"Winslow" Art Card

"Winslow" Giclée Art Card

With Winslow on patrol, my studio remains a blissfully mouse -free zone.

This is an original Giclée Art Print and is made from my original oil painting. Card, envelope and insert shown above. This is a signed Open Edition.

Giclées (zhee-clays) are exceptionally high resolution reproductions made on a specialty large format printer. This museum quality giclee is printed on a 100% cotton rag fine art paper. The finely ground pigments I have used are made from the same pigments used in the finest quality artist watercolors and oil paints.

Cello packaged, hand signed and assembled in an earth-toned 5" x 7" paper frame as shown with a lighter, warmer earth-toned envelope.

$10.00 each card
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"Wellscroft Sheep" Art Card

"Wellscroft Sheep" Giclée Art Card

Sheep have been feeding and clothing man for more than 8,000 years. They are such a delightful part of our beautiful New Hampshire landscape and I love to draw and paint them.

This is an original Giclée Art Print and is made from my original oil painting. Card, envelope and insert shown above. This is a signed Open Edition.

Giclées (zhee-clays) are exceptionally high resolution reproductions made on a specialty large format printer. This museum quality giclee is printed on a 100% cotton rag fine art paper. The finely ground pigments I have used are made from the same pigments used in the finest quality artist watercolors and oil paints.

Cello packaged, hand signed and assembled in an earth-toned 5" x 7" paper frame as shown with a lighter, warmer earth-toned envelope.

$10.00 each card
Plus $3.00 shipping with the USA (up to 6 cards in pkg)
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"Portrait of Fluffy" Art Card

"Portrait of Fluffy" Giclée Art Card

Fluffy is an unusually beautiful and elegant feral cat and it is always a challenge to paint or draw her. She can sometimes be bribed with food - but not nearly as often as I would like.

This is an original Giclée Art Print and is made from my original oil painting. Card, envelope and insert shown above. This is a signed Open Edition.

Giclées (zhee-clays) are exceptionally high resolution reproductions made on a specialty large format printer. This museum quality giclee is printed on a 100% cotton rag fine art paper. The finely ground pigments I have used are made from the same pigments used in the finest quality artist watercolors and oil paints.

Cello packaged, hand signed and assembled in an earth-toned 5" x 7" paper frame as shown with a lighter, warmer earth-toned envelope.

$10.00 each card
Plus $3.00 shipping with the USA (up to 6 cards in pkg)
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"My Best Friend" Art Card

"My Best Friend" Giclée Art Card

My best friend Sarge (named after John Singer Sargent) likes to sleep on the run underneath my easel while I paint. He never criticizes my work. This painting was originally done for my students as a demonstration of the underpainting technique of the Old Masters.

This is an original Giclée Art Print and is made from my original oil painting. Card, envelope and insert shown above. This is a signed Open Edition.

Giclées (zhee-clays) are exceptionally high resolution reproductions made on a specialty large format printer. This museum quality giclee is printed on a 100% cotton rag fine art paper. The finely ground pigments I have used are made from the same pigments used in the finest quality artist watercolors and oil paints.

Cello packaged, hand signed and assembled in an earth-toned 5" x 7" paper frame as shown with a lighter, warmer earth-toned envelope.

$10.00 each card
Plus $3.00 shipping with the USA (up to 6 cards in pkg)
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The underpainting on this card is also a demo on this blog.

"Miss Kitty" Art Card

"Miss Kitty" Giclée Art Card

This little kitty - named Winslow - joined out family on Christmas Eve.

This is an original Giclée Art Print and is made from my original oil painting. Card, envelope and insert shown above. This is a signed Open Edition.

Giclées (zhee-clays) are exceptionally high resolution reproductions made on a specialty large format printer. This museum quality giclee is printed on a 100% cotton rag fine art paper. The finely ground pigments I have used are made from the same pigments used in the finest quality artist watercolors and oil paints.

Cello packaged, hand signed and assembled in an earth-toned 5" x 7" paper frame as shown with a lighter, warmer earth-toned envelope.

$10.00 each card
Plus $3.00 shipping with the USA (up to 6 cards in pkg)
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"Fluffy" Art Card

"Fluffy" Giclée Art Card

Fluffy is a beautiful feral cat who can occasionally be bribed with kitty treats to sit for a portrait...if she feels like it.

