Santa 2013 Oil on canvas board 8x10

He is one of the series of Santa I've been painting for years.

Merry Christmas to all!

Fox over shoulder 8x10 Oil on canvas Animals

Always watching the sly little fox.

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Love a lab" 8x10 oil on stretched canvas. Boomer passed away last month so this is tribute to a great dog and overall breed.

Basset Hound 8x10 oil painting on stretched canvas Animals

A lady at the barn once hosted abandoned Basset hound adoptions. She would foster some of the sickest and most distressed bassets available. Even in their condition they delighted all with their wagging rears attached to their large flopping tails. Loving personalities and soulful gazes. Love the Basset!

Yellow Lab puppy oil on stretched canvas 8x10

Working with the Cincinnati lab rescue gives me an opportunity to observe these well deserving adoptable dogs.  This ones protruding tongue gave me a charge.

Autumn fox 8 x 10 oil on canvas board.

I enjoy painting the fox especially the red one seen quite frequently in the Loveland, Ohio area.
This painting measures 8x10 and it's painted in oil on a canvas board in a free brushwork style

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Girl with watering can

Another painting from the Nancy Ford Cones series of remarkable photographs dating in the early 1900's. this particular painting measures 8x10 and is painted in oil on a gessoed massonite board. It somewhat impressionistic and is quite a bit smaller then I am use to painting.

Tender moment 16x20 oil on stretched canvas

This painting is depicted from a famous photograph which resides in the historical museum by a Mrs. Cones (a national award winning photographer who resided in Loveland, Ohio in the early 1900's. My inspiration was the pure quality of the lighting and compositional images.

Emma 11x14 oil on stretched canvas

Another Painting of Emma.

She is such a character of a dog especially during that period of time when she gives you that blank stare which makes one wonder " just what are you thinking."

Hua Juan "Jenna" oil on masonite board 8x10

Dark gloomy Ohio days sometimes give me the patients and opportunity to concentrate on painting.
This painting on my daughter Jenna is 8x10 painted in oil on a masonite board.

"Emma" oil on canvas board 8x10

Haven't painted since the holidays but getting into the swing of things once again.
This is our 7 month old rescue lab mix named Emma. She is energy plus thus the loose quality of the painting. Painted in oil on canvas board. It measures 8x10 and has the richness of gold on earthtoned background.

Thanks for viewing.