216 W. 3rd St.

I recently took a house portrait painting class from my wonderful painting teacher, Kat Corrigan. This is the house I grew up in in Litchfield, MN. It's bright orange now (see photo below!) but I painted it as I remembered it, it used to be brown. I tried adding some trees to the background but it looked really busy and detracted from the house so I painted over them. I think I'll try again with more simplified trees.

216 W. 3rd St. 8"x10" Acrylic on gessoboard. 

The house today!

Delta

Here is my friend Joy's dog, Delta! This one required some layering while painting because Delta's colors, as they come from my palette, are very transparent. I feel ready to paint Joy's other dachshund Esker now!

 Delta 8x8 Acrylic on gessoed hardboard

Kevin

This is my friend Stephanie's dog, Kevin. He's brother to Yirgy, who I also painted a year or two ago. I'm starting to get more comfortable painting dogs!

Kevin 6x6 Acrylic on gessoed hardboard

Glass

I took a quick break from dogs and cats to try a still life. This is actually painted from a photograph of a still life I found online- I don't have good lighting/space to set up my own still lifes. It feels very different to paint inanimate objects when I'm used to painting animals!

6x6 Acrylic on gessoed hardboard

Cat

I was drawn to the warm colors in this cat, and also its eyes.

6x6 acrylic on gessoed hardboard

  

  

Zora

This is my first commission, of sorts! I donated a pet portrait painting to the silent auction of a benefit for my friend, and this is the winner's dog, Zora.

     Zora, acrylic on 8x8 gessoboard

Senior Retriever

And yet again, another mystery dog. I sometimes save photos of animals from Facebook when I see one with a cute expression and good lighting, then by the time I get around to painting it I forget whose they are. Oh well! This was a senior golden retriever. Something in its eyes was very puppy-like though.

    Sr. Golden Retriever (6x6)