Day 29 30 in 30, Baby Texas Longhorn cow painting

Oh boy.. my painting end of month count is embarrassing..  Sure didn't make 30 paintings but I did paint most days till this week when a cold hit the family.. so I guess my last one for the month.   I actually completed this a few days ago but hadn't posted here yet with all the chaos in the house.



 Painted from my friend Deb @ Faith Love Hope Ranch in Oregon.. one of her baby Texas Longhorns

Trinity

9x12x1 3/8" 

acrylic on canvas

Original SOLD

I have prints of this one available on Etsy and in my Handmade at Amazon store. 

Day 18 in 30 in 30 challenge

WAyyyyyyyy behind.  This is painting #4 for me this month, but I plan to paint everyday and get to 30 no matter how long it takes me! Haha!

This was painted from a friends miniature baby donkey photo of her donkey "Blossom" Thank you Kelsey for letting me paint from your reference!


Original available in my Handmade at Amazon shop and the print too!

Prints also in my Etsy shop!

Blossom

6x8x1 3/8"

acrylic on canvas

Day 13... in the 30 in 30 painting challenge

wow I'm behind on this challenge!  This is my 3rd painting.  I'm going for all 30 paintings even if it takes me 60 or 90 days. I've been painting everyday but haven't had a lot of time this past week and have gotten so behind.

This painting is #3 and also a pet memorial commission and gift.   Was great to be part of such a nice pet commission gift.  My friend Michelle wanted to gift this to her friend after she lost her sweet Pittbull mix, Layla girl.     A surprise gift she received today so now I can post it online,     I'm offering (with her permission) prints of this dog in my Amazon and Etsy shop.

Layla

8x10x1.5"

acrylic on canvas

Prints on Etsy and Amazon

Day 5 , 30 in 30. (painting #2), Collie dog portrait

I have been painting every single day and feel behind on the challenge.  I guess the goal is to paint everyday and that is accomplished.   I will be picking up the pace and hope to get as many paintings as I possibly can this month AND paint every single day!  (an accomplishment in itself!)


Anyway.. Posting this one on day 5 of the challenge.    This was painted from a photo I took of my dog Gumbo.   He was sitting down outside with the forest in the background.    Painted this a bit looser and it was so fun.  I know that face so well he was so very easy for me to paint!  I love this dog!

Now on to painting #3 but I can't post it.. it's a gift and can't post till she has it in hand.. so i'll be posting #4 next :)

Gumbo

10x10x 3/4"

acrylic on canvas

Print available on Etsy and Amazon Handmade

New Polish Pottery painting!! Original ends on eBay tonight. Dragonflies!

My latest painting in my Polish Pottery Still Life Series was done for the monthly art contest I do each month and LOVE on eBay!  This contest keeps me in check from going too long in between paintings.  Theme this month is Dragonflies!   Last month I did a stacked teacups painting and placed 2nd in the contest.  Thank you to all who bid as each bid counts to placing in this contest! :)

My entry this month and ends tonight!!!  

Note: NibbleFest Art Contest (NFAC) runs from the 20-27th each month.  My entry is a 3 day auction.

Dragonflies: Polish Pottery XCII

8x10x1 3/8" 

Acrylic on canvas

Ready to hang (wire on back)

Varnished

** You can also search , NFAC Sims , on eBay to find this entry***

Bid on eBay HERE

Thank you for last months placing!!

Nibblefest NFAC on eBay "Teacups: Polish Pottery XCI"

My entry into the Nibblefest art contest for August theme, "Tea Time".  

All auctions start at 99cents.    This auction ends on Thursday, August 27th evening.   You can also search eBay for my entry by searching, NFAC Sims

I set my Polish pottery teacups stacked high.   Almost a disaster of a still life as I caught them falling at one point!  Whew!


Teacups Stacked: Polish Pottery XCI  (91st in the series!)
9x12x1 3/8"
Acrylic on canvas
Hanger on back
Varnished

Bid on eBay HERE to own the original! :)  

Prints will be added to my Etsy Shop after the original is sold.     

Rooster sunrise and stars original painting for Nibblefest AND a Giveaway!

My entry this month for Nibblefest theme of " Stars/Planets/Space"   I painted my Barred Rock Rooster Terry crowing in the wee hours of the morning.   If anyone knows or owns chickens they know that roosters like to crow ALL DAY...

My entry and bidding started at just 99cents for a 3 day auction ending tomorrow.  I'm a bit late to blogging but it ends tomorrow evening!

"Wake Up!"

