4.5 so there's a 1/4 inch white border around, making them much easier to mat and frame. 

A New Carved Squirrel

old squirrel design

I'd designed a squirrel a long time ago, but decided it was time to make a new shape. This is a Douglas Squirrel. The 2 photos with the forest background show the new design.

Painting: Five Animals Hidden at Echo Lake

I mostly painted this 5 x 7 landscape with an airbrush on multimedia artboard, but also used art markers and colored pencil. In this painting of Echo Lake, you'll find a circle of 5 animals.

Echo Lake Hidden Animals Painting

My latest painting, Echo Lake in the Trinity Alps of northern Califoria. I <think> it is finished. Size: 9 x 12 inches.

Curious Fawn Art Card

Curious Fawn

I've just added another art card to my Artfire Studio, Curious Fawn. This one is also from an airbrush painting. Previous cards were printed on photo paper, this one is printed on an art paper with the look and feel of fine watercolor paper. It has no sheen at all so it looks more like the original painting.

It's a card size known as ACEO (art card editions and originals) sized 3.5 by 2.5 inches: a miniature work of art to collect, include with a greeting card, or frame.

More AF Collections! Oct. 25-26

• "It's On Sale!", curated by NightSkyJewelry includes my Koala. I have a few discontinued designs in my studio they're in the On Sale section for $30 each.
• "Rich Earth Tones", curated by AnnyMay includes my Brown Pelican.
• "Riverside Art", curated by popnicute includes my River Otter. I also make a sea otter on her back with a baby on her belly.
• "Fabulous Frogs", curated by TieDyedMonkeys includes Red-legged Frog. There are a bunch of frogs in my studio.
• "Fun Things", curated by HandmadebySheri includes Snow Leopard, one of several wild felines which I carve.
• "More Gifts For Him", curated by MoonlightEternal includes Stream of Consciousness, my Grizzly Bear and Fish sculpture. 
• "Friendly Feathered Flightless Friends", curated by ModernSpin includes my sculpture King Penguin and Chick.

Overlapping Fawns Airbrush Painting

Another airbrush painting, this one is about 5 x 7. There is still a lot to learn about painting a scene like this with the airbrush. It was interesting to overlap the fawns. Is it one fawn at two different times? A friend said it reminded her of the way deer will be eating, then hear something and suddenly look up. What do you think?

I overworked this a little too much, and am thinking of trying it again.

In my Artfire studio I don't have any fawns, but do have Buck Deer Wood Carving and Doe deer wood carvings.

Airbrush Art, another painting

I tried another airbrush painting today. This is 4" x 6".

I've searched for other artists using airbrush for fine art, but most of what I can find are more commercial applications. The subjects seem to be cars and machinery as well as fantasy and science fiction. Not a bit of nature to be found. If any of my readers know of any such airbrush art, I'd really like to know about it.