Showing posts with label Oil/Acrylic Painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oil/Acrylic Painting. Show all posts
16 x 20 oil on canvas.
This painting was done during a plein air session at our local nursery. Christianson’s Nursery near
Media: Oil Painting
Size: 14 x18
Sold to Private Collection
Media: Oil/Acrylic Painting
Size: 14 x 18
I find it so sad that Dragonflies have such a short life. Because of that, it is important to me to capture their beauty while I can. Here in the Pacific North West the dragonflies are big and the garden is full of them swooping and souring out of the woods and across the lawns in bright flashes of color all summer long. They are attracted by the water in the nearby lake. There is a poem by Ashton Mill and a verse from it describes what I try to paint:
“The sun and wind combine to make
A million diamonds on my lake,
Ripple-flash echoes on my mill
My dragonflies are brighter still.”
On a recent private visit to an Alpaca farm in Washington State the owner allowed me to enter the enclosure with the Alpacas to take photos.
The animals gathered around me, curious and yet a bit nervous. Two of them stood slightly apart from the others, staring at me as if to say “Who are you, and what do you want?” One of them folded back her ears and the other stuck hers straight up, and that is the picture I tried to capture. Alpacas are gentle, inquisitive and intelligent animals whose private habits are very clean and orderly. They communicate with each other in soft little moans.