11x14x1 3/8" 

acrylic on canvas-varnished

wire on back and ready to hang!

Sides painted black , no need to frame!

eBay Listing HERE

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Surreal Cow painting for Nibblefest on eBay / New Polish pottery still life painting on Etsy!

My Nibblefest Art Contest entry this month on eBay.  Starting bid at 99cents!  No reserve.. ends Friday evening!

Cowbert Moo-ney

8x8x1 3/8"

acrylic on canvas

sides painted black 

varnished and ready to hang (or stand on shelf)

Bid HERE

Cowbert's muse:

Robert Southey poet.. painting by John James Masquerier ( 1800- public domain image)

Original acrylic painting for Nibblefest art contest theme of "Black and White"- February 2015

My entry is  "Cowbert Moo-ney  " based on poet laureate, Robert Southey's portrait , painted by  John James Masquerier ( 1800- public domain image).   Robert Southey was known for his poetry and documenting his dreams in letters, often based on death.   What a coincidence!!  Cowbert is also known to document dreams of death in a book of poetry  and written tales of cattle that have left the ranch. Cowbert likes to munch on grass while recording these dreams..  T-bone, Sirloin and Meatloaf Moo-ney to name a few are in Cowberts book titled, "The Mad Cow Dairy"- by Cowbert Moo-ney

I painted this portrait of Cowbert just like his favorite poet Robert Southey.  He was honored to be have his portrait painted.

NEW Polish Pottery Still Life painting and number 87 in the series (13 to go to #100!!!!!!  Yay!!!)

Colored Daisies: Polish Pottery LXXXVII

6x12x1 3/8"

acrylic on canvas

varnished and ready to hang on a wall or display on a shelf!  Deep canvas makes it easy to just stand on a shelf! :)

Original still life painting available on Etsy 

Print of original painting on Etsy

Painting #9 in January 30 in 30.. finished in February? ;D

Ok.. I started this painting to be completed in January but then life got in the way. A very busy week and I just didn't have much time to paint but I did hope to finish this one in January to post in the challenge. I'll see if I can even add it to the challenge? Maybe  it's too late.   The thing about this challenge that is so wonderful is it gets me out of my painting lulls.. I have been in a bit of a funk since the end of 2014.  I was really only completing my Nibblefest art contest entry each month.   This year I'm wanting to blog more (yeah I know I've said that in the past).  Facebook is making it harder and harder for art pages to be seen so maybe blogging more is the answer?

My goal this year is to work on my Polish Pottery still life series, add new items to my Etsy shop
 ( that I hope to announce soon) , paint more animals (great break in between still lives to not get burned out) and keep at my abstracts.  Really enjoy the abstracts.

Anywho.. this would of been my 9th in January..  but I plan to keep up my painting momentum and blogging more.. So please follow my blog.

"Cherries: Polish Pottery LXXXVI"

8x10x 1 3/8"

acrylic on canvas

for sale on Etsy HERE 

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Painting #8 30 in 30, Nibblefest entry, Polish Pottery Still life

My 8th painting this month for 30 in 30 and also my Nibblefest contest entry for the (third letter in your first name  theme).   So for heAther , I am doing "A is for Apple" and on a Polish pottery plate in the flowering peacock pattern (pattern 166A- Zaklady).

5 day auction on eBay ending on the 27th and starting at 99cents, NO reserve!!   Winners are the entries with most 'unique' or individual bidders, so if you like this painting! Bid.. very low start price!  Great monthly art contest I enjoy participating in each month on eBay.   Consider signing up for my newsletter to get my monthly entries and coupon codes.

"Apples: Polish Pottery LXXXV"

6x6x 7/8"

acrylic on canvas

Bid HERE on eBay

You can search me monthly on eBay by searching "NFAC Sims"

Thank you for looking! :)

Print coming soon to Etsy!! :)

painting #7 , 30 in 30

Painting #7 for me this month was painted from a friends photo of a newborn baby longhorn cow named, Summer..   She said I could paint from her pics! Thank you Deb! I do really enjoy the cow paintings and need to go out and take some references myself.  I do have a good reference photo I took and one day I will paint on a huge canvas!   Can't wait!   Nibblefest  art contest on eBay painting is up next..  starting at 99cents no reserve..  stay tuned .. :)

Summer

5x5x1 3/8"

acrylic on canvas

no frame needed

available on Etsy HERE

print available HERE

day 12 .. painting #4 this month

Playing with these abstracts and trying new things.    I'll keep working on doing more with the still lives and a few animal paintings too.

