Burro painting

This guy was painted earlier this year from a Bureau of Land Management photo. It's an 8x8 and is framed in a gorgeous Randy Higbee frame using acid free materials.

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Randy Higbee Gallery 6" Squared show

I am excited to announce that two of my paintings were accepted into the 5th annual 6" Squared show at Randy Higbee Gallery in Costa Mesa, California! The show opens December 6th and runs through mid-January. They will hang over 600 paintings by many of the country's top painters, all of them 6"X6", all of them in their gorgeous frames. I am sure it's a sight to behold :) Many galleries have small paintings shows this time of year because they are perfect gifts, but the Randy Higbee show is regarded as one of the very best. When I first started painting I heard about it and made it a goal to enter one day, and here I have and I got two paintings in!

The paintings accepted are "Happy Goat" and "Mustang Filly":

I won't be able to attend the opening myself, but maybe some of you Southern California people can. The direct link to my two paintings in the show's online gallery is:
http://www.dailybrushwork.com/Sort.aspx?UserID=17486&GSID=51&pg=65
The entire show of 622 paintings is viewable (and purchase-able) at http://www.dailybrushwork.com

Some rock paintings

I received an inquiry about my canyon country paintings a few days ago, and did I have them on my blog....yes......wait.....no. Somehow they slipped by, were painted before I started this blog, or were in an old post and needed to be updated anyway.  I have done quite a few of them. What can I say, I love Utah's canyon country. Here's a few of them:

Bullet Canyon #1

Another one from a riding trip in SE Utah. One of our favorite areas is Cedar Mesa, where there are few other people and the amount of public land is vast at 400,000 acres. Some of the canyons can be ridden in, but most of them are too trecherous. We enjoy riding along the canyon rims and peering into the huge canyons. This is looking into Bullet Canyon. 6X6 on Colourfix Suede, unframed.

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Bullet Canyon #2 

 

Another one from the rim of Bullet Canyon. 6X6 on Pastelmat, framed in a gorgeous Randy Higbee/Kingofframe "La Paz" frame. I will sell framed for $125.00, or unframed for $75.00.
 

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Moab Red Rock

A Facebook friend took the photo I used for reference, thanks Sabrina! I cropped the photo to get the composition that I liked and painted from there. 6X6 on Pastelmat, framed in a gorgeous Randy Higbee/KingofFrame.com "La Paz"  frame.

Potholes

From a crop of a National Park Service photo, somewhere in the magical expanse of Canyonlands National Park. Some potholes are large enough to swim in, others barely a few cups. They come and go with the rains. They often have tadpoles, and brine shrimp that hatch from cysts. 6X6 unframed.

 

Not available-gifted

This one was from a photo taken on a family Lake Powell vacation. I don't recall which canyon, but it looks like the Escalante area. I gave it to my father as a memento of a wonderful trip. 9X12 on LaCarte

Not available-gifted

This one is from a horseback ride into White Canyon, west of Natural Bridges and east of the Black Box. I gave it to a friend when he helped me out by giving me one of his old wheelchairs (those things are expensive!). 8X8 on Uart.

Believe it or not I have more, but will save them for another post :) 

Sulphur Horse

Fresh off the easel, this is a 6X6 pastel of a Sulphur Horse (mustang) currently available for adoption through the Bureau of Land Management. Photo reference provided by the BLM. The painting is not currently for sale as I might enter it in a show, but for information on the real horse visit his page here.  For information about the history and origin of the Sulphur horse can be found here. They are one of a few wild horse herds that are Iberian (Spanish) that has been shown through DNA testing. They sure are gorgeous!

Mustang Filly

Just finished this girl up yesterday, from a photo provided by the Bureau of Land Management's online adoption gallery. The info listed with her was "2 year old 14 hand pinto filly # 9641,  captured 11/27/12 from Little Owyhee HMA (Nevada)". 6X6 soft pastel on Pastelmat (heavy card stock pastel surface):

Heading to the Randy Higbee 6X6 show in Costa Mesa California! Show opens in December.

Happy Goat

I haven't been posting much because, well, I have done a bunch of failed paintings recently. I've been told this means I am on the edge of a breakthrough, hopefully this is true because it sure has been a fight lately. Somehow in the midst of all this this goat happened:

Heading to the Randy Higbee Gallery 6X6 show in Costa Mesa, California. The show opens in December.

 Photo reference for this provided by PaintMyPhoto member Lenora Melville. Thank you Lenora!

Bling for sale

Ha ha, that's right, I have some bling for sale. Marwari horse, photo reference by Manu Sharma, all framed up and ready to hang on your wall straight from the box:

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