This is an original Giclée Art Print and is made from my original oil painting. Card, envelope and insert shown above. This is a signed Open Edition.

Giclées (zhee-clays) are exceptionally high resolution reproductions made on a specialty large format printer. This museum quality giclee is printed on a 100% cotton rag fine art paper. The finely ground pigments I have used are made from the same pigments used in the finest quality artist watercolors and oil paints.

Cello packaged, hand signed and assembled in an earth-toned 5" x 7" paper frame as shown with a lighter, warmer earth-toned envelope.

$10.00 each card
Plus $3.00 shipping with the USA (up to 6 cards in pkg)
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"The Buck Stops Here" Art Card

"The Buck Stops Here" Giclée Art Card

Last fall I was delighted to see this unexpected visitor outside my studio. Miraculously he stood still while I grabbed my camera.

This is an original Giclée Art Print and is made from my original oil painting. Card, envelope and insert shown above. This is a signed Open Edition.

Giclées (zhee-clays) are exceptionally high resolution reproductions made on a specialty large format printer. This museum quality giclee is printed on a 100% cotton rag fine art paper. The finely ground pigments I have used are made from the same pigments used in the finest quality artist watercolors and oil paints.

Cello packaged, hand signed and assembled in an earth-toned 5" x 7" paper frame as shown with a lighter, warmer earth-toned envelope.

$10.00 each card
Plus $3.00 shipping with the USA (up to 6 cards in pkg)
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Anna & James

Anna

20" x 24" Oil on Linen, Framed

Sometimes a cute animal is difficult in a portrait because if you don't paint it correctly, it tends to steal the show. 

This was a hard portrait to paint until I figured it out. For a long time I just couldn't get past the "cute little dog portrait." The little pooch (James) was getting ALL the attention.

I resolved this by redirecting the dog's gaze off the canvas and removing the catch lights from his eyes. This immediately shifted the focus back to Anna - which was the point of the portrait in the first place.

Sheep Drawing

Wellscroft Sheep

Sanguine and white chalk on toned paper

The original drawing is gone but a giclée art card is available.

This sheep is from our cousin David's farm. It was a lucky reference shot - isolating a sheep is nearly impossible without a sheep dog - and I didn't have one to help me out that day. The mountain outline in the background is Grand Monadnock.

Miss Kitty Drawing

Miss Kitty

Sanguine and white chalk on toned paper

The original drawing is gone but a giclée art card is available.

This is Winslow as a young kitten. She came to us on Christmas Eve. I stuck a bow on her and was able to get a good enough photo to use as a reference for this drawing...a minor miracle as she was so hyper.

Winslow Drawing

Winslow Homer Wells (my cat)

Sanguine & white chalk on toned paper

The original drawing is is gone but a giclée art card is available.

Although "Winslow Homer Wells" is a male name, we thought our kitty was just that - until the Vet informed us differently. Blush. We kept the name anyhow as it fits this feisty little feline so well.

Grisaille Underpainting of Sarge

There are many methods and techniques that I use to paint a painting. Here is a quickie lesson in an Old Master technique method I sometimes use called Grisaille (or underpainting).

This is a completed underpainting (but not a finished painting) of my pooch, "John Singer Sargent, aka Sarge." 

I chose this subject as a demo because it shows how to handle a full range of value from black (the lab) to white (his blanket). The "darks" are not very dark and the "lights" are not very light in an underpainting.

Because Sarge refuses to sit for hours and hours, I used my camera and a single source of light to capture him in a typical pose.

I begin by drawing the dog on a toned canvas. I added the ball to make the composition more interesting.

I took the figure of the dog and divided it into light and shadow. I use very thick paint in my underpaintings - no canvas will show through.

Still using thick paint, I begin to blend the areas where light and shadow meet. The form is determined by how light and shadow meet - from very quickly and sharply to slowly and softly.

In an underpainting, when I define black and white first, all the other values easily fall into place.

When the underpainting is completely dry I will begin to glaze in transparent color and build light with thick opaque paint. This is what gives my work that "Old Master Look." I do not use this technique in painting a landscape.

This is a palette of my actual underpainting paint compared to the color white. They are various mixtures of raw umber plus titanium white. 

As you can see I only used 5 values. The deep shadows are not that dark and the highlights are not that light. 

The extremes of value come in the top layers of color. The underpainting layer often reminds me of an old sepia photograph.