Escape II

16x20x1.5"

Acrylic mixed media on canvas

Original unavailable.  (my son claimed it for his room! LOL)

Print of this painting available on Etsy HERE

(image on wall NOT to scale...  just example)

Prints sized up to 11x14" available with mat option

30 in 30, day 8.. 3rd painting.. Polish Pottery still life

Been a hectic week and I'm behind and I doubt I'll have 30 paintings but I am painting everyday.  Monday evening we were watching the Killing on Netflix and my 12yr old made popcorn and I was eating some and broke my tooth!!  Yikes!   2 dental appointments and a crown later.. I'm posting my next painting, a Polish Pottery still life..     I'm trying to juggle the pottery still life with the abstracts I'm experimenting with so this will be a fun month.

Enough rambling.     Here's my 3rd painting this month.

Pomegranate: Polish Pottery LXXXII

8x8x1 3/8"

acrylic on canvas

varnished

Available on Etsy HERE

Print of this painting available HERE

30 in 30 painting challenge, day 5, abstract painting

Day 5 and my 2nd painting of the month.

I have always loved abstract paintings.  I never paint them but I love them.   I am really happy with this abstract piece I finished yesterday.    Lots of impasto textures, scratches and movement in this painting.    Blues, reds, oranges, yellows and whites.     I'll be painting more abstracts this month to mix in between my other paintings such as my Polish Pottery still life series.

"Escape"

16x20x 3/4"

sides painted black

varnished

hanger on back..  

no frame needed. 

On Etsy HERE

Print of this painting available on Etsy HERE

30 painting in 30 days.. January 2015!

So I signed up on New Years Eve  to do the 30 paintings in 30 days painting challenge.   It is a big commitment and while I love it.. wipes me out to keep up.    Here we are on the 3rd of the month and I'm posting my 1st painting but I didn't start till late on the 1st ..  Ok.. I won't give a bunch of excuses but I'm going to get as many of the 30 paintings done that I can and also plan to get farther in my Polish Pottery Still Life Series!     One of my paintings in the series will be included in a Polish pottery annual magazine and I really want to get farther in the series as it's been since August that I painted one last.  Yikes.

Ok.. enough rambling!  I have lots of painting to do!  My plan is get farther.. hopefully in the 90's of this series, experiment with abstracts as they are something that I love and want to experiment with those

#jan30in30


My 1st paining on day 3 of the challenge is:

"Eggs: Polish Pottery LXXXI"

acrylic on canvas

6x8x 1 3/8"

varnished

Original available on Etsy (prints will be added also).  HERE

Prints of this painting on Etsy HERE

July Nibblefest Art contest 'Animals in Hats' -- "Catness EverQueen"

Ends tomorrow! Sorry I'm late to blog.  Actually I haven' kept up  on my blogging lately but I will try and get my Nibblefest entries blogged each month.  This months theme is "Animals in Hats".  My entry is a beautiful white cat in Victorian dress and a green hat sitting in a red chair.  Inspired by the painting , "Portrait, Princess di Saint" by Francesco Hayez (1840) .  

Catness EverQueen

9x12x1 3/8"

acrylic on canvas

wire hanger on back.. No frame needed!

Varnished

Painting continues on sides

Auction HERE

My entries searchable on eBay by "NFAC Sims"

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4x4" matted print of Strawberries: Polish Pottery LXXIV

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Polish pottery still life. Art contest entry

Now that 30 in 30 painting contest is over. I took a bit of a painting break.  Can't break too long because I have paintings I want to do and it's hard to sometimes get back my momentum, but I really loved churning out those paintings.

In the mean time I'm entering a painting into "The People Art Contest"  Blog HERE


My entry is number 65 in my Polish Pottery Still life series.  I painted this last summer, 2013 during the Black Forest fire and had to leave the painting midway to evacuate our house. We were lucky to be spared in the fire.  Sure hoping for a better summer, 2014.


Theme this month in the People's Art Contest  is Eggs

My entry:

Patterns: Polish Pottery LXV

Prints available on Etsy HERE

All 30 paintings together in a collage! :)

Wow! What a month!  Taking a few days off to clean my poor house and catch up with things I've neglected around here.   Clean up my painting area, so I can get back to painting!  I'm going to enjoy a few days off first :)

LOVED doing this challenge!   I will sign up for the 29 faces challenge in February and continue to offer custom pet paintings  at special pricing.   Click HERE if you are interested in a custom pet painting to be in the 29 faces in February :)

Available paintings listed in my Etsy shop HERE